And, as Lent gets underway, two points for meditation, from a journal entry of mine dated 30.8.95:Lillian Smith, undated (perhaps Oct. 1957) letter to the New York Times:
"When we become mute, in the name of moderation, we slide towards barbarism with shocking rapidity" (cited in Margaret Rose Gladney, Letters of Lillian Smith: How Am I to Be Heard? [Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1993], p. 214).
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Marcus Borg, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time (NY: Harper, 1994):
"The meals of Jesus embodied his alternative vision of an inclusive community. . . . Ultimately, the meals of Jesus are the ancestor of the Christian eucharist" (p. 56).
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Cyrus Cassells, "Down from the Houses of Magic," Soul Make a Path Through Shouting (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon, 1994):
"O grant us strength to fashion a table / Where each of us has a name."
