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I first met Thuy Khuu in 2006 when she took my Social Justice class at Saint Louis University.  Born in Vietnam, she moved to the US at the age of eight with her family.  Beginning in…

Today’s One-Liner (#124)

It was not in vain that the ancient Fathers used to say: sit in your cell and it will teach you everything. –John B. Dunlap, Staretz Amvrosy, Model for Dostoevsky’s Staretz Zossima, 150

Our 65th Exchange on Israel and Palestine

A summer evening, 2008, we’re shmoozing at Coffee Cartel.  All these years later, Nava, I remember you telling me at one point, totally matter-of-fact,  no trace of irritation, “You know, you’re very one-sided.” I acknowledged,…

Today’s One-Liner (#123)

We must endure what is hard to endure and persevere in that which is hard to persevere in.   –Tempo Roshi, quoted in Eido T. Shimano, Endless Vow:  The Zen Path of Soen Nakagawa

Today’s One-Liner (#122)

The work of extending your goodness and correcting your faults must never stop.  –Liu Wenmin,  J. C. Cleary, Worldly Wisdom: Confucian Teachings of the Ming Dynasty

Today’s One-Liner (#121)

 He that has read Shakespeare with attention will perhaps find little new in the crowded world.  –Dr. Samuel Johnson, dedication in Mrs. Lennox’ Shakespeare Illustrated, 1753, cited in  A Johnson Sampler, edited by Henry Darcy…

Recent Reading

Sohrab  Ahmari, The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos Thomas à  Kempis, The Imitation of Christ Wendell Berry, Blessed are the Peacemakers: Christ’s Teachings of Love, Compassion, and Forgiveness…

Today’s One-Liner (#119)

Fortitude is the key to any great endeavor, and the only way to earn it is one small step at a time.  –Lila Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded…

Today’s One-Liner (#118)

Neglect of things which are profitable and necessary and undue concern with those which are irrelevant and harmful, are great folly.  –Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ