Category: Desert Elders

Reading Howard Thurman

If you do a search on Howard Thurman on this very website, you’ll find more than a few things I’ve done over the years and that’s why I was very excited to converse with Dr Shively Smith on her new book, that is my favorite Autumn book for 2026.

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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.

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Big News of Launch Week

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A big thank you to those who offered encouragement and helping The Way of the Desert Elders fly from the nest. Today, is very brief, but it’s about some of the wins from launch week.

Getting on the TOP TEN & LAUNCH DAY PARTY!

LIVE LAUNCH Party tonight at 7pm EST!
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AND this honor came today. I’m so excited.

You can read an except of one of the chapters that was printed (with permission) by Red Letter Christians here

And the first two reviews are in already!
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Eps 240: Guest, Mark Longhurst, The Holy Ordinary

I was really blessed to have a conversation with Mark about his book The Holy Ordinary

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You are also invited to watch some short clips I post on YouTube of this conversation. Go to Youtube.com/@Sparkmymuse