Peace Talks Radio

In this bonus podcast, take a front row seat to the Walk for Peace, mentioned as the inspiration for our recent PEACE TALKS RADIO episode on multi-faith takes on the search for inner peace and compassion. Veteran reporter Steve Pendlebury shares highlights from his interviews with dozens of folks were inspired to came out in the cold to witness the joyful, stoic 110 day / 2,300 mile walk of Buddhist monks from their monastery in El Paso, Texas to Washington, DC in the fall and winter of 2025 to 2026. Hear also comments from the leading monk of the walk before a large public gathering as the event culminated at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, February 14, 2026. Paul Ingles hosts.

Inspired by the Walk for Peace, a 2,300-mile pilgrimage across the United States, this Peace Talks Radio program explores how different faith traditions understand peace, compassion, and spiritual practice. Through conversations with Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, and Christian leaders, listeners are invited to consider how inner transformation can shape the way we live and relate to others.

More than one in four adults in the United States has a disability, yet barriers to access and inclusion remain common. In this episode of Peace Talks Radio, correspondent Emily Cohen speaks with disability advocates Emily Ladau, Lolo Spencer, and Mia Ives-Rublee about disability pride, accessibility, representation, and building a world where everyone belongs.

On this episode of Peace Talks Radio, we explore how food can be used not just to address hunger, but to build more peaceful communities. In the first half, we look at the origins of Food Not Bombs, a global movement that shares free meals as a form of protest against war and economic inequality. In the second half, we hear about the rise of community fridges during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the work of Michelle Nelson, founder of Mama Tee Fridges in Philadelphia.

On this episode of Peace Talks Radio, we hear how people are finding moments of peace and connection in the natural world, even in the middle of busy urban life. We also explore how climate change is shaping the conditions for conflict and peace around the world, revealing how closely our relationship to nature is tied to our ability to build and sustain peace.

On this episode of Peace Talks Radio, we explore youth justice through the story of Jamie Silvonek, who was charged as an adult at 14 and is serving a 35-year sentence in Pennsylvania. We also hear from journalist Nell Bernstein about the growing movement to dismantle youth prisons and rethink how communities respond when young people cause harm.

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.

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.

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.

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.