Feb 1, 2020 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, Books We Love, January-February-March, Number 1, Spirituality, Volume 33
By Ruah Swennerfelt. MANY, MANY YEARS ago, after having a deep-felt conversation with my father, who wanted to blindly trust his government, I gave him Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner. I chose that book because Dad lived in Southern California, a desert turned into a...
Feb 1, 2020 | 2020, Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, January-February-March, Number 1, Volume 33
By Mary Ann Iyer. The cells of this earth are our cells. The wind that blows across its surface is the self same air that we breathe. Our life blood courses through our veins with no less certainty than the rivers cascading to the sea. And what are we to make of this?...
Feb 1, 2020 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, January-February-March, Number 1, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Volume 33
By Judy Lumb. HOW DO WE ensure a future on Earth for humans and other creatures? Three recent reports analyze solutions to climate change that meet the ambition of the Paris Agreement. The Climate Urgency: Setting Sail for a New Paradigm Coopération Internationale...
Feb 1, 2020 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, January-February-March, Number 1, Volume 33
By Shelley Tanenbaum. THE MOST RECENT Conference of the Parties (COP), held in Madrid, Spain in December, appeared to balance the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 on a knife’s edge, a sharpened knife’s edge. Lindsey Cook of Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) referred...
Feb 1, 2020 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, January-February-March, Number 1, Spiritual, Spirituality, Theology, Volume 33, Youth & Young Friends
Compiled by Beverly G. Ward. “A touchstone transcends any one religion, thought, or spiritual tradition and serves as a guide. These touchstones provide examples of specific prayers, passages or scripture, or inspirations from various sacred texts or philosophical...
Feb 1, 2020 | Action-Oriented, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Number 1, Uncategorized, Volume 33, Youth & Young Friends
By Hayley Hathaway. GEORGE LAKEY, lifelong civil rights activist, and Friend, hosted “Young and Old for Climate Justice: A Dialog” at Quaker Center in Ben Lomond, CA this January. Forty Friends, ages ranging from 15 to 80, joined the weekend-long retreat in the...
