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Author: Mark J. Chmiel
Notice What You Notice
Primo Levi: I never stopped recording the world and people around me, so much that I still have an unbelievably detailed image of them. I had an intense wish to understand, I was constantly pervaded…
Starting in Early January 2023
14,000 Things to Be Happy About: A Class in Reading, Writing, and Sharing
Then and Now
“Brothers, do not be afraid of men’s sin, love man also in his sin, for this likeness of God’s love is the height of love on earth. Love all of God’s creation, both the whole…
Sri Anandamayi Ma
In the last eleven yearsI’ve read whatever books I could get my hands onWhose subject is Sri Anandamayi Ma (Her parents gave her the nameNirmala SundariWhich means “One of Taintless Beauty”) Some say this Bengali…
Share the Wealth with Katrina Becker and Natalie Long … Love: A Chit-Chat Apostolate–Dorothy Day and Catherine de Hueck Doherty
Born a year apart, and passing away within five years of one another, the twentieth century witnessed the inspired lives of Dorothy Day and Catherine de Hueck Doherty, two luminous figures of contemporary Christianity. These…
What Two Women Think
A roshi is a person who has actualized that perfect freedom which is the potentiality for all human beings. He exists freely in the fullness of his whole being. The flow of his consciousness is…
Reckoning with Ourselves
I recently finished a course with my friends Dianne Lee and Martín Antonio Zaldívar-Barragán, “Reckoning with Russia, War, and Ourselves.” We read and discussed Tolstoy, Kuznetsov, Alexievich, and Politkovskaya. I invite you to check out…
Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky’s art is literally prophetic. He is not prophetic in the sense of predicting the future, but in a truly biblical sense, for he untiringly denounces the fall of the people of God back into…