Resistance also requires a constant effort to withstand the doublespeak of the Re-education Center, a nightmare Sunday school whose lessons she must unlearn (such as the wonderful revisionary slogan said to be in Acts: «From each according to her ability; to each according to his needs» [p. 117]-RRB- At lunch they hear
new Beatitudes she knows are «wrong, and they left things out, too, but there was no way of checking» (p. 89) except through memory and moral imagination.
Not exact matches
When Sister Mary Corita was asked to submit a piece of her artwork for consideration in the Vatican exhibit at the 1964
New York Worlds Fair, she chose to do a piece on the
Beatitudes.
The
beatitudes, and all the descriptions of the
new man contained here, are meant to describe what God's will is for one who has chosen the kingdom of God, now breaking in upon men.
Brendan Freeman, a Trappist monk from Iowa, says that the
Beatitudes «draw our hearts out of themselves into a
new way of understanding our lives... they are deliberately incomplete.
February 10 - 11: Big Tent Christianity — Phoenix, Arizona Thursday, 9 a.m. - 9 p.m., Friday, 9 a.m. — 5 p.m. at The Church of the
Beatitudes I'll be joining Brian McLaren, Marcus Borg, Carol Howard Merritt, Nadia Bolz - Weber, and many more to talk about
new and old ways of being and becoming the Church.
Though the Christians, purportedly, base their faith and morals on the
New Testament, it is the ten commandments, not the ten
beatitudes, which they are most likely to be able to repeat if called upon.
I am donating all of the royalties from the sale of my book, The
Beatitudes, directly to the
New Orleans Public Library Foundation.
I'm doing this in conjunction with my project, The
Beatitudes Network - Rebuilding the Public Libraries of
New Orleans.