Encounter with the Wild

By Harold Branam, Savannah Monthly Meeting As we walk out in blooming Sunday heavy with azaleas, dogwoods, and wisteria, the vaulted sky looms purplish-blue like a backdrop behind our neighbor’s house. Down along the marsh a hawk skims the tops of palm trees then...

River Spill Is a Signal to End Business as Usual

Richard Grossman In Colorado, our Animas River received a serious insult in August of 2015. Fortunately the river seems to be recovering, but we cannot predict what the long-term effects will be. Contractors working for the United States Environmental Protection...

Using Right Language in Our Earthcare Conversations

People of faith all over the world care deeply about climate change, and a group called Our Voices, which is a campaign for global multifaith climate action, asked UK-based nonprofit group Climate Outreach to design a study that would help us learn more about the type...

What the Pope Said

Mary Gilbert, QEW Representative to the UN On the morning of Thursday, September 24, 2015, Pope Francis addressed the Congress of the United States, speaking slowly in English. On the morning of Friday, September 25, he addressed a “high-level” meeting of...

QEW Gives Thanks for the Encyclical Laudato Si’

QEW Steering Committee, October 2015 Quaker Earthcare Witness (QEW) gives thanks for the papal Encyclical, Laudato Si’, On Care for Our Common Home. We share the conviction that all life is sacred and interdependent, and that the natural world is an infinite source of...