Dec 8, 2016 | Activism, BeFriending Creation, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Peoples, Individuals Taking Action, Meetings Taking Action, Minutes on Earthcare, Number 6, Uncategorized, Volume 29
Sacred Stone, Clean Water, Gathering People By Shelley Tanenbaum, QEW General Secretary. The gathering at Standing Rock, with more than 280 indigenous tribes represented, is historic and has been an inspiration to all of us. The ongoing gathering is being held to...
Dec 8, 2016 | Activism, BeFriending Creation, Individuals Taking Action, Number 6, Uncategorized, Volume 29
By Alan Eccleston, Mount Toby Friends Meeting. In meeting for worship four years ago I was meditating on climate change and what I was called to do about it. Words rose up, “I live in possibility,” which I attribute to Emily Dickinson. I had a deep realization this is...
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,...
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, New & Exploring, Number 5, Quaker-Specific, Spiritual, Uncategorized, Volume 29
By David Jaber I was not raised Quaker, but instead came to Quakerism after having developed an environmental conscience that has very much shaped my life and how I spend my time. You might take that as one indicator of the compatibility of deep earth ethics with...
