2026
These are recordings from 2026 from "The Made of Clay Report" heard on Ithaca Community Radio, WRFI.
Vietnam War-Era Conscientious Objectors
Finding the Personal Resolve to Do What Is Right and Necessary, to Fight or Not Fight, to Kill or Not Kill, When War Solves Nothing, and an Unjust Peace Does the Same.
With Roger Dennis, Garry Thomas, and Thomas Joyce
May 10, 2026
Resistance and Affirmation: Our Politics of Righteousness When Facing the Reality of War and Violence
Dan Akst, author of War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance; Nathan Fawcett, son of a pacifist war resister in WWII and himself a Vietnam War resister; Vietnam War resisters Roger Dennis and Garry Thomas
April 26, 2026
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Wonder at the End of Our Lives
With Todd Saddler
April 12, 2026
What is our purpose, meaning, and connection when facing our own mortality? How do we be within ourselves and with others?
Singing with “Others”
Music That Brings Us Together, with Elizabeth and Tom Miller and Lise and Richard Rosenfield
March 29, 2026
How do we offer music to bring us together? What are the many ways we experience connection in the presence of diverse “others”? This show reflects on the Namgyal Interfaith Conference held March 22, addressing “Music That Brings Us Together.”
How Music Defines Human Connection, Even in the Midst of Conflict
With Karl Paulnack
March 15, 2026
We thank Karl Paulnack for helping us frame this conversation. A past guest on the show and area resident, Karl is a spiritual leader, hospital chaplain, and former Dean of the School of Music at Ithaca College.
Our lives are framed by music. We begin with a cry and end with a moan or sigh. All human communication—in the form of pitch and rhythm—was music from the beginning. Our first and primary instrument is our own body. In the very midst of conflict, how can music bring us together?
To Honor Mark Kelly and a Nation at Risk
Kevin Basl, Hugh McElyea, and Hurf Sheldon of Warrior Writers of Tompkins County, U.S. Army Colonel (retired) Jake Almborg of Stafford, VA.
February 15, 2026
How We Get Through This Political Era
February 1, 2026
On the Workout for Being Human in Ithaca
January 18, 2026
Our Human Rights Commissioners’ Work in Tompkins County
The Executive Committee, Peyi Soyinka-Airewele, Theresa Fulton, Mullen Quaye, and Peaches Gillette
January 4, 2026