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Author Archives: Doug Bennett
What Are We Doing Here?
Message delivered at Durham Friends Meeting, June 4, 2017 “What are we doing here?” I wrote those words on a sheet of paper a few hours after I agreed to bring today’s message. I don’t really know where they came … Continue reading
Posted in Quaker Identity, Quaker Practices, Quaker Testimonies
Tagged Chuck Fager, Durham Friends Meeting
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Merrymeeting Bay Smelt Shack
Yesterday’s New York Times had a feature article in the Food section on An Icy Portal Into the Small World of Smelt. Written by Dave Sherwood, a resident of Bowdoinham, ME, the article had this lovely picture of Merrymeeting Bay: Says Sherwood, … Continue reading
Free Speech at Friends Central?
On his blog, Chuck Fager has been doing his best (here, here, here and here) to keep us abreast of the recent controversy at Friends Central School concerning a cancelled invitation to a Palestinian (Sa’ed Atshan, a Swarthmore Professor) who had been invited … Continue reading
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Tagged BDS, Chuck Fager, Free speech, Friends Central School, Quaker schools, Sa'ed Ashtan
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A Connectedness of Yearning
What I remember best is the silence. It seemed to charge the room with a connectedness of yearning. That take on his first Quaker Meeting is from Edward Sorel’s Mary Astor’s Purple Diary (Liveright, 2016), a book I read after … Continue reading
Abandonment of the Use of Force
December 17, 2016 On August 14, 1941, Churchill and Roosevelt met in Newfoundland and issued The Atlantic Charter,a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims. War aims? The U.S. was not yet officially at war: the U.S. would not … Continue reading
Streams
October 29, 2016 Of revenue, that is. Streaming is overtaking other music formats, according to the Recording Industry of America. Source: BloombergView
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