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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2/16/2019

Pipeline, Guns, Civil Liberties & Selika

Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
Catholic

Selika Ducksworth-Lawton, is Professor of History at UW-Eau Claire, is an educator & activist, raising awareness and working for our civil rights. Of a rural black Louisianan upbringing, Selika has an incisive perspective on race & cultural dynamics in the USA. She serves on the executive board of Wisconsin's ACLU, is co-author of The Pipeline, and wrote a chapter, Have Gun Will Travel in the newly released, Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Right in 20th Century America. [ More... ] [ Excerpts ]

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2/9/2019

Longing for Belonging, 'Druther Have No Other

Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
Eastern, Jewish, Non-affiliated

Bias & prejudice are hard-wired in us, we've got the studies to prove it, so what can we do about bias, hate, & division. In Our Search For Belonging: How Our Need to Connect Is Tearing Us Apart by Howard J. Ross we explore the mind, our behavior, & our possibility of acting better than we're programmed for. [ More... ] [ Excerpts ]

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2/2/2019

A Few Thousand Dollars & Transformation

Robert Friedman, founder of Prosperity Now, & author of A Few Thousand Dollars: Sparking Prosperity for Everyone, says, "Given a chance, low-income people do amazing things and can be, not just beneficiaries, trainees, employees, but entrepreneurs, home-owners, college material, skilled workers, creators of wealth". He shares the proof and the means to reversing income inequality and increasing prosperity for our nation. [ More... ]

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1/25/2019

Olympic Human Rights & Medical News: Henna Hundal

Henna Hundal of Harvard Radio hosts Spirit In Action this week. Her first guest is Paul Hoffman, an American coxswain who competed in the 1968 & 1972 Summer Olympics, and a supporter of the Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR). Her second guest is Dr. Howard Bauchner, editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), concerning initiatives to expand the digital reach of JAMA and the publishing in JAMA of President Obama's piece on US Health Care Reform. [ More... ]

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1/19/2019

Amish Burn Treatment & Plain Medical

Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
Amish, Catholic, Methodist, Non-affiliated

Jerry Edwards acts as an educational conduit between the medical system and Plain Communities (Amish, Mennonnite & other people who cautiously engage with mainstream technology & practices). In particular, he has been sharing in medical circles an inexpensive & effective technique for burn & wound treatment, innovated among the Amish about 30 years ago, A significant issue is trust & mutual respect for the different priorities & decisions of Plain folks accessing medical services. He has helped organize a February 12, 2019, Plain Medical/Burn & Wounds Conference at the La Crosse, WI, Gunderson Campus, in the ICE House (Integrated Center for Education - 1827 Sims Place), 8:30 am - 5 pm. [ More... ]

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