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A Great Plenty

Video by Tom Montgomery Fate

May 8, 2020 By Tom Montgomery Fate Leave a Comment

Tom Montgomery Fate, former Resident Scholar and writing workshop participant at the Collegeville Institute, wrote and recorded a tribute to his late mother who passed away last month during the coronavirus pandemic. The video was originally recorded for Fate’s church to be broadcast on Mother’s Day as part of Sunday worship. You can also read a print version of the essay, which was published in the Chicago Tribune.

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Tom Montgomery Fate

Tom Montgomery Fate

Tom Montgomery Fate is the author of five nonfiction books, the most recent titled Cabin Fever: A Suburban Father’s Search for the Wild (Beacon Press). A regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune, his essays have appeared in Orion, The Boston Globe, Christian Century, Sojourners, and The Iowa Review, among others. He spent spring 2018 as a Resident Scholar at the Collegeville Institute and participated in a summer writing workshop in 2019.

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