Profile and video clip of singer songwriter Carrie Newcomer, a Quaker activist, teacher and musician from Indiana who circles the world as a peacemaker.
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Welcome to Belfast, Maine
Author Duncan Newcomer looks at how the “thin place” Belfast, Maine, has changed since Phineas Quimby, grandfather of America’s positive thinking movement.
Patrick Gilmore
ReadTheSpirit Editor David Crumm profiles Patrick S. Gilmore, the American band composer who organized two vast peace jubilees in Boston in 1869 and 1872.
Simone Weil (1909-1943)
Simone Weil was an activist who fought on behalf of the marginalized. She was a philosopher and Christian mystic influenced by many spiritual traditions.
Desmond Tutu (1931-2021)
Desmond Tutu was an Anglican Bishop (now retired), Nobel Peace Prize winner, and social rights activist who fought to end apartheid through nonviolence.