Podcast
Spirit in Action
Hosted by Northern Spirit Radio · EN
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 will trace the spiritual roots that support and nourish them in their service. Above all, we will 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.
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The Powerful Tradition of Pushback
5d ago00:55:00Tap to summarizeOur guest-host today is Jan Spencer, and in this episode of A Primer For Paradigm Shift, Jan Spencer describes several examples of "push back" to the System.
Transcribe →Peace Corps, Blood Diamonds, & Growing Rice in Sierra Leone with Betsy Small
2w ago00:55:00Tap to summarizeToday we'll introduce you to Betsy Small, and we'll take you on Betsy's moving saga in Sierra Leone, exploring the tribulations and elations of her Peace Corps experience in the West African country, as told in her book, Before Before: A Story of Discovery and Loss in Sierra Leone.
Transcribe →The Cross and the Olive Tree: Cultivating Palestinian Theology amid Gaza
3w ago00:55:00Tap to summarizePeterson Toscano helps create a variety of podcasts, among them Climate Changed, Bubble & Squeak, Quakers Today, The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope, Stories That Stay, and many others.
Transcribe →Healing Resistance & The Vital Hard Work of Blessed Community: Kazu Haga
4w ago00:55:00Tap to summarizeToday we're going on an adventure with Kazu Haga, a high school dropout whose path turned radically into a passionate study & sharing of nonviolence. Having learned from/with & befriended some of the greatest activist and nonviolence workers & trainers of the past 70 years, Kazu found & refined his life's mission in many phases.
Transcribe →Bees, Survival, & Infused Honey
May 2200:55:00Tap to summarizeThe 2026 Earth Day in Eau Claire, WI, featured an Earth Fest with a wealth of tables, displays, demos, and more, among them the table for Kaiserson Bee Company. Their varieties of honey infusions, like chili, hibiscus, Tulsi, vanilla, coffee, and lavender were certainly intriguing, but the whole story and method of their production was even more interesting.
Transcribe →Resisting Occupation, Palestine to Minnesota
May 1500:55:00Tap to summarizeWe've got some powerful witness to be shared today, brought together by Nonviolence International, doing powerful, insightful, work leveraging the world toward peace & wholeness. They brought together the webinar that will be over half of today's show, with 3 well-placed activists focused on the topic Solidarity in Action: Resisting Occupation in Palestine & Minnesota.
Transcribe →Irish Stories of Land, Memory, Spirit, & Peacebuilding
May 800:55:00Tap to summarizePeterson Toscano is back this week for his monthly guest-hosting, and this one feels so rich, so deep, so wonderful to me. He's really pulled together some amazing glimpses into the soul of Ireland.
Transcribe →Living Better, Longer, with Community Transformation of Blue Zones
May 100:55:00Tap to summarizeThrough the suggestion of one of our Northern Spirit Radio board members, Janine Thull, I decided to attend a presentation last week here in Eau Claire by the Blue Zones Project crew, and my eyes were opened. I''ll let their Vice President, Business Development, Margaret Brown, spell it out, but what I think I learned about was a thoughtful and brilliant mechanism to help us live longer and better, to help grow a community into well-being and health.
Transcribe →Love, Power, Heartbreak, & Determination from the Minnesota Uprising: Part 4 with Ann Reed, Linda Allen, Emma's Revolution, & Chastity Brown
Apr 2400:55:00Tap to summarizeThe 4th installment of songs inspired by the Minnesota Uprising, today's songs are harvested from Minnesota, Washington State, the Bay Area of California, and, again, Minnesota, so these songs will be witnessed and sung from both the inside and outside. You'll hear heartbreak & admiration, determination & inspiration, and love & power.
Transcribe →US Democracy - Maybe/Maybe Not: Thom Hartmann & Myron Buchholz
Apr 1600:55:00Tap to summarizeThom Hartman just released his latest book, The Hidden History of American Democracy: Rediscovering Humanity's Ancient Way of Living, and it's full of the kind of historical scrutiny and keen analysis to expose and clarify the facts behind our much-vaun
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