Nov 1, 2020 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, Number 4, October-November-December, Population, Volume 33
By Richard Grossman. Most Friends are careful stewards of our environment. Indeed, more than half of Yearly Meetings have added “Stewardship” (or the equivalent) to their short list of Testimonies. However, sometimes we don’t make the connection between our...
Nov 1, 2020 | 2020, Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 33
By Pamela Haines As we head toward a new year, let us: Take in the environment around us with relaxed awareness—appreciating beauty and opportunity, noticing threats, staying grounded in the midst of both; Cultivate gratitude, for spaces that have opened in our...
Nov 1, 2020 | 2020, Action-Oriented, BeFriending Creation, Meetings Taking Action, Number 4, October-November-December, Practical, Quaker-Specific, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Volume 33
By Dale Evarts. IN AUGUST 2019, following a spiritual leading to live in harmony with Creation by harnessing the energy of the sun to power our meetinghouse, Durham Friends Meeting (DFM), a member of the North Carolina Yearly Meeting Conservative, began generating...
Nov 1, 2020 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Number 4, October-November-December, Soil, Volume 33
By Shelley Tanenbaum. THE STORY OF redwood renewal through fire gives me hope in a world gone mad with doom and gloom. What can we learn from one of nature’s most elegant ecological systems that evolved to not just cope with adversity, but to turn adversity into...
Dec 1, 2019 | 2019, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Number 4, October-November-December, Soil, Volume 32
By Sayrah Namaste “To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves,” Gandhi said. The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has been addressing the impacts of climate change through programs in New Mexico, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and...
Dec 1, 2019 | 2019, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Peoples, Number 4, October-November-December, Practical, Quaker-Specific, Volume 32
By Pamela Haines. I’VE LOVED THIS bit of land for over fifty years. Coming up over the hill, my heart always opens anew to the jewel of a valley spread out below, part of the rolling farmland and woodlots of central New York state. My father bought an old farm here in...
