The Divine Answered
Circa: 1926 - Central Character: Lê Văn Trung
Caodaism
About 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.
A Day Without Yesterday: Georges Lemaître and the Harmony of Two Ways of Knowing
Circa: 1931 - Central Character: Georges Lemaître
Christianity
About 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.
Frances Perkins: When the Dawn Became Morning
Circa: 1933 - Central Character: Frances Perkins
19th century awakening
About 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.
The Silence She Chose
Circa: 1933 - Central Character: Kim Iryŏp
Buddhism
About this episode: Kim Iryp was a voice everyone heard-poet, editor, provocateur. And then, one day, she walked away. Into the mountains.
The Voice That Would Not Vanish
Circa: 1935 - Central Character: Regina Jonas
Judaism
About this episode: Regina Jonas-the first female rabbi in Jewish history
The Postman Knew Her Name: Charles Williams and the Fabric of Human Connection
Circa: 1939 - Central Character: Charles Williams
Christianity
About 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.
A Quiet Refusal: The Story of Johann Nobis
Circa: 1940 - Central Character: Johann Nobis
Christianity
About this episode: Johann Nobis, an Austrian Jehovah's Witness who quietly refused to betray his conscience in the face of overwhelming power
Standing Firm in Humanity
Circa: 1942 - Central Character: Etty Hillesum
Judaism
About 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.
Love That Has Forgotten What Evil Is
Circa: 1950 - Central Character: John Krestiankin
Christianity
About 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.
The Keeper of What Was Written
Circa: 1960 - Central Character: Yogi Naraharinath
Hinduism
About this episode: Yogi Naraharinath walked the hills of Nepal preserving ancient manuscripts, carrying a tradition of sacred knowledge transmission into the modern world.
The Soul Has No Gender: Sokhna Magat Diop and the Mouride Brotherhood
Circa: 1970 - Central Character: Sokhna Magat Diop
Islam
About this episode: Sokhna Magat Diop led a Mouride Sufi community in Senegal for sixty years. Harmonia tells the story the world almost missed.
Pack Boots at the Altar: The Ministry of Diane Tickell
Circa: 1975 - Central Character: Diane Tickell
Christianity
About 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.
The Thread Begins
Circa: 2026 - About this episode: Harmonia-goddess of harmony and witness to the ages-introduces herself and the new series, The Golden Thread.