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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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What’s Wrong With “Christian Fiction”

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Doug Bennett

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 →

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Claude Monet, Vétheuil in Winter

Posted on April 7, 2016 by Doug Bennett

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 →

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War Has Been Given a Bad Name

Posted on December 27, 2015 by Doug Bennett

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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