Scott Beck has been in a wide assortment of bands since high school, from folk to rock to blues and cycling back, now to acoustic guitar. Raised Catholic, disaffected from religion for many years, he's now found a spiritual home with enough heart and wide enough walls to include his beliefs in New Thought churches.

Claudia Schmidt has been producing music, poetry and theater for over 30 years. Folk and jazz are some of her musical styles, the Midwest is her home, but the world is her audience!

A visit with Steve Ryals, author of Drunk With Wonder: Awakening to the God Within, former speed freak and alcoholic, and activist with Challenge Day. 

Music featured in this program:
How Could Anyone Ever Tell You - Peaceful Women

Loren Cobb has an exciting and unusual job. As Aetheling International Consultants he facilitates NationLab, a simulation game helping countries of this hemisphere experience and plan for social, economic and political developments. Loren, a Quaker pacifist and mathematical sociologist, works alongside with the military to strengthen our neighbors, and keep the peace. But that is only one of the roles that Loren lives out. One of his other hats is that of editor of The Quaker Economist which is self-proclaimed as "a free electronic journal devoted to examining worldwide economic, social, and political problems as if people matter". In a recent edition, for example, Loren wrote about some intriguing extrapolations about the trend in violence over human history.

Loren Cobb has an exciting and unusual job. As Aetheling International Consultants he facilitates NationLab, a simulation game helping countries of this hemisphere experience and plan for social, economic and political developments. Loren, a Quaker pacifist and mathematical sociologist, works alongside with the military to strengthen our neighbors, and keep the peace.

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. His repertoire includes Science of Mind teachings, Native American spirituality, A Course in Miracles concepts, and 12-Step principles into Sacred Place Ministries.

Dale will be presenting his musical, prayerful, rockin' ministry at Unity Christ Center of Eau Claire, starting with a full-day retreat 9 am - 9 pm on Saturday, January 26, and, as part of Unity's worship service on Sunday, January 27, 2008, 10 am.

Justin Leeson thinks deeply, feels passionately and lives consciously, so you can look forward to some stimulating and challenging music. Bused from his St Louis neighborhood to a primarily white school majorly affected his life, as did his experience in cosmopolitan Houston. Justin has left his Southern Baptist roots far behing and practices as a Pagan currently.

Cheryl Thiede is the associate director of social services for the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, - ARCW.org or 836-7710. Raised Moravian, she is now part of Eau Claire 's Unitarian Universalist Congregation.

Music Featured:
The AIDS Song, The Stigma Song - Jony Jerusalem
Got a Lot of Livin To Do - Peter Alsop
Patchwork Quilt - Sweet Honey in the Rock

Bob Franke has decades of experience writing songs that vividly capture the experience of the human heart and spirit, enough so that at least one of his songs made it into the Friends Hymnal that came out in 1996. His latest CD, The Other Evening In Chicago is available at the waterbug.com site.