Sarah Gaventa

The Trial of Gisèle Pelicot’s Rapists United France and Fractured Her Family After fifty-one men were convicted of the crime, Pelicot became a feminist hero. But additional accusations left her children struggling to accept her new role.

Brutal & layered piece by @rachelaviv.bsky.social about Gisèle Pelicot and her estranged children: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

A while ago a lovely German man appeared at our church. He came a few times to look around during our Saturday opening hours, before asking if the piano abandoned in the corner worked.

I told him it was horrendously out of tune, and the cathedral piano tuner had deemed it not worth sorting out.

Great news!

A bunch of people have sent me this. I just want everybody to know this is NOT my fault. (This time.)

Those are great pants!

The one thing I’ve stolen in my life was one of these from my friend Katie’s house when I was 8. I got busted immediately.

It hurt my heart to receive this letter today. Decades of ministry, gone. Our own local work of assisting asylum seekers pausing. Grief upon grief as the cries of those in need are locked out of hope.

@kmaustinyoung.bsky.social, I have an urgent question for your husband:

Does Big Bird see a veterinarian or a medical doctor? Does the same hold true for, say, Kermit or Fozzy? And if Big Bird *does* see a vet, does Cookie Monster?

My three year old needs to know...

Looking forward to this!

I’m preaching on this text Sunday and the “third day” jumped out at me, too! Your reflections are v helpful, thx!

Congratulations! You may post less, or you may post more at 3:00 AM! Only time will tell!

I want this show!

What a heartbreak. 💔

Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni and a Smear Campaign After ‘It Ends With Us’ Private messages detail an alleged campaign to smear Blake Lively after she accused Justin Baldoni of misconduct on the set of “It Ends With Us.”

Well this is horrifying. The wave of stories over the summer about Blake Lively being a horrible person were deliberately engineered.

After Blake Lively alleged sexual harassment on the set of It Ends With Us, Justin Baldoni hired Johnny Depp's PR person to smear her.

I’ll prepare the Kleenex!

Oh man, the sixth episode of The Man on the Inside really got me. Beatriz’s performance is so good! 💔

Great data journalism: people report “best times” is when they were 10-15 yo

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The real luxuries in life.

After Assad's regime fell, thousands of Syrians are returning home. This is the road to Damascus. Also, on the border with Turkey, thousands are in line to enter Syria.

My greatest act of love was taking my son at rush hour across the river to a friend’s house who lives past where Route 1 ends. Sacrificial parenting. 😉

There is a Sarah Gaventa in London who is an architect/urban planner. Relatedly, I’ve had quite a few English architects follow me here and they are going to be underwhelmed by my feed. I’ve followed them all back bc outdoor space planning is fascinating!

You look so great! Love that you were back on campus as a leader! 🙌🏻

You used to be able to get custom clergy shirts from certain Brooks Brothers, but that was 30 years ago, so not sure whether they still do it! It was also $$$.

Clergy image does nice jersey style tops and dresses in a variety of fabrics.

The Angel Restrains Abraham from Sacrificing Isaac, by Jacob Franquart, 1616, 📸 by @albello55

The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I’m told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers.

But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them. Let me tell you something. I am having a baby (It’s a boy!), and he is expected on Jan. 6, 2025 (It’s a … Proud Boy?). This is either slightly funny or not at all funny. This whole election, I have been lurching around, increasingly heavily pregnant, nauseated, unwieldy, full of the commingled hopes and terrors that come every time you are on the verge of introducing a new person to the world. Well, that world will look very different, depending on the outcome of November’s election, and I care which world my kid gets born into. I also live here myself. And I happen to care about the people who are already here, in this world. Come to think of it, I have a lot of reasons for caring how the election goes. I think it should be obvious that this is not an election for sitting out.

The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.” “But maybe he’ll forget” is not enough to hang a country on! Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy. But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it.

Trust is like that, too, as newspapers know. I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting, knowing that their editors have their backs, that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear. That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so. That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself!

I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM