A poem created from a ChatGPT prompt with an image from Stable Diffusion. In shadows cast by desert suns, A story of a journey begun. Jesus walks the southern line, A refugee seeking a hope divine. Through arid plains, a dusty road, He bears the weight of a heavy load. Innocence draped in tattered shroud, … Read more
I’ve been reading The 1619 Project. It’s an enlightening book. The author describes plantations as work camps. I’ve never thought of Monticello, Mount Vernon and the like in the same light as Ravensbruck and Birkenau but they were. Enslaved African Americans were forced to work, brutally treated and in many cases killed to keep them … Read more
I learned this week that the Secular Franciscan Order in the United States is no longer officially supporting the Franciscan Action Network. I was very saddened to learn this. Franciscan Action Network(FAN) actively engages in peace making, care for creation, human trafficking, money in politics, stopping gun violence, racial justice and compassion for immigrants, refugees … Read more
