Northern Spirit Radio, Eau Claire Wi

Spirit In Action

Each week, Spirit In Action brings you stories of people living lives of fruitful service, of peace, community, compassion, creative action and progressive efforts. We'll trace the spiritual roots that support and nourish them in their service. Above all, we'll seek out Light, Love and Helping Hands, being shared between our many neighbors on this planet, hoping to inspire and encourage you to sink deep roots and produce sacred fruit in your own life.

Spirit In Action is an hour of interviews with those providing leadership in peace, justice and "good works", interspersed with relevant music.

The theme music is "The Turning of the World" performed by Sara Thomsen (written by Ruth Pellham) and "I Have No Hands But Yours" by Carol Johnson

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6/6/2020

Raising White Kids Beyond Color-Blind

Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
American Baptist, Baptist, Liberation Theology

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. from Union Theological Seminary is in Christian Social Ethics, and she is Professor of Religion at Drake University. [ More... ] [ Excerpts ]

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5/30/2020

Bono & Neoliberal Capitalism

Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
Baptist, Christian Fundamentalist, Methodist

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. Scrutinizing secularism, sincerity, and the factual effects of well-intentioned attempts to be helpful, Chad spotlights the realities behind the forms. Chad Seales teaches in the Dept of Religious Studies at UT-Austin. [ More... ] [ Excerpts ]

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5/23/2020

Eco-grief - Community Breeds Courage

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 now seeing with Covid-19. Visits with Dr. Nathasha DeJarnett, Interim Associate Director Program & Partnership Development National Environmental Health Association, Dr. Lise VanSusteren, psychiatrist in private practice in Washington, DC with a special interest in the psychological effects of climate change, Elizabeth Rush, author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, Solemi Hernandez, Citizens Climate Lobby Southeast Regional Coordinator, Edie Lush, co-host of Global GoalsCast podcast, Laura Schmidt & Aimee Lewis-Reau, co-founders of the Good Grief Network, and Anna Jane Joyner, co-host of No Place Like Home podcast. [ More... ]

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5/16/2020

Living Justice: Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism

Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
Jewish

More visits with 3 authors of the 40 essays in Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: Stories of Personal Transformation. More from editor Carolyn Karcher, professor emerita of English, American studies, and women’s studies at Temple University, and author of a number of books, and including visit withs Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber (Assiociate Professor of Communication and Journalism at Suffolk University and author of Israeli Media and the Framing of Internal Conflict: The Yeminite Babies Affair) and Emily Siegel, Program Director for Eyewitness Palestine. [ More... ] [ Excerpts ]

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5/9/2020

Jews Breaking With Zionist Injustices

Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
Jewish

There are 40 essays in Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: Stories of Personal Transformation, all personal, touching, transformative, & ringing with a cry for justice. We speak today with contributors Chris Godshall, founder of JVP Columbia & student at Georgetown University Law Center, Rabbi Brant Rosen of Tzedek Chicago and author of Wrestling in the Daylight: A Rabbi's Path to Palestinian Solidarity, & editor Carolyn Karcher, professor emerita of English, American studies, and women’s studies at Temple University, and author of a number of books. [ More... ] [ Excerpts ]

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