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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1/25/2020

Christian Slavery

Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
Quaker

Racism is deeply rooted in the USA, and entwined with religion. Katharine Gerbner, author of Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World, helps uproot the attitudes and untwine the prejudices in the hope of finding a clear way forward. Katharine is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. [ More... ]

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1/18/2020

Open Arms For Refugees

Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
Quaker

Leslie Davis is from Milwaukee, WI, where she is a psychologist for the state’s largest free medical clinic, providing services to principally undocumented immigrants. In 2019 Leslie Davis expanded her compassionate outreach by making 4 extended sojourns on the US-Mexican border, starting with the Dilley Detention Center in Texas, attempting to provide much-needed service from both her general energy and compassion, and also from her skills as a clinical psychologist. Leslie invites you to contact her for additional resources at les.davis3@outlook.com, like Dilley Pro Bono Project, Al Otro Lado, & the Refugee Health Alliance. Also, give a listen to The American Life: The Out Crowd. [ More... ] [ Excerpts ]

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1/11/2020

Nuclear Watchdog: Nukewatch & Kelly Lundeen

Kelly Lundeen was a founder of Just Peace from the Chippewa Valley back in 2001, spent time in Milwaukee at the Casa Maria Catholic Worker House, which led her to do accompaniment work in Columbia as part of the International Peace Observatory. But her work recently, back in Wisconsin, has been as a mother of 3 and as staff for Nukewatch, working for a nuclear-free future since 1979. The folks at Nukewatch have been sentinels for the safety, well-being, and future of our country by their investigation of and action on nuclear weapons and nuclear power in the USA. She also connects with immigrant rights in her area of Northern Wisconsin through the Immigrant Advocates of Barron County, including the Somali Stories of Family Separation video they helped produce. [ More... ]

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1/4/2020

Waging Peace With David Hartsough

Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
Quaker

Our guest is David Hartsough, author of Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist, a wonderful book combining the stories and inspiration for a better world that David has lived out and been witness to. David has gone inspirationally into the crucial events of the past 60 years, in the Civil Rights movement, across the Berlin Wall, working against nuclear weapons, traveling in solidarity with the people of Central America & Kosovo and making himself available everywhere that people need compassion and support. He’s a founder of many organizations including the Nonviolent Peaceforce and World Beyond War. [ More... ]

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12/28/2019

A Life Less Throwaway

Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
Catholic, Sunday Assembly

Tara Button is the founder of BuyMeOnce.com which helps connect people to durable, dependable, well-designed & built products, to live sustainably. Her new book is A Life Less Throwaway: The Lost Art of Buying for Life, and it provides a wealth of info & exercises to help people find the optimal material life for themselves. [ More... ]

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