Lauren Brownlee reviewed A Quaker Ecology: Meditations on the Future of Friends in Friends Journal for the March 2024 issue. The review can be found here.
Brownlee shares some of her observations about the book and says her favorite chapter is on “Incarnation and a Quaker Ecotheology of Light” (chapter 2), which is a short version of what we’re saying in Quakers, Ecology, & the Light (2023, Brill, with Christy Randazzo). She concludes:
I want to be a part of the future that Bock envisions for Friends. She encourages Quakers to move “from our tendency as a Society of Friends in the United States to get caught up in systems that perpetuate white supremacy and ecological degradation, toward participation in the community of all life.” She believes that we are on the way toward this future based on our beginning to tell a fuller version of Quaker history in which we recognize the moments when we fell short of our shared values.
—Lauren Brownlee, Friends Journal
It’s encouraging that Brownlee feels drawn into this vision and grateful to be part of the Quaker community in this time, as am I, through all the challenges and uncertainties that we face. It’s a joy to at least face this historical moment together.
Many thanks to Lauren and Friends Journal for this review!
Cherice Bock 