Guest-host Peterson Toscano shares moving, insightful, and transformational portions of his Quakers Today podcast, dealing with all kinds of issues of interest to all listeners, things like spirituality, inclusion/separation, transgender understandings, manumission & reparations from slavery, abusive religion, and deep, personal, transformation. Below is some of the detail & lots of links.

A visit with Helen Jaccard, VFP Golden Rule Project Manager, about the work, history, purpose, & travels of the sailboat The Golden Rule, from its origins protesting nuclear testing in the Marshall Island back in 1958, and onward to its resurrection in the early 2010's, to continue education and organizing against nuclear dangers. The boat & tour are are project of Veterans for Peace, exposing the true costs of war & militarism since 1985.

Featured Music/Clips:

Making Waves: The Rebirth of the Golden Rule - Intro clip to the documentary

Parfaite Ntahuba led a concerted effort in Burundi so that the 2020 national elections might have a much better outcome than the bloody results of the 2015 elections.

Tim Grimm delivers moving music grown out of the soil of the Midwest, music that's flavored folk, country, and Americana, and by the end of this program you'll have songs lodged in your heart that you'll carry with you for the rest of your life. For the first years of his professional life, Tim was in theater and movies, and you likely met him in that guise before he moved, 25 years ago, to where making music has been his livelihood and passion, including the tours he leads yearly to places like Scotland, and he also helps organize & host the Red Dirt Folk Salon. Depending on the time of year, Tim Grimm hales from Indiana, Oklahoma, or somewhere in Europe.

Guest-hosts today are from the Climate Changed podcast, Nicole Diroff & Ben Yosua-Davis, of the BTS Center, accompanied by Peterson Toscano.

Ana Egge combines a beautiful voice with seriously deep lyrics to make transformative music. With 12 albums under her belt, and with a menagerie of creatures, like roses, snakes, tigers, & the Divine Mother, brought to life in her songs, there is both breadth & depth of vision channeled to us. With roots extending back to Saskatchewan, North Dakota, New Mexico, & Texas, Ana currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Past/present religious/spiritual influences: Non-affiliated, Unitarian-Universalist, Quaker

All featured music is written (or co-written, as noted) & performed by Ana Egge:

Dreamer

Back in 2020 we looked at the history of pandemics & racism via something called the BUSeum with Michael Luick-Thrams and Traces.com.

Sheng Elizabeth Lor founded The Social X Change Project a few years ago, when she set out to help vulnerable groups reduce loneliness and improve mental health and well-being through creativity and connection workshops. Since then Sheng has increased the scope of her work, including helping folks produce & share media to reach out to the community. As the first USA-born child in her Hmong family, she has learned to act as a bridge between cultures, and to understand the challenges and promises of the situations.