May 1, 2020 | Action-Oriented, BeFriending Creation, Friendly Landscapes, Number 2, Permaculture, Practical, Soil, Sustainability, Theology, Volume 33
By Jim Kessler. SERENDIPITOUS moments are transformative intellectually and spiritually. In 1970, close to the first Earth Day, I was finishing a Masters in Biology at the University of Northern Iowa. I bought a Sierra Club book entitled A Moment in the Sun. Its clear...
Feb 1, 2020 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, January-February-March, Number 1, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Volume 33
By Judy Lumb. HOW DO WE ensure a future on Earth for humans and other creatures? Three recent reports analyze solutions to climate change that meet the ambition of the Paris Agreement. The Climate Urgency: Setting Sail for a New Paradigm Coopération Internationale...
Nov 1, 2019 | 2019, BeFriending Creation, Number 4, October-November-December, Spiritual, Spirituality, Sustainability, Theology, Uncategorized, Volume 32
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May 1, 2019 | 2019, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Number 2, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Volume 32
By Paula Kline. Alan Wright and Paula Kline first took students to the Mexican Cloud Forest in 2003. Teachers at Westtown School in southeastern Pennsylvania, the couple had initiated the Quaker school’s agriculture program for its bi-centennial in 1999. Inspired by...
May 7, 2018 | BeFriending Creation, Environmental Justice, Individuals Taking Action, Meetings Taking Action, Number 2, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Volume 31
By Marian Dalke. SUNDAY MORNING’s soft light casts through deep wooden windows. The light shifts and picks up the soft cotton of milkweed seeds, sailing over the heads of those gathered for Quaker Meeting for Worship at Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. Grace...
Nov 7, 2017 | BeFriending Creation, Meetings Taking Action, Mini-Grants, Number 5, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Volume 30, Youth & Young Friends
By Liz Hofmeister. ON SEPTEMBER 30TH, former campers, counselors, and others long associated with Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s Catoctin Quaker Camp marked the 60th anniversary of the residential summer camp located some 50 miles west of Baltimore, MD. A highlight of the...
