Circa: 2026 - Central Character: Harmonia - About this episode: Harmonia-goddess of harmony and witness to the ages-introduces herself and the new series, The Golden Thread.
Circa: 1975 - Central Character: Diane TickellAbout this episode: 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.
Christianity
Circa: 1970 - Central Character: Sokhna Magat DiopAbout this episode: Sokhna Magat Diop led a Mouride Sufi community in Senegal for sixty years. Harmonia tells the story the world almost missed.
Islam
Circa: 1960 - Central Character: Yogi NaraharinathAbout this episode: Yogi Naraharinath walked the hills of Nepal preserving ancient manuscripts, carrying a tradition of sacred knowledge transmission into the modern world.
Hinduism
Circa: 1950 - Central Character: John KrestiankinAbout this episode: Father John Krestiankin survived the Soviet Gulag unbroken, and spent the rest of his long life demonstrating that wholeness is the most defiant response to cruelty.
Christianity
Circa: 1942 - Central Character: Etty HillesumAbout this episode: 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.
Judaism
Circa: 1940 - Central Character: Johann NobisAbout this episode: Johann Nobis, an Austrian Jehovah's Witness who quietly refused to betray his conscience in the face of overwhelming power
Christianity
Circa: 1939 - Central Character: Charles WilliamsAbout this episode: Charles Williams believed co-inherence --- our mutual indwelling --- was not an idea but the fabric of reality. In a lonely world, he may have been right.
Christianity
Circa: 1935 - Central Character: Regina JonasAbout this episode: Regina Jonas-the first female rabbi in Jewish history
Judaism
Circa: 1933 - Central Character: Frances PerkinsAbout this episode: How Frances Perkins turned rising conscience into national responsibility, shaping laws that still protect millions and revealing the dawn of a new moral era.
19th century awakening
Circa: 1933 - Central Character: Kim IryŏpAbout this episode: Kim Iryp was a voice everyone heard-poet, editor, provocateur. And then, one day, she walked away. Into the mountains.
Buddhism
Circa: 1931 - Central Character: Georges LemaîtreAbout this episode: Georges Lemaître, the Belgian priest who first proposed the Big Bang, and the spiritual discipline of holding science and faith without collapsing one into the other.
Christianity
Circa: 1926 - Central Character: Lê Văn TrungAbout this episode: 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.
Caodaism
Circa: 1925 - Central Character: Martha RootAbout this episode: An exploration of Martha Root's travels and how her faith met the demands of a newly interconnected world without coercion or fear.
Baháʼí Faith
Circa: 1922 - Central Character: Sergei BulgakovAbout this episode: The story of Sergei Bulgakov, Russian theologian and exile, whose lifelong spiritual journey offers a map for the searching soul.
Christianity
Circa: 1922 - Central Character: Pavel FlorenskyAbout this episode: Pavel Florensky followed Einstein's equations past the speed of light and found the geometry of the Kingdom of God.
Christianity
Circa: 1920 - Central Character: Toyohiko KagawaAbout this episode: 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.
19th century awakening
Circa: 1920 - Central Character: Bo Min GaungAbout this episode: Bo Min Gaung, a Burmese weizza saint, inspired 4000 villages to build pagodas under colonial rule, showing how sacred community endures.
Buddhism
Circa: 1920 - Central Character: Meyan KhatunAbout this episode: The story of Meyan Khatun, the Yazidi princess who governed her ancient people through half a century of empire, war, and catastrophe.
Yazidi
Circa: 1917 - Central Character: Rufus JonesAbout this episode: Rufus Jones, the Quaker thinker and activist whose quiet conviction helped make equality, peace, and compassionate service feel like common sense
Christianity
Circa: 1911 - Central Character: Louis George GregoryAbout this episode: 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.
Baháʼí Faith
Circa: 1894 - Central Character: Sarah FarmerAbout this episode: 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.
Baháʼí Faith
Circa: 1893 - Central Character: Swami VivekanandaAbout this episode: Swami Vivekananda's 1893 Parliament speech and lecture tour built the infrastructure that opened America to Eastern spiritual traditions.
Hinduism
Circa: 1893 - Central Character: Virchand GandhiAbout this episode: 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.
Jainism
Circa: 1893 - Central Character: Jenkin Lloyd JonesAbout this episode: 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.
Christianity