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17 July 2025
The Atheist's Companion
on "sterile" Quakers
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Back in the mid-70's, I spent a lot of time in the Russian-language holdings at Carleton University's library. Somehow I came acros...
10 July 2025
Nordic Yearly Meeting reflections
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Friends approve the epistle from Nordic Yearly Meeting 2025, Stavanger, Norway. Michael Eccles and Julia Ryberg (with Arturo) were the No...
03 July 2025
A historic Quaker gathering in Stavanger
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Solborg Folkehøgskole (sometimes translated as " Folk High School "), Stavanger, site of the 2025 Nordic Yearly Meeting. Photo tak...
26 June 2025
A truly stellar news conference
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Vera C. Rubin Observatory and what it's looking at. ( Source and description .) At Monday's unveiling of the first images from the...
19 June 2025
Belonging to Friends
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Speaking with my mentor, Deborah Haight , at Canadian Yearly Meeting 1976. Also in the frame, Duncan Wood (at right), Katharine Wood (behind...
12 June 2025
The benefit of the doubt, part three (prequel)
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As Israel strikes Iran with the stated purpose of eliminating that country as a nuclear threat, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy points out , Ira...
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