Two childhood friends and I abandoned social media, nearing midlife, for a year of letters—on a shared a Google Doc. These story-rich exchanges, with genre-stretching “comments” down the side, dug way deeper into our stories than we knew about each other:

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🔥Cover reveals!🔥 It's time to share our lineup of Spring 2024 books! First we have Flannery Connor's Why Do the Heathen Rage by @HootenWilson! This book includes O'Connor's unfinished third novel, in print for the first time! Preorder here: https://t.co/8dKkMM4JSD

“The old script for masculinity might be on its way out. It’s time we replaced it with something better,” writes ⁦@ChristineEmba⁩ in this essential new thesis. My buddies and I wrote letters to find that “something better”: https://t.co/vx6NjSDxRB

Tough-on-crime lawmakers, DAs, police departments, and the cash bail industry often claim pretrial reform puts public safety at risk. Data from every county, city, or state that has measured the effects of pretrial reform prove otherwise. https://t.co/I0XfHmKtYs

Good ideas often hold up to good research

One of the longest surviving traditions of Christian faith joins the other western traditions in *officially* renouncing the way of Jesus. Took ‘em a while.

St. Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI both recognized the merits of Marxism even while criticizing its faults, writes @samrochadotcom. https://t.co/ji6Aka4pPV

Best leadership clinic I’ve received in a while:

Same for parenting. Finding this is my deepest work for the decade.

Abolition prayers go like this:

This is the secret of my career and the founding of @undergroundmins: I connected with those I met in jail chaplaincy, as my loneliness met theirs. My despair and theirs became something different: wildly honest, tender, hilarious, holy. Now science sees: relationships heal.

DeSantis, who ran a “God made a fighter” ad in 2022 framing his political career in religious terms, is Catholic. Pope Francis updated the Catholic catechism in 2018 to decry the death penalty as always “inadmissible” & “an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.”

Good Friday happens all the time with our friends who are arrested, who relapse. When the story and revolution we planned goes to shit. Read here: https://t.co/uQis2gSIXc

We must learn to grow like a tree, not like a fire. --Wendell Berry

My co-authored work of friendship letters THE FUTURE FOREST also followed our team, the Dodgers, that fateful year. As we roll out this oddbal memoir online, we are giving away 4 DODGER TICKETS!

Let’s try to amplify these, Keep stories like this—read below—in the light.

The idea of the individual as the basic unit of the society is deeply rooted in America, and it's a false anthropology. We all begin dependent on a mother, and then a family. The start of our life sets the pattern for the ebb and flow of need till death https://t.co/Q1hoYafDtT

Not yet read about prison abolition? There’s excellent books coming out each year, but THE FINAL PARAGRAPH HERE IS A FIRE SERMON. I hope to quote it form in our organizing among faith communities.

Across the Atlanta airport I recognized @imontheradio’s book—in mass market paperback, stocked more than any other book! Realized it’s time for me to finally dive in, here on my odd trip to Florida to say goodbye to my 100yo grandmother. Cheers to generational work.

I was in Berkeley when Barbara Lee was our CA rep, the only US congressperson who didn’t approve a blank check to go to war after 9/11. 20 yrs in rear view, I hope we might join her more boldly this time: