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Author Archives: Doug Bennett
Great Meadow, Acadia
From Down East’s 2023 Acadia Calendar, photographed by John K. Putnam
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This I Know Experimentally
Message given at Durham Friends Meeting, June 5, 2022 I want to begin this morning with a story familiar to Friends. It’s the story of George Fox’s epiphany. It’s about a moment in his life in 1647 when he was … Continue reading
Sturgeon Leaping on the Androscoggin
Just a half mile or so upriver from our house, courtesy of the Nature Conservancy in Maine and Seacoast Current
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Ursula Le Guin, “To the Rain”
In the Annual Report of the American Council of Learned Societies (where I worked from 1993 to 1997), the current President of ACLS quotes lovely poem by Ursula LeGuin: To the Rain BY URSULA K. LE GUIN Mother rain, manifold, measureless, … Continue reading
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The Light, The Seed, The Tree of Life
Message given at Durham Friends Meeting, April 10, 2022 How do we talk about a God who is beyond our knowing? The opening hymn we sang this morning, “Immortal, Invisible God Only Wise,” praises a God beyond our comprehension: “immortal, … Continue reading
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Winslow Homer, The Blue Boat, 1892
Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston); image from Wikimedia Commons
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War and Foolishness
Message given at Durham Friends Meeting, September 19, 2021 War is what’s on my mind and in my heart today – and foolishness, too. War and foolishness because war, I believe, is one of the most profound forms of human … Continue reading
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Piscataquis River at Low’s Bridge, November 2020
Credit: Linda Coan O’Kresik / Bangor Daily News
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