Spirit in Action

Michael Birkel  is a Professor of Christian Spirituality at  ESR (Earlham School of Religion)  who became a self-taught friend of the Qur'an. In addition to the courses he has taught at ESR and  Earlham College , he led a week-long workshop called  Reading the Qur'an as Friends  as part of  the 2019 FGC Gathering .

Guest-host Patricia Stansbury/Sunny Gardener shares interviews with speakers at the 50th anniversary celebration at Quaker House in Fayetteville, NC, home of  Fort Bragg .

2nd installment of a discussion about race, racism, & the grace leading to solutions, with perspectives from 2 African-Americans.  Selika Ducksworth-Lawton  was raised in New Orleans, but now graces Eau Claire, WI, a heavily white city, with her wide-ranging activism, including her leadership in the work of  Uniting Bridges , an

Discussion about race, racism, problems & solutions, seen from Akron, OH, New Orleans, LA, & Eau Claire, WI.  Rodney Long Jr 's article in  Friends Journal  entitled  Before My Life Matters to You, Let It Matter to Me  kicked off the exchange, with insights from his life & work as a therapist, social worker, & addictions counselor

Today's guest-host,  Peterson Toscano  of  Citizen's Climate Radio , extends the range of climate change warriors by asking "What Would Jesus Do?" through his interviews with some conservative-tilting, Christian evangelical/fundamental-leaning climate activists.  Kelsey Grant (on Twitter) , Conservative Outreach Coordinator for 

Liam Michael Hooper 's newly-released book,  Trans-Forming Proclamation: A Transgender Theology of Daring Existence , envisions & invokes a call for empowerment that is both lyrical & profound, experiential & visionary. Combining Spirit-centered passion, free-wheeling prose, & well-rooted expertise, Liam harnasses energy & determination to construct a mosaic with the full...

A visit with America's #1 progressive talk show host,  Thom Hartmann , about his latest book,  The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class . We've temporarily dodged the bullet of oligarchy-into-tyranny in the USA, and Thom spells it all out - the history, present, and possible future.

Joseph Hunt has spent a lifetime seeking to empower a world where individuals reach their potential in health, learning, & well-being, and which is compassionate & sustainable.

Jennifer Kavanagh  was caught up by a life-transforming Spirit, right at an age where many other people are just shifting into a lower gear, ready to coast the last stretch. After years of the normal study-family-professional life path, she was found by faith, which has included diverse tasks, like running a center for the poor and homeless, setting up micro-credit funding programs, and educa...

Nadine Hoover has some 40 years experience working for and training people for peace, much of it in Southeast Asia. Having found that her work as an international project manager wasn't doing what she wanted, she immersed herself in the work of  AVP - Alternatives to Violence Project , and major peace work and training with the  Friends Peace Teams . With amazing, frightening, & insp...

When viewed with non-gender conforming eyes, the Bible has lessons that can be used to heal, instead of serving repression & exclusion.

Guest-host  Peterson Toscano  of  Citizens Climate Radio  visits with 5 guests:  Andrew Stuhl , associate professor of environmental studies and sciences at Bucknell University; Jaso

Selika Ducksworth-Lawton  is Professor of History at  UW-Eau Claire  and an educator & activist, raising awareness and working for our civil rights. From a rural black Louisianan upbringing, Selika has an incisive perspective on race & cultural dynamics in the USA.

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" .

The women's rights effort in Egypt looks different from that of the USA, with some overlap, addressing things like FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) and child marriage, but also economic, employment, & other civil rights. Reda Eldanbouki is the founder & executive director of the  Women’s Center for Guidance and Legal Awareness (WCGLA) , working to ensure that women enjoy all of their h...

In an effort to support  MVP (Movement Voter Project) , Annie Patterson & Peter Blood of  RiseUpAndSing.org  organized 5 on-line benefit concerts to raise funds, consciousness, & energy to  Sing Out The Vote .

Jan Frase & the  Community Coalition for Nonviolence  helped us celebrate the U.N. International Day of Peace by a gathering of artists & activists hosted virtually by the  Pablo Center at the Confluence .

Religious norms & habits can't stand in the way of a community faithful to the call of Radical Love. Dave Greenlund, pastor of  Peace Lutheran Church - Lauderdale  shares the story of a (formerly) Missouri Synod Church whose members traveled a path to greater & greater inclusion & love, squarely facing sexism, racism, Earthcare, and gifting themselves & their neighbors wi...

A special Spirit In Action show by guest-host  Peterson Toscano  of  Citizens Climate Radio  on finding political unity in dealing with the climate crisis. Visits with members of the Conservative Climate Lobby, and speakers from their DC lobby day, give hope for bringing red and blue together for a united response to the crisis of our generation.

Guest-host  Peterson Toscano  of  Citizens Climate Radio  brings inspiration & joy to today's program, visiting with Hannah Pickard from  NNOCCI ,  Sean Dague  from Citizens Climate Lobby, Environmental Health Expert  Dr.

Mark Neumann  was a Franciscan brother for 20 years, including 6 years working as a medical missionary in Zaire, now called the Congo. After a total of 35 years as a pediatrician, he is making his 1st run for office, in the Democratic primary for Wisconsin's 3rd district in the US House of Representatives, currently occupied by  Ron Kind . As a world-healer and a people-healer, he is now...

Extinction Rebellion  has a take on addressing the climate crisis that is refreshing, since their plan is to step pass the log-jam of the political process in the US, and taking the power right back to the people. And instead of talking about things like carbon neutrality by 2050 or the like, their plan is to do it by 2025.

Mike McCabe  is a political reform activist. Farm-raised, Peace Corps-deepened, journalist-honed, Mike worked 15 years with the  Wisconsin Democracy Campaign . He ran in the 2018 Democratic primary for Wisconsin Governor, and shares the motivations, experiences, & lessons of that run in his new book,  Unscrewing America: Hopes from the Heartland  .

Barbara Luetke  recently retired after 10 years as the Outreach & Literacy Coordinator at the  Northwest School for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children  and decades more in the field. She's written a  number of textbooks  in that field.

In  Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues: Education for the Liberation of Black and Brown Girls ,  Monique W. Morris  orchestrates a vision of ways forward for the healing of the black & brown girls in the USA. Drawing on the science & the art of human change, Monique identifies the obstructions, & spot-lights the ways over, around, & through them.