Venerable Juana de la Cruz (d 5/3/1534), quoting Jesus, in mystical revelation: "All who seek in me a father will find in me a father. And those who seek in me a mother, a husband, a bride, a friend, a neighbor, or a companion will find in me everything they desire."
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Juana, abbess of a convent of Franciscan tertiaries, received permission to preach publicly. She said she had been conceived as a man but changed in utero by God to become a woman. She delighted in the female and male aspects of God, a conjunction reflected also in the human soul
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She envisioned the streets of heaven as lined with marital beds, each occupied by God and either a male or female saint. (Icon by Lewis Williams)
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I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
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Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92:
"We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong"
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