Nov 19, 2021 | 2021, BeFriending Creation, Number 4, October-November-December, Spirituality, Volume 34
by Marcelle Martin. When I was in my mid-twenties, my graduate school program was not meeting my great longing to understand the nature of reality. I began to seek inwardly. Yearning to know what life was about, I paid attention to my inner experience in a new way. I...
Nov 19, 2021 | 2021, Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 34
A series of exhibitions of textile art was on display in a variety of venues in and around Glasgow during COP26, including at the city’s Quaker meetinghouse. Made by people and communities in many parts of the world, the Loving Earth Project depicts places, people,...
Nov 19, 2021 | 2021, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Peoples, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 34
It Takes Roots is a multiracial, multicultural, intergenerational alliance of alliances representing over 200 organizations and affiliates in over 50 states, provinces, territories and Native lands on Turtle Island (known as North America). It is led by women, gender...
Jan 12, 2021 | 2019, BeFriending Creation, Friendly Landscapes, Number 4, October-November-December, Permaculture, Volume 32
By Carol Barta. Permaculture is said to be “the art of designing beneficial relationships.” Permaculture is a design science rooted in the observation of natural systems, the wisdom of traditional farming methods, and systems thinking. It uses both ancient wisdom and...
Nov 1, 2020 | 2020, African Diaspora, Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, Number 4, October-November-December, Racial Justice, Spiritual, Volume 33
Damita Hicks is a Bahai artist living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Her paintings center on Mama A’free’ca, Nature, and racial unity. Kirsten Bohl of Durham (NC) Friends Meeting speaks with Damita here. How did you get started with painting? I’ve been painting...
Nov 1, 2020 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, Hopeful, October-November-December, Spirituality, Timeless
by Noah Merrill. Editor’s Note: Noah wrote this piece in spring 2020 and his reflections speak to us still. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce. —José Ortega y Gasset JUST OFF THE shore in Gibara,...
