Amy Nash-Kille

June 8, 2025 To Friends Everywhere, Over the past five decades, Friends have become more and more welcoming of diversity in sexual orientation and gender identity. For example, in 1992, North Pacific Yearly Meeting (NPYM) found unity to say: “We find that the Spirit of God is present in all loving relationships, regardless of the genders of those involved. <...> Our love and support is for all persons and is not based on the gender of the person they love.” And in 2017, NPYM minuted : “We...

Clear Hearts has a booth at Portland Pride Festival ! Saturday, July 20, 12:00 PM to 8:00 PMSunday, July 21, 11:30 AM to 6:00 PM (at Tom McCall Waterfront Park at Naito Parkway, between the Morrison Bridge and SW Ash Street in Portland) Please stop by and say hello! We will be at Booth #171 on the central aisle, near the Information Tent and the Family Tent: If you want Some Stuff, we made a brochure (available as a PDF) and we will be handing out stickers!

Lewis Steller created this zine to explore the ways that the traditional Quaker understanding of "Holding in the Light," a spiritual practice related to intercessory prayer, can be expanded to allow a broader range of understandings of how the Divine or Spirit can support us. This expansion can help reduce unnecessary pain that centuries of contrasting “good” light with “bad” dark can bring upon people who are racialized targets of white supremacy culture. "I'm Holding You in God's Chocolate"...