Nov 25, 2025 | BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Meetings Taking Action, Spirituality, Sustainability, Uncategorized
Stephen C. Gates Several years ago, I started a regenerative vegetable garden in the sunniest place on my property. Little did I know then that the garden, immediately next to the street, would lead to what I now understand to be my calling. The seminal moment came...
Nov 14, 2025 | BeFriending Creation, Environmental Justice, Peace, Spirituality
Common Ground: One Community – One Earth Quaker Earthcare Witness Fall Gathering October 16 to 19th, 2025 Powell House and Online (Hybrid) Each fall, Quaker Earthcare Witness gathers to rejuvenate and reconnect. Our community is strengthened during this time of...
Nov 14, 2025 | BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Meetings Taking Action, Renewable Energy, Spirituality, Sustainability
A Spirit-Led Journey to Sustainability Grinnell Friends Church Solar Field Jim Kessler By way of introduction, Grinnell Friends Church, which is on the edge of Grinnell, Iowa, is a growing pastoral Meeting that averages 100 to 115 worship attenders on a Sunday...
May 8, 2023 | 2023, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Number 1, Spirituality, Volume 36
by Allen McGrew. Six months before I joined Quaker Earthcare Witness Steering Committee, I was stricken by a nasty infection that got into my blood and precipitated a near-fatal cascade of platelet death, septic shock, that plunged my blood pressure to 35/50,...
Feb 27, 2023 | 2023, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Number 1, Spirituality, Sustainability, Volume 36
by Sheree Cammer. On a train trip back east last year, my cousin and his wife introduced me to the Wild Winds Buffalo Preserve in Fremont, Indiana. Bill “Three Paws” Elias drove our tour in a pickup truck. I had the best seat: front seat passenger. The herd was...
Feb 27, 2023 | 2023, BeFriending Creation, New & Exploring, Number 1, Spirituality, Volume 36
by Hayley Hathaway. In fall 2022, QEW launched its first 10-week course on ecological grief. The course came after organizing two popular online workshops on the topic: over 200 Friends registered from across North America. At these workshops, Friends shared about...
