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This is a fine summary of the broader ramifications of what’s happening here: africacenter.org/spotlight/ri...

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Things have gotten pretty bad here pretty quickly. Worst I’ve seen since Bangui ten or so years ago. Many deaths, many serious injuries, many wounded with injuries typical of modern small arms fire. Looting of essential supplies. Lots to do.

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Out in the streets here most of the day, but still time to remind you that today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. So remember.

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Still here. Plenty of work to do. Not leaving. apnews.com/article/cong...

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Three wonders mark this day we celebrate: today the star led the Magi to the manger; today water was changed into wine at the marriage feast; today Christ desired to be baptized by John in the river Jordan to bring us salvation, alleluia.

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Usually make these for Christmas, but just didn’t have time this year. So I’ve done 6 tins for the New Year. Everybody from the Archbishop on down has let it be known that they’re expected (if I know what’s good for me). Only soaked in bourbon for four days, but that should do.

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If it is your practice, please pray for the repose of the immortal soul of James Earl Carter Jr, 39th President of the United States. Remarkable life, superbly lived. May he rest in peace. He will most certainly rise in glory.

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Adrenaline high kept me awake after I got home last night, so to pass the time I went ahead and made the apple pie I was going to do later today. Early start on my own Feast of St Stephen. If you stop by you’re welcome to a slice.🍎🥧🍏

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Past few yrs I’ve done sort of a circuit rider thing on Christmas Day, moving from rural parish to parish filling in for absent clergy. 5 is easy; last yr I did 6; this yr I committed to 7 and that was probably 1 too many. Got them all done, but it was a really close run thing.

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9 services, spread across 7 rural parishes, each missing a celebrant or a preacher or both cuz measles/Covid/M23. Added up to 355km. 1 tire change (jagged lava), had to dig myself out of mud just twice, 2 bullet holes this year. A really good day, but I think I’ll lie down now.👍

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Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, Aus einer Wurzel zart, Wie uns die Alten sungen, Von Jesse kam die Art Und hat ein Blümlein bracht Mitten im kalten Winter, Wohl zu der halben Nacht.

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In Goma it’s now very early morning, Christmas Day. On this, the day upon which we celebrate the birth of our Lord and our Savior, may each and every one of you have a safe, peaceful, merry Christmas.🙏⛪️🙏

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Fifty or so Christmas Eves ago I pulled this book out of my little (at the time) personal library and reread it from beginning to end. It was a whimsical thing and just for that one evening. But I’ve managed to do it every Christmas Eve since then so I guess it’s a thing now.

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My article on teaching the Barmen Declaration in Trump's America was one of the top 10 opinion pieces of 2024 at @presoutlook.bsky.social. In the wake of the election, it is sadly even more relevant. pres-outlook.org/2024/12/top-...

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These seem to be dark times just about everywhere and some of us probably have to dig pretty deep to find something for which to be thankful. May all my friends in the United States find that special thing and enjoy the happiest of Thanksgivings.

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Wise words from someone whose judgment about Bonhoeffer I respect.

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May the memory of Hersh Goldberg-Polin forever be a blessing.

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May mothers everywhere enjoy a fine Mother’s Day weekend.

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Tillykke med fødselsdagen, Søren!!!🍾🍾🌟🌟🎉🎉

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Today, 9 April, marks the anniversary of the death by hanging of pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer. May his memory be a blessing forever.

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‘How mighty is the unbroken world of the It, and how fragile are the appearances of the Thou.’ Martin Buber, „Ich und Du” - 1923

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Odd that the anniversary of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s death is totally engraved on my brain, but his birthday is something I never remember until reminded. Born on this day in 1906, Wrocław, Poland.

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The 11 most endangered monuments and heritage sites in Europe shortlisted for 2024: www.europanostra.org/europa-nostr...

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The most blessed, and certainly the merriest, of Christmases to my many Orthodox colleagues and friends.

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This in an email received an hour or so ago. In my heart of hearts I knew this was inevitably coming, but I still hoped that the professional allegations against President Gay would prove to be unjustified. I’m so sorry, both for her and for the university, that they did not.

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In honor of this day.

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On this day in 1935 Regina Jonas was ordained as the world's first female rabbi. She was born in Berlin in 1902 and murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. May her memory forever be a blessing.

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‘Howard Moody says the church is an instrument of God literally to be used up in his service, a service to those not even within it. There is little evidence at this point in God’s economy that the church is about to go out of business through such usefulness.’ —Will Campbell

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Today marks the death in 1909 of Leopold II of Belgium, rapist of the Congo. There is virtually nothing wrong or wrongheaded about political and social life in the modern Congo—both Kinshasa and Brazzaville—that can’t in one way or another be traced directly back to Leopold.

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A colleague who’s constantly teasing me about the desk in my study just got back from a trip to London and brought me this early Christmas present. If you were to see my desk you’d immediately understand the little needle he’s poking at me here.😉

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The essays in this new book are really useful. I met Bayard Rustin just once, when I was 14, and only for three minutes or so. But in those three minutes he introduced me to Will Campbell and that changed the trajectory of my life. I’ll always be grateful to Rustin for that.

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Just this moment remembered that yesterday was the 129th birthday of the great Hamada Shoji.

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I hope that all my Jewish friends and colleagues are having an exceptionally lovely Hanukkah.🕎

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‘At the abyss of German history and beneath the burden of the murdered millions, I did what people do when language fails them.’—Willy Brandt falls to his knees at the Ghetto Monument, Warsaw, 7 Dec 1970. I had almost forgotten about Brandt and his powerful gesture of penance and reconciliation.

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‘People who can be happy in their own particular faith only if it is binding for the millennia to come know nothing of the intrinsic freedom and greatness of faith.’ —Ernst Troeltsch, 1911

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The very best collect.

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One of the prime benefits of living in central Africa this time of year is that we don’t get The Hallmark Channel.📺👍

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This parish only knows the Vaughan Williams setting of ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’ and I’m totally good with that.⛪️🎄🎶👍

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<<Gott ist>> heißt <<Gott liebt>>. Karl Barth, KD II/1, 318

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