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Notes For Meeting
by David Brunton
Every week our family has a Meeting on Sunday evening. Preparing my notes for meeting has been at the center of my devotional practice for many years, but I’m still new to sharing outside our family. When our oldest daughter went off to college, I started looking for a way to continue sharing this time with her, which means now you can listen, too!
Episodes
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Abram, Sarai, and Hagar
I’m curious what everyone made of the story of Abram, Sarai, and Hagar that we read this week. If I’d been thinking ahead a little more, I might have included a couple more passages about what happens to Ishmael later on, but we’ll read them aloud now. The important punchline of the story of...
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Father Abram, Ahem, Abraham
It’s Father’s Day, and we’re in the thick of studying through the book of Genesis together. Remember there was no reading assignment this week, we finished the first eleven chapters of Genesis last week, the sort of pre-history part of the story, and this week, we’re going to be introduced to...
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Old Testament: The Flood
It was really fun to start our discussions on the Old Testament when everyone was home, and now we’re moving back to being spread abroad. I posted our last few weeks of meetings on Substack, and we’re going back to recordings at least while Tom is abroad. This week’s reading was a little bit...
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Old Testament: Ruth
Today we’re going to finish talking about the five scrolls, which are Esther, Ruth, Lamentations, Song of Songs, and Ecclesiastes. You’ll remember that Esther is about Esther, our Jewish Heroine who saves her people from Xerxes the jerksy and his awful advisor Haman. Lamentations is a book of...
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Old Testament Tour: Poetry, Continued
My darlings, I’m so enjoying our whirlwind tour through the Bible. As a reminder, we’re currently talking about the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible, which we divide into three chunks: the law, the prophets, and the writings. We started our tour in the very middle, with three of the writing books…
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Tour of the Old Testament: Poetry Books
After some discussion with everyone during Lent, we’re going to start a tour of the Old Testament in Meeting today. There seemed to be some general agreement among all the Bruntons-east that having an overall sense of it could be fun and interesting. Today we’re going to do a quick orientation…
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Palm Sunday
We’re going to keep reading about the final days of Jesus from the Gospel of John today. One of the reasons I like reading the Gospels is that they each have a different take on what happened that week, but the accounts of Palm Sunday and the events of that week are all reasonably well synched up…
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Remembrance of Me
It was so much fun hiking with you all yesterday! The weather couldn’t have been more perfect for it, which I suppose is why we couldn’t get a parking space at Patapsco. Apparently we weren’t the only ones who noticed the sun shining. The first daffodils are blooming, right next to the house by…
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Children of God
I promise our Meetings aren’t going to permanently turn into vocabulary lessons where we only talk about the new words I’ve picked up like Syzygy and selenelieon. But I did learn another new word from an article from the New York Times that was making the rounds on Friday and I can’t help reading...
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Spring Has Sprung
Dan’l and Lina and I finished reading Slaughterhouse Five a couple weeks ago, and I’ve been thinking a lot about one specific aspect of the book, which is that it consistently juxtaposes the ordinary and the absurd and the horrific, sometimes all within the same character on the same day. Aliens,...
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Syzygy and Selenelion
I learned a new word when I was reading the news this morning. Selenelion. Apparently, on Tuesday morning we may be able to see the fully-eclipsed moon and the sun at the same time, which is called a selenelion. The eclipsed moon is also called a blood moon, because when it ducks behind the…
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New Every Morning
It’s hard to know exactly who to blame for what’s going on with the weather, but I blame the groundhog. I can hardly believe we’re getting another big winter storm and the snow isn’t even completely melted from the previous one. Capital Weather Gang is calling for three to six inches of...
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What I Want To Do
What a treat that I got to see all of you this weekend, even briefly. I don’t mean to taunt anyone who couldn’t be there on Saturday morning, but when I got to Zoe’s apartment to pick up Katie after she stayed over to watch the Olympics, there was coffee cake just coming out of the oven, and it…
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Parable of the Sower
Today we’re going to spend a little time with a parable that Jesus told, the Parable of the Sower. But first we’re going to talk a bit about the genre of parables, and what they’re for. I can’t remember how many of you were here at the dining room table when Tomi was talking about Plato and...
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St. Brigid's Day
It’s kind of hard for me to think about spring right now. It was fourteen degrees this morning when I got up, and that was the warmest morning we’ve had in a week. The ice on top of the snow is especially crazy, it feels like walking on a glacier on Mt. Adams. But it’s February first, and that...
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Wait For It
What a way to end the month of January! As I wrote my notes this morning, we had about six inches of snow and it was still snowing. The sheep, interestingly, slept out in it, and had veritable snowbanks on top of them but still seemed to just want a nibble of corn from your mama’s hand. I loved...
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The Substance of Faith
Lina and I have started to notice, when we go out to feed the sheep and get the eggs, that the sun is finally starting to rise a little earlier. We’re still taking headlamps and flashlights with us, but the darkest days have started to give way, at least a bit. Then, yesterday evening we went for…
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Love, Hope, and Faith
It still feels strange to me when I write 2026 on the top of my notes for meeting, but I’m starting to settle into it at least enough that this week won’t center on time travel like we did last week. This week I’ve been completely obsessed with John Green’s Vlog Brothers video from four days ago,...
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Overcoming is Redemptive
It was weird to write 2026 on the top of my notes for meeting today. I’m not quite old enough to remember when 2001: A Space Odyssey came out, but I’m do have my own version of that date that’s in the future, and it’s from the movie Back to the Future, which came out when I was ten. In Back to…
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About Notes for Meeting
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit notesformeeting.substack.com
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Thinking is All Around Us
Thinking about thinking. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit notesformeeting.substack.com
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What to be Anxious For
Season Two, Episode Seven. March 3, 2024. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit notesformeeting.substack.com
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Keeping Agreements
Season Two, Episode Six. February 25, 2024. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit notesformeeting.substack.com
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Break and Repair
Season Two, Episode Five. February 18, 2024. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit notesformeeting.substack.com
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Knowing is Half the Battle
Season Two, Episode Four. February 11, 2024. Photo Credit to Zoe Brunton. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit notesformeeting.substack.com
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To Err is Human
Season Two, Episode Three. February 4, 2024. Photo Credit Zoe Brunton. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit notesformeeting.substack.com
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On Being Less Wrong
Season Two, Episode Two. January 28, 2024. Photo Credit to Zoe Brunton. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit notesformeeting.substack.com
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Joy
Notes For Meeting Season Two, Episode One. January 21, 2024. Thanks to Zoe Brunton for the episode cover art. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit notesformeeting.substack.com
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Season Two Trailer
Welcome to season two of Notes For Meeting. For anyone new to this podcast, which is to say anyone who’s not a member of our immediate family, I started recording these when Zoe left for college. We all meet together on Sunday nights for a lesson and a short meditation and sometimes a song or…
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Parting Ways
Notes For Meeting, November 19, 2023 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit notesformeeting.substack.com
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Origin and Authenticity
Notes For Meeting, November 12, 2023 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit notesformeeting.substack.com
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Still, Small Voice
Notes For Meeting, November 5, 2023 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit notesformeeting.substack.com
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Tick Tack on the Window
Notes For Meeting, October 29, 2023 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit notesformeeting.substack.com
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Living Water
Notes For Meeting, October 22, 2023 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit notesformeeting.substack.com
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Wedding at Cana
Notes for Meeting, October 15, 2023. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit notesformeeting.substack.com
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Twenty Years
Notes For Meeting, October 8, 2023. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit notesformeeting.substack.com
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They That Wait
Notes For Meeting October 1, 2023 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit notesformeeting.substack.com
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Centering Down
Notes From Meeting September 24, 2023 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit notesformeeting.substack.com
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Introducing Notes For Meeting
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Every week our family has a Meeting on Sunday evening. Preparing my notes for meeting has been at the center of my devotional practice for many years, but I’m still new to sharing outside our family. When our oldest daughter went off to college, I started looking for a way to continue sharing this time with her, which means now you can listen, too!
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David Brunton
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