Spirit in Action

Conclusion of a musical adventure into awakening men via  Ebenezer's Make Over ,  Peter Alsop's  eye-opening reconceptualization of Ebenezer Scrooge facing dysfunctional manhood presented by the 3 ghosts of the Christmas Carol, rewritten. How do men support one another & our kids, and not kill each other & themselves, own their bodies, and work together.

A different type of Spirit In Action show, where we do our learning about dead-end and promising directions for men's growth in a kind of musical called  Ebenezer's Make Over .  Peter Alsop  master-minded the project and contributed a lot of the songs, along with many of his friends in the feminist men's and women's movements. Whole lot of eye-opening in a reconceptualization of Ebe...

Occasionally big issues, like sexual abuse, are tackled through fiction - all the better when enhanced through an alternative detective approach. In  St. Mary's Private Dancer , Blair Hull explores the underworld of sex work in a murder mystery, and in  Quaker Witness  the issues are sexual harassment, rape, & murder, written by  E. Kirsten Peters  under the pen-name I...

When we find that even well-loved and previously-respected icons are dropping left & right, we need to be asking what we can do to encourage healthy, thoughtful, & non-predatory male sexuality. Fortunately,  Peter Alsop  has been exploring & walking just such a path with his music for decades, taking on all the related, thorny issues with wit, insight, & song. After all,...

In  Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys , John O'Brien looks at the lives of the Legendz, a small group of members of the Muslim Youth Program of a mosque John worked with. The tensions of be a member of a too-often-feared religion and to be accepted as a teenager in the USA can be a real challenge, and John explores the way it works. John is Assistant Profess...

Peter Leidy  does his work of building inclusion predominantly in the area of disabilities, and with considerable creativity, often writing new songs or crafting new lyrics for existing tunes to tell a story or convey a lesson.

Peterson Toscano of  Citizens' Climate Radio  hosts today with perspectives from people of color on climate change, from organizations and individuals about environomental & climate justice, speaking with Peggy Sheppard of  WE ACT For Environmental Justice  and Dr. Beverly G Ward,  Field Director for Earthcare for SE Yearly Meeting .

Lucy Duncan  does work that touches on all of the important issues of the day, like Palestine, Racism, and Immigration, in her role as Friends Relations Director for the  AFSC .

Geoffrey Gates, MD , in addition to a life of professional healing work, book-ended his career with some off-the-beaten path world service. Though registered as a CO during the Vietnam War, he served as a member of  IVS (International Voluntary Services)  in a Vietnam war zone, 1970-71, and after his retirement served with the  Peace Corps, Tanzania .

Timmon B. Wallis  has spent his life building the tools of peace & getting rid of the weapons of war. In  Disarming the Nuclear Argument: The Truth about Nuclear Weapons , Tim dispells the myths, clears the fog, & inspires for a better, safer, world.  Tim's Ph. D. is in Peace Studies, and he's worked with  Peace Brigades Intl ,  Peaceworkers UK ,  Nonviolent P...

David LaMotte  is author of  Worldchanging 101: Challenging the Myth of Powerlessness  and  White Flour , co-founder of  PEG Partners ,  Abraham Jam , and  Let's Be Neighbors , and recently led the  Quaker Nobel Peace Prize Nominating Task Group . And he makes great music.

Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good , by Chuck Collins, is an excellent and persuasive look at wealth inequality by a man who gave away his inherited wealth when he was 26, and finds common ground and allies across the income spectrum. Chuck is a senior scholar with the  Institute for Policy Studie...

Paula Palmer is leading an effort to tackle one part of America's dismal past with respect to Native Americans.

George Lakey  really packs a punch with his book,  Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It Right - And How We Can Too

Brian Eastman is a hub for Alt-Med info - resources of non-mainstream US healing modalities, which he researches and shares in the Cincinnatti area, but he also has evolved his own technique to help folks produce amazing changes in themselves in a very short time. He calls it  LIIFT (Life Improving Internal Focus Technique) , and he demonstrates it today with an audience. You can call him at...

Pamela Boyce Simms  refers to herself as a Buddhist-Quaker Evolutionary Culture designer. She has worked as convenor of the  Mid-Atlantic Transition Hub (MATH) , and currently represents  Quaker Earthcare Witness  at the United Nations. New Jersey born-and-raised, Pamela's journey has included decades living in West Africa and living in a Buddhist monastery.

Guest-host  Peterson Toscano  of  Citizens Climate Radio  explores climate apocalypse, fear, & how to deliver the message effectively, in the first part of today's program, and in part two he'll talk about pets & climate change. Peterson speaks with Halldor Björnsson, the Head of the Atmospheric Research Group at Veðurstofa Iceland also known as the Icelandic Met Office...

Kevin Basl  served served 2 tours of duty in Iraq and was profoundly changed by the experience. He is among the vets who use the arts for healing. Kevin's work is with  Warrior Writers ,  Combat Paper NJ , and through his music, some of which he recorded in Iraq during his 2nd tour.

Pamela Haines calls us to a right relationship with finance. With a BA in Social Ecology, MA in Labor & Women's History, and as a self-taught economist, she looks to the future & seeks to foster integrity. She was lead author of  Toward a Right Relationship with Finance .

Rupert Isaacson, thanks to his journalist skills, his passion for justice, and his unstoppable heart-of-a-father, has opened up the lives of tens of thousands of autistic children to healing.

There has been a dramatic evolution of peace & justice activism over the past century, often pioneered by a Quaker organization called the  AFSC .

Ruah Swennerfelt has lots of experience in the Transition Town movement, locally , regionally , religiously , nationally , and internationally , and has now written of much of it in

Jamila Raqib is executive director of The Albert Einstein Institution , the brain-child of Gene Sharp, leading researcher in non-violent action & civilian-based defense. Jamila was a refugee from Afghanistan at age 4, with a keen and innate sense of the power of non-violence to preserve and obtain freedom and justice, at the least cost.

There are many ways to participate in world healing, among them by inspiring us to come together - even folks from the  other side , and what better way to do that with song, humor, compassion, and  Billy Jonas . Billy is a creative genius and musical pied piper, leading us where we need to go, and doing it by example, not lecture. Past/current religious/spiritual influences: Jewish&nbsp...

Bobby Kennedy started out aligned with conservative commie-chasing Joe McCarthy, but ended up an inspirational, hard-fighting liberal. Larry Tye scrutinizes the history and make a case that we need just such a transformed bridge-builder today. That and much more in Larry's book, Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon . Past/current religious/spiritual influences: Jewish