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Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day were good friends. He admired her life and work, and she visited him on several occasions at the monastery and at his hermitage. They had friends in common, including Fathers Daniel and Philip Berrigan who had a strong mentor relationship to Merton. Merton frequently contributed articles to Dorothy’s newspaper The Catholic […]
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Dorothy wrote about her experience in solitary confinement in prison for doing non-violent disobedience. She reminds us that suffering can open us up so we become far bigger than our own ego, we learn to identify with others who are suffering. She writes: All through those weary first days in jail when I was in […]
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I had the privilege last Saturday morning of participating in a gathering headed by Kaira Jewel and Adam Bucko that was grounded in deep ecumenism and where they interviewed Orbis editor Robert Ellsberg about Dorothy Day. [LINK] Robert lived with Dorothy for the last five years of her life, and when she was slowing down […]
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Recently, I received an invitation from Christena Cleveland, author of God Is a Black Woman, to offer a blurb about her new book that comes out this fall, called The Black Madonna: Icon of Resistance & Nourisher of Souls. The title derives from bell hooks, who urged her people to “reclaim the Black Madonna as an icon of […]
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For today’s DM, I share, with her permission, a shortened version of a recent essay from Kaira Jewel’s Substack.* It was originally titled, “Compassion as Protection: Practicing with Those Who Cause Harm.” Kaira Jewel lived for sixteen years as a nun in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Buddhist community in Plum Village. She and Father Adam Bucko […]
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