Nov 19, 2021 | 2021, BeFriending Creation, Books We Love, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 34
BOOK REVIEW by Tom Small. Suzanne Simard, in her first book, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, has a story to tell. She tells it very well, with a keen sense of the dramatic. And she plays many roles. Foremost, she’s the mystery-story...
Sep 10, 2021 | 2021, BeFriending Creation, Books We Love, Climate Change, July-August-September, Number 3, Timely, Volume 34
by Shelley Tanenbaum. If the catchword for 2020 was “unprecedented,” then 2021 follows as “unequivocal.” That is how the 2021 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports scientific evidence that human activities are the cause of climate change, that the...
Mar 29, 2021 | 2021, BeFriending Creation, Books We Love, January-February-March, New & Exploring, Number 1, Volume 34
We asked QEW members to share their favorite books. Happy reading! Books to Read for These Times: Climate: A New Story by Charles Eisenstein. “How changing the ‘climate’ of our thinking and rhetoric can influence how we deal with physical climate change.” The Parable...
Nov 4, 2020 | Books We Love, Sustainability
Doug Gwyn, the author of A Sustainable Life: Quaker Faith and Practice in the Renewal of Creation, generously agreed to be interviewed for this issue of BeFriending Creation. Thanks, Doug! 1. You explain how your thought and interests developed through several books,...
Nov 4, 2020 | Books We Love, Climate Change, Spirituality
by Quaker Earthcare Witness. Coming Back to Life by Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown is expanded and updated from their book of the same name published in 1998 (New Society Publishers, 2014, Gabriola Island, BC). The Deep Ecology work of Joanna Macy, also called the...
Feb 1, 2020 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, Books We Love, January-February-March, Number 1, Spirituality, Volume 33
By Ruah Swennerfelt. MANY, MANY YEARS ago, after having a deep-felt conversation with my father, who wanted to blindly trust his government, I gave him Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner. I chose that book because Dad lived in Southern California, a desert turned into a...
