Quaker songwriter Carrie Newcomer's most intimate album yet

[guillaumeb]

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.

[Bob Loblaw]

1. I met Carrie and spoke with her a few times

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]

3. This post was my first time hearing of her, and listening to her.

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

[Jim__]

2. The Point of Arrival

[guillaumeb]

4. Thank you. eom

[The River]

5. I Don't Care

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".

[guillaumeb]

9. The music is very nice.

And I appreciate the positions advanced in the lyrics.

[The River]

10. More Than Nice

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

[trotsky]

6. "Many of us do not separate the spiritual from the secular."

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.

[A HERETIC I AM]

11. Trostky?

I want to have your babies

[trotsky]

12. Come and get them big boy!

[A HERETIC I AM]

13. ....

[Act_of_Reparation]

7. Music to buy grocieries to.

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooring.

[MineralMan]

8. "Many of us do not separate the spiritual from the secular. "

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.