Feb 1, 2020 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, January-February-March, Number 1, Spiritual, Spirituality, Theology, Volume 33, Youth & Young Friends
Compiled by Beverly G. Ward. “A touchstone transcends any one religion, thought, or spiritual tradition and serves as a guide. These touchstones provide examples of specific prayers, passages or scripture, or inspirations from various sacred texts or philosophical...
Dec 22, 2019 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, January-February-March, Population
Friends have long been concerned about how we live on our Earth and how we can best support a good life for everyone and all species. Sustainability requires that we use Earth’s resources at a level that provides a reasonable life for all now and maintains the...
Feb 6, 2019 | 2019, Action-Oriented, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, January-February-March, New & Exploring, Number 1, Practical, Uncategorized, Volume 32
Josephine Ferorelli created this flow chart—a helpful resource for anyone who doesn’t know where to start. Josephine is the co-founder and co-director of Conceivable Future, a women-led network bringing awareness to the threat climate change poses to reproductive...
Feb 6, 2019 | 2019, BeFriending Creation, January-February-March, Number 1, Uncategorized, United Nations, Volume 32
By Philip Emmi. It is increasingly clear that we have gotten off on the wrong foot when addressing climate change. It can not be primarily a matter of nation-state cooperation on international policy, as once thought. Rather, addressing climate change requires a...
Feb 6, 2019 | 2019, BeFriending Creation, January-February-March, Number 1, United Nations, Volume 32
By Lindsey Fielder Cook. THE AIM OF THE DECEMBER climate change conference in Poland, known as the Conference of Parties 24 (or COP24), was to define an implementation ‘Rulebook’ for the Paris Agreement. After two weeks of exhausting, if not ‘fierce’ negotiations,...
Feb 6, 2019 | 2019, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, January-February-March, Number 1, Volume 32
By Keith Voos. I’M SURE THAT MOST readers of this newsletter hold it to be true that the human race now faces the biggest threat to its survival since its near extinction in the last ice age, when the population of the earth was reduced to between 15,000 and 18,...