St. Francis radically changed the way we see beauty and ourselves in relationship to beauty.
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St. Francis: Made for Beauty
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Reading, Better than Juvie
When high school vandals defaced a historic black church, an enlightened judge ordered them to read books and report on them.
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Trayvon Martin, Another Emmett Till
The killing of Trayvon Martin reminds me of Emmett Till and a poem written about Emmett’s youthful innocence.
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