Common Ground: One Community – One Earth
Common Ground: One Community – One Earth
Quaker Earthcare Witness Fall Gathering
October 16 to 19th, 2025
Powell House and Online (Hybrid)
Each fall, Quaker Earthcare Witness gathers to rejuvenate and reconnect. Our community is strengthened during this time of worship, fellowship, play, and deep work. Our Fall Gathering is open to anyone who is engaged (or interested!) in the compelling task of transforming our relationship to the earth.
The challenges of our time—from a warming planet to deepening social divides—call for urgent action and unity. We have chosen the theme Common Ground: One Community – One Earth, based on Friend Eileen Flanagan’s new book, Common Ground. This theme will guide our work and our time together.
In Common Ground, Flanagan weaves together inspiring stories of grassroots organizing against the corporations most responsible for the climate crisis. She shows that as deadly heat waves, wildfires, storms, and floods become more widespread, ordinary people can build powerful movements for change when we find common ground and act together. Common Ground argues that our best hope for survival lies not in technology or elections, but in acting in solidarity with all life.
During our time together, we will engage in a variety of activities that nourish our spirits and ground our actions: Worship: We will begin and end each day in expectant, Spirit-led worship, opening our hearts to divine guidance. Plenaries and Deep Discussion: We will engage in meaningful conversations through a video from Bill McKibben, and with Geoffrey Garver and Eileen Flanagan in person. Community Building: We will share meals, stories, and laughter, strengthening the bonds of our community, whether in person at Powell House or through shared online presence. This gathering is not just a meeting; it is a spiritual retreat and a call to action. It is a chance to draw on our collective strength, to listen for what the Spirit is asking of us, and to leave with a renewed sense of purpose and a deeper connection to our community and to the Earth we cherish.
