QuakerSpeak, August 2023

Season 10 premiered at the end of June with a powerful interview featuring Windy Cooler, who is a survivor of domestic violence within her Quaker community. “It never occurred to me to be angry about my experience because I thought I was just alone,” she told us.

“And it became clear that I wasn’t alone. . . . As I heard the stories of people that I knew and loved, stories that I never anticipated would be true, I found a tremendous amount of anger inside myself about what was happening in our community.” Eventually, that anger came together with the enduring love she had for her community, and she became a public minister.


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