Yesterday I described the series of events that led to joining the First Nation-Farmer Climate Unity March that just concluded. I tried to explain how choices and actions leading up to this March were spiritually guided.

I am grateful to have been raised as a Quaker. To have grown up among a people who base their lives on faith, which is expressed in concern for and care of all people, since God is present in every single being. I was born into a Quaker community that had just experienced the imprisonment of many of its members for refusing to participate in war. Of course this commitment to obey the spirit rather than man-made rules is not limited to Quakers.

My own spiritual life has recently been radicalized by my involvement with two new, for me, communities. One is the Kheprw Institute (KI) in Indianapolis, “a community organization that works to create…