I’m sitting on a little hill and gazing down on the Milford valley below. A small town of multi-colored buildings lies before me. Motorized traffic winds its way up and down the road between Wooster Pike and Main Street. Various birds are calling to whomever will listen to them while
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
Welcome Deidre Hazelbaker
Kind, but tough. Transparent to a fault. And, generally optimistic. I am a busy beaver always ready for my next adventure. I am blessed with an AWESOME family. My husband Jayson and I are high school sweethearts who took 13 years to get married and have been together another 10
The Gift of Navigating Beloved Community
We live in many communities, some chosen and others not. Beloved Community, which many of us find at Cincinnati Friends Meeting, is something else. Something apart and, perhaps, beyond words. We recently gathered after worship for a spiritual-nurture time of reflection to share our experiences, roughly captured here in participants’