Earth and Spirit Podcast Earth and Spirit Center

Rebecca and Pete Davis are a sister-and-brother filmmaking team who have created “Join or Die,” a documentary film about the decline of civic life in America and the importance of joining clubs and other associations as a way to restore the health of our democracy. This episode explores how we are all made for belonging and how we can lean into the profoundly joyful work of becoming more deeply connected to our places and to each other.

RESOURCES:

Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/

Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

Join or Die film: https://putnamdoc.com/

Osprey Orielle Lake is the founder executive director of WECAN, the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network, and the author of The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis. In this episode, we explore how embracing a different story about our belonging in a living, animate world can transform our self-understanding and can help to heal our relationship with ourselves, each other, and the rest of the living Earth.

RESOURCES:

Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/

Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

Osprey’s organization, Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network: https://www.wecaninternational.org/

Osprey’s new book, The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis

Tom Williams is a Louisville-based labor relations attorney with a deep commitment to the contemplative path, with the wild idea that a lawyer’s vocation may ultimately be to serve as a healer. In this conversation, Tom shares how he puts spiritual principles and insights into action as a tireless advocate for radical compassion, restorative justice, equity, and inclusion.

RESOURCES:
Donate to support the Earth & Spirit Center and this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/

Visit the Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

Learn more about Restorative Justice: https://www.voamid.org/services/restorative-justice/

Learn more about Tom’s legal practice: https://www.skofirm.com/attorney/thomas-m-williams/

Compassion Games International: https://www.compassiongames.org/

Dr. Susan Taylor is a PhD economist who has given her life to weaving together commitments of religious faith and commitments to a more just economy. In this episode, we reflect on the central and complicated role that money plays in human life. As an alternative to bare-knuckled capitalism, Susan offers the idea of Sabbath Economics – a radical vision of abundance and economic justice for people and our planet – a vision that each of us and all of us can start living toward right here and right now.

RESOURCES:
Donate to support the Earth & Spirit Center and this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/

Visit the Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

Susan’s financial advising firm, Just Money Advisors: https://www.justmoneyadvisors.com/

Faith and Money Network: https://faithandmoneynetwork.org/

OneEarth Jubilee: https://oneearthjubilee.com/

Dr. Michael Hollifield is a psychiatrist and general practitioner who serves as the Founder, President, and CEO of the War Survivors Institute, a nonprofit organization devoted to restoring health to civilians and soldiers who have been harmed by war, as well as mitigating the causes of violent conflicts. In this conversation, Michael reflects on the causes of war, its devasting effects, and how mindfulness and other spiritual practices and insights can bring peace in troubled hearts and troubled times.

RESOURCES:
Donate to support the Earth & Spirit Center and this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/

Visit the Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

War Survivors Institute: https://warsurvivors.org/

War Survivors Institute Virtual Walkathon: https://givebutter.com/2024onewalkathon

Upcoming WSI Events in Louisville, KY:

WSI will be in the military section all day at Thunder Over Louisville (April 20, 2024): https://thunderoverlouisville.org/

WSI Healing Hearts Evening Event: May 16, 2024 at the Muhammad Ali Center: https://warsurvivors.org/event/healing-horizons-event-at-the-muhammad-ali-center-louisville-ky/

Denise Davis taught writing for decades and is deeply committed to the spiritual journey and to journaling as a particular avenue of spiritual practice. In this conversation, Denise describes journaling as a chance to create what Howard Thurman called an Isle of Peace, where it’s safe to reflect on our experience, cultivate compassion for others, and seek the imprint of the divine in our lives.

RESOURCES:

Donate to support the Earth & Spirit Center and this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/

Visit the Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

Learn more about Denise’s Earth & Spirit Center course, “Journaling as a Spiritual Practice” (begins March 4, 2024): https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/class/journaling-as-a-spiritual-practice/