by Publications Committee | Nov 7, 2017 | Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, Hopeful, Meetings Taking Action, Number 5, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Regula and Michael Russelle. AN ALL-NIGHT, OUTDOOR EVENT. One thousand passersby publicly claim their practices and promises to reduce climate change. Each attaches a paper leaf with a personal, hand-written testimony like “bicycle everywhere,” “no food waste,”...
by Publications Committee | Nov 7, 2017 | BeFriending Creation, Hopeful, Individuals Taking Action, Number 5, Spirituality, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Ann Marie Klaus. I have to admit, I do not harbor a wish to save Earth or reverse the process she is undergoing. Nor do I worry for her. Earth, in my mind, is a powerful, exquisite being, undergoing the same process of expansion that every bit of the universe...
by Publications Committee | Nov 7, 2017 | Action-Oriented, BeFriending Creation, Meetings Taking Action, Number 5, Practical, Quaker-Specific, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Eric Fuselier. Friends, we are happy to announce that we recently formed a Quaker Earthcare Committee within the monthly meeting in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Members of the committee have a lot of passion and knowledge about the environment and we’re really excited...
by Publications Committee | Nov 7, 2017 | BeFriending Creation, Individuals Taking Action, Number 5, Uncategorized, Volume 30, Youth & Young Friends
By Paula Kline. For more than a decade, my husband and I have hosted high school students for an annual Environmental Leadership Workcamp in the cloud forest of Veracruz, Mexico. A project of Westtown School’s Quaker Leadership Program, students return home...
by Publications Committee | Nov 7, 2017 | BeFriending Creation, Number 5, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Tom Small. “FORTY QUAKERS WITH 30 different agendas.” That’s how I characterized—only half-jokingly—the Quaker Earthcare Witness Steering Committee when I was its Clerk from 1996 to 1998. The Friends Committee on Unity with Nature—that’s what we called ourselves...
