Patch and writing by my friends at Jonah House, a Catholic nonviolent resistance community in Baltimore

FROM THE WOMEN AT JONAH HOUSE:

Kate Berrigan

Kristin Betts

Susan Crane

Carol Gilbert O.P.

Liz McAlister

Michele Naar-Obed

Rachel Obed

Ardeth Platte O.P.

WE BEGIN WITH THE WHALE – AS SHE IS OUR SYMBOL.

THE STORY HAS IT THAT JONAH SOJOURNED THREE DAYS INSIDE THE WHALE BEFORE HE WAS DELIVERED TO THE SHORE AND TO THE WORK GOD HAD FOR HIM TO DO.

THE RELUCTANT PROPHET, JONAH HAS GIVEN US HEART AND HOPE – WE FIND SO MUCH OF OURSELVES IN HIM. SO HE IS IN THE GRAPHIC TOO – SULLEN AS WE IMAGINE HIM TO BE EVEN THOUGH WE SEEK TO TRANSCEND THAT HUMOR!

YEAR ONE! THE NAME OF OUR NEWSLETTER AND OF OUR REALITY.

WE REJOICE THAT WE ARE AT YEAR ONE – THAT WE ARE BEGINNING AGAIN AND AGAIN. WE ARE HUMBLED THAT WE ARE STILL AT YEAR ONE, STILL AT HUMBLE BEGINNINGS IN NONVIOLENCE, COMMUNITY, RESISTANCE, BUILDING THE JUST SOCIETY WE SEEK SO DEEPLY AND SO LONG.

“The future belongs to the remnant that has come out of slavery!”