New Religions for Peace podcast to Focus on Shared Sacred Flourishing

The first series of the new Religions for Peace podcast will focus on Shared Sacred Flourishing, the conceptual framework developed by Religions for Peace aimed at centering the Sacred in global development efforts, Religions for Peace announced today.

The first episode will be available on multiple podcast platforms, as well as the Religions for Peace website, on June 22. Award-winning radio journalist Adam Phillips will host the inaugural series of the podcast.

“We are very excited to launch the first Religions for Peace podcast, which is focusing on the Shared Sacred Flourishing framework,” said Dr. Francis Kuria, Secretary General of Religions for Peace. “The call for Shared Sacred Flourishing arises as a moral imperative rooted in our unique spiritual convictions. The podcast is an extension of our efforts to share this transformative framework across the Religions for Peace movement.”

Through the voices of multiple religious leaders, the podcast will present and explain the central concepts of Shared Sacred Flourishing: the shared conviction among religions that reality is grounded in the Sacred; that human beings are relational and called to virtue and compassion; that society is a relational whole shaped by institutions of the common good; and that the Earth is a sacred community of life deserving reverent care.

Shared Sacred Flourishing is a correction of the materialist, reductionist approach to global development. That approach has disconnected development efforts from the Sacred – and thus undermined the effectiveness of these efforts.

The majority of people around the world believe in the Sacred; efforts to relieve human suffering and destruction of our shared common home consequently are deprived of the great force that the Sacred provides.

The first podcast series will comprise six episodes, which will be released monthly.