Nov 25, 2025 | BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Meetings Taking Action, Spirituality, Sustainability, Uncategorized
Stephen C. Gates Several years ago, I started a regenerative vegetable garden in the sunniest place on my property. Little did I know then that the garden, immediately next to the street, would lead to what I now understand to be my calling. The seminal moment came...
Nov 14, 2025 | BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Meetings Taking Action, Renewable Energy, Spirituality, Sustainability
A Spirit-Led Journey to Sustainability Grinnell Friends Church Solar Field Jim Kessler By way of introduction, Grinnell Friends Church, which is on the edge of Grinnell, Iowa, is a growing pastoral Meeting that averages 100 to 115 worship attenders on a Sunday...
Feb 27, 2023 | 2023, BeFriending Creation, Meetings Taking Action, Number 1, Volume 36
by Pamela Haines. As I was pondering how to release more energy for addressing climate and environmental justice issues in our Quaker meeting, I had the idea of setting up an informal gathering where we could hear what others were doing and support each other to take...
Nov 28, 2022 | 2022, BeFriending Creation, Indigenous Peoples, Meetings Taking Action, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 35
The North Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends repudiates the Doctrines of Discovery: the religious basis for European colonization around the world. We acknowledge and regret Friends’ role in the ensuing genocide, land theft, and forced...
Aug 7, 2022 | 2022, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, July-August-September, Meetings Taking Action, Number 3, Volume 35
by Alice Andrews and Laird Holby. The idea for Medford Meeting’s Earth Day workshop “Green Your Life: Where to Start” came from a member of our Climate Change Group who, only too aware of the bad news, wanted to learn about changes she could make in her own life...
Aug 1, 2022 | Activism, Individuals Taking Action, Meetings Taking Action
Dear Friends, Please join us in August for our monthly workshop and see additional resources below. Thank you! Hayley Hathaway, Director Quaker Earthcare Witness ____ ONLINE WORKSHOP Ecological Grief: Engaging with the Emotional Impacts of Climate Change with Gayle...
