Aug 14, 2023 | July-August-September, Volume 36
Both Ancient and Modern Traditions Are Held Together by Mary Coelho We are invited to continually seek to discern the ways in which we are alienated, often without conscious awareness, from the sacred nature of the natural world. Considering two unexpected sources...
Aug 14, 2023 | BeFriending Creation, Books We Love, July-August-September, July-August-September, Volume 36
New Quaker Institute for the Future (QIF) Book on Human Ecology and Artificial Intelligence Current breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) need to be evaluated holistically as part of serious, systematic threats to our human ecology. These threats are...
May 8, 2023 | 2023, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Number 1, Spirituality, Volume 36
by Allen McGrew. Six months before I joined Quaker Earthcare Witness Steering Committee, I was stricken by a nasty infection that got into my blood and precipitated a near-fatal cascade of platelet death, septic shock, that plunged my blood pressure to 35/50,...
May 8, 2023 | 2023, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Number 2, Peace, Volume 36
by Jennie M. Ratcliffe. There are multiple interconnections between conscientious objection to militarism and what we can call the conscientious protection of all life on Earth. Conscientious objection, both to war-making and to militarism that seeks to maintain and...
May 8, 2023 | 2023, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Number 2, Volume 36
by ChatGPT. We asked ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot, to “give us a 600 word article that answers this question: will humans survive the climate crisis?” This is what it wrote: The climate crisis, also known as global warming, is one of the most pressing...
May 3, 2023 | April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Uncategorized, Volume 36
by Liz Robinson. With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), people in the US finally have the tools necessary to rapidly decarbonize our lives and help accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy. The law provides $369 billion dollars for climate...
