The Wager

Blaise Pascal
About this Episode
Blaise Pascal's wager invites us to live as if love is real---even in a world where certainty has faded and old religious forms no longer hold.
circa
1654

Standing as witness to justice

Barbara Blaugdone
About this Episode
The story of Barbara Blaugdone, a 17th-century Quaker preacher who practiced witness to justice at extraordinary personal cost.
circa
1656

John Amos Comenius

John Amos Comenius
About this Episode
John Amos Comenius championed universal education for all children while in exile, planting seeds that grew into modern schooling and global learning infrastructure.
circa
1658

The Ground Beneath Your Feet

Nicolas Steno
About this Episode
Nicolas Steno founded modern geology and modeled how science and spiritual inquiry can illuminate different layers of the same reality.
circa
1669

The Man Who Disappeared Into the Work

Jacques Bertot
About this Episode
Jacques Bertot shaped Madame Guyon and a chain of mystics across Europe by teaching interior surrender --- and leaving his name off the cover.
circa
1675

The Gravity of Justice

The Eighty-Five Martyrs of England and Wales
About this Episode
The story of Nicholas Postgate and the 85 Martyrs of England and Wales --- and why justice, like gravity, always finds its level.
circa
1679