Out there is loud. In here is quiet, peaceful. Out there… ego. Here, humble. Out there is achievement. In here, purpose. Out there… anger. Here, kindness. Out there are assumptions and quick reactions. In here, patience and pause. Out there, truth is a compromised weapon. Here, integrity centered in love.
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
Beloved Community
The last weekend of July proved much more than a recording of my gifts of ministry during the Wilmington Yearly Meeting annual sessions in Maryville, TN. I expanded the depth and the breadth of my Beloved Community, completed an ancestral Quaker circle, shared a moment with younger, inspiring Quaker ministers,
Firefly Lights up (at) Quaker Knoll
The brainchild of Beulah Baptist Church’s Lynn Davis, and developed in collaboration with CFM’s Cathy Barney, the recent July 12-14 weekend camping retreat grew out of the relationship established between the two faith communities through their participation in the interfaith organization Equasion. (https://equasion.org/who-we-are/) Bertha Lynn wanted to give Beulah kids
CFM Roots: Leaving the Fifth Street Meetinghouse
After Cincinnati Friends constructed the new Orthodox meetinghouse on Fifth Street in 1830, they continued to make improvements to it, including the installation of gas lights and the construction of a carriageway from John Street. However, as the meeting grew from about 180 members to about 215, the existing facilities