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...
Aug 1, 2020 | 2020, Action-Oriented, BeFriending Creation, July-August-September, Meetings Taking Action, Number 3, Quaker-Specific, Soil, Volume 33
By Keith Runyan and Rebekah Percy. WHEN the shelter-in-place order took effect throughout California earlier this year, a small group of Young Adult Friends from Pacific Yearly Meeting organized a mutual aid project with the goals of sharing resources and creating...
Aug 1, 2020 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, July-August-September, Number 3, Quaker Testimonies, Quaker-Specific, Racial Justice, Soil, Volume 33
By Katie Breslin. THIS YEAR, I started a garden at a local farm. I didn’t know what I was doing when I signed up, just the basic principles like make sure the plants have water and to pull weeds, but that was about it. Thankfully friends and my plot neighbors gave me...
May 1, 2020 | 2020, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Number 2, Population, Quaker-Specific, Volume 33
By Stan Becker. Here Stan Becker shares his spiritual and professional journey initiated by his early concern for the growth of human population on Earth. It is a story of his initial “vivid visual experience” in Mexico, which led him to search for an academic program...
Feb 1, 2020 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, January-February-March, Number 1, Quaker-Specific, Spiritual, Spirituality, Volume 33
By Keith Runyan. FROM THE EMERGENT PATTERNS of a monarch butterfly’s wing to the fractal branchings of a mycelial web, we find ourselves, as 21st-century Friends awash in a fundamentally beautiful world, unveiled. We find ourselves not in the universe, but of it, in a...
Feb 1, 2020 | 2020, Action-Oriented, Advocacy, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, January-February-March, Meetings Taking Action, Minutes on Earthcare, Number 1, Practical, Quaker-Specific, Volume 33
By Patricia Finley, Ruth Darlington, Liz Robinson, and the Eco-Justice Collaborative of PYM. MORE THAN 50 FRIENDS gathered on a snowy morning at Germantown Monthly Meeting on January 18 to learn, share, and discern how to effectively address environmental injustice...
