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There are dozens of us, I tell you, dozens!

Today, while sitting at breakfast in the sunroom of our B&B in Victoria, BC (in a quiet residential neighborhood a block from the beach end of Beacon Hill Park), I saw an elderly woman walking down the sidewalk with a sign pinned to the neck of her blouse.
“War Is Dysfunctional”
I ran out and stopped her [...]

The Passion for the Impossible

Paul identified faith, hope, and love as the primary theological virtues. I think it no coincidence that these are also among the words most trivialized in common discourse. Faith becomes, not trust in the divine, but thinking the right thoughts or saying the right words. Love becomes, not a self-emptying act of will, but a [...]

A Table in the Wilderness

The Gathering of the Manna

I recently began [...]

A Fresh Start

Welcome to The Discovered Country, the successor to Redwood Dragon.
In the process of becoming a Quaker, I gradually realized that the persona of Redwood Dragon no longer reflected my beliefs and attitudes. But a kind of psychic inertia made me loathe to change until my Movable Type blog suddenly stopped allowing posting, and my hosting [...]

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