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Integrity, Ecology, And Community: The


Motion of Love #403 JennieRatcliffe How can we change the direction of our impact on the earth and begin to undo the damage we have wrought on so many species, including our own? Can we depend on technological, political, and economic solutions alone? Jennie Ratcliffe, drawing on her years of experience and reflection as a scientist and active participant in peace and ecological concerns, believes that a deeper transformation is needed. A spiritual awareness of our oneness reminds us that we live in intimate relationship and kinship with each other, the earth, and the Divine. Grounded in reciprocity, reconciliation, simplicity, and nonviolence, this awareness can guide us toward a deeper integrity, a reverence for the human and natural communities upon which we depend, and more sustainable ways of living. Discussion questions included. About the Author Jennie Ratcliffe's lifelong concern has been to make connections: between nonviolence, social justice, and ecological sustainability; between science, ecology, spirituality, and politics; and between contemplation and social action. After obtaining a Master's degree in environmental pollution studies and a doctorate in epidemiology in England, she has worked for the past 35 years as a research epidemiologist in environmental and occupational health, including for the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the Universities of London and North Carolina. She has also worked with the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science, Friends of the Earth, and Physicians for Social Responsibility, among other organizations, and helped found local groups engaged in fostering a peaceful and ecologically sustainable future. As a member of Durham Friends Meeting, North Carolina, she serves on the Peace and Social Concerns and Earthcare Committees, and is a member of Quaker Earthcare Witness. She was the Henry J. Cadbury Scholar at Pendle Hill in 2006, where she began work on a book about the spiritual dimension of the ecological crisis from a Quaker perspective. This essay grew out of preliminary work and discussions during her time at Pendle Hill.


Kindling A Life Of Concern: Spirit‐Led Quaker


Action #404 Jack Kirk, Friends speak of "concerns" as the spiritual promptings that come to us, revealing our own particular God‐given responsibilities in a world that so truly needs our love and our service. When we yearn to act, help, or respond, how do we know whether that yearning comes from our own feeling of urgency or our own sense of obligation, or whether it is something more, something that the Holy Spirit is asking of us? Jack Kirk discusses how concerns arise and are opened to us, how we may test them, and how we may find in them a center of spiritual gravity for our lives. How do we discover our callings as individuals, and what is our calling as a community of Friends? Discussion questions included. About the Author Jack Kirk grew up in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, where he was a member of Willistown Meeting. He attended West Chester Friends School, then Westtown School, where Thomas Brown's Quakerism class first awakened him to "the exciting spiritual dynamics in Quakerism." At Earlham College he was further inspired by Landrum Bolling, Elton Trueblood, and Hugh Barbour. In 1965 he received the M.Div. degree from Christian Theological Seminary. He was recorded as a minister in Western Yearly Meeting during the 1960s. He has served as pastor for Fairfield Meeting in Indiana, New Garden Meeting, Archdale Meeting, and Greensboro Meeting in North Carolina, University Friends in Kansas, and Bakersfield Meeting in California. He has served as director of the Quaker Hill Conference Center in Richmond, Indiana, as editor of Quaker Life magazine, and as field secretary for Friends United Meeting. He represented Friends United Meeting in the New Call to Peacemaking endeavor with the Brethren and Mennonite.s


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