Category: People Who Inspire
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Ahmed Kathrada
$2.95 Add to cartThe story of a man who spent 26 years behind bars for opposing South Africa’s apartheid system and who, after release, became a member of Parliament calling for forgiveness as the way to heal racial wounds.
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Bob Massie’s Survival Story
$2.95 Add to cartThe remarkable survival story of Bob Massie, an Episcopal minister who somehow walked through one life-threatening illness after another, and whose many challenges deepened his appreciation for life—and for the suffering of others.
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Building Community with Millard Fuller
$2.95 Add to cartThe remarkable international effort to build “homes and hope” by marshalling the energies of young people, church communities and others, is described by Habitat for Humanity founder Millard Fuller.
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Dialogue with a Sufi Master
$4.95 Add to cartM.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, the luminous Sufi said to be more than 100 years old, characterizes the self-defeating predicament of striving for prestige, worldly gain and “magical” powers — instead of divine wisdom and love.
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Doctors’ Movement to Avert Nuclear War
$3.95 Add to cartA Harvard medical professor tells the story of how he united with a Soviet cardiologist to launch a physicians movement to end nuclear war that recruited 150,000 doctors worldwide and won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Doing the Right Thing
$2.95 Add to cartA new conversation with David Kaczynski, who realized his brother Ted may have been the Unabomber and turned him in. Today, David is a devoted Buddhist practitioner and shares his views on the healing of conflict.
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Ecstatic Poetry of the Heart
$2.95 Add to cartMuch in the tradition of ancient Persia’s transcendentalist Rumi, “Ecstasy of the Heart” by contemporary Ceylonese lyrist Fuard Uduman borrows stunning images from nature to depict the inner human quest for God.
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Haley House
$2.95 Add to cartAfter nearly forty years of sheltering, serving and training the homeless in Boston, Kathe McKenna reflects on the line between helping people in need and becoming an “enabler” of people who don’t want to improve.
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Healing the Wounds of War
$2.95 Add to cartVietnam veteran Steven Stratford tells the story of his post-traumatic descent into addiction and how, finally in jail, he realized he would have to “replace bad memories with good memories” by returning to Vietnam to help civilians.
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An Optimist in Spite of All: Helen Keller
$3.95 Add to cartBorn 125 years ago this week, Helen Keller—subject of this audio biography—surmounted both deafness and blindness by learning to communicate with great eloquence, and became an unlikely world superstar.
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James Dillet Freeman
$2.95 Add to cartConversation and readings by the inspirational poet.
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Janet Connors
$0.00 Add to cartA mother in Boston, who faced the horrific news that her 19-year-old son was murdered in a home invasion, preaches forgiveness with accountability, as a way to heal her own pain as well as society’s dysfunction.
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JoBeth Walt
$2.95 Add to cartA woman who was severely burned in an accident reveals her personal journey of healing and self-acceptance and describes what she’s learned from working with young people who are also coping with burns.
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Journey of the Deaf-Blind
$2.95 Add to cartWe hear the story of Mary Gillespie, a woman born with normal hearing and vision, but who developed several illnesses starting at age ten. Gradually, she became deaf-blind. Now living in Los Angeles, Mary is a regular volunteer at the Braille Institute, where we recorded this remarkable episode of Humankind.
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Kindred Spirits Vol. 3: LIFE CHALLENGES
$14.95 Add to cartRemarkable people from all walks of life tell how universal wisdom and personal faith help them lead positive, satisfying lives.
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Let There Be Peace on Earth
$2.95 Add to cartSongwriter Jill Jackson Miller tells the history of the song and how she and her husband composed “Let there be Peace,” and members of a contemporary high school chorus describe the song’s special meaning in the age of terrorism.
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Rueben Martinez, The Literary Barber
$2.95 Add to cartAnnounced as a winner of the prestigious MacArthur “genius” awards, colorful Rueben Martinez launched a literacy campaign from his small barber shop outside Los Angeles.
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Martin Luther King’s Spiritual Journey
$2.95 Add to cartA look at the link between spiritual consciousness and social conscience.
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Mattie Stepanek
$2.95 Add to cartIn this poignant profile taped prior to his death due to complications from a rare form of muscular dystrophy, child poet and peacemaker Mattie Stepanek showed wisdom beyond his years.
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Medicine’s River of Meaning with Rachel Remen
$2.95 Add to cartPhysician, philosopher and best-selling author Rachel Remen describes her remarkable course, “The Healer’s Art,” taught at medical schools throughout the United States.
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Mister Joe
$2.95 Add to cartA moving story of how one man used his retirement years as a time to make a lasting contribution to the lives of disabled youth. The kids from Vietnam call him “Mister Joe,” a gravel-voiced former school teacher and administrator, now in his late seventies and retired. Joe Bodanza devotes his days as a volunteer to managing the considerable special needs of young polio patients from Vietnam.
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Mr. Rogers
$2.95 Add to cartFor parents wishing to impart spiritual values to their children, Rev. Fred Rogers describes the philosophy underlying his public TV series.
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Remembering Anthony DeMello
$2.95 Add to cartWe remember the late Anthony DeMello with the help of University of London Theologian Michael Barnes as well as recordings of the colorful DeMello during one of his many popular retreats.