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MLK Day 2024: Listen to Those on the Margins
Martin Luther King Day, 2024, finds the world wracked by war, teeming with refugees fleeing various persecutions, people suffering from deep poverty, while a minority of world’s people live in the wealthy ignorance of privilege. How do we change this? How do those of us who live in the wealthy parts of this weeping world…
“Poems for a Deadly Troubled Time” Philip C. Kolin’s White Terror / Black Trauma: Resistance Poems about Black History
Philip C. Kolin’s beautiful new book, White Terror Black Trauma, serves as a guidebook on American history. Its poems lead the reader through a history most of us were never taught: the centuries of white violence inflicted on black people. From 1619 and the violence of American slavery, to the era of lynching, the Tulsa…
800 Years Ago: St. Francis Gives the Nativity to Poor People at Greccio
In December of 1223, St. Francis of Assisi gave the world a gift. He and some of the first brothers were staying at a hermitage in the Rieti Valley, near the town of Greccio. Francis had always been moved by the obvious poverty of the birth of Jesus and so he wanted to show his…
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