OK, now write the article about all the rabbis and Jewish leaders who supported him in his vision for the future. Or would that not be clickable enough?

Access to the sacraments is the tip of the iceberg. They won't allow clergy access bc they aren't running a proper detention facility. The scandal that religious protests are highlighting is not that the detainees' religious rights are being violated, but that ALL their rights are being violated.

If you’re interested in the best of religion and spirituality, here are some of the books I’ve been reading. www.spiritualityandpractice.com/books/

Al-Jāḥiẓ: Arabic scholar of the Qur'an and Greek philosophy, great 9th century writer, might be the only writer in history who was killed by his books. A massive stack in his Basra library fell on him.📚#bookhistory

Self-publishing history. Dickens published A Tale of Two Cities in his periodical. Melville, Hardy, and Twain all subsidized early works, paying publishers to issue them. And Leonard and Virginia Woolf started Hogarth Press to publish Virginia's fiction that was too innovative for mainstream houses.

Catalogers of used books used to refer to bindings like this one as ‘shaken.’ In other words, well read. I gravitate toward them.

“The most ignorant Person…may write Books in Philosophy, Poetry, Politicks, Laws, Mathematicks, and Theology, without the least assistance from Genius or Study.” Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

"Love does not make you weak; it is the source of all strength. When you begin to love you see the nothingness of the illusory strength you once depended on." Leon Bloy

Very cool! And I'm told that anyone can join. "The Boston College Faith Feeds Book Club offers a sacred space to explore Christian books and engage in virtual conversations with the authors who inspire them. Our next feature book and author is..." www.bc.edu/content/bc-w...

Save the date? Milwaukee- at the Capuchin Spiritual Center - on January 10 to learn practical ways of encountering God in daily life according to the experiences of St. Francis of Assisi. Or, come to my event at @boswellbooks.bsky.social the night before, Jan. 9: www.eventbrite.com/e/jon-m-swee...

I love the simple typography of this book jacket. I always find Updike interesting, often frustrating, but this is a beautifully edited and produced book by @AAKnopf.

I keep thinking about Mr. Brown, the 45-year-old man who I registered to vote 5 years ago on this day in Milwaukee. He leaned toward me and said, “I can’t read.” Imagine the courage that required! So we read him the ballot and he voted for the first time.

7 years ago today Fr. Thomas Keating was buried at St. Joseph's Abbey/Spencer.

Nine years ago, when my kid was in kindergarten, I remember asking after school what she enjoyed most and she said, "Most of all I like the scienceing, when we go outside and do observations."

Well done, FSPA! www.wpr.org/news/francis...

I recently got around to watching all of Homeland, and it was so cool at the end of the final season how Carrie Mathison needed to understand Tauchnitz Editions of British authors in order to decipher the identity of the upper level Russian spy.

you know the internet might just shut down someday when advertisers realize no one cares or even sees their ads because when i'm trying to look at the weather to see when it's supposed to stop raining it's not as if i pause or look to say wow what cute boots those are

Speaker Johnson says clergy protesting deportations have no right to 'get in the face' of DHS agents www.ncronline.org/news/speaker...

After a famed Canadian author exits a U.S. tour, a Vermont library enters with an alternative vtdigger.org/2025/10/30/a...

I'm grateful that the Vermont governor & legislators acted to prevent Vermont children & families from going hungry. Now Trump must obey the law & release $5 billion in emergency SNAP funding appropriated by Congress. The richest country on Earth shouldn't be facing a hunger crisis.

A good conversation yesterday youtube.com/watch?v=wD3i...

I devoured this in college! Hadn’t seen one in a dust jacket for a very long time.

We are all friendlier after we’ve been fed.

Very sad to see that St. John's Anglican Church in Black River, Jamaica, was destroyed in yesterday's Hurricane Melissa.

Today, in the cold almost-November soil, we planted a cherry tree and a peach tree. It's about hope.

I can’t find my damn glasses.

Remembering Sylvia Plath on what would have been her 93rd birthday. Her powerful poetry and prose continue to inspire. #SylviaPlath #Poetry #LiteraryLegacy

Highly unusual back cover copy. Must have been the thirties.

apnews.com/article/roma... flock to a new cathedral that is the world’s largest Orthodox church

As I pursued the wasp flying crazily and threateningly in my office with a rolled up magazine, it insisted on hiding behind an icon of Francis and Clare.

A religion without mystics is a philosophy. -Pope Francis

Where two principles that cannot be reconciled with one another really do meet, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic. Ludwig Wittgenstein, from On Certainty

This is a challenging teaching of Meister Eckhart. From ‘Meister Eckhart’s Book of Darkness and Light’📚

One cool thing about it is that I bought it at Shakespeare & Company in Paris. #bookstores

This is probably the rarest thing on my shelves. His 2nd book, 2000 copies printed, never reprinted by Greene’s demand.

Nun-mania www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

My review of the extraordinary 3rd edition of this book www.spiritualityandpractice.com/book-reviews...

This is the obit I was really waiting for. Well-told, from Philadelphia. www.inquirer.com/obituaries/a...

My wife says, when I eat twizzlers, I am basically freebasing sugar. So that’s bad then.

A tough week. Just hugging a potato, you know, like you do.

apnews.com/article/isra... Mount of Olives where Jesus prayed, monks and nuns keep harvesting olives

Unspoken fact about spirituality and religion publishing: It's always been true that conservatives purchase more books (or magazines, newsletters, substacks, etc) than liberals. WAY more. That's why conservative publishers always seem stronger. Because they are.

I found this for a few bucks today at our local used bookstore.

Rodger Kamenetz describes his encounter with H.H. the Dalai Lama, the meaning of 'afflictive emotions,' and how it led him to write his new book, Seeing into the Life of Things (Monkfish. Nov. 2025) www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkIP...

I’m not sure it’s historic as much as it is just a really really really really good photo op.

A guy messaged me the other day, saying, I entered Absolute Reality and spoke with God! I do think he's nuts; but then again, he wouldn't have to be.

If you can find somewhere to see this powerful documentary, you should. I was lucky to see it today in Middlebury, Vermont.

I am finally getting to it. So good.