Spirit in Action

By Northern Spirit Radio

Each week, Spirit In Action brings you stories of people living lives of fruitful service, of peace, community, compassion, creative action and progressive efforts. We will trace the spiritual roots t... more

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March 09, 2019 A Different Kind of Green Book - the Qur’an
Ecologist Huda Alkaff is a founding member and director of Wisconsin Green Muslims, a volunteer environmental justice group based in Milwaukee. She uses her advanced education and her Muslim faith to educate others and forge interfaith collaborations in the service of sustainability.
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March 02, 2019 Song of Slaves, Bound for Freedom
Throughout his career, Dwight L. Wilson has held many jobs: educator, administrator, chaplain. In each role, he worked to advance equality, opportunity and understanding. He continues this work in his carefully researched historical fiction series Esi Was My Mother, which follows the lives of an enslaved black family from 18th century Africa to the American Civil War. He strives to portray triumphant examples of black stories that will make history come alive for readers. He is also author of The Kidnapped: A Collection of Short Stories and Modern Psalms: In Search of Peace and Justice. Dwight writes about "characters who existed, those who could have existed, and those who should have existed". For further resources by and about Dwight L. Wilson, see the Friends Journal review about Modern Psalms in Search of Peace and Justice, Dwight's Friends Journal article entitled The Social Justice Testimony, Dwight's Reflections on being a member of the ESR Board of Advisors, and his 2018 Bible Half-hour videos
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February 23, 2019 Climate Evangelicals, Global Weirding, & Wizardry
Host Peterson Toscano visits with 3 Evangelicals fighting climate change, Kyle Meyaard-Shaap, Corina Newsome, & Rev. Josh Gibson. Comic creation, Tony Buffusio from the Bronx, talks climate change in the Bible. Scientist Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, host of the Global Weirding Podcast shares climate communication tips, and author Dr. Jeffrey Bennett and illustrator Roberta Collier-Morales inspire by their book, The Wizard Who Saved the World.
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February 23, 2019 Climate Evangelicals, Global Weirding, & Wizardry
Host Peterson Toscano visits with 3 Evangelicals fighting climate change, Kyle Meyaard-Shaap, Corina Newsome, & Rev. Josh Gibson. Comic creation, Tony Buffusio from the Bronx, talks climate change in the Bible. Scientist Dr.
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February 16, 2019 Pipeline, Guns, Civil Liberties & Selika
Selika Ducksworth-Lawton, is Professor of History at UW-Eau Claire, is an educator & activist, raising awareness and working for our civil rights. Of a rural black Louisianan upbringing, Selika has an incisive perspective on race & cultural dynamics in the USA. She serves on the executive board of Wisconsin's ACLU, is co-author of The Pipeline, and wrote a chapter, Have Gun Will Travel in the newly released, Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Right in 20th Century America. Check out CVPost.org articles about Selika and Juneteenth events.
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February 09, 2019 Longing for Belonging, 'Druther Have No Other
Bias & prejudice are hard-wired in us, we've got the studies to prove it, so what can we do about bias, hate, & division. In Our Search For Belonging: How Our Need to Connect Is Tearing Us Apart by Howard J. Ross we explore the mind, our behavior, & our possibility of acting better than we're programmed for.
Original Air Date: 05/19/2018
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February 09, 2019 Longing for Belonging, 'Druther Have No Other
Bias & prejudice are hard-wired in us, we've got the studies to prove it, so what can we do about bias, hate, & division? In Our Search For Belonging: How Our Need to Connect Is Tearing Us Apart by Howard J. Ross we explore the mind, our behavior, & our possibility of acting better than we're programmed for.
Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
Eastern, Jewish, Non-affiliated
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February 02, 2019 A Few Thousand Dollars & Transformation
Robert Friedman, founder of Prosperity Now, & author of A Few Thousand Dollars: Sparking Prosperity for Everyone, says, "Given a chance, low-income people do amazing things and can be, not just beneficiaries, trainees, employees, but entrepreneurs, home-owners, college material, skilled workers, creators of wealth". He shares the proof and the means to reversing income inequality and increasing prosperity for our nation.
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January 26, 2019 Olympic Human Rights & Medical News: Henna Hundal
Henna Hundal of Harvard Radio hosts Spirit In Action this week. Her first guest is Paul Hoffman, an American coxswain who competed in the 1968 & 1972 Summer Olympics, and a supporter of the Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR). Her second guest is Dr. Howard Bauchner, editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), concerning initiatives to expand the digital reach of JAMA and the publishing in JAMA of President Obama's piece on US Health Care Reform.
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January 25, 2019 Olympic Human Rights & Medical News: Henna Hundal
Henna Hundal of Harvard Radio hosts Spirit In Action this week. Her first guest is Paul Hoffman, an American coxswain who competed in the 1968 & 1972 Summer Olympics, and a supporter of the Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR). Her second guest is Dr. Howard Bauchner, editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), concerning initiatives to expand the digital reach of JAMA and the publishing in JAMA of President Obama's piece on US Health Care Reform.
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