Nov 1, 2019 | 2019, BeFriending Creation, Number 4, October-November-December, Spirituality, Theology, Volume 32
By Marcelle Martin THE FIRST TREE that beckoned me silently, long ago, was a sapling on the far side of a lawn. When I investigated, I discovered it was being strangled by an orange plastic band encircling its trunk. After the sapling had been purchased from a...
May 6, 2019 | 2019, Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, July-August-September, Number 3, Spiritual, Spirituality, Theology, Uncategorized, Volume 32
By Mey Hasbrook. THIS SUMMER at the Friends General Conference Gathering’s Earthcare Center, I spoke on “Transformative Earthcare: 18th-century Benjamin Lay for Today.” I shared how this third-generation Quaker lived a radical life at the intersections of concerns...
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...
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...
Oct 8, 2016 | BeFriending Creation, Individuals Taking Action, Number 5, Quaker-Specific, Spirituality, Theology, Uncategorized, Volume 29, Youth & Young Friends
By Sara Wolcott. What is it that Quakerism contributes to my ecological journey? I am vexed by this question. Five years ago, when my primary sense of religious belonging was nestled deep within the Religious Society of Friends, it would have been easy for me to...
Oct 8, 2016 | BeFriending Creation, Hopeful, Number 5, Spiritual, Spirituality, Theology, Timeless, Uncategorized, Volume 29
By Shelley Tanenbaum. I’m not one to believe that the universe owes me (or anyone) anything. But, after spending five nights camping in semi-remote places between Denver and San Francisco, seeing what appeared to be an infinite number of stars and the Milky Way every...
