Dec 8, 2016 | BeFriending Creation, Meetings Taking Action, Number 6, Renewable Energy, Uncategorized, Volume 29
By Don Vessey, San Diego Friends Meeting. America is fast realizing the importance of solar energy. Switching to solar power is not only an environmental necessity, but it makes financial sense as well. It reduces global warming not only by reducing the use of fossil...
Dec 8, 2016 | BeFriending Creation, Indigenous Peoples, Meetings Taking Action, Number 6, Practical, Renewable Energy, Uncategorized, Volume 29
By Cathy Walling, Chena Ridge Friends Meeting, Fairbanks, AK. “I love to feel where words come from.” I have long loved that quote from our Quaker heritage story of the indigenous man Papunehang hearing John Woolman preaching. He didn’t know what Woolman was saying,...
Dec 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
To Quaker Earthcare Witness, I just received your September-October issue of BeFriending Creation, and I was kind of concerned and curious about the article on page 6, “Friendly Farmers & Earthcare.” The article contradicts a number of statements I had read as...
Oct 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
Russ Adams, North Columbus (Ohio) Monthly Meeting In Quaker silence, do I hear our humanitarian ancestors, our abolitionist ancestors, our pacifist ancestors, crying out to us to pursue full sustainability for ourselves and our children and all folks yet to come…while...
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 | Uncategorized
Letters to Share, September-October 2016 July 29, 2016 To Quaker Earthcare Witness As a means of raising our and others’ awareness of the issue of global climate change, our meeting has created a voluntary carbon tax for those members wishing to participate. Adopting...
