Aug 1, 2020 | 2020, Action-Oriented, BeFriending Creation, July-August-September, Meetings Taking Action, Number 3, Quaker-Specific, Soil, Volume 33
By Keith Runyan and Rebekah Percy. WHEN the shelter-in-place order took effect throughout California earlier this year, a small group of Young Adult Friends from Pacific Yearly Meeting organized a mutual aid project with the goals of sharing resources and creating...
Aug 1, 2020 | 2020, Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, July-August-September, Number 3, Soil, Volume 33
By Pamela Haines Leaning into the plow— an enduring symbol of virtuous work Pioneers breaking virgin ground, bent on mastering the prairie whatever the cost. The harder the work the more noble the cause. And subdue the prairie they did— along with all...
Aug 1, 2020 | 2020, Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, July-August-September, Number 3, Volume 33
By Cai Quirk. I am a tree, rooted in the bedrock of divine love. I am no longer trying to be a stone wall or surround myself with one. Walls are strong but they divide, are inflexible, less connected to the earth and the divine. A tree is rooted, grounded, yet...
Aug 1, 2020 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, Environmental Justice, July-August-September, Number 3, Theology, Volume 33
By Sara Jolena Wolcott. ONE OF THE MOST important lessons I learned when working in sustainable development overseas is to listen to the people most impacted by the problems to appropriately co-create viable solutions. Sometimes they would prioritize things that...
Aug 1, 2020 | 2020, Advocacy, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, July-August-September, Number 3, Volume 33
By Alicia Cannon. WE ARE LIVING IN A TIME of concurrent global crises. There is the COVID-19 pandemic at the forefront of our minds. It is forcing us to stay home, constantly wash our hands, and wonder when this time of uncertainty will end. Despite this immediate...
