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Over the weekend my wife and I drove to Blackjack which is near Greenville, NC to attend her father’s family reunion.  The family has gotten together the Saturday following Thanksgiving since 1983.  As reunions go, this is a low key affair with an old tobacco barn/pack house serving as the meeting hall for as many [...]

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With God On Our Side

Oh Robert Zimmerman, where art thou?  As our leaders attempt to pilot the ship of state through the murky waters of financial turmoil, political unrest, unending war, third world famine-aids epidemics-genocide, and global warming our energies are being sapped and diverted by the constant harangue of political adversaries and their ingenuous appeals to personal faith [...]

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The Night Of The Iguana

After spending a week hiking trails along the Blue Ridge Parkway I wasn’t certain that trading the rugged landscape of western North Carolina for the roiling emotional terrain of Tennessee Williams.  Too many recent experiences with Triad Stage productions have fallen well below the quality of performances I’d come to expect since becoming a season [...]

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Vatican Rhapsody

In Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody Freddie Mercury muses:
Is this the real life-
Is this just fantasy-
This morning I stumbled on this headline on the Catholic News Service:
Vatican letter directs bishops to keep parish records from Mormons
Since I’ve been involved in earnest with family genealogy over the last half year or so I’ve relied, in part, on the [...]

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Choices

An Easter Sunday service in a Quaker Meeting differs in many respects from other Christian denominations. Some critics would question, first of all, the claim that the Society of Friends is indeed Christian. And there may be certain practices that validate that claim, although they are, as with most matters which involve professions [...]

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