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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: History's ArrowCirca: 1866
Central Character: Clara Brown
About this episode: A formerly enslaved woman spends her Colorado gold rush fortune freeing and reuniting others, making Reconstruction's promises real one life at a time.
Central Character: Clara Brown
About this episode: A formerly enslaved woman spends her Colorado gold rush fortune freeing and reuniting others, making Reconstruction's promises real one life at a time.
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: 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: 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: 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: History's ArrowCirca: 1879
Central Character: James Paris Lee
About this episode: A self-taught immigrant inventor's decades of rejected designs finally produce a rifle mechanism that outlasts him by a century.
Central Character: James Paris Lee
About this episode: A self-taught immigrant inventor's decades of rejected designs finally produce a rifle mechanism that outlasts him by a century.
Podcast: History's ArrowCirca: 1879
Central Character: Blanche Bruce
About this episode: A formerly enslaved man rose to preside over the U.S. Senate - and his signature still authenticates a fortune in surviving currency today.
Central Character: Blanche Bruce
About this episode: A formerly enslaved man rose to preside over the U.S. Senate - and his signature still authenticates a fortune in surviving currency today.
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: 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: 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
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1887
Central Character: Emmeline B. Wells
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: Emmeline B. Wells lost the vote in 1887 and spent seventeen years working as if she'd get it back - and she did.
Central Character: Emmeline B. Wells
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: Emmeline B. Wells lost the vote in 1887 and spent seventeen years working as if she'd get it back - and she did.
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1888
Central Character: Lottie Moon
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: A 19th-century missionary in China who saw the equality of men and women as fact, not aspiration---decades ahead of her time.
Central Character: Lottie Moon
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: A 19th-century missionary in China who saw the equality of men and women as fact, not aspiration---decades ahead of her time.
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1889
Central Character: Abdullah Quilliam
Faith: Islam
About this episode: In late Victorian Liverpool, a former Methodist solicitor named William Quilliam returned from North Africa with a new name-Abdullah
Central Character: Abdullah Quilliam
Faith: Islam
About this episode: In late Victorian Liverpool, a former Methodist solicitor named William Quilliam returned from North Africa with a new name-Abdullah
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1889
Central Character: Jane Addams
Faith: 19th century awakening
About this episode: A gentle look at how Jane Addams transformed compassion into civic responsibility, revealing why her quiet vision still shapes the moral world we live in today.
Central Character: Jane Addams
Faith: 19th century awakening
About this episode: A gentle look at how Jane Addams transformed compassion into civic responsibility, revealing why her quiet vision still shapes the moral world we live in today.
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1889
Central Character: Jane Addams
About this episode: Harmonia pauses our journey to reveal how 19th-century reformers—mostly women without authority—reshaped society through responsibility, preparing us to meet the remarkable figures who rewove the modern moral world.
Central Character: Jane Addams
About this episode: Harmonia pauses our journey to reveal how 19th-century reformers—mostly women without authority—reshaped society through responsibility, preparing us to meet the remarkable figures who rewove the modern moral world.
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1890
Central Character: Frances Willard
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: Frances Willard learns to ride a bicycle at 53, and reveals what it means to practice freedom before permission is granted.
Central Character: Frances Willard
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: Frances Willard learns to ride a bicycle at 53, and reveals what it means to practice freedom before permission is granted.
Podcast: The Golden ThreadCirca: 1893
Central Character: Harriet Morison
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: How a Dunedin tailoress's union fight for fair wages became the same struggle as New Zealand's historic 1893 vote for women.
Central Character: Harriet Morison
Faith: Christianity
About this episode: How a Dunedin tailoress's union fight for fair wages became the same struggle as New Zealand's historic 1893 vote for women.