Walking Without Armor

As the modern world became globally connected, religion faced a quiet challenge: how to remain meaningful without dominating difference. This episode follows Martha Louise Root, a Bah teacher who traveled the world alone in the early twentieth century, trusting conversation, presence, and human dignity to carry her faith. Through her life, Harmonia reflects on how religion began to bend toward a new global reality---and what that shift still asks of us today.
Season 1
Episode 70
Religion
Baháʼí Faith

Unveiled: Tahirih's Poetic Defiance

In this episode of The Golden Thread, 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. At the very same time, across the ocean in Seneca Falls, women gathered to declare their equality-two awakenings echoing across continents. Tahirih's courage, her poetry, and her final words-"You can kill me as soon as you like, but you cannot stop the emancipation of women"-still burn with power today.
Season 1
Episode 7
Religion
Baháʼí Faith
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