A grassroots initiative is taking a road trip through America this summer to facilitate messy but healing conversations across political divides.
Our Latest Show June 22, 2017
The renowned actor as you’ve never heard him before. He has appeared in over 100 films, including Apocalypse Now. He’s best known on television as President Bartlet in The West Wing. But Martin Sheen, born and still legally named Ramón Estévez, has had another lesser-known life as a spiritual seeker and activist. He returned to a deep and joyful Catholic faith after a crisis at the height of his fame in mid-life. He’s been arrested over 60 times in vigils and protests. “Piety is something you do alone,” he says. “True freedom, spirituality, can only be achieved in community.”
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June 21, 2017
The extraordinary is revered and celebrated, but where does that leave the ordinary? On rediscovering the meaning of awe, and finding it in the quiet majesty of the daily grind.
December 8, 2016
The farmer-poet-conservationist Wendell Berry reads his poem iconic poem. Listen and share!
December 28, 2014
Thomas Merton is one of those monastics who continues to inspire so many. Here, the Jesuit Jim Martin reads one of his favorite passages from his book, Thoughts in Solitude.
June 16, 2017
In the wake of the attacks in Manchester, an artist’s impassioned appeal to the West to cast off the scourge of collective responsibility for terrorism — and embrace the world's 1.8 billion Muslims as partners not adversaries in the battle against extreme violence.
December 8, 2016
David Whyte reads his poem "Everything Is Waiting for You."
June 15, 2017
The personal growth that comes from activities we do for joy, rather than status or reward — whether it's painting murals or sprucing up cars, pick-up basketball or beekeeping.
June 28, 2017
In the wake of controversial verdict in our local community, our editor in chief turns to other sources for understanding and pondering: brain science on why our brains are wired for hate, African-American spirituals as a monument to our nation's history and resilience, and focusing our attention on what really matters.
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