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Frenchman Bay Community Forest, Hancock, Maine

Posted on February 8, 2023 by Doug Bennett

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Fear Not

Posted on October 16, 2022 by Doug Bennett

Message given at Durham Friends Meeting, October 16, 2023 “Fear not.”  That’s my message this morning:  “Fear not.”  In the Bible, this may be the statement most commonly said by God, or by one of God’s special messengers.  I’ve read … Continue reading →

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Membership Matters

Posted on September 11, 2022 by Doug Bennett

Message given at Durham Friends Meeting, September 11, 2022 It’s membership that’s on my mind this morning.  It’s on my mind because recently I’ve been asked a few times about how one becomes a member of a Quaker Meeting.  I’m … 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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Flowing Water

Posted on May 25, 2021 by Doug Bennett

From FlowingData Map shows you where a raindrop ends up May 25, 2021 Topic Maps  /  rain, Sam Learner, water River Runner is a fun interactive map by Sam Learner. Click anywhere in the contiguous United States to drop some rain and, based on data … Continue reading →

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Androscoggin River ice melting as it moves through Lisbon, Maine

Posted on March 18, 2021 by Doug Bennett

From the Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine

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What to Make of Trump’s Election

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Doug Bennett

November 9, 2016 A friend writes this morning  “just wondering what your Quaker Friends are saying after this election?  I write her back: Well I’m wondering, too, what Quakers make of it and wondering even more what I make of … Continue reading →

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Not a Calvinist, If I Ever Was

Posted on July 11, 2016 by Doug Bennett

July 11, 2016 On the Writer’s Almanac yesterday (July 10), Garrison Keillor noted the birthday of John Calvin, “theologian and ecclesiastical statesman.” I first knew Calvin as the founder of Presbyterianism, my earliest religious experience coming thorough Brighton Presbyterian Church … Continue reading →

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Unless You Are a Pacifist…

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Doug Bennett

May 30, 2016 “Unless you are a pacifist….”  With these words, E. J. Dionne begins a thoughtful column about Obama and Hiroshima’s Moral Lessons concerning the President’s recent visit to the first site of a nuclear bomb strike seventy-one years ago. … Continue reading →

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Arguing for Shared Security in the NYTimes

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Doug Bennett

May 5, 2016 I have a letter in today’s New York Times.  It’s title A New Foreign Policy Elite and responds to an op-ed piece yesterday by Evan Thomas (don’t know him) on Why We Need a Foreign Policy Elite. … Continue reading →

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