Rather surprisingly, a charismatic Southern Baptist and a non-believing Jew found they can worship together and each feel spiritually fed at Cincinnati Friends Meeting (CFM). When Christiana and Michael Borack ventured here two years ago, they experienced the “spiritual spaciousness,” according to Michael. “There’s room for all of me and
Profiles
Stories about new members and attenders, as well as memorials
Bike Ride Cycles Into Deeper Journey
A stash of dark chocolate and a fizzled group date brought new Cincinnati Friends Meeting (CFM) members Beth Brubacher and Jeff Bloomer together at Jewish Hospital, where he is a pulmonologist and she was a social worker. They circled each other for years, until Jeff’s friend from residency shared an
Fed by Silent Worship
Don’t let the silence of Cincinnati Friends’ new member, Michael Rench, who says he is rarely led to speak during worship, fool you. He is a radical to the core: as a draft resister during the Vietnam Conflict, raising a black daughter in conservative Adams County, leading a march against
Lotion for the Soul
A childhood Methodist and a longtime adult Unitarian Universalist who, most recently, was head of their membership, Pat Brown wasted no time seeking membership at Cincinnati Friends Meeting (CFM). Effects of the pandemic and a chance visit during EquaSion’s Sacred Connections (an interfaith program encouraging visits to a variety of
A Seeker Since Childhood
New Cincinnati Friends Meeting (CFM) member Dana Neal yearns to know the truth, especially spiritual truth, for herself. At five, when she asked her Missionary Baptist Sunday School Teachers where the Canaanites came from if Adam and Eve were the first people, she was shushed and told to rely on