For five years, Our Children’s Trust has been working with award-winning documentary filmmaker, Christi Cooper, to help tell the remarkable story of the 21 youth plaintiffs’ journey in the trailblazing constitutional climate case, Juliana v. United States…and the film is now complete and ready for release!“YOUTH v GOV” will have its World Premiere online at the…
Author: Nimda
Saying Good-bye
by Alice M. Wald Thinking about your death is not exactly a favorite pastime. However, some like Dr. Murray Bowen have said that “direct thinking about death, or indirect thinking about staying alive and avoiding death,occupies more of man’s time than any other subject.” Add to that the anxiety being generated as humans face the…
Piedmont Friends Fellowship
Friends, Please share details of the planned Piedmont Friends Fellowship Fall event with your members and attenders. The event will be a Zoom meeting staring at 10:00 am on November 21. The proposed format is 30 minutes of informal fellowship, 60 minutes of a Quaker history panel addressing three queries, and 30 minutes for small group…
Veterans Day
An Exert: Vonnegut’s, Breakfast of Champions, 1973 “I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh,accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When Iwas a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in theFirst World War were silent during the eleventh minute of…
Spiritual Journey: Elaine
Columbia Friends have been hearing spiritual journeys of our members and attenders for several years as part of our Second Hour Programs. Telling spiritual journeys is somewhat of a Quaker tradition. The following blog is a good start in beginning to understand the benefits of this practice:https://awholeheart.com/2012/12/10/ten-elements-of-the-quaker-spiritual-journey-2/ Elaine, who is the Clerk of the Friend’s…
Peace Now
Peace Now: Clean Up, Not Build Up at Savannah River Site This documentary film short asks viewers to hold onto visions of peace and stand against nuclear proliferation. Peace Now: Clean Up, Not Build Up at Savannah River Site (15 min.) introduces audiences to SRS and to challenges met and those upcoming, namely the proposed production of…
“THE MOURNING PROJECT”
The Mourning Project is a nationwide, interfaith series of four weekly vigils in October. The goal is to mourn the 180,000+ dead, and all the other losses of the unconstrained pandemic: unsafe schools, unsafe workplaces, unemployment. By gathering, we reclaim our unity and our commitment to peaceful elections, and defuse the rising risk of violence.…
Climate X Covid
We are living in rapidly changing times, facing challenges of monumental proportion: a global pandemic, climate change and related ecological disasters, and institutional racism and violence.These challenges are connected and we cannot address any one of them without addressing all of them. What can we learn from our experience with Covid19, and how does that…
SAYMA 2021
The Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting and Association is composed of its constituent monthly meetings, preparative meetings, and worship groups. All members and attenders of these bodies have both the privilege and responsibility to participate in keeping the affairs of the yearly meeting in good order. The yearly meeting exists to support its constituents as they…
Spiritual Injustice of Poverty
My path of presence has lent itself to the “letting go” that is necessary to move forward. I have logged some serious hours in Dhamma talks by Ajahn Chah; Thich Nhat Hanh; Ajahn Jayasaro; and elective diversions, which include Eckhart Tolle, Rumi, and Jiddu Krishnamurti. Just a spiritual neonate in college, I dabbled in the…