Cincinnati Friends Meeting (CFM) Public Friend Jim Newby and Beulah Missionary Baptist Pastor John Ivey met as members of EquaSion, a greater Cincinnati non-partisan, interfaith dialogue to foster understanding. They shared a vision to gather their congregations. Pastor Ivey reached out to Jim just as Cathy Barney, our new nurturer
Cathy Barney
For New Member Mardi Fallon, CFM Is a Return to Mystical Roots
New Cincinnati Friends Meeting (CFM) member Mardi Fallon’s spiritual path began as a child “with peak experiences” and a devout Catholic upbringing. She dipped into Buddhism and worshiped for five years with Community Friends Meeting before discovering her current spiritual home. A desire to get back in touch with those
Homecoming
And so I find it well to come for deeper rest to this still room, for here the habit of the soul feels less the outer world’s control; the strength of mutual purpose pleads more earnestly our common needs; and from the silence multiplied by these still forms on either
Pulling the Trigger
I was nine when Martin Luther King, Jr. was gunned down, yet I understood the wrongness. Wrongness in a time of many wrongs and deaths: JFK; RFK; Malcolm X; the Vietnam War. But a man of peace, a minister? A man simply doing as Jesus would to free his marginalized
The Gift of Navigating Beloved Community
We live in many communities, some chosen and others not. Beloved Community, which many of us find at Cincinnati Friends Meeting, is something else. Something apart and, perhaps, beyond words. We recently gathered after worship for a spiritual-nurture time of reflection to share our experiences, roughly captured here in participants’