Aug 7, 2022 | 2022, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, July-August-September, Meetings Taking Action, Number 3, Volume 35
by Alice Andrews and Laird Holby. The idea for Medford Meeting’s Earth Day workshop “Green Your Life: Where to Start” came from a member of our Climate Change Group who, only too aware of the bad news, wanted to learn about changes she could make in her own life...
Aug 7, 2022 | 2022, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, July-August-September, Number 3, Volume 35
by Jasmine Butler, Power Shift Network. Power Shift Network is an intergenerational network of organizations and campaigns that center the diverse young people most impacted by the climate crisis. They generously let QEW reprint this article. No matter your specific...
Aug 7, 2022 | 2022, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, July-August-September, Number 3, Spirituality, Volume 35
by Bill Cahalan. I agree with Wendell Berry, who wrote in his 1977 book, The Unsettling of America, that the United States is an unsettled country. We, not only in North America but in all the industrial world, are disconnected from our natural sources. So most of us...
Aug 7, 2022 | 2022, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Divestment, July-August-September, Number 3, Timely, Volume 35
by Eileen Flanagan. On October 7, Delaware Valley Quakers and other members of Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT) will gather on a suburban street in front of a large white home with black shutters and a manicured lawn. One of us will be designated to assure the waiting...
May 27, 2022 | 2022, April-May-June, Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, Number 2, Volume 35
By Christopher Haines. Rhyme and Reason There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children. She didn’t know what to do. But try as she would she could never detect which was the cause and which the effect. – Piet Hein, Grooks 2:30* There was a...
May 27, 2022 | 2022, Activism, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Meetings Taking Action, Number 2, Volume 35
By Katherine van Wormer. An issue of immediate concern to the Madison (WI) Friends is government’s selection of our airport as home for the notorious F-35 fighter planes. The Madison Friends’ Minute begins: As Quakers, we seek to remove the circumstances that foster...
