Circa: 1526 - Central Character: Juan Luis VivesAbout this episode: 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.
Jewish Converso
Circa: 1525 - Central Character: Katharina von BoraAbout this episode: Katharina von Bora’s life shows how faith transformed when devotion moved from cloisters into homes, partnerships, and daily responsibility.
Christianity
Circa: 1525 - Central Character: Conrad GrebelAbout this episode: Conrad Grebel drew the line between state and conscience in 1525. Harmonia asks whether we still know where it is.
Christianity
Circa: 1520 - Central Character: Qazi QadanAbout this episode: 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.
Islam
Circa: 1510 - Central Character: Chaitanya MahaprabhuAbout this episode: Chaitanya Mahaprabhu gave up Sanskrit scholarship to lead ecstatic street singing that dissolved caste lines in 16th-century Bengal.
Hinduism
Circa: 1500 - Central Character: MardanaAbout this episode: 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
Sikhism
Circa: 1494 - Central Character: Girolamo SavonarolaAbout this episode: Girolamo Savonarola rose as a fierce moral voice in an anxious city.
Christianity
Circa: 1480 - Central Character: KabirAbout this episode: Harmonia takes us to the bustling lanes of Benares, where Kabir, a humble weaver, spoke verses that challenged priests and mullahs alike.
Mysticism
Circa: 1453 - Central Character: Nicholas of CusaAbout this episode: Nicholas of Cusa discovered that recognizing the boundary of human understanding freed him to live faithfully, bridging the divine mystery with purposeful action.
Christianity
Circa: 1450 - Central Character: DeganawidaAbout this episode: How a grief-broken warrior and a visionary peacemaker planted an idea that grew into the foundation of modern shared sovereignty.
Indigenous Spirituality
Circa: 1450 - Central Character: RavidasAbout this episode: In this episode, Harmonia remembers Guru Ravidas, a 15th-century poet-saint of the Bhakti movement whose hymns defied caste, and revealed the sacred in work itself.
Mysticism
Circa: 1450 - Central Character: PachacutiAbout this episode: Harmonia explores Moray, the Inca agricultural laboratory near Cusco, where science, spirit, and reciprocity were never three things but one.
Inca
Circa: 1450 - Central Character: PipaAbout this episode: A Rajput king abandons his throne to become a wandering monk, and discovers the treasure was never outside himself.
Hinduism
Circa: 1440 - Central Character: Chökyi DrönmaAbout this episode: This episode explores how Chökyi Drönma claimed spiritual authority despite royal expectations and patriarchal limits, showing how authenticity, courage, and inner calling can reshape both personal destiny and religious history.
Buddhism
Circa: 1415 - Central Character: Jan HusAbout this episode: Jan Hus refused to recant what he knew to be true. Six centuries later his gift to humanity --- that conscience cannot be surrendered to corrupt power --- is still compounding.
Christianity
Circa: 1405 - Central Character: Christine de PizanAbout this episode: Christine de Pizan built a library of words defending women's dignity when every authority said she was wrong.
Philosopher
Circa: 1400 - Central Character: Lal DedAbout this episode: Lal Ded, 14th-century Kashmiri mystic poet, whose vakhs on the sacred dignity of every soul shaped a valley and seeded a revolution.
Mysticism
Circa: 1400 - Central Character: RamanandaAbout this episode: How a Brahmin teacher in medieval Varanasi gave a blessing in the dark --- and followed it forward into history.
Hinduism
Circa: 1395 - Central Character: Julian of NorwichAbout this episode: Harmonia steps into the quiet cell of Julian of Norwich-a medieval anchoress who lived through plague, famine, war and more
Christianity
Circa: 1390 - Central Character: Sultan SahakAbout this episode: A reflection on the Yarsan tradition, its origins around Sultan Sahak, and the quiet strength of faith that survives without institutions or power.
Yarsan
Circa: 1378 - Central Character: John WycliffeAbout this episode: John Wycliffe asked who gets to stand between a soul and what it reaches for. Mother Teresa lived the answer.
Christianity
Circa: 1377 - Central Character: Ibn KhaldunAbout this episode: Ibn Khaldun's revolutionary theory of social cohesion (asabiyyah) explains civilizational cycles and offers tools for understanding how today's crises are calling forth unprecedented human unity.
Islam
Circa: 1367 - Central Character: Friends of God (Gottesfreunde)About this episode: A 14th-century Rhine valley healing community shows how people find each other and hold each other up when institutions fail.
Christianity
Circa: 1350 - Central Character: Fourteen Holy HelpersAbout this episode: An exploration of how medieval devotion to the Fourteen Holy Saints preserved humanity and hope amid relentless suffering.
Christianity
Circa: 1341 - Central Character: Gregory PalamasAbout this episode: Gregory Palamas defended the reality of direct encounter with the divine against those who insisted God could only be approached through intellect and doctrine.
Christianity