Spirit Rising – A Review In Installments – Part 2: Convergent Friends, Unequal Yokes & All That Jazz

[Note: Part I of this review is here.] Two pieces in “Spirit Rising deal with the phenomenon known as “Convergent Friends,” a loose network of people, mostly younger than fifty, talking across various traditional divisional lines: “Convergent Friends as New Jazz Traditionalists,” by Chad Stephenson of San Francisco Meeting; and “Convergent Friendship and Playing with … Continue reading Spirit Rising – A Review In Installments – Part 2: Convergent Friends, Unequal Yokes & All That Jazz →

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Northern Exposure: The Religious Right Is Rising In Canada

Found a link on Facebook today to this article from the Toronto Star: How Canada’s Christian right was built It’s by Marci McDonald, a multiple award-winning Canadian journalist, and author of new book, “The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism In Canada” a new book about the rising influence of the Canadian version of … Continue reading Northern Exposure: The Religious Right Is Rising In Canada →

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Mom’s Day Note for Those Left Behind

I’m mindful today of all the moms left behind at home while US troops are in combat zones. Many of them have their say in my 100-page collection of photographs from Camp Lejeune, MC, a big Marine base near here.

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