I want to comment on what I witnessed yesterday at Cincinnati Friends Meeting. It was a “called meeting” about a pivotal decision that the community freely decided to open up to all concerned members in order to discuss, articulate and codify a consensus decision about a way to go forward
CFM Roots: Simple Beginnings
In honor of our meeting’s 200th anniversary in 2015, Sabrina Darnowsky wrote a book entitled Friends Past and Present: The Bicentennial History of Cincinnati Friends Meeting (1815–2015). To help people become more familiar with our past, sections of this book are being posted via the online Traveling Friend. You can
The mountains have called him home
As the winter of 2022 was nearing its end, Greg Keairns was making plans, as he did for so many years as winters came to a close. The mountains, in their quietness and in their serenity, were calling him once again. There would come that time as the new Spring
Review of “Freeing Jesus” by Diana Butler Bass
I know Diana Butler Bass as a church historian. I heard her speak at ESR after the publication of Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening, which was a passionate but still scholarly study of the past and future of Christian faith.
Oh, how we miss you!
She’s not that far ‘up the road’ in a new home in Wilmington and we will still see her at Yearly Meeting, but that did not make the transfer of her membership any easier. In a word that has become common use over the past two years with COVID-19, Mary