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The Golden Thread — 113 episodes

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1

The Light on the Mountain: Gregory Palamas and the Reality of the Inner Life

2

The Rule and the Awakening: Changlu Zongze and the Sacred Ordinary

3

Ramananda: The Open Ghat

4

The Man Who Traded Everything for a Song

5

The Keeper of What Was Written

6

The Exile Who Found Home: Sergei Bulgakov and the Journey Through Doubt

7

The Man Who Remembered How: George MacDonald and the Power of Sacred Story

8

The Candle at Little Gidding: Nicholas Ferrar and the Household of Faith

9

The Letter That Crossed the Water: Nichiren and the Lost Art of Being Seen

10

The Flame and the Chain: Al-Qushayri and the Inner Life of Islam

11

The Garden and the Good Life: Epicurus and the Philosophy of Friendship

12

The Monk at the Rail: Pelagius and the Nobility of the Human Soul

13

The Man Who Followed the Numbers: Pavel Florensky and the Geometry of the Sacred

14

The Stone and the Song: Qazi Qadan and the Art of Choosing Rightly

15

The Man Who Saw the Whole Elephant

16

The Fire That Did Not Go Out: Al-Hallaj and the Proof of the Soul

17

The Man Who Could Not Stop: William Wilberforce and the Faith That Changed the World

18

The Room He Cannot Enter: Recogimiento and the Sovereign Soul

19

The Book That Refused to Die

20

The Nothing He Brought Home

21

Love That Has Forgotten What Evil Is

22

The Man Who Could Not See the Wall

23

The Dark Night: John of the Cross and the Gift of Suffering

24

The Church That Time Forgot --- The Saint Thomas Christians of India

25

The Man Who Built the Bible He Was Never Allowed to Keep

26

The Boat to the Golden Island: Atiśa and the Courage to Seek

27

The Ladder of Love

28

The Goose and the Swan: Jan Hus and the Courage of Conscience

29

The Musician the Conductor Pointed to First

30

The Man Who Mapped Heaven: Emanuel Swedenborg and the Edge of the Mind

31

The Slender Thread: Metrodora and the Knowledge That Survived

32

The Bald Fool Who Outlasted the Masters

33

Pack Boots at the Altar: The Ministry of Diane Tickell

34

The Fire Behind the Words: John Wycliffe and the Living Thing

35

The Man Who Knocked on the Pope's Door: Abraham Abulafia and the Light Beyond the Mirror

36

The Soul Has No Tribe: Haji Bektash Veli and the Perfected Human

37

The Line in the Cold: Conrad Grebel and the Birth of Conscience

38

The Physician Who Wrote for the Poor

39

The Mind God Gave You: Wasil ibn Ata and the Birth of Islamic Reason

40

The World That Was Already Sacred: The Ancient Roots of Shinto

41

The Tinker Who Could Not Be Quiet: John Bunyan and the Road We Are Already On

42

The Man Who Listened for Dogs: Menno Simons and the Courage to Build

43

The Day the World Learned to Be Beautiful

44

The Diamond and the Light: Adi Shankara and the Unity Beneath All Things

45

The Man Who Decided What We Would Remember

46

The Man Who Faced the Wall

47

The Light in Every Vessel: Mani and the Dream of One Truth

48

The Threshold: Church Sanctuary and the Law of Mercy

49

Something Has Gone Hollow: Zhang Daoling and the Courage to Begin Again

50

The Root of the Law

51

The Ground Beneath the Ground: Nagarjuna and the Philosophy of Emptiness

52

The Butterfly Who Knew His Name

53

The Lamp That Was Worth Everything: The Freedom of Epictetus

54

The Oldest Wisdom: Ptahhotep and the Burden of Leadership

55

The Monk Who Gave Away the Moon

56

The Woman Who Called the People Home

57

The Cave and the Conscience

58

Aion: The God of Forever

59

Judith Sargent Murray: She Wrote Into the Future

60

The Light of Men

61

Lal Ded: Do Not Hurt Any Heart

62

The Woman Who Belonged to No One

63

The New City

64

The Treasurer of Devotion

65

The Life That Was the Argument

66

The Thread He Dared to Pull

67

The Notebook on the Danube

68

The Hunger That Power Cannot Feed

69

A Thousand Tongues

70

The Divine Answered

71

The Ballroom and the Debt

72

Isaac Hecker: The Question He Refused to Stop Asking

73

The Sacred Laboratory of the Andes

74

Elizabeth Ann Seton: The Work That Looks Like Nothing

75

Hiawatha and the Peacemaker

76

Meyan Khatun

77

The Flame That Would Not Go Out

78

The Feather and the Heart

79

Watching in the Dark

80

The Ground Beneath Your Feet

81

Sarah Farmer and the Founding of Greenacre

82

Jenkin Lloyd Jones and the Parliament of Religions

83

The Seed and the Crossing

84

Sisters and Brothers of America

85

Rev. John Henry Barrows: The Door He Opened

86

Brother Lawrence: Finding God in the Kitchen

87

John Amos Comenius

88

Bartolom Carranza

89

Ibn Khaldun

90

John Woolman

91

The Law That Learned to Travel

92

The City of Ladies

93

The Hermit's Library

94

Michael Scot: The Wizard Who Carried Knowledge

95

Robert of Ketton: Speaking Someone Else's Prayer

96

Hermann of Carinthia

97

Gerard of Cremona

98

The Self-Taught Philosopher

99

The Commentator

100

The Bridge of Córdoba

101

The Library of Light

102

Lubna of Crdoba: Keeper of the Light

103

The Missing Chapter

104

Ibn ʿArabī and the Widened Heart

105

Jean de Léry

106

The Flowing Light of the Godhead

107

Benedict of Nursia: The Root System of Western Civilization

108

Alcuin of York: The Teacher Who Saved Civilization

109

Nicholas of Cusa: The Boundary of Wonder

110

Felipe Guaman Poma: The Chronicle No King Would Read

111

Phillis Wheatley: The Poet Who Proved the Impossible

112

Hans Denck: The Man Who Walked Into Winter

113

Pierre Bayle