by Publications Committee | Dec 8, 2016 | Activism, BeFriending Creation, Individuals Taking Action, Number 6, Uncategorized, Volume 29
By Alan Eccleston, Mount Toby Friends Meeting. In meeting for worship four years ago I was meditating on climate change and what I was called to do about it. Words rose up, “I live in possibility,” which I attribute to Emily Dickinson. I had a deep realization this is...
by Publications Committee | Dec 8, 2016 | BeFriending Creation, Indigenous Peoples, Individuals Taking Action, Number 6, Uncategorized
By Meg Kidd. Recognition by QEW of the re-emergent sense of the Divine in light of the resistance at Standing Rock continues to breathe air into the indigenous struggle to share millennial wisdom of peoples throughout the world. Noted on October 3 is this struggle...
by Publications Committee | Dec 8, 2016 | BeFriending Creation, Meetings Taking Action, Number 6, Renewable Energy, Uncategorized, Volume 29
By Don Vessey, San Diego Friends Meeting. America is fast realizing the importance of solar energy. Switching to solar power is not only an environmental necessity, but it makes financial sense as well. It reduces global warming not only by reducing the use of fossil...
by Publications Committee | Dec 8, 2016 | BeFriending Creation, Indigenous Peoples, Meetings Taking Action, Number 6, Practical, Renewable Energy, Uncategorized, Volume 29
By Cathy Walling, Chena Ridge Friends Meeting, Fairbanks, AK. “I love to feel where words come from.” I have long loved that quote from our Quaker heritage story of the indigenous man Papunehang hearing John Woolman preaching. He didn’t know what Woolman was saying,...
by Publications Committee | Dec 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
To Quaker Earthcare Witness, I just received your September-October issue of BeFriending Creation, and I was kind of concerned and curious about the article on page 6, “Friendly Farmers & Earthcare.” The article contradicts a number of statements I had read as...
