Finding a Buried (emotional) Corpse [SSL 343]

Nearly healed from nasal surgery, I’m back to talk about emotions I didn’t know I had buried and how they pop up (in all of us).

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The Comfort of Endorsement

Today is a bit different, I’m bringing you word from others. Kind folks who’ve come alongside me to help others understand the new work. You hear from them today. It is a great comfort to me to have this outpouring of care. Thank you, dear ones!

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Journey to Joy – An enchanting (midlife) tale

Enjoy this conversation about a fairy tale literary work with Christine Valters Paintner

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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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