It is early morning on Block Island — a time and place where I have often written over many years. My family, on our annual August vacation together here, is still asleep, liking to rise late on vacation days. Therefore, I always have several hours alone each day on Block Island, a special place introduced to me by one of my early mentors, William Stringfellow. He described the island, which is part of Rhode Island, as an hour “off the coast of America.”

Seeking Shelter, a recently released film about Block Island, is a description of this place as a haven for radical Christian thinking and acting that Bill Stringfellow, Dan Berrigan, and their friends created. I am absolutely delighted to share this wonderful documentary with you all this week and hope that you will watch and share it. I am very grateful to filmmaker Sue Hagedorn, also an island resident, and many other dear friends who helped create this delightful and challenging piece of work. A wonderful community of Islanders have sprung up around this film and are showing it around the country. See their amazing story right below my article. Invite them to bring Seeking Shelter to your university or church.

Read more about Block Island and the exhibit 'Seeking Shelter' — focused on my mentors William Stringfellow and Daniel Berrigan and their extraordinary legacy on Block Island — in this piece from Ken Yellis, a dear friend and co-creator of  'Seeking Shelter.' 

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