Reading Between the Lines–May 5

The Adult Spiritual Education committee will host a one-hour Reading Between the Lines on First Day—Sunday, May 5—from 9-10 am through Zoom. We will discuss John 15: 9-17: joy that becomes “complete”; learning a new way of loving; the difference between “servants” and...

Memorial Minute for Bette Gilchrist

By Margaret Edds Bette Diebold Gilchrist, a plain-spoken Midwesterner by birth, an intellectually curious biologist by profession, and a lifelong seeker after truth, died on May 5, 2022, in Richmond, Virginia. A member of the Richmond Friends Meeting since January 20,...

RFM Minute on Race and Racism

(Final version, revised 28 January 2024) As Friends, our belief that there is “that of God” in everyone grounds our practice of upholding the worth of each human being. Each person is guided by an Inward Teacher toward truth; each has the capacity to experience and be...