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QEW books, booklets, pamphlets,and videos

BeFriending Creation. Quaker Earthcare Witness published a bi-monthly newsletter, BeFriending Creation, that reports and celebrates what Friends and Friends Meetings and organizations are doing and saying about the global crisis in ecological sustainability. Click here for more information on the BeFriending Creation newsletter.

Quaker Eco-Bulletin, Quaker Earthcare Witness publishes a bi-monthly eco-bulletin that reports on "Information and Action Addressing Public Policy for an Ecologically Sustainable World." Click here for more information on the Quaker Eco-Bulletin.

QEW Books. We have published several books on spirituality and Earthcare. Titles in print are: Earthcare for Friends, a Study Guide for Individuals and Faith Communities; Population is People, a Friends Perspective; and Caring for Creation: The Biblical Basis for Earthcare. Click here for book descriptions.

Booklets. QEW has published, or has agreed to distribute, several booklets on spirituality and Earthcare. Titles in print are: Walking Gently on the Earth, an Earthcare Checklist; Healing Ourselves and the Earth; Natural Awareness as a Spiritual Practice; Spirituality and Sustainability, a Study Guide for Friends and Others; Arrowhead to Hand Axe: In Search of Ecololgical Guidance; and Be Ye Perfect: the Quaker Call to Wholeness. Click here for catalog descriptions.

Booklets on the QEW website. The following booklets, which were not originally published by Quaker Earthcare Witness, are available for on-line reading or downloading in pdf format.

Walking in the Light—Rediscovering John Woolman's Message for the 21st Century
by Louis Cox and Ruah Swennerfelt.

This is a 20-page study guide that was distributed free to Friends meetings and churches on the West Coast of the U.S., in support of their 2007-2008 Peace For Earth Walk.

Quakers and the New Story —Essays on Science and Spirituality
by Philip Clayton, Mary Coelho, and the New Story Study Group of Friends Meeting at Cambridge, Mass.

This 27-page booklet describes “some of the revolutionary changes that have taken place within the sciences in recent years. Indeed, a variety of interpreters of science are suggesting that the ‘new story’ that science is telling actually supports something very much like traditional Quaker ways of conceiving reality.” Its goal is “to introduce readers to these changes in the world view of science, which seem to bring it closer to the spirit of Quaker belief and practice.” The web version is illustrated with color paintings by Mary Coelho and Angela Manno.

Seeds of Violence, Seeds of Hope, Volume I,

Seeds of Violence, Seeds of Hope, Volume II, and

Seeds of Violence, Seeds of Hope, Volume III, published originally by Friends Testimony on Economics, which is now a QEW project.

QEW Pamphlets. QEW has more than 20 trifold and quad-fold pamphlets on a wider-range of Earthcare-related issues. Download the full pamphlet or order printed versions from the QEW office. There is no charge for pamphlets but donations are encouraged to help cover printing costs and postage and handling expenses.

QEW Media Lending Library. Click here to see a list of DVD's that you can borrow from QEW for a couple of weeks, for the cost of postage and handling (currently $10).

Recommended Eco-resources. Click here to see the latest update of a list of recommended books, videos, and other resources that has been compiled by QEW supporters. Your input and comments on these selections can be made by contacting the QEW office, <info@quakerearthcare.org>.