Aug 7, 2022 | 2022, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, July-August-September, Number 3, Spirituality, Volume 35
by Bill Cahalan. I agree with Wendell Berry, who wrote in his 1977 book, The Unsettling of America, that the United States is an unsettled country. We, not only in North America but in all the industrial world, are disconnected from our natural sources. So most of us...
Feb 14, 2022 | 2022, Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, Books We Love, Jan Feb March, New & Exploring, Number 1, Spirituality, Volume 35
by Mary Conrow Coelho. There are remarkable discoveries now offered to Quaker Earthcare Witness that can greatly strengthen its work and witness. One evening in the early 1990s, a small group gathered to listen to a talk in a video series describing the changes in...
Jan 24, 2022 | Activism, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Racial Justice, Spirituality, Sustainability, Youth & Young Friends
Join Hayley Hathaway, of Quaker Earthcare Witness, for Exploring Ecospirituality: Old & New Ways to Imagine & Transform, a workshop for young adults (ages 18-40). The workshop will be held online, Thursday, February 17, 7:30 – 9 pm Eastern Time. “The world is...
Jan 4, 2022 | Art & Poetry, Spirituality, Sustainability
Dear Friends, As our beloved outgoing clerk, Mary Jo Klingel, writes: “If the past two years of virtual meetings, workshops, and worship sharings have taught QEW Friends anything, it is how very precious our Earthcare community is.” She continues: Those who work...
Dec 21, 2021 | Individuals Taking Action, Meetings Taking Action, Spirituality, Timely
I love this part of the winter holidays—when our sense of wonder and light corresponds to the natural pivot point of the solstice. Since June in the northern hemisphere, days have been getting shorter and shorter, with the shortest day today, on December 21. From this...
Nov 19, 2021 | 2021, BeFriending Creation, Number 4, October-November-December, Spirituality, Volume 34
by Marcelle Martin. When I was in my mid-twenties, my graduate school program was not meeting my great longing to understand the nature of reality. I began to seek inwardly. Yearning to know what life was about, I paid attention to my inner experience in a new way. I...
