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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11/10/2018

Artfully Taking on Climate Change

Talking about climate change effectively is quite a challange, in particular finding a way to move people to become curious about it. Today we hear from a singer/songwriter who goes by the name Hayride Casualties, whose album, Fossil Fuel Kid, beautifully conveys the feelings of growing up in a time of climate change. Citizens Climate Radio host, Peterson Toscano shares his own bizarre climate change coming out for climate change saga. Plus, Elizabeth Rush, author of a the critically acclaimed book, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore will tell us about climate fiction, or cli-fi. And with Thanksgiving coming up, we will hear about a new play in progress set in Thanksgiving. Playwright, Dante Flores, tells us about the inspiration behind his play. [ More... ]

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11/3/2018

Progressive Grassroots Revival

A peek at portions of the Wisconsin Grassroots Network festival held in Eau Claire on 9/22/18, with a brief intro by Art & Dawn Shegonee of Call For Peace Drum & Dance Company, and featuring excerpts from keynote presentations by the Madison gaggle of the national singing activist group The Raging Grannies, and progressive journalist, author and orator, John Nichols. [ More... ]

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10/27/2018

A New Money Story

Howard Switzer speaks powerfully on the need for monetary reform stemming from learning & connection with the American Monetary Institute and the Alliance for Just Money. Howard's passion for dealing with the shortcomings of our money system stems significantly from his decades of work as an eco-architect with Earth & Straw Design, his work with The Farm Ecovillage Training Center, and his work for peace & justice. [ More... ]

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10/20/2018

Funny Medicine

Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
Catholic

Stressful, challenging, daunting times call for special medicine. Al Gini, author of The Importance of Being Funny: Why We Need More Jokes in Our Lives, believes that humor is a vital ingredient in good emotional/mental health. Al is Professor of Business Ethics at the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University, and for decades was the "resident philosopher" on NPR's affiliate WBEZ in Chicago. He's written oodles of books, humor-tinted and very serious, including God Can Quote Me on That: Quotations on the Meaning of Life, The Seven Deadly Sins Sampler: An Anthology, among others. [ More... ]

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10/13/2018

Strong & Unrecognized: The Lumbee Indians

Malinda Maynor Lowery's new book is The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle. Malinda is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and is also a member of the Lumbee Tribe, the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malinda gives a glimpse of the rich Lumbee history and their on-going struggle for federal recognition of their nation., [ More... ]

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