Kevin Camp's Blog – 6th mo. 2012 Archive (2)

Faith Healing and Belief

My father was, for all intents and purposes, a religious skeptic. He’d been raised by the unlikeliest of parents, a true believer for a mother, and an agnostic father. The whole of his life, he’d felt pulled in two directions, but he still attended church regularly. This was, after all, small town Alabama in the 1950’s.

In keeping with rural southern colloquialisms, my two sisters and I called my father’s mother “Granny”. Granny Camp was a usually sweet and maternal woman, but she…

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Added by Kevin Camp on 6th mo. 21, 2012 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Our Sacred Obligations to Meeting

My Meeting is facing a sizable deficit in its budget. It has been previously able to rely on endowment money to take care of sizable expenses. However, as has been announced and stressed many times before, we are largely subsisting on dead peoples' contributions. We do not have the…

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Added by Kevin Camp on 6th mo. 15, 2012 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

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