Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday, July 1, 2020.
Beth Roach details the Nottoway Tribe’s tradition and efforts to preserve native culture through ancestral seeds.
Roach is a co-founder of the Alliance of Native Seedkeepers, an organization that was formed to preserve ancestral seeds.
Roach hopes to keep ancestral seeds alive and rebuild culture and food security in native communities.
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Up Next in 2020 Programs
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Human Longing and the Search for Meaning
Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, July 7, 2020.
Acharya Judith Lief provides a Buddhist guide to encountering mortality.
Lief is a Buddhist teacher and author who has been leading workshops on a contemplative approach to death and dying, and on the teachings of The Tibetan Book of th...
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God’s Call – Our Vocation – In a Time...
Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 2, 2020.
Jim Antal calls for a societal and industrial response to climate change that mirrors the reaction to fascism and genocide in WWII.
Since his first Earth Day, Antal has seen the benefit to combining religion with environmental advocacy...
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Finding Myself in the Other: Learning...
Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday, July 8, 2020.
Hartford Seminary President Joel N. Lohr presents his research and scholarship.
Joel N. Lohr, president of Hartford Seminary, is an award-winning author, scholar of religion, and passionate leader in interreligious relations and highe...
