Episodes by Circa

Harmonia-goddess of harmony and witness to the ages-introduces herself and the new series, The Golden Thread.

The story of Diane Tickell, one of the first women ordained Episcopal priest, who found the sacred not in ceremony but in soup kitchens and open doors.

A reflection on Etty Hillesum's choice to preserve humanity amid social destruction, and why our future is built on the inner lives we protect now.

Johann Nobis, an Austrian Jehovah's Witness who quietly refused to betray his conscience in the face of overwhelming power

Regina Jonas-the first female rabbi in Jewish history

Kim Iryp was a voice everyone heard-poet, editor, provocateur. And then, one day, she walked away. Into the mountains.

How Frances Perkins turned rising conscience into national responsibility, shaping laws that still protect millions and revealing the dawn of a new moral era.

Harmonia explores Caodaism and its founder Lê Văn Trung, a tradition born in colonial Vietnam that honored the divine across all of humanity's sacred traditions.

An exploration of Martha Root's travels and how her faith met the demands of a newly interconnected world without coercion or fear.

A gentle look at Toyohiko Kagawa, whose life in the slums of Kobe revealed a global awakening of conscience and the power of compassion to reshape society.

The story of Meyan Khatun, the Yazidi princess who governed her ancient people through half a century of empire, war, and catastrophe.

Rufus Jones, the Quaker thinker and activist whose quiet conviction helped make equality, peace, and compassionate service feel like common sense

Harmonia traces the life of Louis George Gregory, whose grandmother's refusal to hate became a thread of racial unity he carried across forty-eight states at enormous personal cost.

Sarah Farmer missed the 1893 Parliament of Religions but gave its vision a permanent home --- Green Acre Bahá'í School, still welcoming all faiths after 130 years.

Swami Vivekananda's 1893 Parliament speech and lecture tour built the infrastructure that opened America to Eastern spiritual traditions.

Virchand Gandhi introduced ahimsa to the West at the 1893 Parliament of Religions, planting seeds that grew through Gandhi and King into the world we inhabit today.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones organized the 1893 Parliament of Religions on a conviction that still matters: religious freedom is indivisible --- protect it for all or lose it for yourself.

Rev. Barrows organized the 1893 Parliament of Religions to demonstrate Christian superiority, but accidentally created the framework for American religious pluralism.

In late Victorian Liverpool, a former Methodist solicitor named William Quilliam returned from North Africa with a new name-Abdullah

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.

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.

Matilda Joslyn Gage puts the alliance of church and state on trial

Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross

A walk through the East End with the Booths, where compassion took organized form and unnecessary suffering became impossible to ignore.

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.