If you drove west on the Chapel Hill-Greensboro Road through Snow Camp, North Carolina on Sunday, November 1, 2020, at about eleven AM, you would have passed a white chapel-looking building on your left. A few cars were parked outside, on the grass under the big old trees, which are shedding their wrinkled brown leaves … Continue reading Another Quiet Day at Spring Friends Meeting (not really)
English-speaking Quakers today are in dire need of some new “spiritual” books, and I have a top candidate to recommend here. It is John Calvi’s How far Have You Traveled? Amid all the wonderful stuff that’s in it, some of what makes Calvi’s book so excellent is what’s not in it. For example — and … Continue reading John Calvi: Boon Companion for Spiritual Travel
A year ago, on October 10, 2019, I had a stroke. And I saw a vision of my future. It started in the living room, about 7AM. I was in my battered recliner, reading newspapers on an Ipad. Across from me, on our long couch, grandson Calvin was stirring. His mom worked nights at Waffle … Continue reading A Whole Year In One Stroke
Almost by accident, in 1997 I became a crime reporter, specializing in church-related financial frauds. My first major investigative report, called “Fleecing the Faithful,” is still online. Michael Cohen’s book “Disloyal” brings back those years. The crime schemes I covered were obscure, and often complicated to explain. Although they ruined many lives, they did so … Continue reading Michael Cohen, Trump & the Right Price for Selling Your Soul
Just kidding about the Quakerism App. Or am I? I’m holding on for some “Way Will Open” gummy bears, and an autumn seasoned with SPICE Testimony Lattes, in five (or is it six?) flavors. I’m sure they’ll all be here soon. But when will they have a potion for Zoom Burnout & a Remote Committee … Continue reading Religion? Inner Peace? Quakerism? There’s Apps or pills for all of it