May 1, 2020 | 2020, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Economics, Number 2, Practical, Uncategorized, Volume 33
By Hayley Hathaway. MY BANK ACCOUNT looked good after I received my Economic Impact Payment of $1200 this spring. I felt grateful for the money Yet, I still have a job, unlike the 25 million people who have applied for unemployment in the US since the pandemic...
May 1, 2020 | Action-Oriented, BeFriending Creation, Friendly Landscapes, Number 2, Permaculture, Practical, Soil, Sustainability, Theology, Volume 33
By Jim Kessler. SERENDIPITOUS moments are transformative intellectually and spiritually. In 1970, close to the first Earth Day, I was finishing a Masters in Biology at the University of Northern Iowa. I bought a Sierra Club book entitled A Moment in the Sun. Its clear...
May 1, 2020 | 2020, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Number 2, Peace, Volume 33
By Emily Wirzba and Alicia Cannon. THE QUAKER VALUE OF PEACE calls us to advocate for a reduction in Pentagon spending and military interventions abroad. The value of stewardship urges us to address climate change and seek an earth restored. While it might seem...
May 1, 2020 | 2020, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Hopeful, Number 2, Spiritual, Spirituality, Uncategorized, Volume 33
By Mary Jo Klingel. I HAVE HEARD the conventional wisdom that the business community needs certainty to function, and that the stock market needs certainty to grow. When I hear that, I think, “Well, what you are really saying is that you need to know that you will...
Feb 1, 2020 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, January-February-March, Number 1, Quaker-Specific, Spiritual, Spirituality, Volume 33
By Keith Runyan. FROM THE EMERGENT PATTERNS of a monarch butterfly’s wing to the fractal branchings of a mycelial web, we find ourselves, as 21st-century Friends awash in a fundamentally beautiful world, unveiled. We find ourselves not in the universe, but of it, in a...
