Aug 6, 2018 | Action-Oriented, Activism, Advocacy, BeFriending Creation, Divestment, Individuals Taking Action, Number 3, Quaker-Specific, Renewable Energy, Uncategorized, Volume 31
By Bruce Birchard I WANT TO LIFT UP two sentences from Martin Luther King’s 1967 address to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference about the relationship between love and power: “What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive,...
Aug 6, 2018 | BeFriending Creation, Meetings Taking Action, Number 3, Quaker-Specific, Spirituality, Uncategorized, Volume 31
By Hayley Hathaway. ON SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2018 I joined about 30 Friends from five New England states at the gates of the recently opened Salem Harbor Station, a natural gas (methane) power plant on the coast of Massachusetts. We gathered for a Meeting for Worship for...
Feb 7, 2018 | BeFriending Creation, New & Exploring, Number 1, Practical, Quaker-Specific, Uncategorized, Volume 31
DO YOU KNOW who is your Yearly Meeting representative to Quaker Earthcare Witness? DO YOU KNOW who is your Yearly Meeting representative to Quaker Earthcare Witness? Our 31 Yearly Meeting Representatives serve as liaisons between QEW and their Yearly Meetings, sharing...
Nov 7, 2017 | Action-Oriented, BeFriending Creation, Meetings Taking Action, Number 5, Practical, Quaker-Specific, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Eric Fuselier. Friends, we are happy to announce that we recently formed a Quaker Earthcare Committee within the monthly meeting in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Members of the committee have a lot of passion and knowledge about the environment and we’re really excited...
Nov 7, 2017 | BeFriending Creation, New & Exploring, Number 5, Quaker Testimonies, Quaker-Specific, Uncategorized
By Shelley Tanenbaum. A LARGE GULF EXISTS between those who understand the magnitude of the environmental crisis we are facing and those who, willfully or not, remain unaware and disengaged. Just look around your community or your meetinghouse. Most people are not...
