Today’s guest is Jim Kenney, global director of the Parliament of the World’s Religions from 1995 to 2002 and a recognized leader in the global movement for interreligious and intercultural understanding. He is co-founder and co-editor of Interreligious Insight: a Journal of Dialogue and Engagement, and is about to release his new book Thriving in the Crosscurrent Hope and Clarity in a Time of Cultural Sea Change. Jim’s work with various interreligious and intercultural projects focuses on underlying causes of violence, ranging from top-down globalization to identity crisis and from fundamentalist interpretations of religion and culture to more insidious manipulation of the vulnerable by the organized forces of threatened wealth and power. He feels that the key to the religion-violence connection is the link between Absolutism and Identity Crisis. This important show is not to be missed!

Tune in as several facilitators and workshop participants from the Quaker-based Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) join host Barbara Fields. The AVP started in the 1970s in New York and is now a worldwide project that offers personal and spiritual growth workshops in prisons, schools and community centers.

Launching our first program in the Season for Nonviolence series, this week’s guest is Kit Miller, director of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence at University of Rochester in New York and former director of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication in Oakland, California. In 1998, Dr. Arun Gandhi of the Gandhi Institute partnered with the Association for Global New Thought to found the Gandhi King Season for Nonviolence awareness campaign to commemorate the memorial anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This year AGNT partners with the Association of Unity Churches and the United Center for Spiritual Living in the 13th Annual Season for Nonviolence.