Oct 6, 2020 | Minutes on Earthcare
Divestment Minute from Friends Meeting at Cambridge Following is the divestiture minute the Friends Meeting at Cambridge passed in early October. The minute is to Friends Fiduciary Corporation in Philadelphia where we have meeting funds; at the time of the writing of...
Oct 6, 2020 | Minutes on Earthcare
Minute on Harmony with Nature (approved August 2001) Canadian Yearly Meeting website: http://quaker.ca/ Friends believe we are all manifestations of the Creator, the Divine Spirit, God. As our knowledge has grown, we have come to realize that indeed all life forms are...
Oct 6, 2020 | Minutes on Earthcare
Minute on Voluntary Carbon Tax Peace and Social Concerns Committee statement regarding the voluntary carbon tax and the goals of peace, racial justice, and economic justice: Quakers have taken the lead in saying that the US and other nations need a mandatory carbon...
Oct 6, 2020 | Minutes on Earthcare
Sustainability Minute (approved August 2, 2002) Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting website: http://ovym.quaker.org/ We of Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends believe that the web of life, and each being within it, are expressions of the Spirit. We...
Oct 6, 2020 | Minutes on Earthcare
Sustainable Development as a Quaker Testimony? A Challenge to All Friends (approved 1997) In 1988 Netherlands Yearly Meeting agreed on a minute in which our representative to the 1988 Triennial was asked to request the Triennial in Japan: as a matter of urgency, that...
Oct 6, 2020 | Minutes on Earthcare
Minute on Relationship to God’s Creation (approved at the January 1998 Session of Interim Meeting) Philadelphia Yearly Meeting website: http://www.pym.org/ The world is God’s creation. How we treat the earth and all its creatures is basic to our relationship...
