Author: Joan Rivard
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An Honored Tradition
The circle of about twenty drums is on the pavement right in the middle of the main thoroughfare through Sharon Meadow. That means that people usually go around, so much that there’s a big bare area in the grass encircling the lower half of the drum circle. The other side is bordered by the long…
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God’s Message to Treehuggers & Peacemakers
Be ye sure of this, that THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS COME NIGH UNTO YOU. (Luke 10:11) The kingdom of God shall be taken from (religious leaders), and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. THE STONED WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THE SAME IS BECOME THE HEAD OF THE CORNER. This is the…
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WHAT PAUL SOUNDS LIKE
PAUL’S NASTY OPINION OF HUMANKIND LET NO MAN GLORY IN MEN. (I Corinthians 3:21) THEY THAT ARE IN THE FLESH CANNOT PLEASE GOD. (Romans 8:8) FLESH AND BLOOD CANNOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. (I Corinth. 15:50) For ALL HAVE SINNED, and come short of the glory of God. As it is written, THERE IS…
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WHAT JESUS SOUNDS LIKE
JESUS: HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED COME UNTO ME, ALL YE THAT LABOUR AND ARE HEAVY-LADEN, AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly of heart: and YE SHALL FIND REST UNTO YOUR SOULS. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.…
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POLITICAL BROTHERLY LOVE
The peace sign is not really an upside-down cross, as some religious leaders claim. They refer to an unrelated pre-Christian Celtic fortune-telling stone with a chicken foot on it. To insist that the universal symbol for non-violence is an evil thing, suggests an incomplete grasp of what Jesus was saying. The real things he taught are sometimes…
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JESUS TAUGHT THAT HEAVEN IS HERE
Jesus preached love and forgiveness, giving, and that the kingdom of God was in the present and inside everyone. He said “the kingdom is within you” and “the hairs of your head are all counted.” He didn’t condemn people for what they put in their mouth or what they did in privacy. He didn’t claim to…
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Liberal’s Bible Guide Book
DID YOU KNOW? Jesus never mentioned Adam and Eve or the doctrine of the Fall of Man. He didn’t teach that all were cursed sinners born in sin, or that people had to go to church, tithe ten percent, be celibate, or obey the government. He never said they had to die to experience Heaven, or…
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Hope America
Hope America, lift yourself up like some phoenix in some new day. It’s not too late to reclaim your good name as Land of Liberty. All of mankind has hoped in your great dream, based as it was on higher impulses that human beings can have to make a world where none need grovel at…
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GENERATION X
Like plants pushing through cracks in the sidewalk they have grown, so strong that hopeful dreams still stir within them like great seeds. They came from broken homes and broken dreams and a sick nation that had also lost its way. The advertisers called them “Generation X” or “Y” or “Cybergeeks,” and “mooks n’ midriffs”…
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A State of Nirvana
These are not the war drums of conquering armies. These drums make a happy sound, the sound of swords being beat into plowshares, of chains being broken. It’s a sound the world has hoped for. There’s no one doctrine or dogma in this celebration. It is unstructured, free-flowing, unleashed. On the week-ends the drumming starts…