Thought for the Day

The antidote for the ignorance that causes suffering 

is to wake up to what we really are.

~ Paul Knitter

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Quoted in "Our True Nature", Daily Meditations, Center for Action and Contemplation, November 8, 2021, from Paul Knitter and Roger Haight, Jesus and Buddha: Friends in Conversation (Orbis, 2015), pp 41-42

Paul Knitter, American Theologian; Emeritus Professor, Union Theological Seminary

Paul Knitter on FaceBook

 

Center for Action and Contemplation

Thought for the Day

It is impossible to know, in the moment, how a small act

of goodness will reverberate through time. The notion is

empowering and it is frightening—because it means that

we're all capable of changing the world, and responsible

for finding those opportunities to protect, feed, 

grow, and guide love.

~ Episcopal Bishop Michael Curry

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Quoted from "Being's 'God's Somebody'", Daily Meditations, Center for Action and Contemplation, October 29, 2021 (See Michael Curry with Sara Grace, Love Is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times (Avery, 2020).) 

 

Most Rev. Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop and Primate, The Episcopal Church

Center for Action and Contemplation

New Artist Watch Feature at Escape Into Life

 

Jodie Kain, God Is My Judge, 2018

Pastel, 18" h x 18.5" w

© Jodie Kain 

Jodie Kain, Two Scotches In, 2017

Pastel, 15" h x 21" w

© Jodie Kain

PLEASE DO NOT COPY IMAGES

This month's new Artist Watch feature introduces the award-winning painter Jodie Kain to readers of the international online arts magazine Escape Into Life.

Jodie, a native New Yorker who lives and works in Boston, began her formal art studies at age 16, when she enrolled in an anatomy class at the Art Students League of New York; subsequently, she studied with photorealist Rob Neffson at Penn State University, at The Heatherley School of Fine Art in London, and at the Academy of Realist Art in Boston. She holds a bachelor's degree in fine art from Penn State. A figurative painter who also employs plein air techniques while studying natural subjects from life, Jodie works exclusively in pastels. She is a member of both The American Artists Professional League and American Women Artists.

For today's Artist Watch column, Jodie has generously provided a dozen images of work from 2021 - 2017; her Artist Statement, and a biographical profile. Links to her social media also are provided in the column.

Thought for the Day

Our core is original blessing, not original sin.

~ Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM

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Quoted from Richard Rohr, "A Hopeful Foundation", Center for Action and Contemplation, October 24, 2021

 

Fr. Richard Rohr, Franciscan Friar, Ecumenical Teacher, Founder of Center for Action and Contemplation (New Mexico)

Thought for the Day

Shame never has a loud clang.

The worst part is how silent it is.

~ Victoria Chang

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Quoted from Introduction to "'Dear Memory' digs into the shame accompanying immigrant silence", Author Intervew at NPR, October 12, 2021; From Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief (Milkweed Editions, 2021)

Victoria Chang, Poet and Writer