Be part of a teach-in organized by Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality with the help of today's guest-host Patricia Stansbury (AKA Sunny Gardener).
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. The theme music is "The Turning of the World" performed by Sara Thomsen (written by Ruth Pellham).
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Becoming an American Refuge: Campuses & Diya Abdo
First Air Date
Diya Abdo is the founder of Every Campus A Refuge, and author of American Refuge: True Stories of the Refugee Experience. Diya was herself of a Palestinian refugee family in Jordan.
Personal & Societal Climate Optimism & Resilience - Citizens Climate Radio
First Air Date
A wide array of valuable climate-related guests & resources though guest-host Peterson Toscano of Citizen's Climate Radio.
Preventing the 6th Mass Extinction: The Rescue Effect & Michael Mehta Webster
First Air Date
In his book, The Rescue Effect: The Key to Saving Life on Earth, Michael Mehta Webster has both hopeful & challenging news about the possibilities & ways we might mitigate the damage of Earth's 6th mass extinction event. Michael knows how it both can and does work to bring species back from the edge of extinction - or even after - and he knows the nitty-gritty of getting this done.
Trees Over Detroit
First Air Date
In order to restore harmony to our planet we need major changes in the relationships of people to the Earth & our neighboring species.
Black Wholeness Through The Prophetic Lens
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In his book, The Prophetic Lens: The Camera and Black Moral Agency from MLK to Darnella Frazier, Phil Allen Jr. examines the history & the future of Black wholeness in the USA, especially the ways in which people of color have been made invisible, & how their power is being reclaimed through open eyes & lenses.
Making History Real – Slavery to Today
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The Thread Collectors. is a co-authored book, all the more compelling because of the family connections of the authors to the events of this story, set during the Civil War, much of it in Louisiana, and centering around two couples, one couple enslaved, and the other couple White & Jewish. Shaunna J.
Writer in a Life Vest: Iris Graville
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Iris Graville was writer-in-residence on the Interisland Ferry of Washington's San Juan Islands just before COVID hit.
Black Birding, Poetry, Equity, Food Security, & Faith: Climate Changed
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Guest-hosts today are from the Climate Changed podcast, Nicole Diroff & Ben Yosua-Davis, of the BTS Center, accompanied by Peterson Toscano. Their guests today are Maya Williams, the poet laureate of Portland, Maine, and Corina Newsome, who co-organized the very first #BlackBirdersWeek and who, in taking on racial injustice directly through activism, has challenged the straight-forward faith of her childhood.
Indigenous Boarding School & Restorative Actions - from the Everyday Nonviolence Podcast
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The team at of FNVW and their Everyday Nonviolence Podcast guest-hosts today for Spirit In Action. Diane Sandberg interviews activist, sociologist, & writer Paula Palmer about Indigenous Boarding Schools & the Quaker role - and guilt - in them.