Episodes by Circa

Though she never left her cell, Mara de Jess de greda became a spiritual presence across cultures, continents, and centuries.

Roger Williams, the exiled minister who refused to let faith become a tool for political power

Nicholas Ferrar built a household of continuous prayer and beauty at Little Gidding, showing how faith becomes real at the family scale.

How Felipe Guaman Poma's unread chronicle created permanent indigenous witness, demonstrating that truth-telling has value independent of immediate results.

Jean de Léry's encounter with the Tupinambá people in 1558 Brazil pioneered cultural humility as spiritual practice, offering timeless wisdom for our interconnected world.

John of the Cross found enlightenment not despite his suffering but through it --- and left the world love poetry to prove it.

Mughal emperor Akbar gathered mystics, priests, monks, and scholars into a single candlelit room

As empire and inquisition tightened their grip on Spain, this barefoot nun turned inward-and found a kind of freedom no authority could touch.

Bartolomé Carranza fought for universal access to Scripture in an age when cheap paper made his dream inevitable, foreshadowing our digitally connected world.

A reflection on Sebastian Castellio, moral restraint, and how naming injustice changes what societies refuse to do.

Michael Servetus discovered pulmonary circulation inside a theology book --- and was burned for the theology while the science was lost for 75 years.

The story of Bartolomé de las Casas and the radical recognition of shared humanity across difference in an emerging global society.

Guru Nanak built structures of dignity that endure to this day.

Menno Simons chose a third way between corrupt power and violent revolution, building peaceful communities whose legacy endures five centuries later.

Princess Mirabai sings to Krishna not as a distant god but as her true beloved.

The story of recogimiento, the Spanish mystical practice of interior recollection, and why the sovereign soul still matters today.

Harmonia traces the life of Juan Luis Vives, Renaissance humanist and exile, who argued for the dignity of the poor and education of women in a world that was burning people for less.

How Hans Denck's exile for defending freedom of conscience planted seeds for religious liberty and the understanding that genuine faith requires genuine freedom.

Conrad Grebel drew the line between state and conscience in 1525. Harmonia asks whether we still know where it is.

Katharina von Bora’s life shows how faith transformed when devotion moved from cloisters into homes, partnerships, and daily responsibility.

The life of Sindhi Sufi poet and judge Qazi Qadan, whose legacy of grace and interfaith love flowered in his grandson Mian Mir at the Golden Temple.

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu gave up Sanskrit scholarship to lead ecstatic street singing that dissolved caste lines in 16th-century Bengal.

This episode explores how Bhai Mardana’s music and companionship helped shape a spiritual movement, revealing how friendship, humility, and shared purpose can still carry transformative truth into the modern worl

Girolamo Savonarola rose as a fierce moral voice in an anxious city.

Harmonia takes us to the bustling lanes of Benares, where Kabir, a humble weaver, spoke verses that challenged priests and mullahs alike.