Mar 7, 2017 | Activism, BeFriending Creation, Indigenous Peoples, Individuals Taking Action, New & Exploring, Number 1, Timeless, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Tom Small. “THERE’S A CALL, from both within and beyond FCUN, for a more radical witness.” That’s the first sentence of an article I wrote twenty years ago for BeFriending Creation. What was true for the Friends Committee on Unity with Nature in 1996 holds true...
Mar 7, 2017 | Activism, Advocacy, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Individuals Taking Action, Number 2, Practical, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Bob McGahey. FROM MY PERSPECTIVE as a climate journalist and activist, the ascension of an outright climate denialist as the President, with cabinet choices of a half-dozen more, completes the campaign of disinformation mounted by the fossil fuel industry, aided...
Dec 8, 2016 | Activism, BeFriending Creation, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Peoples, Individuals Taking Action, Meetings Taking Action, Minutes on Earthcare, Number 6, Uncategorized, Volume 29
Sacred Stone, Clean Water, Gathering People By Shelley Tanenbaum, QEW General Secretary. The gathering at Standing Rock, with more than 280 indigenous tribes represented, is historic and has been an inspiration to all of us. The ongoing gathering is being held to...
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...
Jan 9, 2016 | Activism, Advocacy, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Number 1, Uncategorized, Volume 29
By Shelley Tanenbaum, QEW General Secretary. You’ve probably heard that saying, “Up a creek without a paddle.” Just a few years ago, when it came to climate change, we were all up a dead-end creek in a leaky little boat without a paddle. Post-Paris and the...