Festival of Sacred Music
Join us for the first in a series of sacred music celebrations at Commonweal, designed to elevate the soul and be a source of inspiration and delight for the months in between concerts. In this first concert of the series, join us in welcoming pianist Maryliz Smith, who brings pieces of her own composition as well as other inspiring and sacred music.
What Does Love Have To Do With It? Bringing Mystery to Peacebuilding, Part 2
In this series, join Host Serena Bian in speaking with three people who bear witness to the best and worst of humanity, holding a courageous moral imagination. Working and witnessing the front lines of injustice, war, climate change, these peacebuilders, mystics, and storytellers hold space for the miraculous to emerge, refusing to be bound by a perceived reality of “what is possible.”
Welcome, Wild Times: Conversation with Resilience Leaders in the Global South
In session number three of our Wild Times conversation series, join Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Anabella Museri and Sofia Nemenmann from Asociación Argentina de Abogados/as Ambientalistas/Colectivo de Acción por la Justicia Ecosocial in Argentina.
Things As It Is, A Roving Discussion of Zen in the Vernacular, Crow Poetry, and Beyond
Join Host Steve Heilig as we bring back author, actor, and local celebrity Peter Coyote to Commonweal New School to talk about Peter’s recent books—Zen in the Vernacular: Things As It Is, and Tongue of A Crow—and ramble across many other topics.
Welcome, Wild Times: Conversation with Resilience Leaders in the Global South
Join Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Manisha Gupta from Start Up! in India in part 2 of our series talking with the co-creators of Commonweal’s Omega Resilience Awards global resilience community.
What Does Love Have To Do With It? Bringing Mystery to Peacebuilding, Part 1
In this series, join Host Serena Bian in speaking with those who bear witness to the best and worst of humanity, holding a courageous moral imagination. Working and witnessing the front lines of injustice, war, climate change, these peacebuilders, mystics, and storytellers hold space for the miraculous to emerge, refusing to be bound by a perceived reality of “what is possible.”
Welcome, Wild Times: Conversation with Resilience Leaders in the Global South
Join Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Nnimmo Bassey from Health of Mother Earth Foundation in Nigeria, in part 1 of our series talking with the co-creators Commonweal’s Omega Resilience Awards global resilience community.
Living by Poems
Join Host Michael Lerner for a reading and conversation with poet Jane Hirshfield, a lay-ordained practitioner of Soto Zen.
Writing as Legacy: What Do We Leave in the Earth for the Future to Find?
Join Michael Lerner in conversation with storyteller and storycatcher Christina Baldwin, talking about Christina’s lifework and her beautiful forthcoming novel The Beekeeper’s Question, which chronicles life and the social issues stirred on the Homefront during World War II.