Dec 2, 2020 | Advocacy, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Hopeful, Number 2, Timely, Volume 33
By Shelley Tanenbaum. EVERY YEAR WE Friends ask ourselves, “How has truth fared for Thee?” It is a way of refreshing ourselves, of self-evaluating personally and in our Meetings. It gives us an opportunity to change course and to respond to emerging leadings. What if...
Nov 1, 2020 | 2020, African Diaspora, Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, Number 4, October-November-December, Racial Justice, Spiritual, Volume 33
Damita Hicks is a Bahai artist living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Her paintings center on Mama A’free’ca, Nature, and racial unity. Kirsten Bohl of Durham (NC) Friends Meeting speaks with Damita here. How did you get started with painting? I’ve been painting...
Nov 1, 2020 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, Hopeful, October-November-December, Spirituality, Timeless
by Noah Merrill. Editor’s Note: Noah wrote this piece in spring 2020 and his reflections speak to us still. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce. —José Ortega y Gasset JUST OFF THE shore in Gibara,...
Nov 1, 2020 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, Number 4, October-November-December, Population, Volume 33
By Richard Grossman. Most Friends are careful stewards of our environment. Indeed, more than half of Yearly Meetings have added “Stewardship” (or the equivalent) to their short list of Testimonies. However, sometimes we don’t make the connection between our...
Nov 1, 2020 | 2020, Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 33
By Pamela Haines As we head toward a new year, let us: Take in the environment around us with relaxed awareness—appreciating beauty and opportunity, noticing threats, staying grounded in the midst of both; Cultivate gratitude, for spaces that have opened in our...
Nov 1, 2020 | 2020, Action-Oriented, BeFriending Creation, Meetings Taking Action, Number 4, October-November-December, Practical, Quaker-Specific, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Volume 33
By Dale Evarts. IN AUGUST 2019, following a spiritual leading to live in harmony with Creation by harnessing the energy of the sun to power our meetinghouse, Durham Friends Meeting (DFM), a member of the North Carolina Yearly Meeting Conservative, began generating...
