WF Podcast Twenty-Three – Ecological Civilization
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Begin Again
by Paul Lowance Niebanck
reviewed by Meg Hodgkin Lippert
About a year ago, Multnomah Monthly Meeting in Portland, Oregon, asked all of its committees to examine how their work might be upholding or breaking down structural racism.
Walk Humbly, Serve Boldly: Modern Quakers as Everyday Prophets
by Marjory Post Abbott
reviewed by David Tucker
Full text of a Letter to the Editor, published in part in the January/February 2021 issue of Western Friend magazine.
“Way has opened” countless times over the past five years, as I followed a calling to create a nonprofit organization called Poetry Heals.
When I was a kid, I told my little sister that we were forming a club. The two of us held a meeting to discuss possible club names and what kinds of things we would do as members of this club. We decided we would call it “The Do-Gooders Club,” and we would do good things. Creative, right? I’m not sure where things went after that.
If pressure is brought upon you to lower your standard of integrity, are you prepared to resist it? Our responsibilities to God and our neighbor may involve us in taking unpopular stands. Do not let the desire to be sociable, or the fear of seeming peculiar, determine your decisions.
Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (2013)
Dear Friends:
My niece, who has been homeless, recommended preparing an old yet serviceable purse with sample sizes of nine useful items. This could be a gift to someone living on the street. The purse should have a shoulder strap so that it can be carried in addition to a backpack and still leave a person’s arms and hands free.
On Monday night, I went to bed fretting about how very little we old people in retirement communities are able to do about all the problems of this world.
On Tuesday morning, before I fully woke (was I still dreaming?), I began to imagine a man called Tom Friendly, and I was comforted.
