Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
Sermon by Fr. David Gierlach, St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church, Honolulu. Reproduced here with permission. 1 Kings 19:1-15a, Psalm 42, Galatians 3:23-29, Luke 8:26-39 Last Sunday brought the tragic news from Orlando, a gunman of Afghan descent murdered 50 people…
Reposted here with permission, some prompt and necessary words in a blogpost by Bishop Robert Lynch of St. Petersburg, Florida. ORLANDO, ORLANDO WE LOVE YOU Today I write with a heavy heart arising from the tragedy which occurred in the…
Originally posted on Bondings 2.0:
The following is a statement of Francis DeBernardo, New Ways Ministry’s Executive Director, released on June 12, 2016, in response to the mass shooting at a gay and lesbian nightclub in Orlando, Florida, earlier that day.…
There is no shortage of men in power. No shortage of men who are ready to issue warnings and threaten punishment for straying from the party line. No shortage of men ready to hold forth in front of cameras. And…
Wow! The bishops have finally been moved to speak out, and possibly help Catholics deal with the poisonous rhetoric from the GOP stable of once aspiring Presidential hopefuls, and their now firmly established presumptive nominee. An electronic flyer has just…
Bernie Sanders, candidate for President, says what the United States bishops should be proclaiming from every pulpit; what they should be saying at every society dinner they attend, every TV appearance they make, every instruction they send to clergy and…
“I wanted to be useless/As life itself; so/I told the president so/and told the pope so/and told the police so.” “Ambition,” Daniel Berrigan. And the Risen Bread: Selected Poems 1957-1997. Fordham University Press. 1998. “It’s been a very difficult question…
Originally posted on Feminism and Religion:
Western Easter has come and gone, and I missed it this year, by design. I went to Athens for the weekend, where Easter this year won’t come until May 1. In the Greek Orthodox Church,…
Bernie Sanders’ speech at Liberty University was barely mentioned by the media. They were too busy covering the GOP front-runner’s never-ending parade of insults and incitements to violence. So here is the Sanders’ speech in its entirety. Bernie Sanders drew…
“Yearning for a new way will not produce it. Only ending the old way can do that. You cannot hold onto the old, all the while declaring that you want something new. . . . There is only one way…
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