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 questions about the future we envision and how we can start living it today. This season is packed with inspiring conversations, reflections, and new features designed to expand your sense of justice, love, and peace.

🎙️ Episode Highlights:

• Dr. Riyam Kafri Abu Laban shares a powerful and personal perspective from Ramallah, Palestine, reflecting on the struggles mothers face across the globe in times of violence.
• Manchán Magan from Ireland delves into the healing power of language and place, offering a glimpse into his deep connection with nature and spirit through gardening.
• Special guests like Alexx Temeña, Zenaida Peterson, and Steve Tamari bring fresh insights on spirituality, creativity, and justice, bridging the gap between faith and action.

✨ What’s New in Season 5:

• Second Guests in each episode sharing special poems, reflections, or songs.
• Mini Episodes featuring exclusive content every two weeks.
• Join Dwight in Pendle Hill's Online Quaker Worship on the last Friday of each month for more connection and reflection.

Don’t miss out! Subscribe now and step into a world of radical hope, where imagination meets action, and together, we create the future we want. New episodes drop every two weeks!

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

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Transcript

Dwight Dunston: 0:00

This is Dwight Dunstan, host of The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope, and I am thrilled to welcome you to season five. We're exploring the power of world building and imagination. We'll ask big questions like, "What future do we envision?", and "How can we start living in that world today?" You will hear my conversation with inspiring guests like Dr Riyam Kafri Abulaban from Ramallah, Palestine.

Riyam Kafri Abulaban: 0:22

There's no innocent civilian. We're all treated like we're moving targets. As a mother, I am so worried that my children would be subjected to such unjustified violence. When I was in the US, I always spoke about how Palestinian mothers are no different than mothers of black children or brown children in the US, where they feel like their child could get shot any time. This is exactly what it feels like.

Dwight Dunston: 0:47

From Ireland, we feature writer Manchán Magan, whose work explores the beauty and complexity of language and place.

Manchán Magan: 0:55

And when I used to go down to the bottom of the garden and plant those herbs, the sage and the thyme and the rosemary and the savory and the tarragon, I would be able to connect to Spirit immediately. These voices would come to me, this loving, guided voices, and they've stayed with me. I suppose I was given that herb garden, maybe one, first when I was seven or eight. You know, before that, you can just be blissfully on your own. You can be happy, but at some point in your childhood, people expect you to have friends and to socialize and to play football or something. That's when the anxiety came. That's when they realized, okay, we'll give him something he likes, like gardening. We'll give him some some space. And there the guide, these spirit voices came in to me.

Dwight Dunston: 1:43

And that's just the start. Folks like alexx temeña, Zenaida Petersen, and Steve Tamari will join us, bringing fresh perspectives to our ongoing conversations about justice, love and peace.

alexx temeña: 1:54

I had a lot of questions about who God is and what kind of relationship I could have with the Divine. And

Steve Tamari: 1:58

It is in striving to close that gap between our so in that time was that exploration, while also physically learning how to systematically relax parts of my body so that I can dive deep into a surrendered place and let the earth hold me and let the Divine hold me and to bring myself into rapport with myself again after I had been so disconnected from my own needs and my sense of purpose and connectedness to my creativity. faith and our works, between what we know by religious insight and what we do in our secular lives that I see the possibility of at once deepening our insight and gathering our scattered forces.

Zenaida Peterson: 2:45

Once a nail snagged the lace, and they said,"This won't do." Pulled the nail right up out the floorboards with their fingers, passed it to me and the iron rests in the entirety of my palm. They teach me how to hammer, and now I look for moving nails everywhere. Tell them what mama tells me. Whisper in the rising head of the nail's ear and say, "You got to rest. That's your job to rest in place. You hold us together. Mama'll get the hammer and we'll tuck you in good."

Dwight Dunston: 3:23

Get ready for what's to come as Season Five brings new features and opportunities. Alongside my conversation with our main guests, we'll have a second guest offering something special. This will be a poem, a reflection, or even a song. More voices and perspectives all in one episode. We're introducing new mini episodes. Every two weeks, you'll get something new in your feed, either a great discussion or a mini episode that features previously unheard content or fresh pieces created right here at Pendle Hill. And if you're craving even more connection, there's a way for us to join each other in online worship. On the last Friday of each month, I'll be participating in Pendle Hill's online Quaker meeting, and I'd love for you to join me. We can't wait to have you with us for this powerful journey of world building and radical hope. New episodes drop every two weeks, so be sure to subscribe and we'll see you in the world we're building together.