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  • Fortune

    Fortune Maybe it's from 'fort': a strengthened or strengthening place. And from 'tune': a kind of hymnic or hummable sound. That would make fortune a kind of melodic endurance. Ah,...
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  • The Look

    The Look "I wish, I wish, I wish in vain …"There's a song in there somewhere. A pendulum swinging through the years. And a life, a life rolling it's merits...
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  • The Jesus Session

    The Jesus Session The spirit of translation. The translation of spirit. Part cultural critique, part prayerful murmur,this time Jesus will be a prism, and a prompt, and a verb.  Online...
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  • Two in-person Matrimony book events in March, 2026

    Two in-person Matrimony book events in BC, Canada, March 2026 Patrimony's Middle Age Men's Work, Ritual, Culture, Crisis A session devoted to living where social conscience, radical hospitality and the sacraments of trade...
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  • Threshold Trilogy with Stephen Jenkinson and Kimberly Ann Johnson

    This is a chance to be in the presence of eldering. Each series explores a particular threshold. Taken together, they form a kind of cultural immersion into the ways birth,...
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  • Into the Marvelous

    Not many of the good stories start with: "Well, I stayed home …" Some of them end up there. There's Ulysses, say. But those stories that ring the bell, that...
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  • A Winter Boreal Session in the Orphan Wisdom Hall, Jan. 6-11, 2026

    ~A Winter Boreal Meeting~The Jesus Session In person event January 6-11, 2026in the Orphan Wisdom Hall, Ontario, Canada Join Us In these events we follow the example of those ancient...
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  • The Jesus Session

    The Jesus Session The spirit of translation. The translation of spirit. Part cultural critique, part prayerful murmur,this time Jesus will be a prism, and a prompt, and a verb. January...
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  • Tumblings Down

    Tumblings Down People. We come and we go.Some let you know that they love you.Some let you know that they don't.People die on you. Here, then not.Not everyone at once,...
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