Feb 27, 2023 | 2023, Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, Number 1, Volume 36
by Carl Grant. Bark of alligator skin, moss laden Your strong, contorted arms spread wide What faith you have in dropping Your children to the earth Where brother squirrel buries some To grow up down the road And of others makes a feast. Bark of alligator skin, moss...
Feb 27, 2023 | 2023, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Books We Love, Number 1, Volume 36
We asked our QEW network about their favorite books, podcasts, and media from 2022. Here’s what they said. Multiple Friends recommended The Nutmeg’s Curse by Amitav Ghosh about abusing nature’s bounty and colonization, and also Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm by...
Feb 27, 2023 | 2023, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Individuals Taking Action, Number 1, Volume 36
by Ruth Darlington. When Priscilla Adams and Maria Esche learned about the plans of New Fortress Energy to export Pennsylvania fracked gas from a terminal in Gibbstown, NJ, they took notice, and then they took action. It all started when organizers at Food & Water...
Feb 27, 2023 | 2023, BeFriending Creation, Meetings Taking Action, Number 1, Volume 36
by Pamela Haines. As I was pondering how to release more energy for addressing climate and environmental justice issues in our Quaker meeting, I had the idea of setting up an informal gathering where we could hear what others were doing and support each other to take...
Feb 27, 2023 | 2023, BeFriending Creation, New & Exploring, Number 1, Spirituality, Volume 36
by Hayley Hathaway. In fall 2022, QEW launched its first 10-week course on ecological grief. The course came after organizing two popular online workshops on the topic: over 200 Friends registered from across North America. At these workshops, Friends shared about...
Feb 27, 2023 | 2023, Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, Number 1, Volume 36
by Nan Fawcett. Imagine a future where we are all heard, where we all listen to each other, not only to our human siblings but to everything, the large and small inhabitants of our home planet, listening to everyone’s voice. Imagine a life where we are open to new...
Feb 27, 2023 | 2023, Action-Oriented, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Divestment, Number 1, Renewable Energy, Volume 36
by Kathy Barnhart. At the beginning of each Meeting for Business at Strawberry Creek Meeting in Berkeley, California, a committee responds to one of the Advices and Queries in our Pacific Yearly Meeting’s Faith and Practice. Last month our Communications Committee...
Feb 27, 2023 | 2023, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Number 1, Volume 36
by Shelley Tanenbaum. After 27 United Nations Climate Conferences, and even earlier conferences and agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol (1997) and the Rio Earth Summit (1992), why are we so far behind in dealing with climate (and biodiversity and desertification)?...
Nov 28, 2022 | 2022, BeFriending Creation, Books We Love, Climate Change, Individuals Taking Action, Number 4, October-November-December, Soil, Volume 35
by Tom Small. Breath is what unites us. It unites us with the “other.” With all of creation. Breath is the rhythm, the flow of life itself. Call it Ch’i. Or ruah. Or spiritus. Or rta. The universal breath, life force, or rhythmic pattern of all being. When we...
Nov 28, 2022 | 2022, BeFriending Creation, Indigenous Peoples, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 35
Southeastern Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, meeting as Winter Interim Business Meeting, approves adding a line item to the budget for a recurring annual donation to the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition of a minimum of...
