Spirit in Action

Racial Color-Blindness & Diversity Training can't get us to MLK's Dream, but maybe Race-Conscious Parenting can.  Jennifer Harvey  is the author of  Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America , with both practical & philosophical guidance for those who would like to make the dream real.  Jennifer's  Ph. D.

Chad Seales  writes & speaks eloquently on neoliberal capitalism, religion, spirituality, & their intersection with U2 star, Bono, in his book  Religion Around Bono: Evangelical Enchantment and Neoliberal Capitalism .

Guest-host  Peterson Toscano  of  Citizens Climate Radio  brings special depth & insight into the emotional & human consequences of living in this time of crisis, both due to climate change & the coronavirus. In this episode 8 women talk about working through grief to a place of action. They use their expertise to connect the impacts of climate change to what we are...

More visits with 3 authors of the 40 essays in  Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: Stories of Personal Transformation .

There are 40 essays in  Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: Stories of Personal Transformation , all personal, touching, transformative, & ringing with cry for justice.

Back  in 2012 we explored the amazing healing of Fire Burn Doctor . Today we speak again with Alison McDermott of  ECN (Earthcare Network) , this time about the offer by Philip Savage to prevent or cure COVID-19. For further info, visit  Fireburn Doctor  &  PSProof.com .

In the course of working for charitable foundations and passing on 100's of millions of dollars,  Edgar Villanueva  came to some realizations about how the charity system works, and how it needs to change to really do good for the world. In  Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance , Edgar combines analysis, story-telling, & personal vulnerabili...

Dr. Michael Luick-Thrams is founder & director of TRACES Center for History and Culture, sponsors of the upcoming BUS-eum display & tour entitled Hidden or Forbidden No More: Prequels to the Greatest Generation, which includes The Killer: 1918's Flu Pandemic, with lessens for dealing with Coronavirus today.

Chief Richard Quiet Thunder Gilbert  served as tribal chief of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape of Bridgeton, NJ, for 13 years. His 86 years on the planet has included 2 books co-authored with Greg Vizzi,  The Seventh Generation: Quiet Thunder Speaks (coming soon) , and also  The Original People .

Guest-host  Peterson Toscano  of  Citizens Climate Radio (CCR)  is the main host today, after some thoughts on our times from Mark Helpsmeet. Then CCR looks at crisis living & response, both in terms of COVID-19 and Climate Change. Guests include Dr.

Nonprofit groups are at the forefront of care for the homeless, hungry, needy & oppressed. Given the deep compassion and connection of these non-profits, it is all the more remarkable how often their own staffs face issues of equity and near-poverty wages. Among those looking for a solution to this conundrum are Betsy Leondar-Wright, Anastasia Lynge, & other members of the organization&nbs...

Lincoln Rice and Ruth Benn of  NWTRCC (National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee) share the essentials from the January 2020 on-line war tax resistance counselor training, including the methods, mechanics, motivations, & consequences of refusing to pay for war.

Many myths, misconceptions, & motivations have kept the USA mired in racism for centuries.  Margaret L. Andersen  helps move us in productive directions with her new book,  Getting Smart About Race: An American Conversation .

Guest-host  Peterson Toscano  of  Citizens Climate Radio  brings inspiration & courage to us through the work of the  Better Angels  work of Adam Rosenbalm and Austin Ramsey, and the voices of the editors of  Rooted & Rising: Voices of Courage in a Time of Climate Crisis , 

Two powerful, and badly neglected, forces in our national history around race are featured in  Educated for Freedom: The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up To Change a Nation  by author & educator  Anna Mae Duane . The 1800's debate between two students of the NY African Free School, James McCune Smith & Henry Highland Garnet, echoes to current issues.

Essential parts of our history have been willfully suppressed & ignored, but we can only be the best nation we can be by facing the facts - alternative facts won’t do. That has been the work of sociologist, historian, writer and teacher  James Loewen .

Thom Hartmann  is one of the most articulate voices of progressive radio in the USA, and he's a compelling writer as well. His most recent book is  The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote and How to Get It Back  combines history, current events, analysis, & insight into the most crucial threat to our representative democracy happening now.

Racism is deeply rooted in the USA, and entwined with religion.  Katharine Gerbner , author of  Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World , helps uproot the attitudes and untwine the prejudices in the hope of finding a clear way forward. Katharine is  Assistant Professor of History at the University of Minnesota .

Leslie Davis is from Milwaukee, WI, where she is a psychologist for the state’s largest free medical clinic, providing services to principally undocumented immigrants. In 2019 Leslie Davis expanded her compassionate outreach by making 4 extended sojourns on the US-Mexican border, starting with the Dilley Detention Center in Texas, attempting to provide much-needed service from both her general ene...

Tara Button is the founder of  BuyMeOnce.com  which helps connect people to durable, dependable, well-designed & built products, to live sustainably. Her new book is  A Life Less Throwaway: The Lost Art of Buying for Life , and it provides a wealth of info & exercises to help people find the optimal material life for themselves. Past/current religious/spiritual influences: C...

How we communicate frequently makes all the difference between war/peace, connection/division, and safety/danger, and a very strong tool for effective, compassionate, dialogue is  Nonviolent Communication (NVC).  Claire Bates  has been passionate about learning and teaching NVC since 2013, teaching people how to live well with others.

Bob Bruninga is near the end of his work as an aerospace engineer at the US Naval Academy and is passionate about electric cars and solar energy. He built his first electric car way back in 1970, led his neighborhood’s implimentation of alternative energy, and helped  Annapolis Friends Meeting  in their installation of net zero energy solar panels.

In 2017  David Bucura  became overall coordinator for  AGLI (African Great Lakes Initiative)  of  Friends Peace Teams , working on peace and reconciliation in the nations of that region: Rwanda, Burundi, Congo (DRC), Kenya, Uganda, & Tanzania.

Hellen Lunkuse Waiswa Tanyinga  is a women's (and human) rights pioneer in Uganda and the founder of the  Rape Hurts Foundation . At the age of 11 she was raped while doing the tradtionally female job of hauling water, and she transformed that pain into healing & power for herself, women, and all abused people.

There's excitement as science seeks ways back from the brink of climate disaster.  Peterson Toscano  of  Citizens Climate Radio  talkes with  Dr. Michael L Curry & Dr.