Nate Tinner-Williams is co-founder and editor of Black Catholic Messenger and a Master of Theology student in the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana.
<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/spirituality/pencil-preaching/i-am-you-always… am with you always</a></h2><div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="byline">by Pat Marrin</div><div style="font-size: 19px; font-family: 'Georgia', serif;"><p>Pencil Preaching for Wednesday, December 7, 2022</p>
December 6, 2022
<p class="MsoNormal">In the days after his recent dinner with former President Donald Trump, the rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, reflected on the experience in a video posted to Twitter. Speaking to an associate, Ye said his own exchanges with Trump were tense. But as they dined, he said, the former president was practically glowing about someone else at the table: Nick Fuentes, the white Christian nationalist whom Ye had brought with him to Mar-a-Lago.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/spirituality/pencil-preaching/why-shepherds-f… shepherds first?</a></h2><div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="byline">by Pat Marrin</div><div style="font-size: 19px; font-family: 'Georgia', serif;"><p>Pencil Preaching for Tuesday, December 6, 2022</p><
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<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/spirituality/pencil-preaching/complete-healin… healing</a></h2><div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="byline">by Pat Marrin</div><div style="font-size: 19px; font-family: 'Georgia', serif;"><p>Pencil Preaching for Monday, December 5, 2022</p>
<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/spirituality/pencil-preaching/letting-go-and-… go and traveling light</a></h2><div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="byline">by Pat Marrin</div><div style="font-size: 19px; font-family: 'Georgia', serif;"><p>Pencil Preaching for Sunday, Decembe
<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/spirituality/pencil-preaching/letting-go-trav… go, traveling light</a></h2><div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="byline">by Pat Marrin</div><div style="font-size: 19px; font-family: 'Georgia', serif;"><p>Pencil Preaching for Sunday, December 4, 20
<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/culture/book-reviews/advent-book-liberation-d… Advent book for liberation, discovery and subversive hope</a></h2><div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="byline">by Kaitlin Curtice</div><div style="font-size: 19px; font-family: 'Georgia', serif;"&