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Sustainability Scout update

Some new parts of Sustainability Scout are ready.  Sustainability Scout was created by Derek and Katie Glass, Glass Web Projects, to aggregate the blogs of organizations and people involved in sustainable efforts in Indiana.  This has become a digital community building … Continue reading

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Changes in approach to social justice work

Changes These are difficult times for all of us.  All kinds of changes have occurred in my lifetime, all over the world.  I think we sometimes forget that the rate of change is accelerating.  We used to have more time … Continue reading

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Arrest the protesters

Unsurprisingly, after months of inflammatory rhetoric, repression of dissent and encouraging attacks against protesters at his rallies, presidential candidate Donald Trump is calling for the arrest of protesters.  It is the ultimate irony that he recently called himself nonviolent. This … Continue reading

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Why you must stop driving now

Many people know that I decided to refuse to own a personal automobile about forty years ago.  After some initial adjustments, including in thinking/attitude, I have managed to do without them since.  The main thing was to make sure where … Continue reading

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Indy Indie Artist Colony reflections

 

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Racial Terrorism

Yesterday at North Meadow Friends, Jimmie Ilachild led a (two hour) discussion about racial terror, lynching, and his work with the Equal Justice Initiative in Alabama, where he lives most of the time. I learned a number of things .  … Continue reading

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AFSC Corporate meeting

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is holding a Corporate meeting now in Philadelphia.  David Duvall, from North Meadow Circle of Friends, plans to attend, representing Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting. At least one of the presentations will be about the … Continue reading

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Ferguson and Faith

Ferguson and Faith is the title of a presentation scheduled at an Episcopal church here next week by the author of the book with the same title, Leah Gunning Francis, who is on the faculty of Eden Theological Seminary in St. … Continue reading

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Church’s failure

I just found a remarkable book as I was researching the concept of the Beloved Community, “The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil Rights Movement to Today” by Charles Marsh. The first thing that caught my … Continue reading

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Spiritual Visualization 2

Yesterday I wrote something unusual about faith.  I want to find a way to talk to people, especially those involved in activism, about faith, and how faith can support them and their work in ways nothing else can.  I was … Continue reading

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