July 2012
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“Cancer made me feel completely misunderstood and out of place, but it also made...”
– —Raffi Leicht, from her powerful piece in Tablet Magazine, “How Tisha B’Av Helped Me Heal”
If you read one thing today, be sure it’s this contemplative personal history of a young, observant Jewish student who says that “cancer, and a year of chemotherapy, gave me a...
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“Standing in the lowly place with the easily despised, and the readily left out,...”
– Fr. Greg Boyle, from his interview with Krista Tippett at the Chautauqua Institution
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WatchAfter that last post, how could I resist following it up with Patrick Stewart reciting Sonnet 29.
~Trent Gilliss, senior editor
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WatchI am sooooo getting this iPad app. Ruth Negga reading Shakespeare’s Sonnet 114:
Or whether doth my mind, being crowned with you, Drink up the monarch’s plague, this flattery? Or whether shall I say mine eye saith true, And that your love taught it this alchemy, To make of monsters and things indigest…
~Trent Gilliss, senior editor
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WatchCall to Prayer at Sultan Hassan Mosque (video)
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
One of the largest mosques in the world, the Masjid al-Sultan Hassan is just one more reason to visit Cairo:
Built between 1356 and 1363 by the Mamluk ruler Sultan Hassan, the scale of the mosque is so colossal that it nearly emptied the vast Mamluk Treasury. Historians believe that the builders of this mosque may...
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WatchIt doesn’t get much hotter than this! A short film by Chris Bolton that captures the art of fire breathing at 2000 frames per second and truly does offer “a rare glimpse into a world outside the human perception of time.”
~Trent Gilliss, senior editor
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Longing for the Muezzin's Call
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
One of the things I find I most enjoyed — and, now, most miss — about my travels to the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Istanbul is the periodicity of the muezzin’s call to prayer. It greets you in so many unexpected ways.
Standing on the Mount of Olives, one call drifts across the valley from the Old City only to be washed over by another one down the way. But...
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