Peace Talks Radio

Peace with Basketball

On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we explore how basketball is being used to bridge divides and prevent violence — from PeacePlayers’ work in Northern Ireland to Oakland’s Midnight Basketball program.

Dealing With Burn-Out

In this episode, we explore the hidden toll of activism and how we begin to build something more sustainable. Through conversations with peacebuilding chaplain and mediator Michaela Ledesma and artist-activist Jacob Lefton, this series examines how burnout shows up, why it happens, and what it might look like to recover, or prevent it entirely.

What Peace Costs: Housing, Dignity and Repair

On this episode of Peace Talks Radio, journalist Brian Goldstone exposes the human cost of America’s working homelessness crisis — and what it reveals about how we define dignity and belonging. Then, therapist Whitney Goodman explores how healing fractured family relationships can restore peace closer to home. Together, these conversations ask what peace really costs — in housing, in love, and in the courage to repair what’s broken.

Bonus Podcast

Peace Talks Radio co-founder Paul Ingles talks with fine art landscape photographer Jan Bartelstone about his 2023 book An Ecstatic Gathering of Writers: Honoring Nature, Mankind, and Spirit. Bartelstone describes some of his large scale photographs in the book and the accompanying inspirational prose and poetry from top writers like N. Scott Momaday, John Muir, Pablo Neruda, Kahlil Gibran, e e Cummings, Terry Tempest Williams, Simon Ortiz, and more. He also reflects on how his devotion to a more peaceful world has tied into his photographic art for decades.

Where are They Now?

On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we revisit some of our past guests to ask: where are they now? More than a decade later, we catch up with peacebuilders who first shared their stories years ago, and hear how they’ve continued to strive for understanding, dialogue, and nonviolent change in their communities.