Episodes by Circa

Enmegahbowh, the first Native American priest in the Episcopal Church

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.

The Vatican Observatory's centuries-long tradition of astronomical research reveals that wonder and service, science and faith, are expressions of the same love.

The story of Antoine Chevrier, who turned an abandoned Lyon ballroom into a shelter, seeing not charity but restitution owed to the poor.

How Henri Dunant’s compassion at Solferino sparked the Red Cross, the Geneva Conventions, and a new global understanding of mercy.

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.

A look at how Florence Nightingale helped medicine awaken, turning compassion into structure and revealing the deeper shift that made modern healthcare possible.

Harmonia traces Zoroastrianism from Zarathustra's radical vision of monotheism to Maneckji Hataria's 19th century mission to save a dying faith.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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.

How Dorothea Dix exposed hidden suffering and helped transform mental health care through steady, uncompromising compassion.

In a quiet classroom in 19th-century Karbala, Siyyid Kzim Rasht whispered of a sacred change drawing near.

Jarena Lee was born free in a land built on slavery. Denied a pulpit, denied authority, and denied permission, she preached anyway

How Elizabeth Fry transformed the brutal women’s ward of Newgate Prison through structure, dignity, and disciplined compassion—and reshaped society’s conscience.

The story of Elizabeth Ann Seton, founder of the Sisters of Charity, and the enduring power of service as a spiritual calling.

Ryōkan Taigu was an Edo-period Zen monk whose life of radical simplicity and chosen joy continues to illuminate what it means to be fully, deliberately alive.

Harmonia explores Judith Sargent Murray, whose radical belief in the equality of every soul helped build the world we live in today.

A reflection on Lessing and the moment when humanity began learning to discover spiritual truth as responsibly as scientific truth.

Harmonia recalls Ann Lee, the visionary leader who shaped one of the most radical spiritual communities in American history.

How Phillis Wheatley's poetry created undeniable proof of human dignity, giving future generations the language to imagine justice.

John Woolman's gentle witness against slavery through everyday choices helped Quakers become the first American denomination to oppose it, offering a model for moral clarity that remains urgent today.

The story of Benjamin Lay, the radical Quaker abolitionist who lived in a cave and refused to let good people look away from slavery.

The story of Quaker abolitionist Anthony Benezet and the profound spiritual distinction between forgiveness as personal work and justice as collective architecture.

Scientist, mystic, and forerunner --- Emanuel Swedenborg followed reason to the edge of what reason can reach, and kept going.

Charles Wesley wrote 6000 hymns that gave ordinary people a sacred voice --- and Harmonia wonders why we've stopped singing together.