The first Sunday in June about two dozen souls, including a few kids, showed up for EquaSion’s Sacred Connections: Sacred Friendship! event at Cincinnati Friends Meeting. With perfect weather, a tent, tables and chairs the group ate together, took a nature walk, then shared more deeply in small groups. It
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Nurture and Service
I have been blessed in having been a member of four Friends meetings, lived in an intentional Quaker community and served as staff for the American Friends Services Committee (AFSC). These opportunities exposed me to many Quakers all over the eastern part of our Country. I traveled to meetings in
Beloved Community
The last weekend of July proved much more than a recording of my gifts of ministry during the Wilmington Yearly Meeting annual sessions in Maryville, TN. I expanded the depth and the breadth of my Beloved Community, completed an ancestral Quaker circle, shared a moment with younger, inspiring Quaker ministers,
Firefly Lights up (at) Quaker Knoll
The brainchild of Beulah Baptist Church’s Lynn Davis, and developed in collaboration with CFM’s Cathy Barney, the recent July 12-14 weekend camping retreat grew out of the relationship established between the two faith communities through their participation in the interfaith organization Equasion. (https://equasion.org/who-we-are/) Bertha Lynn wanted to give Beulah kids
Reflections on a Retreat Led by Michael Birkel
I don’t know what I expected Michael Birkel to be like. Maybe a sobersided Quaker or a professorial academic. Whatever I expected, I was delightfully wrong. Michael Birkel is lighthearted, very funny, personable, and self-effacing. He stated at the outset that if his humor offended, to let him know. “I