Nov 1, 2019 | 2019, BeFriending Creation, Number 4, October-November-December, Spiritual, Spirituality, Sustainability, Theology, Uncategorized, Volume 32
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May 6, 2019 | 2019, Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, July-August-September, Number 3, Spiritual, Spirituality, Theology, Uncategorized, Volume 32
By Mey Hasbrook. THIS SUMMER at the Friends General Conference Gathering’s Earthcare Center, I spoke on “Transformative Earthcare: 18th-century Benjamin Lay for Today.” I shared how this third-generation Quaker lived a radical life at the intersections of concerns...
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...
Jul 7, 2017 | Action-Oriented, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Individuals Taking Action, Meetings Taking Action, Number 4, Quaker-Specific, Spiritual, Spirituality, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Honor Woodrow. I AM WRITING TO SHARE a reflection on my experience of the recent Climate Pilgrimage, where Friends from New England and fellow travelers spent six days walking the 60 miles from the Schiller Station (which burns both coal and wood) in Portsmouth,...
Oct 8, 2016 | BeFriending Creation, Number 5, Spiritual, Spirituality, Theology, Uncategorized, Volume 29
By Keith Helmuth. The fate of the human now hangs on our engagement with ecological guidance; the task Thomas Berry calls “the Great Work.” The sense of guidance provided by the ecological worldview is not unlike a new revelation, perhaps even a new sense of the...
Oct 8, 2016 | BeFriending Creation, Individuals Taking Action, New & Exploring, Number 5, Quaker-Specific, Spiritual, Uncategorized, Volume 29
By David Jaber I was not raised Quaker, but instead came to Quakerism after having developed an environmental conscience that has very much shaped my life and how I spend my time. You might take that as one indicator of the compatibility of deep earth ethics with...
