In this first Episode of Questions of Courage Nathaniel Williams maps the historical path of youth movements and revolutionary moments from the 1950’s to today, with a particular awareness to the quality of spiritual seeking that has underscored this series of events in both Europe and The United States. He lays out the intention behind Questions of Courage, this new Podcast and video project, which is a collaboration between the Youth Section of the School for Spiritual Science and the Wochenschrift and Goetheanum TV. Welcome!

References:

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell

Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Emily Mayson

Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry

Resources around the 1870’s Reconstruction Period in the US:

The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition - By Theodore Roszak

The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective - By Charles Epp

“The Harp and the Camera the harp” in The Rediscovery of Meaning - By Owen Barfield

Becoming the Archangel Michael's Companions - By Rudolf Steiner

After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s - By Robert Wuthnow

Questions of Courage is a project of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum, in collaboration with Goetheanum TV.
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