Interrelationship with the Whole Earth Community

“We are intimately interdependent, and as we do to other life, we do to ourselves; we are in intimate reciprocal interrelationship with the whole Earth community. And as we cannot so easily destroy that which we love and feel connected to, what really makes us secure, then, is nonviolence to each other and the Earth and, as one writer puts it, the movement toward wholeness.”

— Jennie M. Ratcliffe, 2023
“Conscientious Objection, Conscientious Protection”

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Today’s Invitation

Go outside today, if you can, or consider a natural object you have indoors. Imagine yourself in “an intimate reciprocal interrelationship with the whole Earth community.”

Query of the Week

How does your body help you connect to spirit?

How does physical movement change your spiritual experience? How do you prepare your body for worship? How does your spiritual life enhance your appreciation of the physical world?

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Author

  • Jennie M. Ratcliffe is a retired environmental research epidemiologist, a longtime Quaker, and an activist. She has worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the Universities of London and North Carolina. She has also been an active participant in peace, justice and ecological concerns within the Quaker community and in many local groups advocating for an earth restored and a more peaceable and equitable world.

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