New Heaven, New Earth

These interviews explore the emergence of unity, compassion, service, justice, community and cooperation as core elements of social organization and individual outlook.

My hope is, that as podcasts are added, the conversations will combine to create a coherent vision of a more positive future for humankind.

Some, but not all, of the interviews are with fellow members of the Bahá'í Faith. I am deeply grateful to each of these esteemed friends for their generosity in sharing their time and permitting me to make the record of our conversations public.

Mark Gilman
Dallas, Tex.

Beyond the Culture of Contest

(Skokie, Illinois; May 2, 2010)--Dr. Michael Karlberg of Western Washington University discusses with me his 2004 book, Beyond the Culture of Contest: From Adversarialism to Mutualism in an Age of Interdependence.

For an excellent overview of the book, please refer to the review online at One Country.

Listen: link (To download this MP3 file directly, right click on the link and, in Internet Explorer, choose "save target as". This podcast is approximately 42 minutes long.)

Learning from Phoenix about Children's Classes

(Dallas, Texas; July 18, 2010)--Mark and Grace Sherrill of Flower Mound explain what they observed and experienced while visiting Phoenix, Arizona, recently, a journey they undertook specifically to learn about the success in that community in establishing neighborhood children's classes. The work unfolds within the context of efforts toward neighborhood spiritualization.

A printed presentation prepared by the Sherrills is available online, in addition to the Spiritual Parenting deepening themes mentioned in the podcast.

Listen: link (To download this MP3 file directly, right click on the link and, in Internet Explorer, choose "save target as". This podcast is approximately 30 minutes long.)