Gristle and Bone

Gristle and Bone

On the Forth

Saint James Baldwin and Saint Ignatius Loyola on declarations and independence

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Karin Lynn Carlson
Jul 04, 2025
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James Baldwin, with Will Shakespear. Wiki commons, photo credit Allan Warren

Can we, ought we to be, proud Americans?

Can we both love and condemn our country? Today I’m reading Baldwin. No one spoke anger so prettily, so ferociously damningly, as that man did. Nobody held the pain of human cruelty and rendered it to love the way that he could. No one…

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