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Bear Creek Friends (Quaker) Meeting supports the Wet’suwet’en Peoples
Bear Creek Friends (Quaker) meetinghouse is in the Iowa countryside. Many members have been involved in agriculture and care about protecting Mother Earth. A number of Friends have various relationships with Indigenous peoples. Some Friends have worked to protect water … Continue reading
Listen
Different cultures have different practices and language for the prayerful state of listening for and sharing spiritual messages. Many groups are guided by people who are identified as spiritual leaders. Weekly Quaker meetings for worship are a gathering of people … Continue reading
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The Age of Last Chances
When I reflect on the last year, there’s a certain difficult truth about this age that strikes me. We live in the age of last chances. What do I mean?We have about a decade, maybe two, left. To stop the … Continue reading
Facing the Past to Move Forward
Myself, I’ve got to get to a place where I can accept what Stalin did to people in the Siberian gulags, the scale of it. This, too, is us. This is what we do. That’s why I told my grandson … Continue reading
Fire and Light
Love of and care for Mother Earth has been the focus of my entire adult life (50 years). For those who don’t know me, one of the main ways I was led to this focus came from a vision of … Continue reading
Radical Hope 2020
Greetings as a new year begins! Powerful forces at work indicate a number of significant events and changes will occur this year. Most important will be increasingly severe and frequent environmental disasters, which will stress cultures globally. For decades industrial … Continue reading
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Plenty Coups
Plenty Coups was the principal chief of the Mountain Crows of the Crow Nation and a visionary leader. He allied the Crow with the whites when the war for the West was being fought, because the Sioux and Cheyenne were … Continue reading
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Carbon Footprints
A recent article in AXIOS by Amy Harder titled “The carbon footprints of the rich and activist”, discusses some attitudes about individual’s views of their own carbon footprint. Not all carbon footprints are created equally. Driving the news: Famous, rich … Continue reading
A Place to Call Home
For some time now I’ve been studying about the Indian boarding schools. This began as several of us prepared for Paula Palmer to be with us this past summer. Following is a letter to faith communities that explains the purpose … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 