Pages tagged "abuse"

Belonging Broken

Confidence

• Authored by:
• Ray Rischpater,
• Barbara Babin

Friends follow rules both spoken and unspoken; these guide our practices and behaviors, and they change over time and distance. In some cases, rules may have been followed long ago for good reasons, but are no longer common practice now. Similarly, what is standard in one meeting might be unusual in another. We like to think we are generally responding to continuing revelation, but sometimes we are merely reflecting contemporary attitudes.

On Rules (November 2020)

Secrets in the Friendly Home

• Authored by:
• Anonymous

I’m getting very tired of this. Sometimes I am afraid of the person I am stuck with in this house during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020.

On Secrets (July 2020)

Sierra Cascades Yearly Meeting Epistle 2021

• Authored by:
• Mike Huber,
• Sarah Katreen Hoggatt

To Friends near and far:

On Cliques (September 2021)

Together

• Authored by:
• Sarah Tarver-Wahlquist

Dear Editor: The other day I was driving home from dropping my children off at school, my toddler humming in his car-seat behind me. I was listening to a discussion on NPR about the 156 women who testified against Larry Nassar, a doctor who gained the trust of children and their families, and then used that trust to sexually abuse countless children. By the time I pulled into my driveway, I was stifling sobs. There is so much pain in the world. We hurt one another, we hurt the world around us, we hurt.

On Music (March 2018)