"Would I might wake St. Francis in you all,
Brother of birds and trees, God’s Troubadour,
Blinded with weeping for the sad and poor;
Our wealth undone, all strict Franciscan men,
Come, let us chant the canticle again
Of mother earth and the enduring sun.
God make each soul the lonely leper’s slave;
God make us saints, and brave." 

Poems for All Saints Day

Ten Women Saints Whose Stories You Should Know

* Martin Marty – October 31, 1517 [Brief Review]

A Timely Meditation.  A Brief Review of 
October 31, 1517: Martin Luther and the Day that Changed the World
Martin Marty  (Hardback: Paraclete Press, 2017)
Reviewed by C. Christopher Smith

* New Book Releases –Week of 30 Oct 2017-Wendell Berry, MORE

Here are a few new book releases from this week that are worth checking out:
Wendell Berry, Isabel Allende, Simon Critchley on Soccer, MORE

*Sabbath Wanderings #11 – Josh Dease [Cartoon]

Cartoon #11 in the Sabbath Wanderings series.... "The Quiet Disciplines"

 

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* Martyn Wendell Jones – Essay on Two New David Bentley Hart Books

Or So I Like to Think: The Great Talk of David Bentley Hart
An Essay on Two New Books by Hart