In our witness for the global environment, are we careful to consider justice and the well-being of the world’s poorest people? Does our way of life threaten the viability of life on Earth?
~ Pacific Yearly Meeting, Advices and Queries, Harmony with Creation, Queries for the Meeting
As we seek to discern in what ways we are called to serve, implicit always is the question, to what end? As we search for guidance, what is it that is actually at stake? What are the outcomes our service is intended to bring about? Without such bearings it is difficult to judge the rightness of our direction. One way to come to clarity about direction is by querying ourselves and our Meetings.
In "Quakerspeak" a query refers to a question or series of questions used for reflection, insight and spiritual deepening. Responding to a query is a spiritual exercise that asks the person to allow the question to to be experienced, sometimes for renewed clarity, and other times as a reminder of basic tenets of Quaker faith and practice.
Friends have used Queries as tools for offering spiritual challenges to the community for much of their history. Queries sometimes take the form of a collection of themed questions that are read at the beginning of a time of worship or reflection.
Below you will find "climate queries" to guide you and your Meeting in discernment about how you might engage with Creation care and the climate crisis. As you will see, some of these have been generated by the Pac YM Unity with Nature Committee, but most have been developed by Monthly or Yearly Meetings around the world and gathered here for you to use as a resource in your own communities. Most are accompanied by Advices as well, those suggestions for right livelihood on our beloved earth.
In "Quakerspeak" a query refers to a question or series of questions used for reflection, insight and spiritual deepening. Responding to a query is a spiritual exercise that asks the person to allow the question to to be experienced, sometimes for renewed clarity, and other times as a reminder of basic tenets of Quaker faith and practice.
Friends have used Queries as tools for offering spiritual challenges to the community for much of their history. Queries sometimes take the form of a collection of themed questions that are read at the beginning of a time of worship or reflection.
Below you will find "climate queries" to guide you and your Meeting in discernment about how you might engage with Creation care and the climate crisis. As you will see, some of these have been generated by the Pac YM Unity with Nature Committee, but most have been developed by Monthly or Yearly Meetings around the world and gathered here for you to use as a resource in your own communities. Most are accompanied by Advices as well, those suggestions for right livelihood on our beloved earth.