Nov 1, 2020 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, Hopeful, October-November-December, Spirituality, Timeless
by Noah Merrill. Editor’s Note: Noah wrote this piece in spring 2020 and his reflections speak to us still. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce. —José Ortega y Gasset JUST OFF THE shore in Gibara,...
Sep 23, 2020 | Activism, Hopeful, Individuals Taking Action, Spiritual, Spirituality, Sustainability, Timeless, Uncategorized
By Ruah Swennerfelt (Updated 2021 by Hayley Hathaway). To become more active on behalf of Earth, start by making yourself aware of the issues. Learn from sources in addition to the conventional news reports. Begin examining ways you can reduce your purchases, buy...
Sep 23, 2020 | Spirituality, Sustainability, Timeless
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May 1, 2020 | BeFriending Creation, Number 2, Spiritual, Spirituality, Theology, Volume 33
By Mey Hasbrook. LOVE SPEAKS OUT to me from the Biblical account of Exodus as a way to face climate breakdown. I hear this as someone of Cherokee Celtic-Irish descent and a Quaker carrying a ministry about Right Relationship, connecting care of the Earth and human...
May 1, 2020 | 2020, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Hopeful, Number 2, Spiritual, Spirituality, Uncategorized, Volume 33
By Mary Jo Klingel. I HAVE HEARD the conventional wisdom that the business community needs certainty to function, and that the stock market needs certainty to grow. When I hear that, I think, “Well, what you are really saying is that you need to know that you will...
Feb 1, 2020 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, January-February-March, Number 1, Quaker-Specific, Spiritual, Spirituality, Volume 33
By Keith Runyan. FROM THE EMERGENT PATTERNS of a monarch butterfly’s wing to the fractal branchings of a mycelial web, we find ourselves, as 21st-century Friends awash in a fundamentally beautiful world, unveiled. We find ourselves not in the universe, but of it, in a...
