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We've also added many new resources, including the following:
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A Recipe for Cutting Food Waste
A TED Talk featuring Peter Lehner, providing facts about the scale of food waste and offering ideas of reducing it. View the video.
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An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story
A documentary about an outspoken American-born pastor, writer, political activist and one of the most influential public theologians of the twentieth century, featuring interviews with Jimmy Carter and Andrew Young. Watch the trailer.
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The Empathic Civilization
A short animation that asks the question: “Can we extend our empathy to the entire human race, fellow creatures and biosphere?” If we can imagine that possibility, then we can save our species and our planet. View the video.
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I Am Not Your Negro
This academy award nominated documentary uses the notes of the late writer James Baldwin, on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr., to tell the story about race in America and to explore a fresh and radical perspective to the current racial narrative in this country. Watch the trailer.
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Last Days of Solitary
An intense PBS Frontline documentary that goes inside Maine’s attempt to decrease its use of solitary confinement — and what happens when prisoners who have spent considerable time in isolation try to integrate back into society. Watch the trailer.
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A small collection of songs recorded in a refugee camp in Akkar, Lebanon, by “The Homsies,” a group of young people from Homs, Syria. An English translation of the lyrics is available. Listen now.
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Rikers: An American Jail
A documentary from Bill Moyers, focuses on men and women who have endured incarceration at Rikers Island. Their stories describe the cruel arc of the Rikers experience — from the shock of entry to the extortion and control exercised by other inmates, the oppressive interaction with corrections officers, the beatings and stabbings, the torture of solitary confinement and the many challenges of returning to the outside world. Watch the trailer.
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Shakespeare Behind Bars
A documentary telling the story of
convicted felons practicing for over a year to perform Shakespeare’s last play, The Tempest and how they are transformed by the power of truth and forgiveness in the process. Watch the trailer now.
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In several recent issues of the Jesuit magazine
America (circulation 45,000)
, surveys indicate that:
35% of respondents would like their parish to make community service a higher priority
80% believe their parish does not do enough to address current events
18% believe religious leaders hold the most moral influence (20% believe media leaders do & 11% say political leaders)
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Important Dates This Month
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Individuals Honored This Month
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