EquaSion congregations Beulah Missionary Baptist Church and Cincinnati Friends Meeting, located on opposite sides of town, welcomed one another for the third gathering this year as they broaden faith and racial connections. A group of about thirty, evenly split between the churches, met December 9 as Beulah Baptist hosted a
Biblical Spiritual Gifts
What is a spiritual gift? I didn’t have a clue back in the 1980s when I decided to become a Christ-follower at the age of thirty-four. More on that later. A spiritual gift is a supernatural ability to serve or perform a task that God has called you to do
Quaker Byway: Harveysburg Free Black School
A little more than a decade after its revolution and founding, the United States of America proclaimed its first major expansion, creating its first incorporated territory in 1787, to become known as the Northwest Territory. The incorporation included 300,000 bountiful square miles filled with thick forests, an abundance of rivers
The 50th Anniversary of a Daily Meditation Practice
Sometime in April of 2023, I passed a milestone of sorts. I have been meditating daily for fifty years. Every morning, I wake up, make a quick stop in the bathroom, and then sit for twenty minutes. When my wife and I were raising children, that was it. In the
Remembering an Old Friend
At 80, my friend Margaret confessed, “I just don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.” That quickly became my mantra and, unknowingly, she became my role model. We eagerly worked to build race relations locally, swapped books and thoughts at our neighborhood club, prayed together, and