Music

In honor of Earth Day 2008, your host shares his own Song of the Soul as regards the music that speaks of his deepening connection and commitment to Care of Creation. Starting with music from the first Earth Day, in 1970, up to the present, Mark speaks of the layers of insight and understanding which have made Earth Day his "most valued holiday".

Diana was "unchurched" growing up, but has found deep connection in spiritual community (with room for her wide horizons) among Unitarian Universalists. Recent years have led her to an extremely fulfilling entry into engagement with Native American wisdom, an approach called the Medicine Way.

Jim Schacht is a music lover, grew up loving and sharing music with his parents and siblings, and has been accompanying the Quakers of Milwaukee Friends Meeting on his guitar as they sing together before worship, for most of the past 20 years.

Dale Worley's music is fun and it's deep and it's sacred and it's rockin'. Dale is a Lay Minister & Truth Student at Unity Village, and has been playing the piano since he was 8, influenced by Jerry Lee Louis, Elton John, Bonnie Raitt, Ray Charles, Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

Sara's spiritual journey might be seen as an upward spiral of sorts. She grew up in a couple different very conservative Lutheran churches which, as it developed, did not fit her well. Her exploration as a young adult took to Unity for some years, then to the Unitarian Universalist Congregation, and then back to St John's Lutheran Church, this time of the ELCA flavor. Among the other expessions of her spirit, Sara leads weekly Soul Dance in Eau Claire

Justin Otto shared his first "Song of the Soul" about a year ago, and since then he's graduated from UWEC, got a social work job, and gone through a spiritual crisis, leading him to a stage in his spiritual journey.

Nicole Miller is, among many things, a DJ on WHYS radio, with a program called The Positive Frequency. She a musician from childhood on and just completing her last year at college. She finds peace and joy through music, energy to transcend the negative realities so abundant these days.

Amy has a deep connection to Spirit and to living out her Catholic faith. She traveled for a year with National Evangelization Team (NET) Ministries following high school, spent 5 months living in a Carmelite monastery, and is headed to Catholic Theological Union for a Masters of Divinity this fall. AND she was a Religious Studies major (and Spanish minor) - not to mention her service as a Certified Nursing Assistant, work that allows her to pass on the care and blessing of God's presence in her life.

Justin Otto's Song of the Soul tells of his thought and journey leading him to Christian Science, where he was a member until the summer of 2006. Justin was a senior at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, studying social work at the time of this interview. 

David Huber has been serving as the pasteur at the Plymouth Congregational UCC in Eau Claire since August of 2004. His taste in music is wide and innovative, and serves to open and balance the purely intellectual part of his character, and it's a pleasure to welcome him to Song of the Soul.