The Radical Imagination Podcast

The Radical Imagination Imagining the Loss of Innocence in the Face of War

Jim Vrettos interviews Italian film director Aldo Luliano, who's known for his award-winning short films at Oscar-qualifying festivals. His soulful short DIVE is a melancholic exploration of adolescent love in a world driven by violence.
 

The Radical Imagination Imagining A Renewed Solidarity Among Jews & Blacks

Host Jim Vrettos receives playwright and activist Art Feinglass for a conversation about the need for a renew solidarity among Jews & Black People.

The Radical Imagination | Imagining How to Regulate the Greed of Wall Street

Host Jim Vrettos receives two famed, veteran labor organizers and community activists to discuss the election and attempts to regulate greed on Wall Street.  Ray Rogers is an iconic community organizer, union strategist, labor and human rights activist. Judy Jorrisch brings decades of experience and political wisdom as a community organizer and activist familiar with the colorful and contentious political battles of the city.
 

The Radical Imagination Imagining Healing the Human Trauma in the Middle East

Jim Vrettos receives guest Ken Dorph, a renowned global financial consultant with deep expertise in the Middle East and North Africa. 

The Radical Imagination Imagining the Gentle Humor of Funnyman Bob Greenberg

Host Jim Vrettos talks to Comedian Bob Greenberg about his careers, his art and his future plans.

The Radical Imagination | Imagining A Girl From the Heights

Host Jim Vrettos talks to Leydis De La Cruz, a bilingual writer and poet born in the Dominican Republic and raised in the NYC Dominican community, specifically in Washington Heights.
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The Radical Imagination | Imagining the Darkly Radiant Vision of the Black Social Gospel

Jim Vrettos receives Gary Dorrien, the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University.  He has been described as the greatest theological ethicist of the 21st century, our most compelling political theologian, the preeminent social ethicist in North America today and the most rigorous theological historian of our time.

Imagining the Tikkun Life and Activism of Rabbi Michael Lerner Let the Healing Begin

Host Jim Vrettos receives on this episode Rabbi Arthur Waskow, a prolific writer and long-time social justice and anti-war, political activist to celebrate the legacy of Michael Lerner, one of the most creative, inspiring and influential voices of Judaism and progressive thought in America over the last 6 decades, who died peacefully at his home in Berkeley, California on August 28th.

The Radical Imagination | Imagining the Visionaries Among Us

Randy Credico is an "in your face" political activist who speaks truth to power.  He served time in jail for his political protests and moved great numbers of people toward a radical love.  Through his brilliance as a satirist and comedian, Randy has allowed people to open their hardened hearts and laugh, pointing them toward a better future against all odds.

The Radical Imagination Imagining All That Jazz - The Hamptons JazzFest

Host Jim Vrettos talks to Joel Chriss, Founder & Program Director of the JazzFest in South Hampton.  Chriss shares the journey of the festival in spreading the jazz culture all the way to a partnership with the renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center.