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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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Flowing Water
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
From the Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine
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Not a Calvinist, If I Ever Was
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
Arguing for Shared Security in the NYTimes
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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What’s Wrong With “Christian Fiction”
April 14, 2016 Walking the shelves of my local library, I was surprised to find a label on a book that said “Christian Fiction.” It was just above the regular label that makes books findable in the stacks. Topsham Public Library puts … Continue reading
Claude Monet, Vétheuil in Winter
April 7, 2106 This is in the Frick Museum, where I recently had the pleasure of an hour. The river is the Seine. Monet lived in Vétheuil from 1878 to 1881 and painted about 150 pictures there, many of them including … Continue reading
War Has Been Given a Bad Name
December 27, 2015 War Has Been Given A Bad Name By Bertold Brecht I am told that the best people have begun saying How, from a moral point of view, the Second World War Fell below the standard of the … Continue reading
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