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Spirit In Action
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'll trace the spiritual roots that support and nourish them in their service. Above all, we'll 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.

The theme music is "The Turning of the World" performed by Sara Thomsen (written by Ruth Pellham) and "I Have No Hands But Yours" by Carol Johnson


Paying for Peace/War Tax Resistance - Patricia Washburn & Perry Treadwell (1/20/2008)


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A visit with 2 long-time war tax resisters. Patricia Washburn is a religious peace educator, a seminary graduate though never ordained. She testified to Congress for the Peace Tax Fund after the IRS took her house for taxes. Perry Treadwell got a special leading from a verse of Robert Frost when he was 42 and quit his tenured position in microbiology, and found a beautiful life of service. Both address the fears and gifts of decades of war tax resistance.  
Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Quaker


Perry Treadwell is the author of several books, including Boys into Men, Driving through History and The Last Negro in County is Dead.

Excerpts

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Radicalizing Steps - Patricia Washburn
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Talking Profitably About Controversial issue
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Simplifying - Like Loosing Your House to War Taxes
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Community Support & Clearness Committees
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Cliff-leaping Because of a Poem
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Money, Fear, Abundance and the IRS
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Spiritual Experience - Opening to the Divine