Aug 1, 2020 | 2020, Advocacy, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, July-August-September, Number 3, Volume 33
By Alicia Cannon. WE ARE LIVING IN A TIME of concurrent global crises. There is the COVID-19 pandemic at the forefront of our minds. It is forcing us to stay home, constantly wash our hands, and wonder when this time of uncertainty will end. Despite this immediate...
May 1, 2020 | 2020, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Number 2, Peace, Volume 33
By Emily Wirzba and Alicia Cannon. THE QUAKER VALUE OF PEACE calls us to advocate for a reduction in Pentagon spending and military interventions abroad. The value of stewardship urges us to address climate change and seek an earth restored. While it might seem...
Mar 4, 2020 | Climate Change, Foundations, Pamphlets for Sharing, Skeptics, Timeless, Uncategorized
By the QEW Sustainability: Faith & Action Working Group What are the effects of human-induced climate change? Human-induced climate change threatens to overarch all the human misuses of creation, including rapidly growing human population, habitat destruction,...
Feb 1, 2020 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, January-February-March, Number 1, Quaker-Specific, Spiritual, Spirituality, Volume 33
By Keith Runyan. FROM THE EMERGENT PATTERNS of a monarch butterfly’s wing to the fractal branchings of a mycelial web, we find ourselves, as 21st-century Friends awash in a fundamentally beautiful world, unveiled. We find ourselves not in the universe, but of it, in a...
Feb 1, 2020 | 2020, Action-Oriented, Advocacy, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, January-February-March, Meetings Taking Action, Minutes on Earthcare, Number 1, Practical, Quaker-Specific, Volume 33
By Patricia Finley, Ruth Darlington, Liz Robinson, and the Eco-Justice Collaborative of PYM. MORE THAN 50 FRIENDS gathered on a snowy morning at Germantown Monthly Meeting on January 18 to learn, share, and discern how to effectively address environmental injustice...
Feb 1, 2020 | Action-Oriented, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Number 1, Uncategorized, Volume 33, Youth & Young Friends
By Hayley Hathaway. GEORGE LAKEY, lifelong civil rights activist, and Friend, hosted “Young and Old for Climate Justice: A Dialog” at Quaker Center in Ben Lomond, CA this January. Forty Friends, ages ranging from 15 to 80, joined the weekend-long retreat in the...
