Thanks for the great review, SpiritualityandPractice! This book publishes 1 week from today! spiritualityandpractice.com/book-reviews/v…

This week's Anthony Burgess newsletter looks at some of the artists who have illustrated his novels. anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/the-illustra…

For rabbi friends preparing services for Rosh Hashanah — a suggested reading from Meister Eckhart. From "Meister Eckhart’s Book of the Heart"📚❤

I think young children germinate in theology, whether we realize it or not, and even though we call it by other names.

Patron saint of taxi drivers 🚕 (It's unclear if Uber drivers are covered by his patronage)

these late summer days we have hummingbirds around like rabbits in spring

Bishop Mark Seitz Bishop Mark J. Seitz is the bishop of the Diocese of El Paso, Texas, where he serves a borderland community whose sister city is Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. He is also the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration. He will be a part of the

David Chadwick’s ‘Tassajara Stories’ in the San Francisco Zen Center blog blogs.sfzc.org/blog/2025/08/1…

Protest in Bristol, Vermont

Wait, doesn't everyone do this nerd-like behavior?

Sewn binding. See the strings? (This from “The Silent Life,” Thomas Merton, 1957.)

Simon Bening, The Seven Sorrows of Mary from the Prayer Book of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg c.1525-1530

4 Grove Press books by Eugène Ionesco I love this era of Grove Press cover designs.

From the annals of bookselling: William Faulkner was largely unknown and OOP in America when Simone de Beauvoir began checking out Faulkner novels from Sylvia Beach's bookstore in Paris. Soon, praise in Europe led to the 'discovery' of Faulkner in the U.S. Then, the Nobel Prize.

No lie—spicy pork rectum on a Chinese restaurant menu in WI. Maybe AI translations aren’t always best.

I do this occasionally too, wander in my own shelves, remembering what’s already there.

New Mary Oliver publishing next week. Here’s my review. spiritualityandpractice.com/book-reviews/v…

Here you go (if you are a fellow reader of Simenon, please do let me know):/2 open.substack.com/pub/prufrock/p…

Living City Magazine September-October issue "The Franciscan Way" Jon M. Sweeney Learn more and order today! focolaremedia.com/bookstore/fran… #Franciscan #SaintFrancis

If you're clergy, I'd love to hear about the discussions you're having regarding safety at worship. There's a lot of conversation going on. But my white Christian clergy friends don't seem to be worrying in the same way that my African-American, Jewish, and Muslim friends are.