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- Faith to Keep the Country Afloat
This episode looks at the changing face of religion in our increasingly secular and technological culture. Hopeful signs and dangerous signs
Link to transcript coming soon
9 min - Mind the Gap
This episode takes a look into that curious space in life in which things we think we wholly believe things, and then act like we don't believe them at all.
Transcript (together with episode) available here: https://frankkaufmann.us/2025/10/26/mind-the-gap/
8 min - My Speech to the Jamaica Muslim Center Interfaith Meeting
On November 16 of this year (2023), Imam Shamsi Ali of the Jamaica Muslim Center hosted an interfaith dialogue and invited me to speak.
I described three areas of international war or conflict...
Transcript available hereWatch the video here
10 min - The Path to Violence, and the Responsibility of the Citizen.
We are in a time of war.
There are now two active, world-level
wars cursing our planet, the Russia-Ukraine War, and the Israel-Hamas war. These are happening during a period in which the perennial symbol for the harmonization of international differences18 min - Friendships and Brotherly Love
There’s this fellow I know, whom I would ordinarily call a friend, but for me,
he’s more of an elder brother. For this particular relationship the term friend...Transcript available here12 min - Did I Just Say That Out Loud?
The Transition from Thought to Speech, and the Three Freedoms Required for Dignity.
Human beings have two parts to our makeup, our spiritual side and our physical side.
There are a great many inclined to deny human spirituality because it is noteasily measured by the tools by which material reality is measured and tested.Transcript available here24 min - Sovereignty and Harmony by Dr. Frank Kaufmann
A workingman’s guide to assessing what’s going on around us.
The nature of reality is hierarchical and manifests strength, power, and size as elements of a functioning and harmonious cosmosphere.Transcript available here
20 min - On Addiction by Frank Kaufmann
The problem with addictions is that they eventually erase the adequate functioning of conscience in the host bodies they inhabit and ultimately control.
A clear marker in this descent to becoming subhuman is the juncture at which the sanctity of human life is rejected in favor of satiating the blinding demands of an addiction.
Transcript available here
11 min - Sovereignty in Times of Radical Uncertainty
The world we live in becomes increasingly unstable and insecure with the rapid development and misuse of technology. What can we rely on through these uncertain times?
Transcript available here
16 min - Twelve Gates President Speaks at the United Nations High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
On July 19, 2023, Twelve Gates President, Dr. Frank Kaufmann was invited as a speaker to the United Nations High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. The event, organized by Women's Federation for World Peace, International (WFWP), focused on the topic of "Integration and impact of digital technology in developing countries in the context of the Right to Development."
Transcript available here
Learn more about Twelve Gates Foundation.
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Commentary on Society and Culture with Perspectives from Spirituality and Values