Wednesday, June 10, 2026
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Kythe Heller is the founder of the Vision Lab at Harvard University, an international gathering space where artistic practice, contemplative study, and scholarly research converge. Her book, FIREBIRD, is a poetry collection that operates as a disguised mystical training manual—reinventing Sufi poetic forms (Attar, Rumi) and Christian apophatic traditions (Eckhart, Porete, Hadewijch) to trace a contemporary journey through trauma toward healing and spiritual awakening.

Tuesday, May 19, 2026: Online Visit with Patty Krawec

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Patty Krawec is an Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer, speaker, and organizer from Lac Seul First Nation (Treaty 3 territory). She is a founding director of the Nii’kinaaganaa Foundation, which challenges settlers to “pay their rent” on Indigenous land. Patty is the author of Becoming Kin and Bad Indians Book Club. Her work explores how Indigenous storytelling and belonging can reshape faith, justice, and collective liberation, emphasizing how stories connect us.

Wednesday, April 22, 2026
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Kathy McGregor is a storyteller who uses story as a healing practice with people impacted by incarceration. In 2012, she founded the Prison Story Project in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a creative writing and storytelling program for incarcerated people. In 2016, the Project expanded to Arkansas’ death row at Varner Prison, offering storytelling classes to men facing execution. Their work was curated into On the Row, a staged reading and film.

Wednesday March 18, 2026
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David Cassian Cole runs an interfaith retreat centre in the UK. He is an author of numerous books, an international spirtual teacher, Spiritual Guide, and member of the 'Friends and Oblates of Shantivanam', the Ashram which Bede Griffiths ran. 

Join the Sanskrit chants, thoughts inspired by Bede Griffiths' teaching on how non dualistic living can heal our fragmented world, and discussion on how we can practically live this out.

Wednesday, February 18, 2026
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The Interfaith Amigos—Imam Jamal Rahman and Rabbi Laura Duhan-Kaplan, Ph.D., along with their guest Margaret Somerville, MDiv, DMin, join together for a thoughtful conversation on interfaith friendship. Together they reflect on how we can learn from and share across traditions while honoring boundaries and avoiding appropriation, modeling respectful and relational interfaith engagement.

Wednesday, January 21, 2026
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Ngnedjou Françoise Fouté is a public health specialist, community leader, and President of the Family Health and Development Foundation (FAHEDEF) in Yaoundé, Cameroon. With training in nursing and public health, and as a PhD candidate in International Development, Françoise has devoted her life and work to community-driven development rooted in compassion, dignity, and care for the most vulnerable.

December 13, 2025
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HALEH LIZA GAFORI is a performance artist, translator, vocalist, poet, and musician born in NYC of Persian descent. WATER is her second volume after her acclaimed book of translations, GOLD, Poems by Rumi was published in 2022. A bicultural woman with ears tuned to the music of American free verse as well as to the subtleties of the Persian text, Gafori aims to transmit the whirling movement and leaping progression of thought and imagery in Rumi’s poems into contemporary American poetry.

Co-sponsored by the Charter for Compassion