Advertise on podcast: Spirit in Action

Rating

★★★★★

from

10 reviews

Description

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.

Unlock Spirit in Action podcast Email contact info,
Listeners & Audience details

Email contact information

Direct podcast contact details

Listeners

Audience numbers & engagement insights

Audience details

Podcast Insights

Podcast episodes

Check latest episodes from Spirit in Action podcast

Hope, Hidden Creatures, and People Power, with Dr. Dino Martins and Emma Must

2026/10/15

Guest-host Peterson Toscano brings us 2 guests for today's show, all the way from Peterson's new home in South Africa, sharing 2 distinct stories of courage, ecology, & grassroots resilience. Both segments highlight what happens when humans move beyond despair to protect the living world and stand up for collective survival. In the first half, Kenyan entomologist and evolutionary biologist Dr.

Endangered Species, Int'l Criminal Court, CO Status, & Corruption Index from Ecotopia Soon

2026/10/09

In this edition of Spirit In Action, our guest-host is Mark Leach and he talks about the weakening of the Endangered Species Act, why we should support the International Criminal Court, why and how young people should know how to seek conscientious objector status, why this is actually a good time to prepare for a career in public service, why he’s optimistic, and an original piece of research linking corruption with income disparity.

Anti-war Youth to Organic Farmer to Canadian Politics: Tony McQuail

2026/10/02

Tony McQuail brings with him a wide and passionate view of what the world needs, and the commitment to make it happen. From his antiwar activism from age 16, to his move to Canada where he and his wife founded MeetingPlaceOrganicFarm.CA, to the numerous organizations he has founded and worked for to bring folks together in world-healing, Tony makes crops and people grow. He has run for national office in Canada, and is now focused on local election.

Science & Compassion in Animal Testing: Meredith Blanchard

2026/09/25

Following up on our recent interview with Gretchen Primack about the March to Abolish Animal Testing, we speak today to Meredith Blanchard, following up on vital relevant information about the value, or non-value, of animal testing. Meredith is the director of policy and advocacy at the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS.org), drawing on her B.S. in Zoology, and her M.S.

The Graphic Flow of Paradigm Shift

2026/09/18

This episode of guest-host Jan Spencer's A Primer For Paradigm Shift brings together a graphic flow chart that explains the basic progressive dynamics of paradigm shift with a review of a recent article about social enterprise and, in the second half, a fiction story of the near future.

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

2026/09/11

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.

March for Animals 2026: Walking In New York for the World

2026/09/03

Following up on the successful efforts of Save the Dogs to close down the dog breeding for experimentation operations at Ridglan Farms in Blue Mounds, WI, eyes have turned to other major contributors to such abusive companies.

Slavery to Jim Crow to Mass Incarceration to Greed: In Pursuit of Freedom For All

2026/08/28

Deborah G. Plant is author of the book Of Greed & Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom For All, addressing the direct linkage of slavery, the 13th Amendment, mass incarceration, and the ways in which exclusive wealth and power undermines freedom for all of us.

A Tender Time: End-of-life Issues for All of Us

2026/08/21

Patti Nesbitt & Kristin Camitta Zimet have co-written a book dealing with end-of-life preparation and issues. The name of the book is A Tender Time, which it beautifully helps us prepare for, with the subtitle, Quaker Voices On the End of Life, created under the care of Baltimore Yearly Meeting.

What's Your Why? Engineering Well-being with True Wellness

2026/08/14

Today we follow up to a visit we had 2 months ago with Margaret Brown of Blue Zones, as we drill down into the same work from the local focus on up. True Wellness was formed about a year ago to explore and chart the way for better health, community wide, in Northwest Wisconsin, and Natasha Ward is their executive director.

Extraction to Action: Rebuilding Community Beyond Capitalism

2026/08/06

Peterson Toscano is guest-host today. If you're a regular listener, you know about Peterson's incredible gifts in sharing transformational riches with you. He does a number of podcasts, and so he shares some samples here, with new content as well.

COP30 - Earth Passion & Earth Witness

2026/07/31

Keith Runyan is the General Secretary of QEW, that's Quaker Earthcare Witness, and among his duties in that role was as a participant of the 30th COP session.

Paying Rent: Sing Sing Prison, Friends Peace Teams, and Men's Work

2026/07/24

John Scardina has worked in multiple fields, including as a teacher, and as a psychologist, but his passion for decades has been around AVP - the Alternatives to Violence Project, Men's work, and the work of the Friends Peace Teams., where John is co-clerk of Peacebuilding en las Americas.

Speaking Truth to Power With 92 Years of Witness

2026/07/16

There was an article by Bill Durland in the May/June 2023 issue of Western Friend called Martyrs for Conscience's Sake (and there is also a

Story Time for a Strange World: Peterson Toscano

2026/07/09

Today'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.