Sage Lewis – The Shadow

Category: God

  • Peter Maurin

    Peter Maurin

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    I believe that so many of our troubles can be traced back to the fact that our history, the people’s history, is stolen from us by the government. They write the history books. You need to know that there was, and still is, something called the Catholic Workers Movement. It was started by 2 people.…

  • The Alarm Sounded

    The Alarm Sounded

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    When the alarm sounded and a pregnant 20 year old woman needed help… Did the Continuum Care help? Did Access Shelter for women help? Did the battered Women’s shelter help? Did the Haven of Rest Help? Did the government help? Did one single FUCKING church help? No. I literally BEGGED for help and every organization…

  • WHAT IF

    WHAT IF

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    The Battered Women’s Shelter in Akron has an ENTIRE floor in their spiffy new building that has never been opened to shelter people. They own an entire apartment building that sits empty. They tore down a house designated as a shelter (no easy feat to get “shelter” status.) I wish I could say they are…

  • How To Properly Steal Food

    How To Properly Steal Food

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    Have you been reading these stories on how food stealing is on the rise? Here are a few: Stealing to survive: More Americans are shoplifting food as aid runs out in the pandemic | The Seattle Times Shoplifting Spikes In U.S. Amid Increasing Desperation As Pandemic Drags On The devastating reason food shoplifting is on…

  • WAKE UP!

    WAKE UP!

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    This is an article written by an 8th grader. Raja writes: “To be a leader you do not need to be perfect, it does not matter where you are from, what your gender is. All that matters is that you act. Raising awareness, cleaning up trash, finding sustainable ways to live, cleaning up the oceans…

  • Dorothy Day’s Baptism of Her Daughter, Tamar

    Dorothy Day’s Baptism of Her Daughter, Tamar

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    My feelings of this moment in the biography, “Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century” by John Loughery, Blythe Randolph, were interesting enough to record. “The baptism of Tamar Teresa Batterham took place in July 1927 at Our Lady Help of Christians.” This was a major transformative moment for Dorothy. She clearly was evolving…

  • The Dark Night Of The Soul.

    The Dark Night Of The Soul.

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    THIS is something we need to discuss in greater detail. There is a profound understanding our houseless neighbors have of the power of the Irrational, of a total annihilation, of the darkest depression… That rebirths them, bloody and in anguish, into a relationship with God that most of us could never possibly grasp. Where all…

  • The Needle

    The Needle

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    I knew who threw this rig on the ground. I was angry at him. But I thought he broke the needle off so I was mixed emotionally about it. But I was wrong. I pulled the orange cap off and the needle was still fully intact. I broke off the needle on the ground, put…

  • Why do you care about people?

    Why do you care about people?

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    I’m growing to hate larger and larger swaths of people. People that are irate for having to wear a mask even though there is a good chance it would protect our elderly and sick from dying. People that will blindly stand with police even though we can all clearly see that police are getting away…

  • Sex Cults

    Sex Cults

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    Do you ever fantasize about running a sex cult? I used to think EVERYBODY wanted to be the things I’d imagine being: CIA Agent Art thief Drug dealer Homeless tent village operator It doesn’t take many anecdotal surveys to realize most people have no interest in any of those things. 2020 has taught us many…

  • God According To Sage

    God According To Sage

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    Honestly, I wish I wasn’t writing this now. I have “more important” things to discuss with you than God right now. (Homelessness, Black Lives Matter and overall governmental and systemic torture and murder and oppression of people.) But if I don’t jot these ideas down now they will fade from memory. And I’d like to…

  • Do The Right Thing

    Do The Right Thing

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    Do the lessons of the world yell at you like they yell at me? I worked at Perkins restaurant washing dishes when I was 14. The manager said I was doing too much. I played the trombone. I played the cello and I was in choir. He said I needed to quit something. I was…

  • The Force Is In All of Us

    The Force Is In All of Us

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    I now believe that religion is nothing more than a tool. It is a tool to help guide your life. A religion is a tool that helps you connect ever so slightly with the “All”. I believe in nearly everything: heaven, hell, reincarnation, nothing, afterlife. It’s all true. And because it’s all true, none of…

  • #22 – Be yourself no matter what ANYONE tells you.

    #22 – Be yourself no matter what ANYONE tells you.

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    Here it is in audio format: [buzzsprout episode=’2411237′ player=’true’] You watch it in video format here:  

  • The Great Calling

    The Great Calling

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    I am repeatedly pulled in by Catholic thinkers. Thomas Merton Richard Rohr Dorothy Day And there are others that I haven’t gotten to yet simply because I’m so taken by these 3. Their connections with God are mystical and deeply spiritual. Our Protestant friends are a little too structured and rules-based for my free-spirited mind.…

  • The Lamb and The Tyger

    The Lamb and The Tyger

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    The problem with me is that I take things seriously. I don’t read the history of a man like Akronite John Brown and just say, “Aw that’s nice.” No. “John Brown advocated the use of armed insurrection to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.” Let me say it another way: John Brown…

  • Churches: Please have mercy on the homeless.

    Churches: Please have mercy on the homeless.

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    I’m at a point where I don’t know what else to do. I am certainly not quitting. But it feels like every single thing I do is inadequate and not enough. So I’m just going to beg and plead with you to PLEASE help these people. Tomorrow night it is going to be 15 degrees…

  • I am a wuss

    I am a wuss

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    I am a wuss. I’m in Austin Texas for a symposium at the Community First Village. A sold out group of people from as far away as Australia converged here to discuss the truly revolutionary concepts of this master planned village for the chronically homeless. The only way to get a home here as a…

  • America Hates Poor People

    America Hates Poor People

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    Murderers. Rapists. Pedophiles. Thieves. They all slept inside last night. They play board games. They watch tv. They eat every day. I know it’s prison and people hate being there. But at least, as a society, we take care of these people. But homeless people. At 8am today in Akron Ohio it is 35 degrees.…

  • My mom said no

    My mom said no

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    I had a brief encounter with a young girl yesterday. She was probably 6 years old. She was everything you’d expect from a 6 year old. She started a conversation with me. She was smiley. She was curious. She read the words on my t-shirt: “Keep your coins. I want change.” It’s a screen printed…