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Dorothy Day died November 29 1980. “We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.” Reflections from my younger self; piped.video/YviTrmrI0hM
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In the Peasants Revolt of 1381 Adam and Eve were said to represent God’s intention for social equality. John Ball, a priest who led the revolt (later arrested, drawn and quartered and beheaded) preached: “When Adam delved and Eve span who was then the gentleman?…
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…And therefore I exhort you to consider that now the time is come, appointed to us by God, in which ye may (if ye will) cast off the yoke of bondage, and recover liberty.”
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The things I could have achieved if I hadn’t used my wishes on going to Disneyland, passing my driving test, and having my own ice cream machine!
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Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Kibeho, an apparition of Mary in Rwanda in the 1980s foretelling apocalyptic violence. The genocide followed in 1994. Remembering my pilgrimage there in Advent 2013, praying for healing of all victims of trauma.
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In six words or fewer, write a short story about this photo...
#amwriting #sixwordstory #WritingCommunity
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And this is why we need womanist and feminist biblical interpretation.
Just talking Bible with some folks, and…what you believe about Hagar’s story says a lot about you.
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Delores Williams, “Sisters in the Wilderness,” the classic work in womanist theology, uses the story of Hagar as a guide to the intersectional challenges facing African American women. @OrbisBooks
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My letters with Sister Wendy, “This is Heaven” coming out next fall with @OrbisBooks
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At @OrbisBooks we stand with @KLICONS in seeing Christ in refugees, prisoners, the poor, victims of racism and injustice,
“Are you looking for Christ among you?Walk around your neighborhood and you’ll find him” - @KLICONS
religionnews.com/2021/11/26/…
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The people who don’t like @KLICONS’s “Mama” (Stolen from display at CUA Law School) really don’t like his “Sagrada Familia.”
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
We don’t just want a country where the George and Travis McMichaels of the world are found guilty. We want a world where the Ahmaud Arberys of the world grow up and live.
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Can someone explain to me in language I can understand why, as winter approaches, the sun seems to set in the southwest rather than the west.
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And while you’re here, some book recommendations. They deal well with the substance of the thread in interdisciplinary ways. Don’t let these people fool you: to be a Christian is always to be growing in our spirituality and love—that includes learning, wrestling, and changing.
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Sadhu Sundar Singh is one of my favorites. @OrbisBooks
Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889 - 1929) was a Punjabi Christian convert who hated Christianity as a child. He travelled across the world as a Christian mystic, leading and ascetic lifestyle and preaching to crowds. He eventually vanished while travelling through the Himalayan Mountains.
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