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Eyes Wide Open (EWO) #4: Not In Our Name
Saturday, October 20th, 2007Courageously following the Prince of Peace isn’t a bed of roses (maybe stems and thorns). This week, Father Louis Vitale, Franciscan priest and member of Pace e Bene and Father Steve Kelly, Jesuit priest, were sent to jail for attempting to deliver a letter to the commander of Fort Huachuca in Arizona where the […]
Eyes Wide Open (EWO) #3
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007I feel a rather urgent need to plead for prayers and/or love-sending (whatever it is you compassionate non-theists do) for a blog-friend and her son. I don’t know anything about psychiatry or psychiatric drugs, but what this young man is going through is heart breaking. Please go to nobodhi’s blog, where you will find a picture […]
Eyes Wide Open (EWO) #2: Books Not Bombs
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007My offerings for this week*:
What’s really been on my mind, besides medical care, is education.
This is SO on my mind because I just finished reading Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. Amazing. You’ve got to read this book. Not for the literary style—in fact, you may find that lacking (ugh, who […]
Eyes Wide Open (EWO) Wednesday #1
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007Let this place be a place of witnessing. . .
I want to write a post once a week to share stories or links that I’ve come across—a small witnessing to humanity’s condition. The title came from the AFSC exhibit meant to wake us up to the realities of the Iraq War (such as death). See this […]