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“On Pilgrimage: The Sixties”— an inspiring chronicle of faith and action, available next month. @OrbisBooks
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@RobertEllsberg I teach an ethics seminar and we are currently discussing Dorothy Day. I am having a hard time finding sources that include her thoughts about distributism. Do you have any ideas? Thank you!
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Where we were a year ago.
The master’s foreman was alarmed by the question: Was it possible that injections of arsenic might increase productivity among the peasants? But the master later explained that the question was asked sarcastically, “just to see what would happen.” #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Do not miss the complete story of the Pentagon Papers told by the ultimate insider @RobertEllsberg
My father could not have foreseen all the consequences of his unusual version of “Take your children to work day.” americamagazine.org/arts-cul… via @americamag
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Not quite the "complete story." Hope it stimulates reading of my Dad's memoir, "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers." A classic story of conversion.
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Then I would have called it "the shocking inside story by the 13-year-old boy who changed history and won the hearts of millions." Too much?
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Then I would have called it "the shocking inside story by the 13-year-old boy who changed history and won the hearts of millions." Too much?
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Jim Forest has won a Nautilus Award for his memoir "Writing Straight with Crooked Lines," in which such figures as Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Daniel Berrigan all play major roles. @OrbisBooks Here is an interview I did with him: bit.ly/3gBpdzJ
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Looking forward to this. One of my favorite new Orbis authors. @orbisbooks
Join our very own, @JJT1, tomorrow at 3 pm ET, for @drewtheological's virtual book launch. The event is celebrating the release of Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy and Other Last Chances by @Prof_Keller.
RSVP: drew.edu/events-calendar/eve…
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Congratulations to Robert Michael Franklin for winning a Nautilus Award for his book, "Moral Leadership." @OrbisBooks @MorehouseMystiq. Here is my interview with him: piped.video/watch?v=TzX3sw5s…
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Hey Central timers! So excited to announce this stop on our virtual book tour! Join @ShellyHeideman of @FaithCoalition and @PassaBee along with me to discuss building churches that fight for justice! Register for a discount on the book eventbrite.com/e/seeds-of-ju…
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German artist Käthe Kollwitz, a pacifist and socialist, d. 4/22/45. Few artists have been so committed to representing the private struggles and suffering of the poor, particularly the fierce power of maternal love, and the capacity for devastating loss (her own experience.)
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I love her. Was so grateful for the chance to visit her museum in Berlin and to see her sculptures in the WWI cemetery in Flanders where her son Peter is buried
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She never recovered from the death of her son in WWI. “One day, a new idea will arise and there will be an end to all wars. I die convinced of this. It will need much hard work, but it will be achieved.”
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I love her. Was so grateful for the chance to visit her museum in Berlin and to see her sculptures in the WWI cemetery in Flanders where her son Peter is buried
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
A treasure from @orbisbooks — a collection of sayings from the desert, paired with zen-like pen and ink drawings, and an introduction from Henri Nouwen.
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@AOC “A verdict is not a substitute for policy change.”
Justice? @AOC explains why the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict isn’t true justice for minorities. Thank you.
AOC Says Derek Chauvin Guilty Verdict Isn’t Justice
‘It’s not justice because justice is George Floyd going home tonight to be with his family.’ — AOC explains why the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict isn’t justice for communities of color
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An #EarthDay meditation from Sister Wendy Beckett, from our correspondence.
#SisterWendy shared a dream in 3 parts:"First I was looking at magnificent pictures of lakes, then I was actually walking beside these lakes seeing them in their full reality, and then the lakes were inside me. I was containing the lakes...
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Thxs @RobertEllsberg for this informative piece & for helping your father @DanielEllsberg "The frisson of handling documents marked “Top Secret” quickly faded, & with it the wonder of feeding hundreds of pages into a slow, clunky machine while waiting for the..."
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"I clearly remember the first time I handled classified documents. That day in October 1969 stands out for other reasons, as it was also the first time I was allowed to handle a Xerox machine." THE PENTAGON PAPERS AFTER 50 YRS. @americamag @DanielEllsberg bit.ly/2RXdSQt
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My article, posted yesterday.
Daniel Ellsberg wanted to pass along to us the lesson he had learned: that there were circumstances in which one might be called to make sacrifices for the sake of a higher truth. Read more by @RobertEllsberg
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So interesting to read of this time in history...it impacts us now. Thanks @RobertEllsberg for sharing your insights.
Fifty years ago, my father leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times. It changed his life — and mine. americamagazine.org/arts-cul…
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