Author Archives: Doug Bennett

About Doug Bennett

Doug Bennett is Emeritus President and Professor of Politics at Earlham College. He has a wife, Ellen, and two sons, Tommy (born 1984) and Robbie (born 2003).

Great Meadow, Acadia

Posted on July 11, 2022 by Doug Bennett

From Down East’s 2023 Acadia Calendar, photographed by John K. Putnam

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This I Know Experimentally

Posted on June 5, 2022 by Doug Bennett

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 →

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Sturgeon Leaping on the Androscoggin

Posted on June 2, 2022 by Doug Bennett

Just a half mile or so upriver from our house, courtesy of the Nature Conservancy in Maine and Seacoast Current

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Grotesque

Posted on May 28, 2022 by Doug Bennett
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Ursula Le Guin, “To the Rain”

Posted on May 23, 2022 by Doug Bennett

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

Posted on April 10, 2022 by Doug Bennett

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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Losing and Finding My Bearings

Posted on December 5, 2021 by Doug Bennett

Message given at Durham Friends Meeting, December 5, 2021 Sometimes when we’re confused, we say “let me just get my bearings, here.”  I may have just woken up from a nap.  Or I may have stumbled on a walk.  Maybe … Continue reading →

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Winslow Homer, The Blue Boat, 1892

Posted on October 25, 2021 by Doug Bennett

Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston); image from Wikimedia Commons

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War and Foolishness

Posted on September 19, 2021 by Doug Bennett

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

Posted on June 7, 2021 by Doug Bennett

Credit: Linda Coan O’Kresik / Bangor Daily News

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