Oct 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
Russ Adams, North Columbus (Ohio) Monthly Meeting In Quaker silence, do I hear our humanitarian ancestors, our abolitionist ancestors, our pacifist ancestors, crying out to us to pursue full sustainability for ourselves and our children and all folks yet to come…while...
Oct 8, 2016 | BeFriending Creation, Number 5, Spiritual, Spirituality, Theology, Uncategorized, Volume 29
By Keith Helmuth. The fate of the human now hangs on our engagement with ecological guidance; the task Thomas Berry calls “the Great Work.” The sense of guidance provided by the ecological worldview is not unlike a new revelation, perhaps even a new sense of the...
Oct 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
Letters to Share, September-October 2016 July 29, 2016 To Quaker Earthcare Witness As a means of raising our and others’ awareness of the issue of global climate change, our meeting has created a voluntary carbon tax for those members wishing to participate. Adopting...
Oct 8, 2016 | BeFriending Creation, Individuals Taking Action, New & Exploring, Number 5, Quaker-Specific, Spiritual, Uncategorized, Volume 29
By David Jaber I was not raised Quaker, but instead came to Quakerism after having developed an environmental conscience that has very much shaped my life and how I spend my time. You might take that as one indicator of the compatibility of deep earth ethics with...
Oct 8, 2016 | BeFriending Creation, Individuals Taking Action, Number 5, Quaker-Specific, Spirituality, Theology, Uncategorized, Volume 29, Youth & Young Friends
By Sara Wolcott. What is it that Quakerism contributes to my ecological journey? I am vexed by this question. Five years ago, when my primary sense of religious belonging was nestled deep within the Religious Society of Friends, it would have been easy for me to...
