2026

We Test Our People Skills in Neighborhoods and Communities

Our neighborhoods and communities prepare us to live in the democracy of our everyday lives. They are our first testing grounds. After 250 years, how can we find the honesty to live in a capitalist democracy and seek justice in these United States?

July 5, 2026

For Love and Money: What the People of the United States Could Become 250 Years After Our Founding

What if we treated government as an opportunity for equality and freedom, instead of as a cult for control?

June 21, 2026

Tom Miller on His Path to Bold Hope

How do we make our individual ways and personal paths to discover our conscience? Hope binds together our words and our actions—and frees us to be bold.

With Tom Miller

June 7, 2026

Can We Use Our Consciences as Tools?

Can we engage each other, care for each other? Even when we disagree, maybe especially when we disagree.

With Roger Dennis and Garry Thomas

May 24, 2026

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