Quakers and other seekers explore visions of the world growing up through the cracks of our broken systems. The Seed is a podcast from Pendle Hill, a Quaker center, open to all, for Spirit-led learning, retreat, and community in Wallingford, PA. This project was made possible by the generous support of the Thomas H. & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fund.
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Another Noisy Noise Podcast! host Thomas Burgos aims to present an informal and informative show that leaves pretense behind and welcomes all who want to speak or be the change they wish to see in the world. The topics covered are done so having a heavy emphasis placed on the effects and impacts felt by all of the beings that are occupying every space on Earth. The show itself is founded upon the ideas and philosophies often labeled as "left" using the graph that denotes an individuals polit ...
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Palestinian Education and Resistance with Dr. Riyam Kafri AbuLaban and Steve Tamari
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Dr. Riyam Kafri AbuLaban, a former principal at Ramallah Friends School and a writer from Palestine, shares her insights on world-building amidst conflict and the complexities of raising children under occupation. Joining Dwight is Steve Tamari, a Palestinian-American Quaker and historian who offers reflections on the ongoing genocide in Palestine …
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Palestinian Food and Memory with Dr. Riyam Kafri Abu Laban
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Episode Summary In our first mini-episode of Season 5, Dr. Riyam Kafri Abu Laban, a writer and educator from Ramallah, explains how Palestinian cuisine is a powerful expression of identity rooted in the land and traditions of the Palestinian people. Forced displacement and cultural appropriation have posed significant challenges to preserving this …
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World Building with Francisco Burgos
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Episode Summary: In this opening episode of Season 5 of The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope, host Dwight Dunston speaks with Francisco Burgos, Executive Director of Pendle Hill, about the theme of world-building. They explore what it means to co-create new systems rooted in cooperation, reciprocity, and love. Francisco reflects on his experien…
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Announcing Season 5 World-Building and Imagination
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🌱 Welcome to Season 5 of The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope! 🌱 In this special promo, host Dwight Dunston invites you into a season focused on world-building and imagination, exploring the deep questions about the future we envision and how we can start living it today. This season is packed with inspiring conversations, reflections, and new …
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Yielding to Transformation with Valerie Brown
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In our final episode of Season 4, Valerie Brown, an author, Buddhist-Quaker Dharma teacher, and executive coach, discusses yielding to the realignment of grief, the relationship between self care and social justice, and how Quaker communities are being called to transformation in our current political moment. Valerie Brown is an author, Buddhist-Qu…
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Solidarity in Heartbreak with Rabbi Mordechai Liebling
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Rabbi Mordechai Liebling draws on his decades-long experience in interfaith and interracial activism and organizing to explore the role of clergy in organizing and nonviolent direct action, the power of shared heartbreak across difference, and the current fight for a ceasefire in Gaza. Rabbi Mordechai Liebling is the Senior Advisor for POWER Interf…
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Imagining Justice Beyond Cages with Felix Rosado
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Felix Rosado is an abolitionist and restorative justice practitioner committed to ending human caging in all its forms. When 'justice' has become synonymous with cops, courtrooms, and cages, how do we begin to envision new ways of truth-telling and reckoning with harm? In our fourth episode of Season Four, Felix and Dwight explore this question, th…
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Inviting Ourselves to Be Challenged with Adria Gulizia
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In this current political moment of polarization and divisiveness, when and how do we commit to staying in fellowship with one another? How do we discern individual and institutional next steps with faithfulness and humility? In this conversation, Adria discusses the ways Jesus’s life and ministry grounds her work, the importance of approaching one…
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Embracing Paradox with Parker Palmer
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Parker Palmer is an teacher, activist, and writer whose work explores issues in education, community, spirituality, and social change. He and Dwight explore vocation, aging, and the paradoxes of solitude and community, life and mortality, faithfulness and urgency: How do we embrace paradox to pursue that which is life-giving? Parker Palmer is a tea…
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Welcome to Season 4: Gratitude, Grief, and Navigating Uncertainty with Francisco Burgos
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In this opening episode of Season 4, Dwight and Francisco discuss grief, gratitude, staying grounded amidst uncertainty and polarization, and the guiding queries and themes of the season. Dwight Dunston is a West Philly-based facilitator, hip-hop artist, educator, and activist who has brought his creativity, care, and compassion to schools, communi…
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Welcome to Season 4 of The Seed! Join us as we explore what spiritual alignment looks like in this moment of escalating social and political upheaval and violence: How do we cultivate discernment to stay the course and stay connected to our leadings? How are we being called to transform ourselves and our communities to break down systems of oppress…
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Freedom Beyond Our Lifetimes with K. Melchor Quick Hall
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K. Melchor Quick Hall is a popular educator, writer, and researcher. In this final episode of Season 3, she and Dwight explore the importance of nurturing practices of creative play, what it means to honor legacies of liberation and care, and what freedom and hope look like in our lifetimes and beyond. Read the transcript of this episode. – K. Melc…
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Learning to Come Home to Ourselves with Matthew Armstead
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How do we begin to imagine futures not yet here? What can we do today to embody the liberation we want to see? Matthew Armstead (they/them), an experiential facilitator and performance artist, asks how, right now, we can embody the worlds we want to create. Here, Matthew grounds in the past, present, and future, delving into Nichelle Nichols’s role…
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Sharing Silence and Attuning to Spirit with Ingrid Lakey
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How can we cultivate a relationship to communal silence? How can practices of silent worship allow us to build trust and open to the unknown? Ingrid Lakey, co-founder of Earth Quaker Action Team, talks with Dwight about her journey to a public-facing role in environmental activism, the power of collective action, and the ways silence allows us to a…
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Creating the Conditions for Belonging with Autumn Brown
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How do we create rituals to witness each other and our communities in transformative moments and cultivate a sense of belonging? What role does forgiveness play in our individual and communal spiritual practices? Autumn Brown is a writer, musician, facilitator, and organizer. Here, she and Dwight explore the power of choosing how we want to be witn…
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Welcome to Season 3: Nurturing Our Spirits, Cultivating Hope with Francisco Burgos
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Season 3 is here! As we begin to explore the practices that enrich our connections to ourselves and to each other, Dwight and Francisco share what's been spiritually nurturing them, their relationships to community, and their understandings of radical hope. Read the transcript of this episode. – Dwight Dunston, host of The Seed, is a West Philly-ba…
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Welcome to Season Three of The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope. This summer, we're exploring the practices that enrich our connections to ourselves and to each other. How do we cultivate relationships in spiritual community? How do these relationships and practices support our work for liberation and justice and transform our sense of what is …
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Integrity & Radical Truth: Remembering Who We Are with Niyonu Spann
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When systems of oppression are so entrenched, omnipresent, and internalized, how can we discover, remember, and recognize the truth of who we are? Is it possible to transform our deepest-rooted convictions about ourselves? The roots of our essential selves and the constraining narratives we’ve internalized can feel inextricable–for Niyonu Spann and…
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Integrity & Imagination: Facing What We Fear with Anton Flores-Maisonet
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How do we align our everyday decisions with our ideals to create the world we want to see? Anton breaks down the distinction between morality and integrity, discussing the mystery, fear, and unknowns that arise when our values don’t align with “dominant arbiters of morality.” Drawing on learnings from Walter Brueggemann, Thich Nhat Hanh, and his ow…
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Integrity & Ecotheology: Working Toward Liberatory Climate Justice with Cherice Bock
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What can people of faith offer to broader environmental and other social justice movements? Cherice’s work in ecotheology–a field of liberation theology centered around the relationship between religion and environment–seeks to support communication between communities focusing on theory, action, and reflection. Drawing on early Quaker history and …
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Integrity & Transmutation: Moving Beyond Cultures of Domination with eppchez yo-sí yes
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eppchez yo-sí yes, a Quaker playwright, inventor, and spiritual companion, offers ways to practice noticing patterns of faithfulness and patterns of oppression to begin moving through transformations of self and community. Using eir own experiences in reparations work and Quaker business settings, ey and Dwight detangle integrity and perfection, ca…
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Integrity & Wholeness: Building Sanctuary in Community with Blanca Pacheco
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Blanca Pacheco, co-director of New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia, discusses the relationship between community care and self care, the power of laughter, and the need to elevate personal stories and wholeness in an immigration system that denies resources, rights, and humanity to people of color. Blanca shares the miracles and sacrifices of he…
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Welcome to the Integrity Season with Francisco Burgos and Host Dwight Dunston
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Why a podcast season on the Quaker testimony of integrity? What makes it relevant now? Host Dwight Dunston and Pendle Hill executive director Francisco Burgos give an introduction of the Quaker testimony of integrity and offer their definitions and groundings. Francisco interviews Dwight about the testimony’s relevance to community and authenticity…
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Welcome to Season Two of The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope. This season, we're exploring the Quaker testimony of Integrity: What does it look like to meaningfully live out our deepest spiritual truths with authenticity and grace? The transcript for this episode is available on https://pendlehillseed.buzzsprout.com/ ---- The Seed is a project…
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Season 3 Ep.1 "The Myth Of All Things"
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This episode explores the myths that persistently exist despite there being no real need for any of them. This episode was recorded in several locations over the course of several months. It is what it is. Support the showעל ידי Thomas Burgos
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Where Are We in the Cycle of Liberation? with Ricardo Levins Morales
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“My life’s work is really finding ways to remind people of, and validate, what they already know.” Ricardo Levins Morales thinks of his art as a medicinal practice, dedicated to treating both our cultural immediate diagnoses and the underlying inflammations, helping people to see their realities with more clarity. “The underlying inflammation in ou…
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Love, Power, Justice: How Do We Make Our Activism Effective and Spiritually-Grounded? with Eileen Flanagan
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How can we practice courage? How do we build our “fear toolbox” and find our roles in social change work? In this episode, Eileen breaks down concrete steps for discernment around these questions. Her work as an environmental activist and spiritual writer has long focused on building effective movements that are grounded in love and harness people’…
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What can the Natural World Teach Us about Ourselves? with Cai Quirk
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Cai Quirk frames their art and their work expanding gender narratives as a collaboration between themself, the natural world, and Spirit. Despite the continued erasure of queer stories, Cai reminds us that the natural world keeps these stories of the “fluidity and diversity of ourselves…for us to be able to relearn.” In their conversation with Dwig…
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How Do We Heal Amidst the Unspeakable? with Rev. Rhetta Morgan
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Dwight sits down with Rev. Rhetta Morgan to discuss the power and purpose of heartbreak, the magic of sitting with grief, and the connection between healing self/others/world. What does it mean to heal and hope in the midst of the unspeakable? “I want to invite people to go in the direction of the illogical,” Rev. Rhetta says. “It is illogical to b…
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Welcome to The Seed: Dreams and Visions with Francisco Burgos and Host Dwight Dunston
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Can a podcast be a seed for social and individual healing? How can we expand Pendle Hill conversations? — Welcome to The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope! In our opening episode, host Dwight Dunston and Pendle Hill executive director Francisco Burgos share their dreams for The Seed. Can a podcast be a seed for social healing? How can we expand …
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Season One Trailer: Introducing The Seed
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The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope is an upcoming Pendle Hill podcast where Quakers and other seekers explore visions of the world growing up through the cracks of our broken systems. In celebration of World Quaker Day, our first episode will be released October 2, 2022. Be sure to subscribe and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook f…
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Season 2 Ep.12 "Climate Crisis Confrontation"
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This episode finishes season 2 by tying up the loose ends left in episode #11. Support the showעל ידי Thomas Burgos
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Season 2 Ep.11 "Part One: Climate Crisis Crimes"
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This episode is part one of two and will be the season finale. This episode explores the ongoing climate crises by taking a walk through where it began and where its going. Support the showעל ידי Thomas Burgos
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Hello and welcome to Another Noisy Noise, just another fucking noise out there in the universe, Podcast. I want to ask you something. What comes to mind when you hear the word noise? Is it a clanging sound? Is it the voices of the billions of people on this planet? Or is it the planet itself screaming through space? There are no shortages of noises…
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Season 2 Ep.10 "Show Me A Word That Rhymes With Pavement"
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Today's episode focuses on the rock band Pavement and selected songs from their 1997 album Brighten the Corners. This is a journey that has a want to explore the selected songs' lyrics to go deeper than the surface level meaning, or at least I make an attempt to. In typical Another Noisy Noise fashion, I use speculation as a tool to marry my ideas …
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Season 2 Ep.9 "What's In A Name?"
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Today's episode takes a critical look at names, surnames, their meanings throughout history to the now and uses the famous line "What's in a Name?" from William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo & Juliet to base the assertions made to answer such a hefty question. Throughout all of human history this question has been there asking of humanity to recogniz…
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Season Ep.8 "Covid-19: A follow up to Episode 7"
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Today's episode is a companion piece to episode #7 so if you haven't listened to episode #7 I recommend doing so. This episode contains explicit language and conversations about death. Liner notes can be found at another noisy noise dot WordPress dot com. Thanks for stopping by. If you like what you're hearing please feel free to share your favorit…
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Season 2 Ep.7 "Covid-19 and a tale about The Carrot and the Stick"
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This episode explores how The Carrot and the Stick method is used on Western Societies by their respective heads of states surrounding Sars-Cov-2 and how accountability is something we will never get from them. The data, articles, and resources to inform can be found here: https://anothernoisynoise.wordpress.com/ Get vaccinated. Get educated. Know …
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Season 2 Ep.6 "Storytime: The Birth of the Police State, Private Militaries, and how The CIA provided the seed"
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In today's episode we are going to explore an example of one man and how he was able to dissent and simultaneously play the torrid game of politics, the birth of the united states police state, private military companies and the always invasive behavior of The CIA. Be sure to check out the WordPress blog for the script and show notes! Thanks for st…
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Season 2 Ep.5 "Nuclear Decisions"
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Today's episode takes time to reflect on and explore the science of Nuclear Physics. I state multiple times inside of the episode that I am not a scientist and I do not hold a single degree. Just throwing it out there one more time as I never want to come off as something I am not and though I wear many hats, Science and Math hats are not at all a …
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