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
Social Concerns
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
Reflections on the Black Keys
As February unfolded around us, I was struck by the images—30-second public service announcements on television, short segments on talk shows and the like—reminding us that we are still in such a place in our nation that we must use public media to learn about the role of people of
An Author Interview with Liz Newby
During Liz Newby’s first tenure at Cincinnati Friends Meeting in the 1970s, she published a book called A Migrant with Hope. It told the story of her life as a daughter of migrant workers, her encounters with discrimination, and her embrace of a faith that could meet her inner spiritual