Five Friends Whose Lives and Work Speak in Ways That Continue to Challenge Us Today

A Spiritual Retreat at Cincinnati Friends Meeting led by Ron Rembert

Saturday, October12, 2024

John Woolman: Faith and Testimony
Thomas Kelly: Prayer and Seeking
Fritz Eichenberg: Art as Witness
Jessamyn West and Daisy Newman: Fiction as Teacher

Ron Rembert was born and raised in Texas, and has also lived in Connecticut, Georgia and Ohio. He shares a wide range of seeking experiences across various religious communities, including Methodism, Quakerism and Catholicism. A forty-year academic career afforded opportunities to teach and to do research in numerous settings—an elementary school classroom in Connecticut, a Methodist college and a school for hearing-impaired students in Texas, Wilmington College in Ohio and a research unit focused on moral education in Oxford, England. One special teaching experience stands out, launching Philosophy for Children, designed for elementary school students. Two other experiences involved creating/performing a one-person show, Socrates On Trial based on the text of Plato’s The Apology, as a theatrical introduction to philosophy for college students and offering a course, Baseball and Philosophy, at Wilmington College. Ron lives with his wife, Theresa, in Wilmington. Their son, Mark, and his family, April and August, reside in Boston.