May 1, 2019 | 2019, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Minutes on Earthcare, Number 2, Quaker-Specific, Spirituality, Theology, Uncategorized, Volume 32
By Shelley Tanenbaum. SOMETHING SPECIAL happened at the March 2019 Friends World Committee on Consultation Section of the Americas meeting. Friends from across the branches of the Religious Society of Friends came together to express our love for the land and our...
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...
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...
Nov 7, 2017 | BeFriending Creation, Hopeful, Individuals Taking Action, Number 5, Spirituality, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Ann Marie Klaus. I have to admit, I do not harbor a wish to save Earth or reverse the process she is undergoing. Nor do I worry for her. Earth, in my mind, is a powerful, exquisite being, undergoing the same process of expansion that every bit of the universe...
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...
