Navigating the Long Dark and Being Good Ancestors: Climate Changed & Peterson Toscano

First Air Date

Peterson Toscano is our guest host today as he explores how we can find our footing and maintain our spiritual integrity during times of profound global disruption. In the first half, Peterson shares an excerpt from The BTS Center's Climate Changed podcast, featuring a conversation between host Autumn Brown and Norma Wong.

Faith, Power, and Climate Justice: A Climate Changed Conversation with Shanon Shah

First Air Date

In this special Spirit in Action episode, guest-host Nicole Diroff welcomes Dr. Shanon Shah, Director of Faith for the Climate, for a conversation that weaves together faith, identity, and the urgent call for climate justice. A queer Muslim scholar, journalist, and advocate, Shanon shares how his lived experience and academic insight converge in powerful ways to challenge systems of oppression and invite communities into courageous collective action.

Peterson Toscano's Healing Work: From Ex-gay Survivors to Everyone

First Air Date

Peterson Toscano first appeared on Spirit In Action in 2007, talking about his work to support and heal ex-gay survivors, men who, like him, spent years trying to be cured from being gay, and being seriously, sometimes lethally injured by that treatment. I then observed Peterson as he dove deeply into Biblical study around non-conforming sexual roles, in the Bible, and transforming ways of seeing the lessons of that book.