Cincinnati Friends Meeting (CFM) was one of more than 30 faith organizations involved in the 4th Annual Festival of Faiths, with this year’s activities held on Zoom. Thirteen world religions were included during the 2021 programming, focused on the theme Compassion Through Action: We’re In This Together. Jim Newby, CFM
Marriage in the Manner of Friends
Last August, I gave a brief presentation on Quaker weddings at the annual interdenominational Festival of Faiths. This presentation included a six-minute video that featured the photos, memories, and perspectives of some of our members who had married in the manner of Friends (You can view the video by clicking
I Don’t Remember Growing Older…When Did They?
Sunrise … sunset … swiftly flow the years – the bittersweet reflections on the passage of time in the lyrics from Fiddler on the Roof – wasn’t it yesterday when they were small? She first cast her magic upon us as a newborn carried in her mother Cathy’s arm and
Homecoming
And so I find it well to come for deeper rest to this still room, for here the habit of the soul feels less the outer world’s control; the strength of mutual purpose pleads more earnestly our common needs; and from the silence multiplied by these still forms on either
Let the more loving one be me
I was on a hermit retreat the weekend I wrote this. The questions I was asking myself at that time were: what am I doing here; what am I after? On the surface, going to the retreat was my response to an invitation by my friend Sue to spend some