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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7/20/2019

Prairie Reborn

Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
Quaker

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. Jim Kessler is passionate about the type of environment we can, and need, to restore, and has been carrying the good news of an Earth reborn widely, including working Quaker Earthcare Witness to get the word out. [ More... ]

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7/13/2019

Compassion Across the Border

Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
Quaker

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. [ More... ]

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7/6/2019

Back In Iraq With Sami Rasouli

Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
Muslim

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. [ More... ] [ Excerpts ]

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6/29/2019

Equality Reimagined - Utopia

Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
Non-affiliated

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 Boone, North Carolina. Confronting hierarchy as a primary destructive force, Martin envisions a world where full equality is the norm and coercion no longer employed, and in which the happiness of all is maximized. Discuss your issues & insights about Utopia with Martin at mdsnewyork@gmail.com. [ More... ] [ Excerpts ]

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6/22/2019

Juneteenth In Clear Water

Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
I Ching, Non-affiliated

A visit to the 2019 Juneteenth celebration in Eau Claire, WI. Speakers included Berlye Middleton, 1st African-American Eau Claire city council member, and president of Uniting Bridges of Eau Claire, Selika Ducksworth-Lawton, a history professor at UW-Eau Claire , Aaron Zook - Priest in Charge at Christ Episcopal Church in Chippewa Falls, Sarah Ferber, associate director of Chippewa Valley EXPO, Rep. Jodi Emerson. Music was provided by Irie Sol. [ More... ] [ Excerpts ]

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