Environment

Water and Life

I’ve been thinking lately of water as the bloodstream of our planet. The metaphor doesn’t work perfectly, but the flow…

How to Talk about Earthcare

Talking about Earthcare with Friends and other people of faith has been one of our main tasks since setting out…

The 110th U.S. Congress

The current Congress is giving more visibility, in-depth exploration, and oversight to some Quaker goals as stated in FCNL’s legislative…

Contemplating the Nativity

It is December, and we are coming to the end of a long season of commercial clamor. I am old…

Friends Testimonies and Ecological Understanding

The Religious Society of Friends introduced into the Christian tradition a change in consciousness about spiritual life that has had…

Sustainability for the Rest of Us

As I commit increasingly to obedience to God, I have become more confused about my place in the movement towards…

Noah’s Problem

It rained last winter. A lot. It rained for 35 straight days. Then there was a sunny day. Then it…

Litter Picking

Okay, I’ll fess up. There’s no hiding it—all the gang members who hang out in our neighborhood park already know…

Turning Quaker Gray into Quaker Green

"Ignorance ends today. Negligence starts tomorrow." —Architect William McDonough Whatever one might think, suspect, or wish away, climate change and…

Trees for Africa

Many consider FWCC a seedbed for Friends’ responses to our faith and testimonies. In one case, that can be said…

Friends’ Witness on Population and Overconsumption

Many Friends today are expanding their witness for equality and justice by focusing on rapid population growth and over-consumption as…

Mending the World

Our world is torn and broken. Many parts of it are not working. There are great tears and gashes, holes…
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