Carrie Newcomer is an American singer, songwriter and author. She has produced 19 solo CDs and has received numerous awards for her music and related charitable activities. She has done numerous collaborations with authors, academics, philosophers and musicians. In 2009 and 2011 she traveled to India as a cultural ambassador, including musical performances organized by the US State Department. In 2012 she made a similar trip to Kenya on behalf of the Interfaith Hunger Initiative. Her range of causes, activities, collaborations and philosophies significantly influences her music. Newcomer was called "a prairie mystic" by the Boston Globe.
[https://bostonglobe.newspapers.com/image/444335296/?terms=%22Prairie%20%20mystic%22&match=1 ''Carrie Newcomer'' by Scott Alarik The Boston Globe]
Solo music and career
Her first solo album was ''Visions and Dreams''. ''Vision and Dreams'' was originally released on Windchime records and then later re-released with two additional tracks by Rounder records.
[ Between 1993 and 2010, she released twelve additional albums and two "best of" compilations on ]Philo
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. Her range of causes, activities, collaborations and philosophies significantly influences her music.[ She released four solo albums and one live album on Available Light Records.][https://www.allmusic.com/artist/carrie-newcomer-mn0000186027/discography?1635725392884 AllMusic discogaphy Retrieve 10/31/21]
Her album ''Betty's Diner: The Best of Carrie Newcomer'' was released in 2004. It contained three new songs, plus, "what's held up for me what songs have become old friends, and what songs are requested often".[ The title track started out as a short story which Newcomer wrote while on the road, she then decided to incorporate the story into a song.][http://www.puremusic.com/carrie4.html ''A Conversation with Carrie Newcomer'' by Frank Goodman, Puremusic.com February 2004 Retrieved October 6, 2012]
In 2009 Newcomer traveled to India as a cultural ambassador for The American Center and worked with students of the American Embassy School in New Delhi.[Lindquist, David (October 30, 2011) "Its a long way from Indiana to India, ''The Indianapolis Star'',page G1][http://www.carrienewcomer.com/content/uploads/1/Newcomer_Bloom_India_Feature.pdf ''A Life-Changing Journey Carrie Newcomer's Tour of India for the U.S. State Department'' by Debra Kent Bloom Magazine feature article February/March 2010 issue. Pages 58–63. Retrieved August 14, 2012]
In 2011 Newcomer returned to India as a cultural ambassador for The American Center and worked with students of the American Embassy School in New Delhi, the American School Bombay, and The International School Chennai.Amjad Ali Khan
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan (born 9 October 1945) is an Indian classical ''sarod'' player, best known for his clear and fast ekhara taans. Khan was born into a classical musical family and has performed internationally since the 1960s. He was awar ...
and his sons, Amaan and Ayaan on traditional Indian instruments. The profits of "Everything is Everywhere" benefit Interfaith Hunger Initiative[http://m.timesofindia.com/PDATOI/articleshow/9707965.cms ''Amaan, Ayaan's new album'' The Times of India August 23, 2011][http://travel.usatoday.com/alliance/destinations/perceptivetravel/post/2011/11/Listening-well-doing-good/569012/1 Kerry Dexter ''Listening well, doing good'' USA Today Perceptive Travel November 19, 2011] In the article "''Carrie Newcomer’s cool fusion of East and West hooks listeners''" Firstpost (Mumbai, India) identified Amjad Ali Khan
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan (born 9 October 1945) is an Indian classical ''sarod'' player, best known for his clear and fast ekhara taans. Khan was born into a classical musical family and has performed internationally since the 1960s. He was awar ...
and his sons, Amaan and Ayaan as "three of the best sarod players in the world".[http://www.firstpost.com/living/carrie-newcomer%E2%80%99s-cool-fusion-of-east-and-west-hooks-listeners-124494.html ''Carrie Newcomer’s cool fusion of East and West hooks listeners'' by Uttara Choudhury November 5, 2011 Published by Firstpost, Mumbai, India Retrieved August 14, 2012] With the music in this collaboration album, Newcomer said that her objective was "to create songs that were based in western song form, but would integrate and preserve the power, depth and energy of Indian music. I did not want to create western songs, add a tabla and call it fusion."[
''Kindred Spirits: A collection'' was released in November 2012. It includes two previously unreleased songs, two songs from her hunger benefit project (Everything is Everywhere) featuring Indian classical sarod performers Amjad Ali Khan, Ayaan and Amaan Ali Khan, two previously unreleased live recordings, and a compilation of other songs.][http://www.carrienewcomer.com Official website Retrieved October 6, 2012]
Her CD ''A Permeable life'' was released in April 2014, as was her book of the same title.[ They do not have material in common, but Newcomer has indicated that the book shows some of the process and themes of her songwriting.][''A Permeable Life'' 2013 By Carrie Newcomer Page 4] The theme of the CD has been characterized as: "Newcomer explores familiar themes of being present, moving through thresholds in life and embracing each experience that comes your way".["Allowing the world in Indiana native brings her view of life, set to music, to CSPS Hall" by Aly Brown http://www.press-citizen.com/article/20140320/GOIOWACITY/303200004/Allowing-world-in?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1 ''Iowa City Press-Citizen'', March 19, 2014, Retrieved April 6, 2014]
Her ''Beautiful Not Yet'' album was released in 2016,with a companion book by the same name. Accorfing to Newcomer, this book and CD explore the themes of mystery and miracle in the everyday and the album is described by FolkWorks as "profound and poetic."[https://folkworks.org/review/carrie-newcomer-the-beautiful-not-yet/ ''Carrie Newcomer – The Beautiful Not Yet'' by Jackie Morris Retrieved 10/31/2021]
Newcomer’s album ''Until Now'' was released in Sept 2021, with a companion book of the same title. This collection refers to the Covid pandemic as "the great unraveling" and addresses big questions for society's work in process, and that healing after the crisis is not enough. "We can’t just be healed, we must be transformed."[https://readthespirit.com/explore/in-her-new-until-now-carrie-newcomer-calls-all-of-us-to-sing-for-our-lives-and-our-communities/ ''In her new ‘Until Now,’ Carrie Newcomer calls all of us to sing for our lives and our communities'' By David Crumm Editorm editor ''ReadTheSpirit'' magazine. September 27, 2021 including their quotes of statements by Newcomer Retrieved 10/31/21][
In more recent years her broadening into authoring books including poetry and philosophical works, and similar collaborations have represented a transformation into what sources have termed a "prairie mystic".][ With the release of her latest album and companion book, one review summarized it as "Newcomer’s lyrics address the themes of living in challenging and changing times and finding hope in the patterns of nature and each other’s company. The lyrics are informed by Newcomer’s wider philosophical and spiritual thinking as well as her environmentalism and concerns for social justice."][https://www.13thfloor.co.nz/carrie-newcomer-until-now-topical-folksongs-wrapped-in-kindness-album-review/ ''Carrie Newcomer – Until Now – topical folksongs wrapped in kindness: Album Review'' September 20, 2021]
Books
Newcomer has released three books of poetry, essays & short stories. 2014 ''A Permeable Life: Poems & Essays'',[https://readthespirit.com/explore/carrie-newcomer-interview-permeable-life/ ''ReadTheSpirit'' magazine The Carrie Newcomer interview on: A Permeable Life'' by David Crumm June 15th, 2014 Retrieved 10/31/21] in 2016 ''The Beautiful Not Yet: Poems & Lyrics'',[https://readthespirit.com/explore/carrie-newcomer-interview-on-the-beautiful-not-yet/ ''Carrie Newcomer interview on: The Beautiful Not Yet'' Crumm Editorm editor ''ReadTheSpirit'' magazine Retrieved 10/31/21] and in 2021 ''Until Now: New Poems''.[https://readthespirit.com/explore/in-her-new-until-now-carrie-newcomer-calls-all-of-us-to-sing-for-our-lives-and-our-communities/ ''In her new: Until Now, Carrie Newcomer calls all of us to sing for our lives and our communities'' By David Crumm editor of ReadTheSpirit magazine September 27, 2021 Retrieved 10/31/21] Newcomer's poem ''Three Gratitudes'' was featured on the On Being
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PBS radio program first aired on November 26, 2014, along with an interview of Newcomer by Krista Tippett.[https://onbeing.org/poetry/three-gratitudes/ ''Three Gratitudes Written and read by Carrie Newcomer'' Retrieved November 1, 2021][https://onbeing.org/programs/carrie-newcomer-a-conversation-with-music/ ''Carrie Newcomer A Conversation with Music'' Interview by Krista Tippett Retrieved November 1, 2021]
Podcast
Since 2017 Newcomer has co-hosted ''The Growing Edge'' podcast with author Parker J. Palmer described as "exploring the themes of life on the growing edge personally, vocationally and politically".[Forbes.com]
''Folk Singer Carrie Newcomer Offers Words And Music For Mending The ‘Great Unraveling’ by David Lindquist Forbes magazine'' Retrieved November 1, 2021
Awards and recognitions
In 2012 Newcomer performed at various locations in rural Chulaimbo Kenya as a part of the Interfaith Hunger Initiative and at the AMPATH HIV center in Eldoret.[https://archive.today/20130121161741/http://doctorvoversea.com/if-not-now/ ''If Not Now'' by Rachel Vreeman June 14, 2012 Retrieved July 30, 2012][http://www.interfaithhungerinitiative.org/ "Indiana singer/songwriter Carrie Newcomer will be visiting Chulaimbo, Kenya in early June to visit the Umoja project sites. Proceeds from Carrie's latest CD, "Everything Is Everywhere," benefit IHI." Retrieved July 30, 2012]
In December 2018 Spirituality and Health Magazine named Newcomer and Parker J. Palmer as two of ''10 Spiritual Leaders for the Next 20 Years''.[https://www.spiritualityhealth.com/articles/2018/10/07/10-spiritual-leaders ''10 Spiritual Leaders For The Next 20 Years'' by SH Editors (overall) and Meggan Watt Peterson (Newcomer article) Retrieved November 1, 2021]
In 2010, Rich Warren host of the Midnight Special radio program selected Carrie Newcomer as one of the 50 most significant singer-songwriters of folk music for the last 50 years.[http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2010/07/folkies.html Eric Zorn ''Top 50 folkies of the last 50 years, one man's list'' July 25, 2010] Warren also selected her Geography of Light as one of his (13) favorite CDs for 2008. He said "Newcomer is philosopher, sage, mystic and poet with an alto voice that I would follow to the ends of the earth. She also finally reached the perfect balance of accompaniment/production with her voice. The thoroughly engrossing songs require several listenings to see all the light (and dark) within them. Newcomer improves with every CD and her poetry grows more complex and luminous."YMCA
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and collaborated with Scott Russell Sanders and folk songwriters Krista Detor, Tim Grimm, Michael White and Tom Roznoski on an album and theatrical production entitled ''Wilderness Plots''. The author, cast members and director of Wilderness Plots were honored by the Indiana House of Representatives and Senate in a joint resolution which described it as "a musical tribute to the early pioneer settlement of the Midwest and embodies the rich history and artistic excellence of the State of Indiana."[http://insendems.wordpress.com/?s=wilderness+plots ''The Briefing Room'' March 1, 2010 Retrieved July 30, 2012] ''Wilderness Plots'' received a 2012 CINE
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award for the professional telecast non-fiction division.[http://www.cine.org/winners/golden-eagle-award-recipients/spring-2012/telecast-non-fiction/#5 CINE 2012 award web page retrieved August 30, 2012]
In 2003, Newcomer was named Woman of the Year by the City of Bloomington's Commission on the Status of Women.[https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/blgtn.government/WnTJ-fjqSoI ''Carrie Newcomer Selected as 2003 Woman of the Year'' by Jillian Kinzie City of Bloomington, IN press release February 11, 2003] "The 2003 Woman of the Year, Carrie Newcomer, is best known as a singer/songwriter; however, Jennifer Bass, nominator, says Newcomers significant contributions go beyond her music. Nine years ago Newcomer and her husband Robert Meitus organized Bloomingtons first Soup Bowl Benefit and they continue to assist with the benefit. What is less known is Carrie's dedication to community and her generous support of local and national organizations, said Bass. She has donated money from sales of her cds to the Nature Conservancy and she has participated in benefit concerts in St. Louis and Tucson."[ Newcomer's "I Wish I May, I Wish I Might" was chosen as the official song of the two year Food For Thought campaign by The Indiana Humanities Department.][https://archive.today/20130415011540/http://www.indianahumanities.org/news/food-for-thought-has-an-official-song ''Food for Thought has an official song!'' September 2, 2010 Retrieved August 31, 2012] Newcomer added, "‘I Wish I May, I Wish I Might’ was inspired by the essays ‘Carnival" and "Bill and Bunny" by celebrated Indiana author, Philip Gulley."[
]Rolling Stone magazine
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said that Newcomer's work "asks all the right questions and refuses to settle for easy answers".[''Rolling Stone'' magazine Issue 683 June 2, 1994]
In 2016 Newcomer was presented an honorary degree by Goshen College in ''Music for Social Change''. The same year she presented the commencement address for the Goshen College class of 2016.[https://www.goshen.edu/news/tag/carrie-newcomer/ ''Carrie Newcomer encourages graduates to ‘be true, be kind and pay attention’ with words and song at 118th commencement'' April 24, 2016 Retrieved 12/7/21]
In 2003 her song "I Should Have Known Better" was recorded by Nickel Creek
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on their Grammy-Winning Best Contemporary Folk Album "This Side".
Collaborations
Newcomer has collaborated with a range of musicians in performances and recordings. She also has collaborated on performances, presentations and efforts with authors, academics, activists, and organizations.
Newcomer has collaborated with author Parker J. Palmer on a number of projects including a song-and-spoken-word event called ''Healing the Heart of Democracy: A Gathering of Spirits for the Common Good'' and ''We Need it Here: Hope, Hard Times and Human Possibility''. In 2017 Newcomer and Palmer created a collaboration called ''The Growing Edge'' which includes retreats and ''The Growing Edge'' podacst.
In 1989, she wrote ''Sounds of the Morning'' for The Battle of Tippecanoe Outdoor Drama, about the land conflict between Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773April 4, 1841) was an American military officer and politician who served as the ninth president of the United States. Harrison died just 31 days after his inauguration in 1841, and had the shortest pres ...
. Her song was played as a prologue and as patrons left the amphitheater. Her music was woven into the NEA-funded sound design by theatre sound designer Richard K. Thomas.
Newcomer collaborated with author Parker J. Palmer to create the presentation "Healing the Heart of Democracy."[http://www.mikegreenassociates.com/index.php?page=bio&display=43f Carrie Newcomer biography Mike Green and associates access date: March 31, 2010, ][http://www.firstunitedmethodistmadison.org/event/2012-04-27-carrie-newcomerparker-palmer-concert-7-pm/ Carrie Newcomer/Parker Palmer Concert Retrieved August 14, 2012]
"Transforming Stories" was a presentation by Newcomer and Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor a neuroanatomist and author of the book ''My Stroke of Insight''.[ ''Transformative Stories; an Evening in Conversation and Music with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor'' The Academi of Life website Retrieved August 5, 2012]
Newcomer also collaborated with authors Scott Russell Sanders, Philip Gulley and J. Brent Bill for the PBS
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special ''Festival of Friends: An Offering in 4 Quaker Voices''.
Newcomer has collaborated with Jim Wallis
James E. Wallis Jr. (born June 4, 1948) is an American theologian, writer, teacher and political activist. He is best known as the founder and editor of ''Sojourners'' magazine and as the founder of the Washington, D.C.-based Christian commu ...
.[ Jim Wallis is the author of the New York Times best-selling book '' God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It'',][https://archive.today/20121220230431/https://blog.sojo.net/press/gods-politics-author-jim-wallis-speak-benefit-concert-featuring-carrie-newcomer Lindsay Morgan May 12, 2005, Press release by Sojourners Retrieved August 10, 2012]
Newcomer has toured the United States, Europe, Africa and India including performances with Alison Krauss
Alison Maria Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer and musician. She entered the music industry at an early age, competing in local contests by the age of 8 and recording for the first time at 14. She signed with ...
, Mary Chapin Carpenter
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,Amjad Ali Khan
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, Barbara Kingsolver, Parker J. Palmer, Jill Bolte Taylor, Scott Russell Sanders and Philip Gulley.[http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/alison-krauss-amp-union-station-glasgow-royal-concert-hall-1.395055 The Herald Scotland ''Alison Krauss & Union Station, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall'' by Rob Adams June 5, 1997, Retrieved August 1, 2012]
In September 2012, the collaboration ''An Evening of Reflection, Conversation & Song: Taylor, Newcomer, and Sasso'' was hosted by the Athenaeum Foundation. It included Newcomer, Sandy Sasso and Jill Bolte Taylor with the objective of providing stories and music exploring the ideas in Parker J. Palmer's book "Healing the Heart of Democracy' for those in search of ideas on how to "Reclaim our capacity for civility and community".
Organizations and causes
Newcomer is a member of the National Advisory board of the Beuchner institute of King college.[ Buechner Institute National Advisory Board member listing, King College website retrieved August 3, 2012]
Newcomer gives a percentage of her album sales to charitable organizations including the Interfaith Hunger Initiative American Friends Service Committee, America's Second Harvest, The Center for Courage and Renewal, and Literacy Volunteers of America.
Published works
Solo CDs
* 2021 ''Until Now''
* 2019 ''The Point of Arrival''
* 2017 ''Live at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater''
* 2016 ''The Beautiful Not Yet''[MTV listing http://www.mtv.com/artists/carrie-newcomer/discography/3200023/ Retrieved April 2, 2014][''Newcomer focuses on 'being present' with record'' This Week Community News newspaper March 12, 2014, http://www.thisweeknews.com/content/stories/2014/03/13/newcomer-focuses-on-being-present-with-record.html Retrieved April 5, 2014]
* 2012 ''Kindred Spirits: A collection''[
* 2011 ''Everything Is Everywhere'' Available Light Records AL 1001
* 2010 ''Before & After'' – Philo PH 1259
* 2008 ''The Geography of Light'' – Philo PH 1253
* 2005 ''Regulars and Refugees'' – Philo PH 1247
* 2004 ''Betty's Diner: The Best of Carrie Newcomer'' – Philo PH 1245
* 2002 ''The Gathering of Spirits'' – Philo PH 1243
* 2000 ''The Age of Possibility'' – Philo PH 1226
* 1999 ''Bare to the Bone'' ive– Philo CD 9901
* 1998 ''My True Name'' – Philo PH 1223
* 1996 ''My Father's Only Son'' – Philo PH 1203
* 1995 ''The Bird or the Wing'' – Philo PH 1183
* 1994 ''An Angel at My Shoulder'' – Philo PH 1163
* 1991 ''Visions and Dreams'' – Philo PH 1193 995 reissue]
Collaboration CDs
*2008 Kyser Klassics (Partial Capo)
*2007 Wilderness Plots Rosehill Records
*2003 Song Mania (More Songs About Love and Despair)
*2002 The Singer Songwriter Collection Rounder Records
*2001 Rounder Records: Celebrating 30 Colorful Years ompilation, Limited Edition*1998 Kerrville Folk Festival: 25th Anniversary
*1996 One More Song:An Album For Club Passim Rounder Records
*1993 Shelter: The Best Of Contemporary Singer-Songwriters Putumayo Presents Series
DVDs
*2016 An Evening with Carrie Newcomer WFYI Public Television Broadcast
*2008 Wilderness Plots Songs and Stories of the Prairie
*2006 Bernice Johnson Reagon
Bernice Johnson Reagon (born Bernice Johnson on October 4, 1942) is a song leader, composer, scholar, and social activist, who in the early 1960s was a founding member of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) Freedom Singers in t ...
/Holly Near
Holly Near (born June 6, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, teacher, and activist.
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Holly Near was born in Ukiah, California, United States, and was
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/Carrie Newcomer : Light of Change DVD
*2005 A Festival of Friends WFYI Public Television Broadcast
Books
* 2021 ''Until Now:New Poems'' by Carrie Newcomer ISBN 978-7375335-0-4
* 2016 ''Carrie Newcomer the beautiful not yet Poems, Essays and Lyrics'' [Book ''Carrie Newcomer the beautiful not yet Poems, Essays and Lyrics'' by Carrie Newcomer Copyright 2016 Available Light Publishing ]
* 2014 ''A Permeable Life'' by Carrie Newcomer [Book ''A Permeable Life'' by Carrie Newcomer]
LPs With Stone Soup
* 1987 ''October Nights'' – Windchime RC-102
* 1984 ''Long Fields'' – Windchime RC-101/S
Life and early career
Newcomer was born in Dowagiac, Michigan
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on May 25, 1958 to James B. Newcomer and Donna Baldoni Newcomer. When she was 5 years old they moved to Elkhart, Indiana
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where she lived until she was 18 years old.[ David Lindquist ''Q&A with Carrie Newcomer'' Indianapolis Metromix interview February 21, 2010 access date March 31, 2010] She began writing songs as a teenager and began performing in restaurants, coffeehouses and at benefits and festivals.[ History section of Newcomer web site Retrieved August 11, 2012] She began her university studies at Ball State University and then Goshen College
Goshen College is a private Mennonite liberal arts college in Goshen, Indiana. It was founded in 1894 as the Elkhart Institute of Science, Industry and the Arts, and is affiliated with Mennonite Church USA. The college is accredited by the High ...
. Newcomer spent 5 months teaching art in an elementary school in San Isidro, Costa Rica. She completed her studies at Purdue University
Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and mone ...
and received a B.A. in visual art and education.
In the 1980s, Newcomer was a member of the pop-folk
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and acoustic group ''Stone Soup''[''Carrie Newcomer, that longing for something better'' by Arthur Wood Maverick Magazine (England) pages 40–43]982
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''Long Fields'' 984
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and ''October Nights'' 987 all now out of print. Newcomer was the group's main songwriter and lead vocalist and she also played dulcimer and guitar.[ The group was based in West Lafayette, IN. After leaving ''Stone Soup'', she moved to Bloomington, IN and recorded her first solo album.
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Personal life
Though she was raised in a Protestant-Methodist Church, she now identifies strongly as a Quaker.[http://mgrfirm.com/personal-profiles/robert-meitus/ Meitus personal profile section of Meitus, Gelbert and Rose LLP website Retrieved August 2, 2012] When she met him he was a guitar player and songwriter in the band Dorkestra. She has a daughter,[ Amelia Newcomer Aldred.][http://www.davidleas.com/leas%20family%20genealogy/102.htm] Newcomer's musical development, approach and themes have been influenced by her evolution in spiritual, philosophical and humanitarian areas and endeavors.
References
External links
Official website
*{https://www.pbs.org/video/religion-and-ethics-newsweekly-carrie-newcomer/ PBS documentary]
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