Quaker Earthcare Witness is hosting monthly online worship sharing groups. In worship sharing, we gather in small groups to focus on a particular question (or questions) to explore our own experience and share with each other more deeply than we would in normal conversation. It seeks to draw us into sacred space, where we can […]
All are invited to join a four-session book group on Cherice Bock's A Quaker Ecology: Meditations on the Future of Friends on Wednesdays, April 5, 12, 19, 26 at 7-8 Eastern/ 4-5pm Pacific. In our best moments, Friends have been in the middle of the action around the social justice issues of each time period, discerning to […]
Our spring steering committee will be on Zoom April 20-23, 2023. Register here. The agenda is to be announced. Photo by Kathy Barnhart
Image is from If the Bells Would Ring, a crisis story by Elson Bankoff Quaker youth are actively engaged with activism and reflection on climate issues across a range of Friends’ high schools. Join QEW in welcoming Elson Bankoff to share about the Student Environmentalism and Sustainability Network on Friday April 21, 2023 from 7-8:30 PM Eastern […]
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of West Virginia, Friends Wilderness Center and the China Folk House Retreat are aspiring toward bridging divides in humanity, building community with nature, and lifting all toward the Light and a brighter future. Join Kimberly Benson and John Flowers for a conversation on redefining conservation to include cross-cultural connections and […]
Marcelle Martin and Mary Ann Percy will introduce Faithfulness Groups as an ongoing small group practice to support Friends (and others) in their work, ministry, and leadings around Earthcare, environmental witness, environmental justice, education about climate change, and working with Meetings to teach the Work that Reconnects and to build resilient communities. If you are […]
In 2002, Brent and Nancy Bill acquired fifty acres of her father's farmland to build a house across the road from him. Brent will share how and why this land was transformed into a wildlife habitat and protected forest and how he was transformed as well. J. Brent Bill is a Quaker minister, photographer, retreat […]