“We are in this life together, each woven into the other, with our individual sorrows being merely a drop in a vast sea of mutuality.”

-Nick Cave, The Red Hand Files, #311

“We can be good to one another! We can love one another! We can be kind!

I have witnessed such kindness from people - ordinary kindness from broken individuals. Kindness that dismantles the structures of self-hatred and cynicism by recognising our shared condition.”

Real faith cares for the poor, the refugees, the others, the outsiders, the strangers, those fleeing war and corruption in their own homelands. “Whatever you do to the least of these, you do unto me.“ Very proud of DC’s Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.

It’s a good one. I like to have them start with Oh Mercy-Dylan after the church abandons him, at the height of his powers under the guidance of Daniel Lanois. Beautiful sounding, earth shattering. Up there with Emmy Lou Harris’ Wrecking Ball. 🙂
Ring them bells you heathen
from the city that dreams.🕊️