The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope
Quakers and other seekers explore visions of the world growing up through the cracks of our broken systems. The Seed is a podcast from Pendle Hill, a Quaker center, open to all, for Spirit-led learning, retreat, and community in Wallingford, PA. This project was made possible by the generous support of the Thomas H. & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fund.
Episodes
34 episodes
Trickery, Culture, and Power: Keil Troisi and Favianna Rodriguez on Creative Activism
Dwight Dunston speaks with filmmaker and activist Keil Troisi about the transformative power of art and culture in world-building and social change. Keil shares his experiences with The Yes Men, an art-activism group that creative...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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Guided Transmutations with eppchez yo-sí yes
In this episode, Dwight Dunston and eppchez yo-sí yes delve into the transformative potential of art. Drawing from experiences in reparations work and Quaker business settings, eppchez’s art seeks to disentangle integrity from perfection, inste...
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Season 5
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Irish Roots and Radical Hope with Manchán Magan and Shirley Anne McMillan
Dwight Dunston brings listeners into a reflective discussion with two Irish writers, Manchán Magan and Shirley Anne McMillan, as they explore Ireland's divided history, cultural resilience, and visions for a more harmonious future.
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History of Worship at Pendle Hill with Francisco Burgos
In this mini-episode, Francisco shares the inspiring journey of the Pendle Hill online worship community, which emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide a spiritu...
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Season 5
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Palestinian Education and Resistance with Dr. Riyam Kafri AbuLaban and Steve Tamari
Dr. Riyam Kafri AbuLaban, a former principal at Ramallah Friends School and a writer from Palestine, shares her insights on world-building amidst conflict and the complexities of raising children under occu...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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Palestinian Food and Memory with Dr. Riyam Kafri Abu Laban
Episode SummaryIn our first mini-episode of Season 5, Dr. Riyam Kafri Abu Laban, a writer and educator from Ramallah, explains how Palestinian cuisine is a powerful expression of identity rooted in the land and traditions of the P...
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World Building with Francisco Burgos
Episode Summary:In this opening episode of Season 5 of The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope, host Dwight Dunston speaks with Francisco Burgos, Executive Director of Pendle Hill, about the theme of world-building. ...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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Announcing Season 5 World-Building and Imagination
🌱 Welcome to Season 5 of The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope! 🌱In this special promo, host Dwight Dunston invites you into a season focused on world-building and imagination, exploring the deep q...
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Season 5
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Yielding to Transformation with Valerie Brown
In our final episode of Season 4, Valerie Brown, an author, Buddhist-Quaker Dharma teacher, and executive coach, discusses yielding to the realignment of grief, the relationship between self care and social justice, and how Quaker communities a...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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Solidarity in Heartbreak with Rabbi Mordechai Liebling
Rabbi Mordechai Liebling draws on his decades-long experience in interfaith and interracial activism and organizing to explore the role of clergy in organizing and nonviolent direct action, the power of shared heartbreak across difference, and ...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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28:21
Imagining Justice Beyond Cages with Felix Rosado
Felix Rosado is an abolitionist and restorative justice practitioner committed to ending human caging in all its forms. When 'justice' has become synonymous with cops, courtrooms, and cages, how do we begin to envision new ways of truth-telling...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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27:48
Inviting Ourselves to Be Challenged with Adria Gulizia
In this current political moment of polarization and divisiveness, when and how do we commit to staying in fellowship with one another? How do we discern individual and institutional next steps with faithfulness and humility? In this conversati...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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28:45
Embracing Paradox with Parker Palmer
Parker Palmer is an teacher, activist, and writer whose work explores issues in education, community, spirituality, and social change. He and Dwight explore vocation, aging, and the paradoxes of solitude and community, life and mortality, faith...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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33:47
Welcome to Season 4: Gratitude, Grief, and Navigating Uncertainty with Francisco Burgos
In this opening episode of Season 4, Dwight and Francisco discuss grief, gratitude, staying grounded amidst uncertainty and polarization, and the guiding queries and themes of the season. Dwight Dunston is a West Philly-based fac...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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17:00
Season Four Trailer
Welcome to Season 4 of The Seed! Join us as we explore what spiritual alignment looks like in this moment of escalating social and political upheaval and violence: How do we cultivate discernment to stay the course and stay connected to our lea...
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Season 4
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2:01
Freedom Beyond Our Lifetimes with K. Melchor Quick Hall
K. Melchor Quick Hall is a popular educator, writer, and researcher. In this final episode of Season 3, she and Dwight explore the importance of nurturing practices of creative play, what it means to honor legacies of liberation and care, and w...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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Learning to Come Home to Ourselves with Matthew Armstead
How do we begin to imagine futures not yet here? What can we do today to embody the liberation we want to see?Matthew Armstead (they/them), an experiential facilitator and performance artist, asks how, right now, we can embody the worlds...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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Sharing Silence and Attuning to Spirit with Ingrid Lakey
How can we cultivate a relationship to communal silence? How can practices of silent worship allow us to build trust and open to the unknown?Ingrid Lakey, co-founder of Earth Quaker Action Team, talks ...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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Creating the Conditions for Belonging with Autumn Brown
How do we create rituals to witness each other and our communities in transformative moments and cultivate a sense of belonging? What role does forgiveness play in our individual and communal spiritual practices? Autumn Brown is a w...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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Welcome to Season 3: Nurturing Our Spirits, Cultivating Hope with Francisco Burgos
Season 3 is here! As we begin to explore the practices that enrich our connections to ourselves and to each other, Dwight and Francisco share what's been spiritually nurturing them, their relationships to community, and their understandings of ...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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Season Three Trailer
Welcome to Season Three of The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope. This summer, we're exploring the practices that enrich our connections to ourselves and to each other. How do we cultivate relationships in spiritual com...
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Season 3
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2:04
Integrity & Radical Truth: Remembering Who We Are with Niyonu Spann
When systems of oppression are so entrenched, omnipresent, and internalized, how can we discover, remember, and recognize the truth of who we are? Is it possible to transform our deepest-rooted convictions about ourselves? The roots...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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37:17
Integrity & Imagination: Facing What We Fear with Anton Flores-Maisonet
How do we align our everyday decisions with our ideals to create the world we want to see?Anton breaks down the distinction between morality and integrity, discussing the mystery, fear, and unknowns that arise when our values don’t align...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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26:28
Integrity & Ecotheology: Working Toward Liberatory Climate Justice with Cherice Bock
What can people of faith offer to broader environmental and other social justice movements? Cherice’s work in ecotheology–a field of liberation theology centered around the relationship between religion and environment–seeks to supp...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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24:53
Integrity & Transmutation: Moving Beyond Cultures of Domination with eppchez yo-sí yes
eppchez yo-sí yes, a Quaker playwright, inventor, and spiritual companion, offers ways to practice noticing patterns of faithfulness and patterns of oppression to begin moving through transformations of self and community. Using eir own experie...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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