as 101 year old American Kathryn Davis proves.
To celebrate her 100th birthday, Davis set up ‘Projects for Peace,’ which supported college students in 100 projects that promoted peace around the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘quaker’
- it’s never to late to work for peace
Posted in peace, religion, tagged peace, philanthropy, Projects for Peace, quaker on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
- held in the light of the stars
Posted in environmentalism, political action, religion, tagged James Turrell, light pollution, quaker on March 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A few weeks back I was attending our local Friends meeting and thinking about light.
Specifically, I was looking at the many lamps hanging in the meeting room and wondering if they should ever be turned on during a meeting for worship. Why not, I thought, always hold our meetings in the available light [...]
- to pollute is to sin, says the Vatican
Posted in religion, tagged pollution, quaker, vatican on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Being a Quaker means believing that clergies are more of a hinderance than a help when it comes to leading a righteous spiritual life. And for a case study in the convoluted, self-sustaining theological bureaucracies that clergies happily make for themselves, it would be hard to beat the Vatican’s Apostolic Penitentiary — a [...]
What this is
Posted in what we're about, tagged action, earth, quaker, witness on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
is a start, really. It’s about beginning to rethink the fundamental question of how we should live now.
It’s a place for asking what we need to do to recalibrate our lives, our expectations, our ideas of what will — and what can — make us happy in the face of the reality that [...]
