I got to be a guest co-editor for a special issue of Quaker Studies, which came out today, and it included my article, “Quakers and Ecospirituality: Spiritual Grounding for Climate Action.” My co-editor was Barbara Welling Hall, and Rhiannon Grant is the Quaker Studies editor.
This issue includes many of the papers that were presented at a conference held at Boston University School of Theology in April 2023 on the topic: “Friendly Witness: The Spiritual Ground of Quaker Social Action.”
You can read our Editorial Introduction to get an overview of the issue contents. The issue has some great articles and research notes. All of them get at the issue of how spirituality and action for a just and caring world are connected in Friends practices. Here are the other articles:
- Quaker Roots in Jim Corbett’s Nonviolent Sanctuary: The Unrecognized Influence of the Pacifist Research Bureau and the Legal Scholar, Harrop A. Freeman (1907-93), Rady Roldan-Figueroa
- An Ever-Branching River: The Beautiful Watersheds of the Quaker Theological Ecosystem, Christy Randazzo
- Rufus Jones and Howard Thurman, Barbara Welling Hall
- Quakers & Ecospirituality: Spiritual Grounding for Climate Action, Cherice Bock
- Being the Quakers the World Needs, Robin Mohr
- Openness to transformation and connection: How Quakerism shows up in life and action at Beacon Hill Friends House, Jennifer Newman
Cherice Bock 