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Frenchman Bay Community Forest, Hancock, Maine

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Fear Not

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

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

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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What to Make of Trump’s Election

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

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…

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

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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