Jeremy Lent explores the way forward for humanity & all life on Earth by a deep dive into knowledge, connection, insight, and wisdom in his latest book, The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science & Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe. With a careful eye to the big picture, Jeremy scrutinizes the history, components, & insights, bringing them together to empower growth in life-affirming directions. Jeremy is a vastly widely-read, widely-questing powerhouse of discernment & clarity, finding the unity in perceived individual threads, in a discipline called Liology.
Patricia Stansbury returns to guest-host Spirit in Action for the third time, with this episode adapted from her program, Groundswell, originally recorded for WRIR, Richmond Independent Radio. In late June, Patricia visited John Boyd and Kara Brewer Boyd on their farm, Let's Get Growing, in Boydton, Virginia. In this episode, she talks with Kara about the discrimination faced by Black farmers and other farmers of color. Kara explains the disparities in treatment by banks and federal agencies clearly and factually, and states it without rancor. This episode was recorded in a pole shed with a tin roof and a red pickup truck on Let's Get Growing Farm in Boydton Virginia, and produced at Epic Gardens in Bon Air, Virginia. It has been edited for time.
Geraldo Cadava is the author of The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of An American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump published by Ecco. He chatted with Citizens Climate Radio about the long history of Hispanics and the Republican party. He reveals what is often misunderstood about the political diversity of Latinos in America. The most asked question he gets is why any Latino voted for Donald Trump. He talks about this and a lot more. He also considers the question about Hispanic Republicans and climate change.
Geraldo Cadava is a professor of History and Latina and Latino Studies at Northwestern University. He received a Ph.D. in History from Yale University in 2008, and he received a B.A., also in History, from Dartmouth College in 2000. His areas of expertise are Latino History, the United States-Mexico Borderlands, Latin American immigration to the United States, and American politics.
In this month’s episode of the Bible Bash podcast, new co-host Don Durham leads us through a deep dive into the layered messages gleaned from Isaiah 56 - the classic text where the prophet proclaims God’s favor for foreigners and eunuchs.
In his studious way, Don takes us through a short framing history of the distinct periods in the collection of prophetic episodes attributed to the prophet, Isaiah. Don asserts that, not only does this chapter affirm immigrants, strangers, and differently-bodied, gender-transcendent persons, the whole of Isaiah repeatedly proclaims a single unifying message:
“Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.” Isaiah 1:17.”
This week’s Spirit in Action has been adapted from a recording of a webinar on July 7 hosted by the Canadian No New Fighter Jets Coalition, who are working to stop the Canadian government from purchasing 88 new fighter jets. Rachel Small and Pitasanna Shanmugathas lead the event for the Coalition, with speakers including Yonatan Shapira, former IDF helicopter pilot and current peace activist; Vicki Berenson, an organizer with Safe Skies Clean Water Wisconsin who is working to prevent the basing of F-35s at Truax Air National Guard Base in Madison; and retired US Air Force Colonel Rosanne Greco and Dr. John Reuwer of World BEYOND War, who have been trying to prevent the deployment of Air National Guard F-35s in Burlington, Vermont.
Reggie Harris has always been full of music & inspiration, but never more so than as he finishes his 7th decade on the planet. He's shared music all over the folk music map, including with his former wife, Kim, Pete Seeger, Emma's Revolution, Magpie, & recently an album with Greg Greenway.
In the past 5 years, Fiacre Mutabazi has created an amazing variety of organizations and efforts to make both Rwanda and the world a better place. The first was the MyStoryRwanda YouTube Channel, and then there was what was first called the Rwanda Artist Network, now called Kunda Arts Collective.
Prepare to have your heart stolen by today's guest, Jaspar Lepak. Jaspar did not really get into music till post-college, but she burst into it full-bore, including producing 5 CDs in a very short time, 4 of which you won't find among the 5 releases that do show up on her site. Starting from life growing up in Arizona, she spent years in Minneapolis, in Durban, South Africa, and now in Seattle. Jaspar's fertile music time in the Twin Cities includes interviews with Ellen Stanley, AKA Mother Banjo, on KFAI for Ellen's Womenfolk show.
From his continued curiosity about how we develop theologies that sustain us during periods of disappointment, Liam takes a look at Genesis 3.
Regular listeners may recall the Drawing Near episode when Liam shared the story of a Rabbi, at his conversion, asking him, Do you have a theology of disappointment to sustain you when the institution of Judaism and your fellow Jews disappoint you?
In this episode, Liam confesses this question continues to pester and inspire him. From the position of thinking through those moments when he disappoints himself, when other people leave him crestfallen, and he feels a bit disconsolate about human nature, Liam takes a closer look at the story of Adam and Eve and their troubling misadventure in the garden of Eden.
On the website of Vanessa Lively you'll see noted that she creates folk & world music that beautifully joins heartfelt lyrics with soulful vocals. This is true - deeply true - and time with Vanessa is a rich, deep, and also uplifting experience. Her heart pours out to the world through her music, and through the organization she created, Home Street Music, a music program working directly with Austin's homeless, after she won the Artist Activist Award from Music to Life in 2017.