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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Story Time for a Strange World: Peterson Toscano
1w ago00:55:00Tap to summarizeToday's guest-host, Peterson Toscano, is bringing us an incredible creative gift to us today, and it's clear to me that he's not just showing off his writing gifts, which are considerable, but he's hoping to inspire you to develop and use similar gifts, hopefully for the kind of world-growing, world-healing, purposes that are at the core of Peterson's work. So, on one level, you'll hear some of the steps that he goes through to hone his writing, but on another level you're going to be diving deep into the ideas, emotions, visions, and concerns that Peterson has for the world.
Transcribe →Love, Gender, & Sexuality In The Bible - Reclaiming Truth
2w ago00:55:00Tap to summarizeThe religious soup we grow up in affects all of us. Sometimes the influences are helpful and favorable, but especially for those off the mainstream, they can be very painful and alienating. Even passages from holy books, initially innocent or positive, can by so badly misconstrued as to become life-threatening. K.
Transcribe →Interfaith Conferencing with Ahmed Quereshi
3w ago00:55:00Tap to summarizeA visit with Ahmed Quereshi, the executive director of the Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee, a wide variety of 22 judicatories, large and small, working to build “a strong, peaceful, and sustainable community where all are treated with justice, mutual respect, and dignity”.
Transcribe →The Powerful Tradition of Pushback
4w 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
Jun 1200:55:00Tap 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
Jun 500:55:00Tap 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
May 2900:55:00Tap 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.
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