Monthly Archives: August 2015

A Story Which Saved My Life

Posted on 08/30/2015 by @LatelaMary

Mary E. Latela  August  31, 2015 “All sorrows can be coped with if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.”  -Isak Dinesen. There is a story which saved me, so I will tell it here. The story … Continue reading →

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Toni Morrison’s Novel for our TIme

Posted on 08/30/2015 by @LatelaMary

God Help the Child by Toni Morrison.  Review by Mary E. Latela @LatelaMary, mlatela@outlook.com, mlatelablog.wordpress.com  Written spring, 2015, excerpted in Ms. Magazine “Letters” section summer 2015 issue. Morrison says she wanted to separate color from race in her latest creation, … Continue reading →

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Sexual Abuse – Reaction at Home

Posted on 08/27/2015 by @LatelaMary

Some excellent and powerful stories about help that is not offered to victims of sexual abuse in big churches and other institutions. Check out, for example, a recent set of articles at HuffPost. Let’s get more intimate. How does a family react … Continue reading →

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Our Love/Hate Relationship with Religion

Posted on 08/23/2015 by @LatelaMary

Observations from Mary E. Latela on: The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (Newly Expanded Paperback Edition) Paperback – April 7, 1998 by Simon Wiesenthal. Skimming a long list on a Twitter search of Religion AND Hatred, I was … Continue reading →

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Losing Time

Posted on 08/09/2015 by @LatelaMary

Mary E. Latela August 8, 2015 I moved to Medical Hospital two days after Thanksgiving, Arriving at night, I unpacked, said hi to staff people I knew. My room was near the nurses’ station. On the next afternoon, I asked a … Continue reading →

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Should Your College Require the Study of Religion? No way!

Posted on 08/07/2015 by @LatelaMary

Mary E Latela Response to The Top Five Reasons to Study Religion by Gary Laderman, Chair of the Department of Religion, Emory University, updated: 08/03/2015 2:59 pm EDT http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-laderman Reading Gary Laderman’s article about “pitching religion” as a concentration for … Continue reading →

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What Am I Doing Here?

Posted on 08/07/2015 by @LatelaMary

Why Am I Here?  Mary E Latela  August 7,  2015 School was my sanctuary – my safe place – and I loved it. I learned how to be sure that my teacher noticed me – no, not by mischief, but … Continue reading →

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And They Gave Us Cherry Blossoms

Posted on 08/05/2015 by @LatelaMary

Eyewitness Account of Bombing of Hiroshima – Mary E Latela Father John A. Siemes, preparing to be a Jesuit professor of modern philosophy at Tokyo’s Catholic University, was there in Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. (Nagasaki was bombed on August 9, … Continue reading →

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A Young Black Journalist Committed to Change Has been Killed

Posted on 08/01/2015 by @LatelaMary

Reflection. Mary E. Latela  August 1, 2015 Almost daily, our hometown papers and our national news report murder by guns. No death is unimportant, but the heartbreaking story of a young Black journalist is particularly worthy of note. Frustration, anger, and confusion fill … Continue reading →

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