Aug 8, 2016 | BeFriending Creation, Environmental Justice, Individuals Taking Action, Number 4, Uncategorized, Volume 29, Youth & Young Friends
By Sara Wolcott. Myself and the other 60 young (aged 20-35) faith leaders from across Canada and the United States who were partaking in GreenFaith’s 2016 North American Convergence eagerly peered out of our bus windows as it turned onto the road leading to Isle de...
Aug 8, 2016 | BeFriending Creation, Environmental Justice, Number 4, Uncategorized, Volume 29
By Shelley Tanenbaum. Two dynamic and challenging speakers stood out for me at the 2016 Friends General Conference (FGC) gathering in St. Joseph, Minnesota this July. Nekima Levy-Pounds, law professor and leader of the Black Lives Matter movement, came to us after...
Jun 9, 2016 | BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Number 3, Uncategorized, Volume 29
By Shelley Tanenbaum. In December 2015 world leaders committed their countries to significantly change the ways that they are contributing to global climate change, they agreed to share resources to support countries most vulnerable and most in need, and they pledged...
May 9, 2016 | BeFriending Creation, Individuals Taking Action, Number 3, Uncategorized, Volume 29, Youth & Young Friends
By Shelley Tanenbaum, QEW General Secretary. How often do you hear people complain (or rant, scream, and shout) that the U.S. government is not doing enough about climate change, but they don’t actually do anything about it? Last year, twenty-one young Americans and...
May 9, 2016 | BeFriending Creation, Mini-Grants, Number 3, Uncategorized, Volume 29
Mini Grants in Bolivia By Mary Gilbert TREES IN THE ALTIPLANO The city of El Alto in Bolivia sits at an elevation of 13,600 feet. Specific native trees can actually grow at that altitude in Bolivia. Ruben Hilare—inspired by what he learned at a UN meeting in...
May 9, 2016 | BeFriending Creation, Books We Love, Number 3, Spirituality, Uncategorized, Volume 29
By Judy Lumb. I have admired and been inspired by the writing of Marcelle Martin in Friends Journal, so I was very happy to learn that her book was released. It is a very effective juxtaposition of vignettes from the lives of early Friends and contemporary Friends....
