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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Nuclear Watchdog: Nukewatch & Kelly Lundeen

Kelly Lundeen

First Air Date

Kelly Lundeen was a founder of Just Peace from the Chippewa Valley back in 2001, spent time in Milwaukee at the Casa Maria Catholic Worker House, which led her to do accompaniment work in Columbia as part of the International Peace Observatory. But her work recently, back in Wisconsin, has been as a mother of 3 and as staff for Nukewatch, working for a nuclear-free future since 1979.

Peer Support for Mental Health At The Wellness Shack

Wellness Shack logo

First Air Date

A valuable, even vital, addition to the resources for dealing with mental health challenges is called 'Peer Support', and a primary sources of peer support the wide range of mental health diagnoses is the Wellness Shack. Their director, Bob Schrader, speaks of the operation and functioning of the Wellness Shack and the specifics of peer support groups.

Roots to Stand Strong in Climate Changed

BTS June 2022 guest podcast

First Air Date

Guest-hosts today are Nicole Diroff & Ben Yosua-Davis, of the BTS Center & the brand-new Climate Changed podcast, accompanied by Peterson Toscano. They will explain who they are and what their podcast is all about, but, in short, they are addressing the need for spiritual leadership in a climate-changed world. Their guest is Mariama White-Hammond, Chief of Environment, Energy, and Open Space for the City of Boston and the founding pastor of New Roots AME Church in Dorchester, a multi-racial, multi-class community.

Pacifists in the Belly of the Military Beast

Lucretia Humphrey & Molly Wingate

First Air Date

Today's Spirit In Action guests, both strongly pacifist, moved to areas that were overwhelmingly and oppressively military-oriented, and had to figure how to deal with that, both for themselves and for their families. Lucretia Humphrey's journey took her to Great Falls, Montana, surrounded by nuclear warheads, and Molly Wingate ended up in Colorado Springs, in the midst of a number of military bases.

Yazidi Hope After ISIS - Lisa Miara

Lisa Miara

First Air Date

Lisa Miara is at the center of The Hope Centre/Springs of Hope Foundation in the Kurdish region in Northern Iraq. The Yazidi minority in that area was devastated by the 2014 attack of ISIS on them, and Lisa found a leading to live among and nurture back to wholeness the victims of ISIS, bringing hope & love to reclaim child soldiers and horribly abused & enslaved girls & women.

Song of Slaves, Bound for Freedom

Dwight Wilson

First Air Date

Throughout his career, Dwight L. Wilson has held many jobs: educator, administrator, chaplain. In each role, he worked to advance equality, opportunity and understanding. He continues this work in his carefully researched historical fiction series Esi Was My Mother, which follows the lives of an enslaved black family from 18th century Africa to the American Civil War. He strives to portray triumphant examples of black stories that will make history come alive for readers.