Books – Lisa Colón DeLay | Spiritual Formation

The Meeting Place – featuring the work of Laura Kauffman

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We need to build the muscles to create inner solitude. Our mental and spiritual health depend on it, especially in our era.

I’m happy to share two readings from this book and I hope you enjoy it.

How Good it is to Center-down

Today, I share a bit about something we need so urgently. Howard Thurman is a spiritual mentor I most cherish. You can do a search on this website and find much more work I’ve down related to him. Please check it out.

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ONE MORE THING
A related article I just wrote is a great companion to my audio here. https://sparkmymuse.substack.com/p/where-is-the-treasure-in-the-field?r=388bh I go into the two most important things to root out to grow in maturity and transformation.

Being, Consciousness, Bliss

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What you are about to hear is part two of seven in a series explaining a foundational book by David Bentley Hart.

My interest in high theism is strengthened by the fact that you can have a deep faith, be a skeptic, or a confused doubter and still embrace these first principles and ideas about existence.

Please enjoy all seven in the series as they roll out this summer at my youtube channel: youtube.com/@Sparkmymuse

Softness and Desire: Guest, Robert J. Monson

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Today, I give you some excerpts from my live chat conversation with scholar Robert J. Monson. We speak together some about the desert elders, but also about Robert’s work at the intersection of Blackness, disability, and softness (among other things) and we get into the topics of lust, sexuality, desire which the church has notoriously gotten wrong.

Please find the full replay of our time here (the Spark My Muse youtube channel), if you’d like. Becoming a subscriber costs nothing but is helpful to get the word out.

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Lent Week 1 – (clips)

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Maybe you missed WEEK 1 of Lent with the Desert Elders that was live on Substack, YouTube, and Facebook. Phoebe Farag Mikhail was my co-host and her perspective as a Coptic Christian is really informative. The Coptics claim the Desert Elders of Egypt as their direct heritage.

I choose a few short clips to whet your appetite, leaving the best parts for you to discover at the YouTube Channel (youtube.com/@Sparkmymuse).

Subscribe to the channel to be a part of the other weeks, or check back to watch the replays.

Besides getting a copy of my book on the Desert Elders, don’t forget to find Phoebe’s work, especially the Lent-related book she wrote called Hunger for Righteousness