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 community? How do these relationships and practices support our work for liberation and justice and transform our sense of what is possible? 

The transcript for this episode is available on https://pendlehillseed.buzzsprout.com/

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Transcript

Dwight Dunston 00:00

Welcome to Season Three of The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope, a podcast from Pendle Hill. 

I’m your host, Dwight Dunston, a Quaker hip hop artist and facilitator from West Philadelphia. 

This season, we’re exploring the practices that enrich our connections to ourselves and to each other. How do we cultivate relationships in spiritual community? How do these relationships and practices support our work for liberation and justice and transform our sense of what is possible? 

Francisco Burgos 00:33

As people engage with us in conversation, one of the things that is strong for me is … Hmm, this is a very practical way of tending to the land: to the land of transformation, to the land of happiness, to the land of building community.

Ingrid Lakey 00:53

The reality that Spirit is always present. Whether we are aware of it, whether we are paying attention, whether we invited Spirit in–Spirit’s there. 

K. Melchor Quick Hall 01:06

I’m very clear about purpose in a way that allows me not to become so distracted by what can be done in my lifetime.

Autumn Brown 01:17

Whatever we need in order to be able to make ritual together, we already have it. It’s about the will to gather people, and the will to say, “We’re going to have a ritual now. And we’re not going to wait for someone else to give us permission to be in ritual together, because we believe that we’re worth saving.”

Matthew Armstead 01:37

Learning to come back to myself. There’s a practice of learning to come home to myself. In a world that calls us out of ourselves so often, how do we get to come home?

Dwight Dunston 01:49 

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