Nov 7, 2017 | Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, Hopeful, Meetings Taking Action, Number 5, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Regula and Michael Russelle. AN ALL-NIGHT, OUTDOOR EVENT. One thousand passersby publicly claim their practices and promises to reduce climate change. Each attaches a paper leaf with a personal, hand-written testimony like “bicycle everywhere,” “no food waste,”...
Nov 7, 2017 | BeFriending Creation, Hopeful, Individuals Taking Action, Number 5, Spirituality, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Ann Marie Klaus. I have to admit, I do not harbor a wish to save Earth or reverse the process she is undergoing. Nor do I worry for her. Earth, in my mind, is a powerful, exquisite being, undergoing the same process of expansion that every bit of the universe...
Nov 7, 2017 | Action-Oriented, BeFriending Creation, Meetings Taking Action, Number 5, Practical, Quaker-Specific, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Eric Fuselier. Friends, we are happy to announce that we recently formed a Quaker Earthcare Committee within the monthly meeting in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Members of the committee have a lot of passion and knowledge about the environment and we’re really excited...
Nov 7, 2017 | BeFriending Creation, Individuals Taking Action, Number 5, Uncategorized, Volume 30, Youth & Young Friends
By Paula Kline. For more than a decade, my husband and I have hosted high school students for an annual Environmental Leadership Workcamp in the cloud forest of Veracruz, Mexico. A project of Westtown School’s Quaker Leadership Program, students return home...
Nov 7, 2017 | BeFriending Creation, Number 5, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Tom Small. “FORTY QUAKERS WITH 30 different agendas.” That’s how I characterized—only half-jokingly—the Quaker Earthcare Witness Steering Committee when I was its Clerk from 1996 to 1998. The Friends Committee on Unity with Nature—that’s what we called ourselves...
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...
