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Matrimony in Real Time
Posted January 19, 2026 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
Matrimony in Real TimeStephen Jenkinson March 21-22, 2026Victoria, BC, CanadaTen seats remain It's a hundred years since Eliot unleashed The Waste Land on the western imagination. You might remember "April...
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Two Pieces of News
Posted January 16, 2026 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
Two Pieces of News Last week a mix of Orphan Wisdom Scholars and Orphan Wisdom Scribes gathered in the Great Hall to transcribe a 2017 recording. Then this past weekend...
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The Jesus Session: Update: A Livestream Event
Posted January 4, 2026 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
The Jesus Session A Livestream EventJanuary 10th and 11th The spirit of translation. The translation of spirit. A taste of what we might be in for with Stephen Jenkinson, Andrew...
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FOR THE SAKE OF TREMBLING, STILL
Posted January 2, 2026 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
To all the allies, accomplices, newsworthy workers of the cultivated mind agile and lateral and literate; to the staunch defenders of the long path, the ambivalent faith, the hard weather...
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A Rewired Orphan Wisdom Site
Posted December 28, 2025 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
I've never graduated beyond the 'computer as slightly enhanced typewriter' phase of tech.Almost everyone else has, though, and there's been genuine good that's come from that.I have, through no labour...
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We’re gathered round a fire
Posted December 18, 2025 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
"We're gathered round a fireand it's the autumn of the year.We're at the southern edgeof the northern hemisphere." So begins the fifth song from the new Nights of Grief and...
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The Jesus Session
Posted December 18, 2025 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
The Jesus Session The spirit translation. The translation of spirit. A Livestream Event Many have written in with real excitement over this session. And many lamented their inability to attend...
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Matrimony in Real Time
Posted December 12, 2025 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
Matrimony in Real Time March 21-22, 2026 Victoria, BC, Canada Not love - though veritable and worthy it is; not partnering - though it could use a little clarifying; not...
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Fortune
Posted December 9, 2025 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
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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