Moses the Black: The Strength of a Softened Heart

In this episode, Harmonia reflects on the remarkable life of Moses the Black-a man shaped by violence who slowly transformed into one of the gentlest figures of the early desert monastic tradition. Moving from Julian of Norwich's hopeful vision and the old story of Pandora, Harmonia invites the listener into a deeper exploration of how people evolve across time, how societies change faster than any one life can fully grasp, and why mercy remains essential in a world quick to judge the past by the sharpness of the present.
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Episode 45
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Julian of Norwich: All Shall Be Well

In this Golden Thread episode, Harmonia steps into the quiet cell of Julian of Norwich-a medieval anchoress who lived through plague, famine, war, and fear, yet emerged with one of the most hopeful spiritual visions in history. Through scenes of candlelit illness, stark solitude, and the steady stream of townspeople seeking comfort at her window, Harmonia explores Julian's revelation that love, not despair, is the deepest layer of reality.
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Episode 43
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Savonarola: When Fear Tried to Purify Florence

In this episode, Harmonia returns after Hillel the Elder to walk through the charged streets of Renaissance Florence, where Girolamo Savonarola rose as a fierce moral voice in an anxious city. Through scenes of bonfires, crowded piazzas, and the tremble of a society seeking certainty, Harmonia explores how fear can masquerade as virtue-and why it can never sustain compassion or justice. She traces Savonarola's sincerity, his severity, and the spiritual lessons his rise and fall still offer today.
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Episode 41
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Matilda Joslyn Gage: Standing Outside the Gate

Harmonia joins Matilda Joslyn Gage on a gray day in New York Harbor, not on the official boats full of dignitaries but on a crowded barge of suffragists circling the new Statue of Liberty with banners that read "American women have no liberty." From that rocking deck, we trace Gage's path back to a childhood home on the Underground Railroad, where she learned that law and justice are not the same thing; through her uninvited speech at the 1852 women's rights convention; into her deep friendships (and tensions) with Stanton and Anthony; and finally to her most dangerous work, Woman, Chur

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Episode 38
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Antoinette Brown Blackwell: Equal Souls, Equal Minds

Harmonia takes us into a low-ceilinged church in South Butler, New York, on the night a young woman named Antoinette Brown Blackwell kneels to be ordained-under the wary gaze of men who have only ever blessed other men. From a childhood in rural Henrietta to theology lectures at Oberlin that would not grant her a proper place on the rolls, Antoinette's life becomes a test of one simple conviction: if women are fully human, then nothing about conscience, intellect, or calling is reserved for men.
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Episode 36
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Enmegahbowh: The Man in the Doorway

Harmonia travels to the White Earth reservation to remember Enmegahbowh, the first Native American priest in the Episcopal Church and a man whose very name means "the one who stands before his people." Born into Ojibwe tradition and ordained in a settler church, he spent his life in the doorway between worlds-translating, mediating, and refusing to let either story be erased.
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Episode 35
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Ink and Silence: The Faith of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

In a convent in 17th-century Mexico, Sor Juana Ins de la Cruz wrote theology, poetry, and defiance by candlelight. Her mind was her devotion, and her silence-when it came-was not submission, but a kind of spiritual martyrdom. This episode explores how her quiet resistance continues to echo in every soul that seeks to think and believe in equal measure.
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Episode 34
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The Floor That Trembled: The Spirit of Ann Lee

In an empty Shaker meeting house, the silence still remembers. In this episode, Harmonia recalls Ann Lee, the visionary leader who shaped one of the most radical spiritual communities in American history. Born in the factories of Manchester and called "Mother Ann" by her followers, she brought ecstatic worship, gender equality, and sacred simplicity to life-not through preaching, but through presence. Her legacy-felt today in music, architecture, and design-offers a living reminder: that what we build with integrity becomes eternal.
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Episode 33
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The Interior Reformer: Saint Teresa of Ávila

In the silence of a 16th-century convent, Saint Teresa of vila heard something dangerous: her own soul, fully awake. As empire and inquisition tightened their grip on Spain, this barefoot nun turned inward-and found a kind of freedom no authority could touch. In this episode, Harmonia traces Teresa's quiet rebellion, her visions and reforms, and the enduring gift she left behind: a spiritual architecture built for anyone seeking clarity, courage, and inner truth.
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Episode 30
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The Woman Who Was Heard Across an Ocean

In a cloistered convent in 17th-century Spain, a young nun wrote visions of the Virgin Mary while stories of a mysterious "Lady in Blue" spread among Indigenous communities in New Spain. Though she never left her cell, Mara de Jess de greda became a spiritual presence across cultures, continents, and centuries. In this episode, Harmonia explores how sacred ideas press into the world through ordinary lives-and what it means when institutions must catch up to truths already in motion.
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Episode 28
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