Spirit in Action

Hayat Imam is an American-Muslim of Bangladeshi origin. She is a feminist-activist committed to building global social justice movements. Former Executive Director of the  Boston Women’s Fund  and Board Chair of  Grassroots International , she is an active member of  Mass Peace Action  and  Dorchester People for Peace .

Will the issues every stop repeating themselves? Everything is not about the Bible, but a good share of everything is in the Bible, at least if you look with the discerning eyes of  Peterson Toscano , a gay man who produces the monthly  Citizen's Climate Radio  blog, and  Liam Hooper , a North Carolinian trans man of  Ministries Beyond Welcome .

Ralph Jacobson has been a steadfast advocate for solar since he founded  IPS Solar  in 1991. In 2017 they became the fastest-growing Twin Cities Business, all the more rewarding because of their practice of inviting women & people of color into the mostly male-dominated industry, and for Ralph's effort to use  MnVest.org (Minnesota Investment Crowdfunding)  to jump-start so...

The impact of addiction can shape our lives in unexpected ways. Spencer T. and his guests on  The Recovery Show  podcast carry the message of healing for those affected by addiction and alcoholism. We explore the 12-steps of Al-Anon and see how working the steps can offer solutions to personal challenges we all face. Past/current religious/spiritual influences: 12 Step Spirituality

Betsy Raasch-Gilman has a lifetime of experience as an activist, feminist, anarchist, Quaker, and change-maker, so she has seen the ups-and-downs of organizing and burn-out. Hearing of the exhaustion of activists in the current political turmoil, she gathered her resources and shared a presentation on  Reasons for Hope .

A taste of Farm Aid 2019 , the work & music, of the event & the organization. We have 2 amazing musicians from the 18 acts from this year's mainstage: Particle Kid (Micah Nelson, Willie's youngest son) and Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real , (Willie's 2nd youngest son) , joined by Jennifer Lahy, Communication Director of Farm Aid's staff .

John Stoesz carries a ministry advocating land reparations with indigenous peoples as he has traveled 1000's & 1000's of miles on his recumbent trike, working with Dakota peoples in Minnesota, working with and alongside  Unsettling Minnesota , coalition for  Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery , and Waziyatawin, author of  What Does Justice Look Like .

A front-row look at the situation in Hong Kong with  Jerry (Chiwei) Hui , currently Associate Professor of Music at  UW-Stout  in Wisconsin, but he is Hong Kong born-and-raised, and he was present for the first two of the massive protests there. Jerry provides an inside glimpse of the people, laws, history, politics, & character of Hong Kong, which can be supplemented by the&nbs...

Kevin McMullin  has created a powerful one-man show called  Into the Black Sea: Stories of Darkness and Light  to invite the audience to journey alongside the voyage of hurt, healing, and uncertainly he has traveled with the onset of a brain tumor. Kevin uses storytelling and music to walk a mile in his hospital bed, and out of it, show all a way to look honestly into the confusion,...

Permaculture is much more than organic gardening because it uses whole systems thinking. It is explained eloquently by  Carol Barta  of the  Kansas Permaculture Institute , one of the places where Carol teaches folks to see the world differently by focusing on the Big Picture, supported by the 3 core tenets and 12 design principles of permaculture.

George Lakey passes on the inspirations that led him to a life of activism & social change, among them  Bayard Rustin  &  Lucrecia Mott .

There are climate advocates everywhere including in sports, the circus, and in mermaid drag.  Peterson Toscano  of  Citizens Climate Radio  talks with Lew Blaustein of  Green Sports Blog , Brewers pitcher Brent Sutter of  Strike Out Waste , Eliana Dunlap of the  Circus Action Network , Angel Collinson of 

Exploration of how spiritually-root service can transform the paths of young volunteers. There's riches in the experience with the  Peace Corps ,  Americorps & VISTA ,  Teach for America , & many more, but today we visit with several folks with  QVS (Quaker Voluntary Service) .

Pamela Boyce-Simms  does so much & is active at so many different levels that there is just too much to talk about.

Jim Kessler has taught biology for 34 years in Iowa, in the course of which he found a leading to restore the native habitats on a plot of 29 acres that he and his wife bought, including some 15 acres of Tall Grass Prairie, now held by the  Bur Oak Land Trust .

Tim Reed is active with a number of protests, witnesses, and helping hands to those in pilgrimmage across the Mexico/USA border in the Las Cruces NM area. He is active with  Oak Tree Project  and  NM CAFé (Comunidades en Acción y de Fé) , protested at  Tornillo Dentention tent city , and sought communication with the authorities on the border.

Sami Rasouli came to the USA in 1976, returning to Iraq after the US invasion, where he was founder of the  Muslim Peacemaker Teams . Sami shares a very different perspective of the cause and effect of the US invasion of Iraq, due to his vantage point on the ground in the country, and has put his life at the service of peace and healing for his country of birth.

We need a vision of the better world in order to energize our drive to it, and  Martin Schoenhals  does an amazing job of providing a scientifically-based vision in  Work, Love, & Learning in Utopia - Equality Reimagined . He is a cultural anthropologist who has taught at several universities, including Johns Hopkins, Columbia, and, currently, Appalachian State University, in Bo...

A visit to the 2019  Juneteenth celebration  in Eau Claire, WI.

The  Bible Bash Podcast  is hosted on Northern Spirit Radio because of the way that  Peterson Toscano  of  Citizen's Climate Radio  and  Liam Hooper , of  Ministries Beyond Welcome , use their expertise and insight to transform the way we think about the Bible and what it means

Roger Gottlieb  brings piecing, passionate, comprehensible analysis to our looming environmental disaster, its root causes, and possible ways forward in the newly released book,  Morality & the Environmental Crisis .

In his new book,  Race and Social Change: A Quest, A Study, A Call to Action ,  Max Klau  uses wide-ranging social science investigation to search for a way forward on dealing with racism and privilege in the USA. The starting point is  Camp Anytown 's Separation Exercise, which has led to the awakening of many minds.

Climate change has real clout on Gael Henry Carlut’s  Pandan Island  in the Philippines, as  Marissa Slaven  brings the crisis to life with her eco-mystery novel,  Code Blue .  Nicole Chatterson  hauls plastic out of the Pacific next to Hawaii, while  Dominic Scicchitano &nbs

How does one learn about the alternatives to paying half your federal income tax to the military?  Lincoln Rice , coordinator for the  National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC.org)  sent out a message about groups doing that kind of education around Tax Day 2019.

Tyler Norman and the folks of the  Mutual Aid Disaster Relief  network are exploring and implementing a new way to deal with the rising number of disasters that have been demanding rapid response, including those caused by climate change, like floods, hurricanes, and fires. Using a horizontal and co-conspirator model of organizing, they've leveraged lots of solutions to bring people toge...