9 billion dollars – the cost of gun violence in the state of Tennessee, with $433 million of that cost paid by taxpayers. 39,707 – the number of Americans killed by firearms in the United States in 2019 (from CDC statistics). 1,762 – the number of Ohioans who died from
Social Concerns
“For I was hungry and you fed me.”
In response to the ongoing and growing humanitarian crisis brought about by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, our CFM Peace and Social Concerns Committee has made a $500 donation to World Central Kitchen to assist with feeding refugees. This is in addition to a donation from our Meeting to Wilmington
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
A Query for Our Divided Times
Early Quakers developed the process of asking questions—queries—as a way of taking moral and spiritual inventories of themselves, as tools for discerning spiritual challenges within their spiritual and secular communities. We at Cincinnati Friends Meeting pose our queries on an ongoing basis—when we gather for Centering Down to guide us
Resolutions on Racial Justice
How do we move beyond concern, prayer, and writing Minutes that express our Quaker commitment to racial justice and equality? How do we act beyond prayer and writing? One answer came during Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business on February 14, when five resolutions on racial justice were introduced