Jon M. Sweeney

I'm happy to announce that the final book I'll write about Francis of Assisi will publish next January, from @MonkfishBookPub, in time for the 800th anniversary of the saint's death. Here's the cover!

I was delighted to find this today for $8. It has this tip-in on the last page. Does anyone else have a copy of the 1952 edition hardcover? Is this in your book too?

This is a book for peace, unity, and listening. I like how, often, the author admits to simply not knowing what to say (see the excerpt accompanying this review). spiritualityandpractice.com/book-reviews/v…

A book by poet Elizabeth Jennings (on Frost) on my shelf. I bought it second-, third-, perhaps fourth-hand, and I love the enthusiastic engagement someone previously had with it.

I have to share this every time I see it.

Amen!

Such a good book. If you ever come across one, I suggest you pick it up.

If I was as scrupulous about the rest of my life as I am about my email inbox, I'd really be something.

Imagine this From "Meister Eckhart's Book of Secrets"

Backyard at dusk. #Vermont

Saint Mary Magdalene Preaching Painting by Master of the Magdalene Legend (Museum: Philadelphia Museum of Art)

Me too.

"Awe is more than an emotion; it is a way of understanding." Abraham Joshua Heschel

ወበከየት፡ ወአርሐሰት፡ እገሪሁ፡ በአንብዓ፡ ወትመዘምዝ፡ በሥዕርተ፡ ርእሳ። "And she wept and soaked his feet with her tears, drying (them) with the hair of her head." (Lk 7:38 according to the Ge'ez text) Ethiopia, 18th–19th c. (?) #JesusChrist #geez #africanart

Father Louis

My latest book review: spiritualityandpractice.com/book-reviews/v…

The very first depiction of an air friar!🤔

I like that some ancient commentators, probably asked, saw the lesson of Mary and Martha as only making one dish for guests when they come over. You don’t need to cook seven things, just one. That’s all they need. Solid advice really

I was glad to have a chance to wander round St Andrews, which I last visited aged 17 as a prospective undergraduate! Remnants of its medieval past are everywhere.

Forthcoming by our @FWF_at-#ENCHANT-team member @EkateMits9 in October: arc-humanities.org/9781641890656/… #Byzanzforschung @imafo_oeaw @univienna

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