QuakerSpeak, December 2025

It’s easy to say there is that of God in everyone, Kat Griffith suggests, “but how often do we really believe it?” When she opens herself to really listen to other people across the political divide, her understanding of this simple Quaker truth deepens.

“There have been a number of moments where I have felt led to open myself up,” Kat says, “and I have been changed—and I have sometimes fought that. Sometimes I’ve been dragged kicking and screaming into that kind of openness, but I’m taken there over and over again, so I think that’s where God wants me.”


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Produced by Layla Cuthrell

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