Frank Gasque Dunn explores how to foster civil discourse and unity in a polarized society, emphasizing the importance of listening, conflict management, and shared human dignity.

August's catastrophic glacial meltdown and resulting floods in Nepal raise deep moral questions. The issue of climate change has clearly moved beyond debates over whether it is real or how to ameliorate it and is now a matter of how the world, especially developed nations, responds to the human and ecological results of climate change. Vulnerable, relatively poor populations are often on the firing line of climate disasters caused largely by the emissions of wealthy nations in the Global North.

We're all in this together. How can we move towards greater solidarity with those most vulnerable?

There is no end in sight because there is no end. There’s only the need for a new beginning.

If 9/11 is to have a legacy other than continuous war and military reprisals, only the American electorate can raise the required level of pressure to make a course correction possible. That would be indeed the needed new beginning.

Current talk about a "soft divorce" of "blue States" or "red States" from the United States poses serious spiritual issues apart from a plethora of political and practical ones.

Ted Lasso shows us both the worth and the price of believing.

The Very Rev. Jim Kowalski joins Frank in the episode discussing shame and guilt, what they are, how they differ, and how to handle these universal and difficult imposters.

Living a whole life, living wholeheartedly, is living from the center of our being. Called by different names—the Self, the soul, our quintessential Nature—our center is the organizing faculty for our whole being. What are we living for, hoping for, caring deeply about? Our answers indicate what our lives center on and center in.

In most of our minds "creativity" is something that we imagine the artistic and inventive to own. This episode, with California artisit Richard Fox, delves into how creativity is something that all humans have evolved to do and to share. Our conversation takes a fresh look at how we can find, incorporate, and practice the principles of creativity in all parts of our lives.