And all day I have listened to partisan commentators insist that their own hateful and inflammatory rhetoric against the LGBTQIA+ community cannot be blamed for this incident, because the shooter is “one of their own.” Hypocrites! Viper’s brood!
The Spirit of defiance of the social order continued amongst a number of wealthy, and often noble, women of the Middle Ages.
In 371, Martin was elected bishop of Tours. When an officer of the Imperial Guard arrived with a number of prisoners who were to be tortured and executed the next day, Martin intervened and secured their release.
I don’t know what to ask of God that will make all this better.
“You may be all the Gospel your neighbor will ever read.” — Saint Francis of Assisi
I used to quote this passage to my students at the evangelical university where I taught for ten years. They always nodded in sage agreement, murmuring appreciatively—until I told them the verse wasn’t from the Bible. It’s an Islamic hadith, one of a large collection of wisdom sayings that complement and amplify the Qur’an.
I do my best to take each day as it comes, doing whatever I can without assuming that however I feel on a given day is a durable condition.
