Peacemaker Daniel Buttry profiles the late American folksinger Pete Seeger (1919-2014) along with a story about Pete from singer-songwriter David LaMotte.
Carrie Newcomer
Profile and video clip of singer songwriter Carrie Newcomer, a Quaker activist, teacher and musician from Indiana who circles the world as a peacemaker.
The Rev. Sandra Kay Gordon
Interfaith Peacemakers, a series of inspiring profiles, tells the story of the Rev Sandra Kay Gordon, a pioneering African-American woman pastor in Detroit.
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.
Those Eyes!
Author and Lincoln scholar Duncan Newcomer writes about the personal, spiritual appeal of Phineas Quimby, godfather of America’s positive thinking movement.
Phineas Quimby
Lincoln scholar and author Duncan Newcomer profiles the prophetic Phineas Quimby, now acknowledged as grandfather of America’s positive thinking movement.
Little Golden Books
ReadTheSpirit magazine Editor David Crumm writes about the way Little Golden Books revolutionized childhood reading in the years just after World War II.
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.
John Muir
ReadTheSpirit Editor David Crumm profiles John Muir in the Interfaith Peacemakers series and also recommends Kathryn Lasky’s book in Candlewick Biographies.
Michael Morton
David Crumm profiles Michael Morton, who was freed from wrongful conviction by the Innocence Project and now tells his inspiring story in a documentary