I just read an article in the current issue of The Canadian Friend that resonated very strongly with me. In “Making Peace With Our Place on the Planet”, Tony McQuail of Kitchener Monthly Meeting writes: Something that has been helpful to me is distinguishing between my circle of concern and my circle of influence. If [...]
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3 Sep
Symposium videos, part one!
That’s right – the videos from the May 15-16 Montreal symposium are now ready to go! Here’s the first bunch – bear with me here, this is going to be a bit of a long post. More videos to follow shortly! Stuart Myiow gives the “words that come before all else”: Geoff Garver introduces the [...]
31 Aug
Videos – at last!
Okay, I have finally learned how to post Vimeo videos to this blog – huzzah! The following two videos are from our May symposium in Montreal. The first is Thomas Lovejoy, Biodiversity Chair at the Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment. The second is Laurie Michaelis of the Living Witness Project. Laurie is [...]
26 Aug
The Right Relationship Roadshow
New (well, comparatively new) on Geoff’s Eco-blog is a great behind-the-scenes discussion of doing presentations on the issues in Right Relationship, and how that’s been working out over the summer. It’s an interesting read – even I found it interesting and I’d heard most of it already. Head over there and check it out! The [...]
25 Aug
They also serve…
There’s a Quaker joke (not a terribly good one, I admit, but have you ever heard any good Quaker jokes? yeah, me neither) about a man who comes into Meeting for Worship and is puzzled by the lack of anything obvious happening, so he leans over to the Friend next to him and whispers “Excuse [...]
27 Jul
A Quaker response to climate change
Britain Yearly Meeting has just posted a statement on their website from Susan Seymour, Clerk, Meeting for Sufferings. I’m just going to post it in its entirety: “The crisis of global climate change represents a supreme test of humanity’s collective wisdom and courage. Our immoderate use of the Earth’s resources violates the entire biosphere, threatening [...]
