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Articles from January 2021

The Vital Virtues
January 30, 2021 Jim Newby Comment

As I was sorting through the papers on my desk, I came across a letter that I had written to the members and attenders of Cincinnati Friends Meeting dated March 1, 2020. In essence it said that because of COVID-19, we were appointing an Ad Hoc Public Health Committee, and

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Scriptures Regarding Christian Love for LGBTQ Folks
January 27, 2021 Ray Geers 3 Comments

I recently watched Kody Hersh’s QuakerSpeak video entitled How Jesus Affirms My Queerness, and was disappointed by the negative comments in some of the follow-up posts. I began to formulate counter-responses to those who staunchly refused to accept that God/Jesus loves all people, including LGBTQ folks, just as they are.

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Because Community: The Language of Friends
January 24, 2021 Sabrina Darnowsky Comment

In her book Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, the linguist Gretchen McCulloch astutely observes that the way people in a given locality speak doesn’t often change much, even in the face of many technological advances: …people were still talking like their neighbors rather than like TV and

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Working as a Team: My Daily Bread
January 18, 2021 Ray Geers 1 Comment

In my hospital workplace, I am grateful for working on a team rather than strictly on my own. The work we do as rehab therapists is often—I’d even say usually—very difficult. Every day, we work with people who are sick, wounded, and debilitated, both physically and mentally. If not for

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