Nov 7, 2017 | BeFriending Creation, Number 5, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Tom Small. “FORTY QUAKERS WITH 30 different agendas.” That’s how I characterized—only half-jokingly—the Quaker Earthcare Witness Steering Committee when I was its Clerk from 1996 to 1998. The Friends Committee on Unity with Nature—that’s what we called ourselves...
Nov 7, 2017 | BeFriending Creation, Meetings Taking Action, Mini-Grants, Number 5, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Volume 30, Youth & Young Friends
By Liz Hofmeister. ON SEPTEMBER 30TH, former campers, counselors, and others long associated with Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s Catoctin Quaker Camp marked the 60th anniversary of the residential summer camp located some 50 miles west of Baltimore, MD. A highlight of the...
Nov 7, 2017 | BeFriending Creation, Individuals Taking Action, Number 5, Population, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Stan Becker. FRIENDS COMMITTEE on Unity with Nature (FCUN) was born in 1987 at the Friends General Conference gathering plenary. There, Marshall Massey outlined all the environmental threats we faced on planet earth. Except he missed one. He did not mention the...
Nov 7, 2017 | BeFriending Creation, Number 5, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Judy Lumb. In 1987, I was sick in Belize, an isolated Friend. My Meeting for Worship was reading Friends Journal in my hammock. I learned to keep pen and paper handy because my version of speaking in Meeting was to write letters. When the notice of the creation of...
Nov 7, 2017 | Advocacy, BeFriending Creation, Number 5, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Scott Greenler and Emily Wirzba. AT THE FRIENDS COMMITTEE on National Legislation (FCNL), the Quaker testimony of stewardship underpins our climate work. We see human actions inflicting harm to the earth, and as caretakers, or stewards, we are compelled to act. We...
Nov 7, 2017 | Advocacy, BeFriending Creation, Individuals Taking Action, Number 5, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Shelley Tanenbaum. I TOOK A DAY OFF from QEW work to join ‘Green Lobby Day’ in my state capital, Sacramento. I highly recommend that you do the same in your state. As much as we want to see strong national legislation, significant government action, at least in the...
