Christianity

In an empty Shaker meeting house, the silence still remembers. In this episode, Harmonia recalls Ann Lee, the visionary leader who shaped one of the most radical spiritual communities in American history. Born in the factories of Manchester and called "Mother Ann" by her followers, she brought ecstatic worship, gender equality, and sacred simplicity to life-not through preaching, but through presence. Her legacy-felt today in music, architecture, and design-offers a living reminder: that what we build with integrity becomes eternal.

In the silence of a 16th-century convent, Saint Teresa of vila heard something dangerous: her own soul, fully awake. As empire and inquisition tightened their grip on Spain, this barefoot nun turned inward-and found a kind of freedom no authority could touch. In this episode, Harmonia traces Teresa's quiet rebellion, her visions and reforms, and the enduring gift she left behind: a spiritual architecture built for anyone seeking clarity, courage, and inner truth.

In a cloistered convent in 17th-century Spain, a young nun wrote visions of the Virgin Mary while stories of a mysterious "Lady in Blue" spread among Indigenous communities in New Spain. Though she never left her cell, Mara de Jess de greda became a spiritual presence across cultures, continents, and centuries. In this episode, Harmonia explores how sacred ideas press into the world through ordinary lives-and what it means when institutions must catch up to truths already in motion.

Jarena Lee was born free in a land built on slavery. Denied a pulpit, denied authority, and denied permission, she preached anyway-because God called her. As the first Black woman officially recognized to preach in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, she traveled alone, broke barriers with fire in her voice, and left behind a legacy not of protest, but of obedience. This episode of The Golden Thread dives into her extraordinary spiritual authority, the radical clarity of her call, and what it means today to say yes when the Spirit speaks-even when the world says no.