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guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)
Mon Mar 25, 2019, 07:30 PM Mar 2019

Quaker songwriter Carrie Newcomer's most intimate album yet

From the article:

Carrie Newcomer doesn’t know it, but she has been part of just about every bad day I’ve had in the last decade. Not, mind you, that she caused those bad days! Far from it. Rather, she provided the wise, powerful, deeply spiritual songs that helped get me over the hump, time and time again.
The Indiana Quaker folk singer is a cult favorite of thousands of fans and has shared her life and faith in many interviews, including this favorite conversation on Krista Tippett’s program “On Being.” ....

Newcomer: Yes. These are threads that run through my songs because they run through my life. Some people say there’s the sacred and there’s the secular, the spiritual and the nonspiritual. But I just don’t see a dividing line there. There are all kinds of overlaps. When you choose to approach the world and your life that way, there are moments of awe and wonder and the sense of something really extraordinary and powerful about our daily lives.


To read more:
https://religionnews.com/2019/03/22/quaker-songwriter-carrie-newcomers-most-intimate-album-yet/

Many of us do not separate the spiritual from the secular.
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Quaker songwriter Carrie Newcomer's most intimate album yet (Original Post) guillaumeb Mar 2019 OP
I met Carrie and spoke with her a few times Bob Loblaw Mar 2019 #1
This post was my first time hearing of her, and listening to her. guillaumeb Mar 2019 #3
The Point of Arrival Jim__ Mar 2019 #2
Thank you. eom guillaumeb Mar 2019 #4
I Don't Care The River Mar 2019 #5
The music is very nice. guillaumeb Mar 2019 #9
More Than Nice The River Mar 2019 #10
"Many of us do not separate the spiritual from the secular." trotsky Mar 2019 #6
Trostky? A HERETIC I AM Mar 2019 #11
Come and get them big boy! trotsky Mar 2019 #12
.... A HERETIC I AM Mar 2019 #13
Music to buy grocieries to. Act_of_Reparation Mar 2019 #7
"Many of us do not separate the spiritual from the secular. " MineralMan Mar 2019 #8

Bob Loblaw

(1,900 posts)
1. I met Carrie and spoke with her a few times
Mon Mar 25, 2019, 08:46 PM
Mar 2019

around 25 years ago at small gigs in a city park in Bloomington IN. She was preparing for her first trip to Nashville. I had recently visited Nashville twice and shared my experiences and recommendations to her. The next time I saw her, she was surrounded by adoring fans and paying them the same heed she had paid me. She had fallen off my radar in the last several years. It's nice to recall that time in my history, thanks for posting.

guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)
3. This post was my first time hearing of her, and listening to her.
Mon Mar 25, 2019, 09:18 PM
Mar 2019

I know a few Friends, and their religious journeys are very interesting.

The River

(2,615 posts)
5. I Don't Care
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 07:32 AM
Mar 2019

if she is a Quaker or a box of Quaker Oats.
The music is all that matters.
On the Brink of Everything is exactly where
I stand, looking back at all the "Leaves" I've watched "let go".

The River

(2,615 posts)
10. More Than Nice
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 11:14 AM
Mar 2019

It's transcendent. One review I read called her the "Prairie Mystic". I agree.

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
6. "Many of us do not separate the spiritual from the secular."
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 07:49 AM
Mar 2019

How enlightened of you. Wasn't aware anyone said you had to, in your personal life.

But when it comes to politics, keep your religion the fuck out. Base your policy ideas on reasoning and experience, not what you think your god wants.

MineralMan

(148,008 posts)
8. "Many of us do not separate the spiritual from the secular. "
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 08:55 AM
Mar 2019

OK. Many of us do. We don't mind if you don't, though, as long as you don't insist that we comply with your habits.

I'm glad this performer is having success. I've never heard of her, nor have I heard any of her music.

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