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Our Autumn Issue *Friendship* is live!
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I have a piece coming out soon that addresses this directly but in the meantime... plough.com/articles/the-free…
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#BrianBrodeur's #poem that won @Plough's #RhinaEspaillat Award:
@PowowRiverPoets
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What do we lose when we smooth out the natural wrinkles in our faces and our writing?
Anna Jordan
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Join us on Tuesday, October 6 at 6:00 PM in Washington, DC for the book launch of *On Reconciliation*.
Authors and peace builders Maya Savir and @AzizAbuSarah will lead a conversation about what the reconciliation processes in South Africa and Rwanda can offer Israelis and Palestinians — and everyone else — about healing and rebuilding in the aftermath of conflict.
The event will feature a performance by Micah Hendler, the founder and director of the Jerusalem Youth Choir.
RSVP recommended but not required: calendar.gwu.edu/event/on-re…
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“Saroyan writes about seemingly unimportant people with great care and sensitivity. He is drawn to people made ‘of the stuff that is eternal in man,’ who are not found in ‘bright places, making witty remarks about sex and trivial remarks about art.’” @_Zeets
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“The *Confessions* are the story of a group – not of Augustine alone but of himself and his friends as they sought some way of living together as friends bound by a single love. The forms of togetherness varied – from a countercultural, almost subversive existence as a Manichee in Carthage and Rome, to something like a social club within sight of the Alps outside Milan, and finally to a low-profile building in the bishop’s garden in the seaport of Hippo that came to be called The Monastery.” —Peter Brown
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“Culture care is a nonviolent antidote to a culture-wars mindset where scarcity rules in fear. Culture care always seeks to plant seedlings (as Jeremiah 29 tells us to do), even in Ground Zero ashes, so that future generations will find the city, once at enmity with the gospel, now prospering because of the faithful making journey of her children.” @iamfujimura
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“There were other things which occupied my mind in the company of my friends: to make conversation, to share a joke, to perform mutual acts of kindness, to read together well-written books, to disagree without animosity. … These and other signs come from the heart … acting as fuel to set our minds on fire and out of many to forge unity.” —Augustine of Hippo
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“The valorization of choice as the central component of a meaningful life and the suggestion that the suffering of serious illness includes an erosion of dignity are characteristic of pro-MAID language in Canada.” —Benjamin Crosby
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“An excellent short, accessible collection. The chapters on loving enemies, nonviolence, nature, and community are especially well done. This is a great first intro to Thurman or devotional/style text on some of his big thematic teachings.” —Jimmy
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“In Jesus’ teaching, our actions ought to flow not merely from a wish for behaviors we might receive or have reciprocated, or even a deeper identification with our neighbor, but from the concrete reality of his surpassing grace, of which we have been the unworthy beneficiaries.” @zugzwanged
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Excellent piece
“It is a paradox: a decline in membership – in fact, the disintegration of the church – on the one hand, and a hopeful and joyful sense of confidence on the other. Even if I am exaggerating somewhat, the current sense of optimism, which is impossible to overlook, demands attention.” —Xandro Pachta-Reyhofen
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“Augustine saw the monastery as a microcosm of the church and as the place where the diffuse love of the Christian community as a whole was focused into a single bright point. Here, if anywhere, and also among all good Christian men and women, married and unmarried, the vision of God toward which they all strained came near – or so he hoped, and kept on hoping.” —Peter Brown
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conservatism seeks to conserve liberalism, which is why Donald and the rest of the post-liberals are post-conservative.
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“Howard Thurman’s genius lay not in his social organizing, nor in his policies, but in his consistent refrain that the way forward for human division lay in the patient cultivation of souls who were unafraid to love.” @myleswerntz
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'Alleen hele mensen ... zijn immuun voor de hedendaagse ziekte: zulke wezens blijven standvastig aan eeuwige eerste principes, onaangedaan in hun opvattingen en handelen door de veranderende denkwijzen, dwaasheden en verdorvenheid die hen omringen.'
"Why read Edith Stein today? She herself tells us why: 'What is, then, the great sickness of our time and people? There is an inner disunion, a complete deficiency of set convictions and strong principles, an aimless drifting,'"
@zenahitz
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“It is a paradox: a decline in membership – in fact, the disintegration of the church – on the one hand, and a hopeful and joyful sense of confidence on the other. Even if I am exaggerating somewhat, the current sense of optimism, which is impossible to overlook, demands attention.” —Xandro Pachta-Reyhofen
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“Decades ago, Stanley Hauerwas memorably remarked that Christians will have done well if, in the centuries to come, they are known as ‘those peculiar people who don’t kill their babies or their old people.’ For years, Hauerwas’s comments have been invoked as a battle cry against secular humanism, against any progressivism that would deny the unique worth of human life.” @johnehrett
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