@chrisl831.bsky.social
Writer—with a focus on place and wilderness in contemplative practice. Lives (part-time) in Sarhentaruc in Big Sur.
Bruce Springsteen's statement(s) on the "authoritarianism happening right now in the America I love and have sung about for fifty years."
The statements came in Manchester UK as prefaces to his songs "Land of Hope and Dreams," "House of a Thousand Guitars" and "My City of Ruins."
Yes, we need moral leadership. And not just from elected leaders and institutional leaders. But among ourselves as everyday citizens. That we practice and be witnesses to justice—especially in behalf of the most vulnerable among us. And to create together a moral vision of who we're meant to become.
25.04.2025 21:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Is it mainly the tenor of my own feeds...or is the hypocrisy of Trumpian "religion" getting called out publicly more and more insistently by actual Christians?
21.04.2025 06:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Because I was in prison and you visited me..."
God bless you, Senator Van Hollen. And that's from us. Because Jesus has already said he will.
"We are not alone any more. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.
"We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community."
— Dorothy Day
Here during the beginning of Holy Week...
"Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law and order allied with religion, which is always a deadly mix." — Barbara Brown Taylor
"We're going to make our revolution with joy," Sanders said. "We're going to sing and dance our way to victory against hatred and divisiveness."
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
May we all thrive together. You and I and all our brothers and sisters and Sister Mother Earth. By love and in truth. Because only truth will set us free.
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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
"In the letter...Francis urged Catholics to consider human values, not laws or regulations, as the primary compass driving their actions.
“'Consider the legitimacy of norms and public policies in the light of the dignity of the person and his or her fundamental rights,' he wrote. 'Not vice versa.'”
Fr. James Martin, SJ
"In its simplest terms, the apparent demise of USAID is the result of the world's richest man ending a program that helps millions of poor people. You don't need a Ph.D. in moral theology to see why this is an evil. You can just read Jesus's parables on the rich and the poor."
"All of industrial/technological civilization is really on the wrong track, because its drive and energy are purely mechanical and self-serving — real values are someplace else. The real values are within nature, family, mind, and into liberation… "
— Gary Snyder, "The Real Work"
