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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...

The Jesus Session | A Livestream Event | January 10th and 11th | The spirit of translation. The translation of spirit. | A taste of what we might be in...

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...

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...

"We're gathered round a fire | and it's the autumn of the year. | We're at the southern edge | of the northern hemisphere." | So begins the fifth song...

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...

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...

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....

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...