Episodes by Circa

Bartolomé Carranza fought for universal access to Scripture in an age when cheap paper made his dream inevitable, foreshadowing our digitally connected world.

A reflection on Sebastian Castellio, moral restraint, and how naming injustice changes what societies refuse to do.

Michael Servetus discovered pulmonary circulation inside a theology book --- and was burned for the theology while the science was lost for 75 years.

The story of Bartolomé de las Casas and the radical recognition of shared humanity across difference in an emerging global society.

Guru Nanak built structures of dignity that endure to this day.

Menno Simons chose a third way between corrupt power and violent revolution, building peaceful communities whose legacy endures five centuries later.

Princess Mirabai sings to Krishna not as a distant god but as her true beloved.

The story of recogimiento, the Spanish mystical practice of interior recollection, and why the sovereign soul still matters today.

Harmonia traces the life of Juan Luis Vives, Renaissance humanist and exile, who argued for the dignity of the poor and education of women in a world that was burning people for less.

How Hans Denck's exile for defending freedom of conscience planted seeds for religious liberty and the understanding that genuine faith requires genuine freedom.

Conrad Grebel drew the line between state and conscience in 1525. Harmonia asks whether we still know where it is.

Katharina von Bora’s life shows how faith transformed when devotion moved from cloisters into homes, partnerships, and daily responsibility.

The life of Sindhi Sufi poet and judge Qazi Qadan, whose legacy of grace and interfaith love flowered in his grandson Mian Mir at the Golden Temple.

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu gave up Sanskrit scholarship to lead ecstatic street singing that dissolved caste lines in 16th-century Bengal.

This episode explores how Bhai Mardana’s music and companionship helped shape a spiritual movement, revealing how friendship, humility, and shared purpose can still carry transformative truth into the modern worl

Girolamo Savonarola rose as a fierce moral voice in an anxious city.

Harmonia takes us to the bustling lanes of Benares, where Kabir, a humble weaver, spoke verses that challenged priests and mullahs alike.

Nicholas of Cusa discovered that recognizing the boundary of human understanding freed him to live faithfully, bridging the divine mystery with purposeful action.

How a grief-broken warrior and a visionary peacemaker planted an idea that grew into the foundation of modern shared sovereignty.

In this episode, Harmonia remembers Guru Ravidas, a 15th-century poet-saint of the Bhakti movement whose hymns defied caste, and revealed the sacred in work itself.

Harmonia explores Moray, the Inca agricultural laboratory near Cusco, where science, spirit, and reciprocity were never three things but one.

This episode explores how Chökyi Drönma claimed spiritual authority despite royal expectations and patriarchal limits, showing how authenticity, courage, and inner calling can reshape both personal destiny and religious history.

Jan Hus refused to recant what he knew to be true. Six centuries later his gift to humanity --- that conscience cannot be surrendered to corrupt power --- is still compounding.

Christine de Pizan built a library of words defending women's dignity when every authority said she was wrong.

How a Brahmin teacher in medieval Varanasi gave a blessing in the dark --- and followed it forward into history.