Living Contemplatively

Despair and Hope in God’s Loving Embrace

Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen,Nobody knows my sorrow.Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen,Nobody knows but Jesus.Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen,Glory hallelujah! According to James Cone in The Cross and the Lynching Tree, spirituals like “Nobody Knows,” sung by African Americans throughout their time in slavery and especially during the horrific lynching period of …

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Trafficking Weaves a Web Around Our Lives

Editor’s note: Global Sisters Report is focusing on the efforts of sisters to end human trafficking as Talitha Kum, the international anti-trafficking network of religious, marks its 10th anniversary and launches its Nuns Healing Hearts campaign. The special series will run periodically through September, when Talitha Kum will hold its first general assembly. Since its …

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No Room for Compassion Fatigue

In the mid-’80s Neil Postman wrote Amusing Ourselves to Death, which explored how media affects public discourse. He made the observation that before the telegraph, people found out about tragedies, fires or illness by word of mouth. They felt empowered because they were responding to local situations. They could express their compassion concretely and immediately. Too little …

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