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A Letter to Faith Communities
This July, Paula Palmer will lead several workshops related to developing right relationships with Native peoples. Following is a letter to faith communities that introduces the history and topics related to the relationships between settler colonialists and Native people, relationships … Continue reading
Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) Friends and Indigenous Peoples
Following is a blog post I wrote a year ago. I’m sharing this again today because it provides a history of recent connections with Native Americans and Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) Friends, up to when the post was written in … Continue reading
Iowa Youth Climate Strike May 3, 2019
I apologize for the late notice about tomorrow’s Iowa Youth Climate Strike, which will happen on the west side of the Iowa Capitol building on May 3rd from 10 am – 1 pm. Thanks to Roger Routh for producing the … Continue reading
Destruction by Personal Automobiles
For the past several days I’ve been writing about Quakers and climate change. And for the past two days about something some of us in Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) have referred to as “ethical transportation”, which is about ways we … Continue reading
Ethical Transportation Today
Yesterday’s post about Quakers and the rising climate movement included the “Ethical Transportation” Minute approved by Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) Quakers in 2017 (see below). Friends (Quakers) in rural areas struggle with ways to reduce fossil fuel use because public … Continue reading
Burning: Notre Dame and Mother Earth
Watching something that took centuries to develop, something that can never entirely be recreated, disappear in the comparative blink of an eye — that, in slow motion, is going to be the dominant feeling of the 21st century. Only instead … Continue reading
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Responses to the urgency of climate chaos
Yesterday’s blog post about the Extinction Rebellion, and responses to that, has made me realize many people are unclear about how to respond to the urgency of climate catastrophe. While it is good to see people are waking up to … Continue reading
Time to Sue the Banks
As the consequences of climate change become increasingly frequent and severe, so much so that the UN Human Rights Committee is asking the United States to explain what it is doing to protect the “right to life”, banks are INCREASING … Continue reading
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Fallon Forum, AFSC and FCNL
Today’s message in the book “365 Days of Walking the Red Road” by Terri Jean is: You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight to our hearts. —COCHISE, CHIRICAHUA APACHE TRIBAL LEADER, 1812–1874 Jean, Terri. 365 … Continue reading
My mentor, Sherry Hutchison
As I wrote yesterday, Sherry Hutchison continues to teach peace. A great many people’s lives benefited in many ways from their connections with Sherry. I’ve been thinking more about my own experiences with her. She played a very large role … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 