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Hosted by Duane Varan · religion · EN
Explores the application of Baha'i principles towards society building.
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Signup to Generate a PitchSociety Builders is hosted by Duane Varan. The show has published 42 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Episode 42: Spiritual Parenting" (6 July 2026, 63 minutes), "Episode 41: The Ridvan Message of 2026" (24 April 2026, 37 minutes), and "Episode 40: Navigating Conversation About the Crisis in Iran" (28 March 2026, 66 minutes).
Society Builders publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 42 minutes across 42 episodes.
Booking probability for Society Builders is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Society Builders requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Society Builders's contact route on record: verified email.
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Duane Varan hosts Society Builders, a religion podcast with 42 episodes published.
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Society Builders
The first in a series of episodes exploring what effective social action looks like in practice. In this episode we focus on social action facilitated through individual initiative. Our guest is Faegheh Evans who for...
Episode #41
An exploration of the Universal House of Justice's Ridvan message of 2026 reviewing progress over the past phase of the Nine Year Plan and priorities moving forward. Includes discussion of the state of the world...
Explore how to engage in meaningful conversations about the turmoil in Iran without falling into division or despair. Centered on the principle of constructive resilience, it reveals a powerful alternative to...
Episode #39
An exploration of the Universal House of Justice's message to the Conference of the Continental Board of Counsellors on December 31, 2025. The episode explores progress in the Plan as it approaches the end of its first...
Episode #38
An exploration of the Universal House of Justice's Ridvan message for 2025. Includes an exploration of the construct of 'hope' - a summary of key achievements over the past year - and an appeal based on the urgency of...
Episode #37
An exploration of two key messages by the Universal House of Justice exploring Bahá’í family life: The message of March 19th, 2025 and its Naw Ruz message (2025) to the Baha'is of Iran. We explore the evolution of a new...
An exploration of Bahá’í-inspired approaches to social action, one of the key pillars of 'society building'. In Part Four, we explore how our approaches need to facilitate learning in action across four stages: Action...
An exploration of Bahá’í-inspired approaches to social action, one of the key pillars of 'society building'. In Part Three we explore the power of capacity building - and how even impossible dreams can be met as we...
An exploration of Bahá’í-inspired approaches to social action, one of the key pillars of 'society building'. In Part Two, we explore how our approaches should be participatory, giving agency to all. We discuss how this...
An exploration of Bahá’í-inspired approaches to social action, one of the key pillars of 'society building'. In Part One, we explore two key principles: Organic Growth (that initiatives should start small and grow over...
The third and final episode in a sequence exploring Bahá’í-inspired approaches to depolarization. Part three explores how to break false binaries and how to optimize conditions for contact between antagonistic groups...
An exploration of Bahá’í-inspired approaches to depolarization building on what we've been learning over the past few episodes from the world's leading luminaries in this discourse. Part Two explores what we can do to...
An exploration of Bahá’í-inspired approaches to depolarization building on what we've been learning over the past few episodes from the world's leading luminaries in this discourse. Part One explores what we can do to...
Episode #29
An exploration of the Ridvan Message of 2024 by the Universal House of Justice. The message explores the interaction between the forces of disintegration and integration at work in the world today - highlighting the...
Episode #28
In this episode we explore the recent message which the Universal House of Justice sent to the Baha'is in Iran on Naw Ruz (March 20th, 2024). The message is not only important for the love and admiration which the...
An interview with Nealin Parker, Executive Director of Common Ground USA, exploring the range of like-minded organizations contributing to depolarization (including over 6,700 such organizations in the US alone). Nealin...
An interview with Dr. Lisa Schirch, a global authority on social media's impact on polarization. Here, Dr. Schirch explains how the algorithms that drive social media platforms favor polarization, a force further...
An interview with Andrea Bartoli, former dean of a number of prestigious conflict resolution schools; diplomat; and President of the Sant'Egidio Foundation for Peace and Dialogue. Andrea shares insights from his...
On November 28, 2023, the Universal House of Justice shared its message providing a history of our organic evolution as a community over the past hundred years. This episode explores parts of that message addressing the...
An interview with Rabbi Roly Matalon sharing his efforts to promote depolarization including an amazing exchange which saw representatives of his very progressive-liberal congregation living with MAGA supporters for...
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scholar and practitioner in peacebuilding, Sant'Egidio Foundation for Peace and Dialogue
professor of psychology and education at Columbia University, Columbia University
investigative journalist and author, Washington Post
BC-CCMA Award-winning country artist, Walt Disney Animation Studios
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