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** Cycles of rebirth
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I hope you had a life-giving Easter weekend. For me, sadly, one of the key takeaways was that I shouldn’t eat so much candy all at once. But this week was also a time of reflection for me, largely about cycles of death and resurrection, despair and hope, exhaustion and renewal.
This past week I have wondered how incarcerated folks, including those wrestling with the legacy of Anselm’s theology ([link removed]) , experience hope in the midst of confinement. Or how freedom fighters like journalist Maria Ressa envision new life ([link removed]) while confronting systems of death. I have questioned whether institutions can be reborn, as Princeton Seminary reckons with controversy ([link removed]) surrounding the ethics of one of its leaders. And while I don’t have a new article to link to for this one, I have also yearned to be reunited with loved ones who have passed on.
New video this week: another chat with my favorite poet Bonnie Thurston ([link removed]) . She reads a new piece about the garden of Gethsemane and our complicated relationship with bearing one another’s burdens.
Email me: What does new life or resurrection look like to you this week?
Jon Mathieu
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This week’s top new pieces:
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** Restorative justice with Anselm ([link removed])
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“One student—the others call him Deacon, I later learned—asked if the word penance was related to penitentiary. I was excited: he saw a connection I also see, between atonement theology and the prison environment we were sitting in.”
by Annelisa Burns
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** Princeton Seminary alumni, students aim to remove chairman for predatory prison business ([link removed])
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“[PTS trustee board chairman Michael] Fisch’s private equity firm American Securities owns ViaPath, a prison telecommunications company that charges incarcerated people and their families as much as $15 for 15-minute phone calls to stay connected with their families, lawyers, and anyone outside the prison walls.”
by Meagan Saliashvili
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** Bonnie Thurston reads and discusses “Remain Here, Keep Awake” ([link removed])
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Jon chats with poet and theologian Bonnie Thurston about a recent poem, aging, sleeplessness, and whether we can ease God’s own suffering.
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** In the Lectionary for April 16 (Easter 2A) ([link removed])
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There is a blessing for those who have not come to believe and yet keep trying to see.
by Heidi Haverkamp
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** [Podcast] In search of truth in journalism ([link removed])
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“The job of a journalist is to call a spade a spade. If something is racist, if it’s homophobic, if it’s xenophobic, it’s our job to say that . . . to be as explicit as we can about it.”
Amy Frykholm interviews Dawn Aroujo-Hawkins
** Maria Ressa’s fight for democracy in the Philippines ([link removed])
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Renowned Filipina journalist Maria Ressa’s memoir shows that, in her words, “the absence of law in the virtual world is devastating.”
review by Tom Montgomery Fate
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