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Category Archives: Indigenous
Civic Responsibility 3 – Environment
Continuing to think about the Quaker queries we are considering regarding civic responsibility (Civic Responsibility and Civic Responsibility 2), I earlier wrote about peace vigils and marches. The primary query I am referring to is: How do we share our … Continue reading
Medicine Wheel, Connections and Balance
As I have been learning from The Sacred Tree: Reflections on Native American Spirituality which these figures are from, the Medicine Wheel symbol is used by many native people in North and South America to represent many different things that are … Continue reading
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Symbols
Continuing to study The Sacred Tree: Reflections on Native American Spirituality, I am reading about the importance of symbols. The Medicine Wheel is the ancient symbol used by most North and South American Native people. Many relationships can be expressed in sets … Continue reading
Sacred Tree: Reflections on Native American Spirituality
How I look at social justice and spirituality has been profoundly affected by my recent experiences with Native Americans. These things are difficult to put into words, but similar to Quaker meetings for worship, there was a palpable sense of … Continue reading
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U.S. doesn’t care about endless war
I have been upset since reading this article: How We Learned Not To Care About America’s Wars, Sixteen years of autopilot wars, but who’s counting? by Andrew Bacevich. Published on the Common Dreams website. As a Quaker and someone who … Continue reading
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Monteverde and Environmental Injustice
I was glad to receive this good news from Rick Juliusson from Monteverde Friends School in response to the recent blog post, Monteverde Friends suffer severe damage from storm. “Thank you so much for your support, Jeff. We appreciate the … Continue reading
Building an environmental action movement
After venting my frustration about environmental inaction, I thought it could be helpful to hear about some of the ways you can get involved in fixing environmental problems. Following is the story of how I got involved with the Rainforest … Continue reading
What is racism?
I recently wrote “These past several days we have heard the qualification “the largest mass shooting (in modern history)”. I think it is important to acknowledge, unfortunately, numerous occasions in the history of this country when even larger numbers of … Continue reading
Environmental Queries
I have written before about the Quaker practice of considering a set of questions or queries as a group, to explore various subjects related to how we are living our lives. There are twelve sets of queries, so the usual … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 