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”The ‘Peace for Earth’ Walk

After considerable prayer and discernment we, Ruah Swennerfelt and Louis Cox, are about to embark on a spiritual journey that…

Ruah Swennerfelt

An Eleventh Commandment?

At an interfaith conference on "Waters of Life, Sacred and Profaned" held in April 2007 at Saint Michael’s College in…

Ruah Swennerfelt and Louis Cox

Quakers, Creation Care, and Sustainability (Quakers and the Disciplines, Volume 6)

Edited by Cherice Bock and Stephen Potthoff. Friends Association for Higher Education, 2019. 478 pages. $19.95/paperback; $9.95/eBook. This comprehensive history…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet

By Michael E. Mann. PublicAffairs, 2021. 368 pages. $29/hardcover; $15.99/eBook. All we require are policies to incentivize the needed shift.…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery (The Illustrated Edition)

By Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe. The MIT Press, 2022. 224 pages. $29.95/hardcover. As I was preparing this review, my…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

Solutionary Rail: A people-powered campaign to electrify America’s railroads and open corridors to a clean energy future

By Bill Moyer, Patrick Mazza and the Solutionary Rail Team. Backbone Campaign, 2016. 107 pages. $19.95/paperback. Many years ago, as…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

Focus on Our Future

If you’re like me, you’ve probably been thinking about environmental issues for a long time. Thirty years ago, I remember…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

A Time of Renewal

At the time of this writing, Susan Corson-Finnerty is off getting some vacation and supporting far-flung family members, and she…

Robert Dockhorn

Making Peace with Mother Earth

She has sheltered us all our lives. She is the source of our sustenance. She is steadfast and unwavering though…

Fran Palmeri