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In video suppressed for 8 yrs NRA grifter and cult leader Wayne Lapierre and wife Susan demonstrate their courage in shooting elephants at point blank range—in Wayne’s case, requiring 4 shots and backup up from guide. Susan displays her trophy. “Victory!” wapo.st/3aLCO3X
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Thanks, @RevJohnDear for this beautiful tribute, and for your faithful journey on the path of the nonviolent Jesus.
Daniel Berrigan would be 100 on May 9th! Just published an essay about his life and witness at wagingnonviolence.org hope you like it!
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Finding a famous person to endorse it was the easy part. Then I actually had to write the book.
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In my Commonweal Lecture, "Walking with the Saints: My Writing Life," I recount how my encounter with Dorothy Day 45 years ago inspired my work as a "saint-watcher," and why I believe it is important to remember and tell these stories. bit.ly/2PpTYfZ
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Happy to discover this beautiful essay by @Sophfronia. Looking forward to reading her new book. "I want to talk to Thomas Merton about race." christiancentury.org/article… via @ChristianCent
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Thanks! Hope you enjoy The Seeker and the Monk. @broadleaf_books
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The @netflix documentary "My Octopus Teacher" is an extraordinary meditation on what it would mean to be in relationship with Creation. If there is that much to learn from a mollusk, what other lessons are we missing?
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So far I’m nailing every award of #Oscars2021, even in categories where I didn’t see any of the nominees.
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What if you lived with the knowledge that there was a bullet waiting for you—at any moment, in every routine action, and it didn’t matter what you were doing or how you responded? And all you wanted was to get home safe? @TwoDistantFilm
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Apologies to the Nautilus Awards and other winners—in reading the fine print I discovered this was not to be public until next month. I’ll be good til then. 🥺
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Rabbi Arthur Waskow has won a Gold Nautilus Award for his @OrbisBooks title, “Dancing in God’s Earthquake,” a book uncannily timed to address the year of COVID, #BLM, and pending climate catastrophe. See my interview with him here: piped.video/results?search_q…
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Congratulations to Ellen Birx, winner of a Nautilus Award for her @OrbisBooks title: “Embracing the Inconceivable: “Interspiritual Practice of Zen and Christianity.” 🙏👏
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I agree—these writings are quintessential Day! The Sixties were the backdrop for her distinctive blend of contemplative action. But also showed that being prophetic is about more than protest—also about announcing an alternative society, and trying to live by those values today.
These two fine books from Orbis just arrived today. @RobertEllsberg’s new edition is a treasure. And, of course, every @Prof_Keller is a landmark event. The panel on her book today was astonishing. 178 folks with a who’s who in theology in attendance. @trippfuller was fabulous!
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What do they have in common? You generously endorsed them both! Honored to share that distinction with the brilliant work by @Prof_Keller— one of the best @OrbisBooks books I have published in 34 years. (And ditto for @trippfuller’s presentation!)
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Excellent article: How Richard Nixon's obsession with Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers sowed the seeds for the president's downfall theconversation.com/how-rich… via @ConversationUS
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