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...
May 1, 2019 | 2019, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Minutes on Earthcare, Number 2, Quaker-Specific, Spirituality, Theology, Uncategorized, Volume 32
By Shelley Tanenbaum. SOMETHING SPECIAL happened at the March 2019 Friends World Committee on Consultation Section of the Americas meeting. Friends from across the branches of the Religious Society of Friends came together to express our love for the land and our...
Feb 6, 2019 | 2019, Action-Oriented, BeFriending Creation, January-February-March, Number 1, Peace, Quaker-Specific, Spiritual, Spirituality, Volume 32
By Jay O’Hara. ON CHRISTMAS EVE I went out with my in-laws to church service in upstate New York. The big crowd gathered in the chapel on the campus of Cornell University, and the minister hit all the right notes for this presumably liberal crowd: alluding to the...
Feb 1, 2019 | 2019, Action-Oriented, Activism, Advocacy, BeFriending Creation, January-February-March, Number 1, Quaker-Specific, Volume 32, Youth & Young Friends
By Kallan Benson. AS A 15-YEAR OLD QUAKER, I am accustomed to silence. I understand it is not empty; it can hold profound power. I have felt my spirit resonate in the silence of my Quaker community, but silence has recently taken me outside the meetinghouse to the...
Nov 6, 2018 | Action-Oriented, BeFriending Creation, Indigenous Peoples, Meetings Taking Action, Number 4, Practical, Quaker-Specific, Uncategorized, Volume 31
An Introduction By Jeff Kisling. Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) Friends Peter Clay and I recently walked on the First Nation-Farmer Climate Unity March. A group of about thirty that included nearly a dozen Native Americans walked 94 miles along the route of the...
Nov 6, 2018 | Action-Oriented, BeFriending Creation, Friendly Landscapes, Meetings Taking Action, Mini-Grants, Number 4, Quaker-Specific, Soil, Uncategorized, Volume 31, Youth & Young Friends
By Eric Fuselier. LAST YEAR FAYETTEVILLE Monthly Meeting’s Quaker Earthcare Witness Committee started a project to improve the grounds at our meetinghouse, the OMNI Center for Peace, Justice & Ecology, to include more habitat for wildlife, with the ultimate goal...
