Publisher @OrbisBooks, saint-whisperer @GiveUsThisDayLP. #TolstoysTalesofTrump. #MastersofSocialIsolation. Seeking meaning in the sacred and the absurd.
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Today is @thichnhathanh's 95th birthday. Almost 50 years ago I knocked on the door of his apartment in a Paris suburb. He welcomed me in and talked with me about mindfulness and the way of peace. That encounter planted many seeds.
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20 yrs ago I edited "THICH NHAT HANH: Essential Writings" @OrbisBooks. That day also led to my friendship with Jim Forest, whose "EYES OF COMPASSION: Learning from Thich Nhat Hanh" we published this year. Happy birthday Thay! Present moment, beautiful moment!
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St John XXIII: “In the daily exercise of our pastoral office, we sometimes have to listen, much to our regret, to voices of persons who, though burning with zeal, are not endowed with too much sense of discretion or measure. In these modern times they can see nothing but…
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One time the master asked a holy man what he could do to inherit eternal life. “Don’t cheat, lie, rob your workers, or kill your enemies,” he said. The master smiled broadly, noting that there was no mention of adultery or treason..” #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Thank you @TheRevAl for this beautiful birthday tribute to @RevJJackson
Thrilled to see #keepinghopealive book signing pic included @OrbisBooks @RobertEllsberg @BettyMagness1 @RPCoalition @NationalAction @ESRQuaker @earlham1847
amazon.com/Keeping-Hope-Aliv…
I closed out #PoliticsNation with a tribute to my mentor, Rev. Dr. Jesse L. Jackson. Happy 80th Birthday @RevJJackson.
Visit MSNBC.com/PoliticsNation for more video clips from the show, and be sure to tune in to Politics Nation w/ Al Sharpton tomorrow at 5pm ET only on MSNBC.
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So grateful to @TheRevAl for holding this fabulous #keepinghopealive book signing at @NationalAction
Please get your own copy today amazon.com/Keeping-Hope-Aliv…
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
Thank you @TheRevAl for this beautiful birthday tribute to @RevJJackson
Thrilled to see #keepinghopealive book signing pic included @OrbisBooks @RobertEllsberg @BettyMagness1 @RPCoalition @NationalAction @ESRQuaker @earlham1847
amazon.com/Keeping-Hope-Aliv…
I closed out #PoliticsNation with a tribute to my mentor, Rev. Dr. Jesse L. Jackson. Happy 80th Birthday @RevJJackson.
Visit MSNBC.com/PoliticsNation for more video clips from the show, and be sure to tune in to Politics Nation w/ Al Sharpton tomorrow at 5pm ET only on MSNBC.
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Many people have said this but nice to see it confirmed in the Sydney Daily Herald. “Ellsberg lives up to his good looks but the best is yet to come.” smh.com.au/sport/racing/ells…
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Mollie Rogers (Mother Mary Joseph), founder of the @MaryknollSister d 10/9 1955. "There is nothing more astonishing than life, just as it is, nothing more miraculous than growth and change and development, just as revealed to us. And as happens so often when we stop...
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An excellent memorial to Liberation theologian Pablo Richard. At @OrbisBooks we published several books by him, but more, he served as our principal advisor on Latin American theology. A brilliant, courageous, beautiful man. ncronline.org/news/opinion/l… via @NCRonline
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Collection shows Dorothy Day’s unique vision of holiness – Catholic Philly catholicphilly.com/2021/10/c…
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My reflections @GiveUsThisDayLP on journalist Penny Lernoux, who died Oct 8/89. :You can look at a slum or peasant village...but it is only by entering into that world--by living in it--that you begin to understand what it is like to be powerless, to be like Christ." @OrbisBooks
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Today is @RevJJackson's 80th birthday. Joined him and @Gracejisunkim to discuss his life as a "long distance runner" in the struggle for peace and justice, and his @orbisbooks title "Keeping Hope Alive: Speeches and Sermons of Rev Jesse L Jackson Sr." piped.video/watch?v=WssKx_15…
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