Spirit in Action

George Lakey  has been on the vanguard of nonviolent activism for over 50 years, doing, innovating, and teaching organizing & activism with ever more effective ways of helping humanity forward.

Jonathan Kuttab  has a vital new perspective, potentially opening a completely new door into a future of peace and justice for Israel/Palestine. Jonathan was born & grew up in West Jerusalem till he headed to college in the US.

Thom Hartman  just released his latest book,  The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream.

David Eberhardt  was one of the Baltimore Four, along with Phil Berrigan, and David spent 21 months in prison for pouring blood on Selective Service draft records.

Karl Meyer  has been a deep-thinking & devoted practicing advocate for peace and justice since his mid-teens. His pioneering in  war tax refusal , and his enthusiastic & fearless advocacy of refusal of complicity with injustice, whether in war, in nuclear weapons, in environmental conditions, or in economics, has inspired legions of activists.

Cindy Yurth 's vocational & spiritual journey can be an inspiration for everyone. From her time starting a literacy program in Utah with  VISTA , to work in Liberia as part of the  Peace Corps , and again in Africa, in Ghana, with the  Society of African Missions  (Catholic), Cindy has sought out world-healing work.

Mike Boehm has spent 3 decades working on healing Vietnam, where he served in the US military during the Vietnam War. With the help of Joe & Joanne Elder, Mike founded MQI (Madison Quakers Inc) to do things like build schools, establish a loan fund, construct a My Lai Peace Park, and much more. There remain deep wounds in Vietnam, and Mike and his supporters, including Phan Van Do, Mike's Viet...

Be part of a teach-in organized by  Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality  with the help of today's guest-host  Patricia Stansbury  (AKA Sunny Gardener).

Diya Abdo is the founder of  Every Campus A Refuge , and author of  American Refuge: True Stories of the Refugee Experience . Diya was herself of a Palestinian refugee family in Jordan.

A wide array of valuable climate-related guests & resources though guest-host  Peterson Toscano  of  Citizen's Climate Radio .

In his book,  The Rescue Effect: The Key to Saving Life on Earth , Michael Mehta Webster has both hopeful & challenging news about the possibilities & ways we might mitigate the damage of Earth's 6 th  mass extinction event. Michael knows how it both can and does work to bring species back from the edge of extinction - or even after - and he knows the nitty-gritty of getting this...

The Thread Collectors . is a co-authored book, all the more compelling because of the family connections of the authors to the events of this story, set during the Civil War, much of it in Louisiana, and centering around two couples, one couple enslaved, and the other couple White & Jewish.  Shaunna J.

Iris Graville  was writer-in-residence on the  Interisland Ferry  of Washington's San Juan Islands just before COVID hit.

Guest-hosts today are from the  Climate Changed podcast , Nicole Diroff & Ben Yosua-Davis , of the BTS Center , accompanied by Peterson Toscano . Their guests today are  Maya Williams , the poet laureate of Portland, Maine, and  Corina Newsome , who co-organized the very first #BlackBirdersWeek and who, in taking on racial injustice directly through activism, has challenged the...

The team at of  FNVW  and their  Everyday Nonviolence Podcast  guest-hosts today for Spirit In Action. Diane Sandberg interviews activist, sociologist, & writer Paula Palmer about Indigenous Boarding Schools & the Quaker role - and guilt - in them.

Thom Hartmann  talks about the latest book in his series,  The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore its Greatness .

Robert P. Jones  is the founder and CEO of  PRRI  and the author of  White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity . Combining theological and historical insight with rigorous statistical analysis, Robert P. Jones searches out the DNA of white supremacy in our churches, to expose the systemic racism and lead to change.

Eleonora Bartoli  &  Ali Michael  bring us a book about antiracism that actually helps equip people to do the work, & to do it in a way that is actually helpful & effective.  Our Problem Our Path: Collective Antiracism for White People

We featured the brand-new  Climate Changed Podcast , in June, before it was released to the world, hosted by today's guest,  Ben Yosua-Davis , and co-host  Nicole Diroff , and that's how we first learned about 

Peterson Toscano  of  Citizen's Climate Radio  guest-hosts today, on the topic of Queer Response to Climate Change. Foremost he speaks with Isaias Hernandez who provides training and media as  Queer Brown Vegan .

Randy Kehler  &  Betsy Corner  have been standing strong against paying for war for more than 45 years. They were especially notable because their witness for peace led to an attempt by the govt to take their home, something that happens to very few resisters.

Mary Ann Percy  has found essence in nature since she was a child, expecting that work in ecology was to be her path. Alas, defeated by chemistry, she looked to Spirit for clarity about the work she was intended to do. With a leading into work with palliative care and hospice volunteer training, she works as  Kulshan Cares .

National Healthcare has been an enduring electoral and life issue for many decades, with advocacy for Single Payer or Medicare For All platforms ever more popular. Myron Buchholz taught history in high schools for around 30 years, and he combines his historical perspective on the issue with his personal experience with the “healthcare” system to advocate for a single payer system in the US.

Beverly Ward is  Field Secretary for Earthcare  of SEYM, doing all kinds of work to motivate, inform, & unite around work for care for the planet.

We're called to flip the world topsy-turvy & stop beating our asses according to Cantankerous Hermit-ish Mendicant Farmer ( Don Durham ) and Jewish Trans Educator ( Liam Hooper ), two insightful & radical Bible wrestlers.