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Eps 236 : Community Witnessing and Care; Cindy S. Lee

My conversation with author, Cindy S. Lee involves topics of great importance and interest to me. Cindy is thoughtful and spacious and one of just a few contemporary authors I cite in my new book on topics of spiritual formation.

We discuss themes of her book: Contemplative Witnessing: BIPOC Centered Spiritual Direction

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Some of what we cover:
Avoiding the loss of the sacred self.
Embodied spiritual practices
Spaciousness as a presence we carry
The power of silence in community and what comes after that.

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Eps. 235 | Saving Face: Guest, Aimee Byrd

My conversation with author, Aimee Byrd covers a bunch of territory and involves how the image of God is reflected to us in each other. We also speak of Aimee’s ordeal as a target of vicious men that assailing and attempt to discredit her and shut her up—eventually inspired her current works, including the book we discuss: Saving Face: Finding Myself, God, and One Another, Outside a Defaced Church.

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Eps: 234 Purposeful Pruning in Evangelicalism; Michelle Van Loon

A return guest Michelle Van Loon speaks to me about her 50 years involved in many versions of Christian Evangelism and getting rid of what is non essential from her book Downsizing.

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Celebrating 10 years

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Hello!

Today I celebrating ten years of bringing you Spark My Muse podcast episodes. 606 releases!

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Mapping Results

The results are in!

Chris H. got the inner terrain tool I created which includes an initial survey and then an assessment that functions as a discovery tool.

Your inner landscape is beautiful and now you can see it for yourself.

The results come in a presentation like this with options to upgrade and get your map made into a letter-sized poster, or put on a canvas.

Inner terrain discovery tool by Lisa Colón DeLay

Below is my own map and an explanation of the results

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