Developing an ecotheology of critical hope in Cascadia
If you haven't yet found Pendle Hill's podcast, "The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope," go check it out now! They came out with a first season in the fall of 2022, and once I started listening, I just binge-listened to all 5 episodes. Podcast host, Dwight Dunston, does an amazing job of opening up simultaneously …
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Quaker Earthcare Witness is hosting a book group for my book, A Quaker Ecology: Meditations on the Future of Friends. It starts on April 5, 2023, and runs for 4 sessions on Wednesday nights at 7–8pm EST / 4–5pm PST. I'm excited that people will be reading this book together! Register here. Leave a comment …
Boston University School of Theology is putting on a free hybrid conference on "Friendly Witness: The Spiritual Ground of Quaker Social Action," which will be held on April 19, 2023, 4–9pm EST. Co-sponsors include Beacon Hill Friends House and Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries. I get to share about Quakers & Ecospirituality during the second panel. My …
Join me tomorrow, August 1, 2022, for the First Monday Lecture at Pendle Hill. I'll be sharing on the topics: "Friends and Sabbath in the Time of Climate Change." The event will be on Zoom at 7:30pm Eastern (4:30pm Pacific), and it's free to register and attend. Practicing the Sabbath, one of the Ten Commandments, …
As a follow-up to my keynote address at North Pacific Yearly Meeting, I was invited to share on a podcast called Soul Force Ones, which creates content connected to Western Friend, as well as on other topics related to social justice. We talked about several topics, including climate justice from a faith perspective, the connection …
I had the opportunity to share a keynote address with North Pacific Yearly Meeting this summer, and I just received my author copies of the newest Western Friend, which holds an abridged version of that talk. You can see the table of contents for the September/October 2021 edition here. There are several great contributions relating …
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OYM and the Peace Testimony, 1938–1954: part I now available full text digital download, and part II published.
Friends Association for Higher Education has been hosting a series called "Quaker Leadings in Higher Education" during the pandemic, since we couldn't meet in person for a conference. Check out the great topics and presenters on the former panels here. They're beginning a series-within-the-series of panel discussions with contributors to the book I co-edited with …
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I received my contributor copy yesterday of the book T&T Clark Handbook of Pneumatology (eds. Daniel Castelo and Kenneth M. Loyer, 2020), in which I contributed the chapter, "Quaker Pneumatology." I promise this is a different book than the one I posted about in August! The topic of my chapter is similar to my "Quaker …
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I got my copy in the mail this week of Protestant Spiritual Traditions, in which I have a chapter entitled, "Quaker Spirituality." It was a fun project to work on, and is in a collection of chapters about different spiritual traditions within Protestant denominations (including Friends, which I explained are sort of Protestant). Now I …
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Cherice Bock 