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Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1838
Central Character: Abby Kelley Foster
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: A Quaker abolitionist's fight for others' freedom becomes a fight for her own voice, opening a series on the women of the suffrage era.
Central Character: Abby Kelley Foster
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: A Quaker abolitionist's fight for others' freedom becomes a fight for her own voice, opening a series on the women of the suffrage era.
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1840
Central Character: Siyyid Kázim Rashtí
Faith: Islam
About this episode: In a quiet classroom in 19th-century Karbala, Siyyid Kzim Rasht whispered of a sacred change drawing near.
Central Character: Siyyid Kázim Rashtí
Faith: Islam
About this episode: In a quiet classroom in 19th-century Karbala, Siyyid Kzim Rasht whispered of a sacred change drawing near.
Podcast: History's ArrowCirca: 1841
Central Character: Edmond Albius
About this episode: A twelve-year-old enslaved boy's hand-pollination technique freed vanilla from its native Mexico and made it a global flavor.
Central Character: Edmond Albius
About this episode: A twelve-year-old enslaved boy's hand-pollination technique freed vanilla from its native Mexico and made it a global flavor.
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1843
Central Character: Dorothea Dix
Faith: 19th century awakening
About this episode: How Dorothea Dix exposed hidden suffering and helped transform mental health care through steady, uncompromising compassion.
Central Character: Dorothea Dix
Faith: 19th century awakening
About this episode: How Dorothea Dix exposed hidden suffering and helped transform mental health care through steady, uncompromising compassion.
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1845
Central Character: Hannah Cohoon
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: Hannah Cohoon was a Shaker artist whose visionary gift drawings, made in humble obedience, became icons of American folk art.
Central Character: Hannah Cohoon
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: Hannah Cohoon was a Shaker artist whose visionary gift drawings, made in humble obedience, became icons of American folk art.
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1848
Central Character: Tahirih
Faith: Baháʼí Faith
About this episode: Harmonia remembers Tahirih (1814-1852), the Persian poet, theologian, and revolutionary who defied her world with words and unveiled her face at the Conference of Badasht.
Central Character: Tahirih
Faith: Baháʼí Faith
About this episode: Harmonia remembers Tahirih (1814-1852), the Persian poet, theologian, and revolutionary who defied her world with words and unveiled her face at the Conference of Badasht.
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1853
Central Character: Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Central Character: Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1854
Central Character: Maneckji Limji Hataria
Faith: Zoroastrianism
About this episode: Harmonia traces Zoroastrianism from Zarathustra's radical vision of monotheism to Maneckji Hataria's 19th century mission to save a dying faith.
Central Character: Maneckji Limji Hataria
Faith: Zoroastrianism
About this episode: Harmonia traces Zoroastrianism from Zarathustra's radical vision of monotheism to Maneckji Hataria's 19th century mission to save a dying faith.
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1855
Central Character: Florence Nightingale
Faith: 19th century awakening
About this episode: A look at how Florence Nightingale helped medicine awaken, turning compassion into structure and revealing the deeper shift that made modern healthcare possible.
Central Character: Florence Nightingale
Faith: 19th century awakening
About this episode: A look at how Florence Nightingale helped medicine awaken, turning compassion into structure and revealing the deeper shift that made modern healthcare possible.
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1858
Central Character: Isaac Hecker
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: The story of Isaac Hecker, founder of the Paulists, and his insistence that spiritual and civic life are not separate --- and why that question now belongs to the whole world.
Central Character: Isaac Hecker
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: The story of Isaac Hecker, founder of the Paulists, and his insistence that spiritual and civic life are not separate --- and why that question now belongs to the whole world.
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1858
Central Character: George MacDonald
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: George MacDonald lost his pulpit and found something larger --- the ancient truth that story is how the largest truths have always traveled to the human heart.
Central Character: George MacDonald
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: George MacDonald lost his pulpit and found something larger --- the ancient truth that story is how the largest truths have always traveled to the human heart.
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1859
Central Character: Henri Dunant
Faith: 19th century awakening
About this episode: How Henri Dunant’s compassion at Solferino sparked the Red Cross, the Geneva Conventions, and a new global understanding of mercy.
Central Character: Henri Dunant
Faith: 19th century awakening
About this episode: How Henri Dunant’s compassion at Solferino sparked the Red Cross, the Geneva Conventions, and a new global understanding of mercy.
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1860
Central Character: Antoine Chevrier
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: The story of Antoine Chevrier, who turned an abandoned Lyon ballroom into a shelter, seeing not charity but restitution owed to the poor.
Central Character: Antoine Chevrier
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: The story of Antoine Chevrier, who turned an abandoned Lyon ballroom into a shelter, seeing not charity but restitution owed to the poor.
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1860
Central Character: Angelo Secchi
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: The Vatican Observatory's centuries-long tradition of astronomical research reveals that wonder and service, science and faith, are expressions of the same love.
Central Character: Angelo Secchi
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: The Vatican Observatory's centuries-long tradition of astronomical research reveals that wonder and service, science and faith, are expressions of the same love.
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1865
Central Character: Nhá Chica
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: The story of Nhá Chica, the freed Brazilian slave who built a chapel over thirty years through pure faith and individual initiative.
Central Character: Nhá Chica
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: The story of Nhá Chica, the freed Brazilian slave who built a chapel over thirty years through pure faith and individual initiative.
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1866
Central Character: Léonie Aviat
Faith: 19th century awakening
About this episode: A look at Mother Mary’s quiet courage as she protected young factory workers and helped shape the early moral foundations of modern labor protections.
Central Character: Léonie Aviat
Faith: 19th century awakening
About this episode: A look at Mother Mary’s quiet courage as she protected young factory workers and helped shape the early moral foundations of modern labor protections.
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1867
Central Character: Enmegahbowh
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: Enmegahbowh, the first Native American priest in the Episcopal Church
Central Character: Enmegahbowh
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: Enmegahbowh, the first Native American priest in the Episcopal Church
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1875
Central Character: Helena Blavatsky
Faith: Theosophical Society
About this episode: Helena Blavatsky co-founded Theosophy in 1875, helping build a vocabulary of universal brotherhood that shaped the modern spiritual world.
Central Character: Helena Blavatsky
Faith: Theosophical Society
About this episode: Helena Blavatsky co-founded Theosophy in 1875, helping build a vocabulary of universal brotherhood that shaped the modern spiritual world.
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1875
Central Character: Octavia Hill
Faith: 19th century awakening
About this episode: A reflection on how Octavia Hill wove dignity into the spaces people lived, showing why environment, beauty, and stewardship still shape the moral world we inhabit today.
Central Character: Octavia Hill
Faith: 19th century awakening
About this episode: A reflection on how Octavia Hill wove dignity into the spaces people lived, showing why environment, beauty, and stewardship still shape the moral world we inhabit today.
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1878
Central Character: William Booth
Faith: 19th century awakening
About this episode: A walk through the East End with the Booths, where compassion took organized form and unnecessary suffering became impossible to ignore.
Central Character: William Booth
Faith: 19th century awakening
About this episode: A walk through the East End with the Booths, where compassion took organized form and unnecessary suffering became impossible to ignore.
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1880
Central Character: Adele M. Fielde
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: Baptist missionary Adele Fielde followed service from Swatow to suffrage to science, transformed by every person she genuinely saw.
Central Character: Adele M. Fielde
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: Baptist missionary Adele Fielde followed service from Swatow to suffrage to science, transformed by every person she genuinely saw.
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1880
Central Character: Fanny Crosby
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: Harmonia tells the story of hymn writer Fanny Crosby, whose Bowery mission work refused to write off society's most discarded souls.
Central Character: Fanny Crosby
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: Harmonia tells the story of hymn writer Fanny Crosby, whose Bowery mission work refused to write off society's most discarded souls.
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1880
Central Character: Anna Kingsford
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: Anna Kingsford earned a medical degree in Paris without harming a single animal, insisting that science and conscience explore the same reality.
Central Character: Anna Kingsford
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: Anna Kingsford earned a medical degree in Paris without harming a single animal, insisting that science and conscience explore the same reality.
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1881
Central Character: Clara Barton
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross
Central Character: Clara Barton
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1886
Central Character: Matilda Joslyn Gage
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: Matilda Joslyn Gage puts the alliance of church and state on trial
Central Character: Matilda Joslyn Gage
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: Matilda Joslyn Gage puts the alliance of church and state on trial