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Desire, Wanting, Bliss

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Here is a excerpt as part of the series I’ve created for my Spark My Muse YouTube Channel (Here’s the link to find the rest: youtube.com/@Sparkmymuse)

This part 4 in the series of 7 explores how the nature of desire is a signpost to the infinite. Longing, bliss, desire are more than they appear to be.

This series distills the too-often obtuse work of David Bentley Hart from his book The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss I think this book has many brilliant point, but most people find reading his work exhausting and don’t get to the gems. (If you’d like, you can find that book here: https://amzn.to/3QRFzIW)

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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Letting Event-based Forms of Church Die

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It was a great time speaking with author, teacher, and spiritual director Cindy S Lee about the desert elders and spiritual formation, but we covered other topics in our surprisingly wide-reaching conversation. We spoke about the deficits in many Western forms of church that focus on the an individual’s needs and thereby neglect the ingredients for creating enriching communities vital to our healthy spiritual formation. The podcast has only an excerpt

TO WATCH and listen to the full version, go here: https://youtube.com/live/9n4tyHbhh8A

Join me and scholar Robert J Monson, Sunday May 17th at 4pm ET on the youtube channel for a LIVE conversation

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Vainglory, Envy, Pride and Creating a Rule of Life

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Hello everyone.

I gave four talks related to my book at Bethesda EC Church in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania and this is the final one (which you can hear here MAY 1, 2026 because I maxed out my media space this month). Or watch here
To find the 3 others you can go here

ANNOUNCEMENT!
May 3, 2026 and May 17, 2026 will be book-related chats with conversation partners Cindy S. Lee and Robert J. Monson, respectively. Find those at the LIVE section of my youtube channel here to attend or watch the replay