It was with great joy that we at Cincinnati Friends Meeting (CFM) were able to allocate additional undesignated funds to Permaganic, the ministry of Luke and Angela Ebner. Permaganic was founded in 2010 to continue the legacy of the EcoGarden, Over-the-Rhine’s 22-year-old community vegetable garden and orchard located in downtown
Social Concerns
Would You Do What They Did for Equality?
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the amendment that gave women the right to vote. In 1920, the state of Tennessee became the last state needed to ratify it and make it the law of the land. As with
Artsy Fartsy Kids “Go by the Book”
Frustrated by vanishing grants and behavioral changes in her children resulting from deteriorating housing, evictions, and trauma, Cathy Barney discerned that it was time to alter Artsy Fartsy Saturdays, the arts ministry for marginalized kids that she founded in 2012 under the care of Cincinnati Friends Meeting. She was led
A Statement for Our Time
In the face of a global pandemic, the faithful came together last July for Wilmington Yearly Meeting. In this unprecedented time, we did not travel from afar or even from our own homes to conduct the business of the Yearly Meeting: to worship together and to listen to the wisdom
Reflections on the Death of George Floyd
I awakened on this Friday morning to the news that the city of my birth, Minneapolis, had erupted in flames. The riots are the response to the police killing of an African-American man named George Floyd. There are videos of the killing, with the victim lying on the ground and