Episodes

  • The Road to Santiago

    The Road to Santiago
    Mar 5 2022
    We are setting out on an inner pilgrimage through Lent. We journey inwards together through times of uncertainty, struggle, transition, and bewilderment. In his book Still Possible, poet David Whyte writes: “For the road to Santiago, don’t make declarations about what to bring and what to leave behind. Bring what you have.”
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  • Loving Kindness

    Loving Kindness
    Feb 18 2022
    Our world needs people who love. Our world needs people who are kind. We can be both through the practice of loving kindness. Heart-felt love illuminating every broken thing it finds is a perfect description of the practice of loving kindness. It is an outpouring coming from compassion.
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  • This Diamond in My Heart

    This Diamond in My Heart
    Feb 11 2022
    When we consider an inner diamond, we may want to remember that diamonds are formed in the depths and under pressure. It might take us a long time on the spiritual road to feel it in ourselves and see it in others, beneath the surface, like that treasure hidden in a field that Jesus described.
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  • Love Liberates

    Love Liberates
    Feb 5 2022
    “Love liberates. It doesn’t just hold—that’s ego. Love liberates.” These are words of wisdom from the late poet and civil rights leader Maya Angelou. Our culture, Angelou says, is “stuck in almost a juvenile, puerile understanding of love.” This is the idea of possessing someone as opposed to setting them free, of getting rather than giving.
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  • Desmond Tutu: Prisoner of Hope

    Desmond Tutu: Prisoner of Hope
    Jan 21 2022
    Archbishop Desmond Tutu left behind a faith-fueled legacy of compassion. We can draw on his inspiration. “Disturb us, O Lord, he wrote, “when we are too well-pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we dreamed too little, because we sailed too close to the shore.”
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  • The Inner Room

    The Inner Room
    Jan 14 2022
    It is a radical and life-changing practice to follow Jesus’s advice about prayer. We are invited to step into solitude and close the door. No public display, no bragging rights, no distractions. We leave the ego at the door. Jesus toppled the conventions of his day. He called his followers into intimacy with God, who he referred to as Abba, a term of endearment, tenderness and closeness. He did not tell his followers to make grandiose gestures of devotion. He directed them to get quiet and get real.
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  • The Cosmic Liturgy

    The Cosmic Liturgy
    Dec 17 2021
    The Christmas story is infused by the night sky. We have the “star of wonder, star of night,” the “midnight clear,” the holy night with “the stars brightly shining” just to name a few. Our own tradition invites us into a cosmic liturgy, but are we participating? Richard Rohr reminds us that when we speak of Advent, we’re not just talking about Jesus being born 2000 years ago. “In fact, we’re welcoming the Universal Christ, the Cosmic Christ, the Christ that is forever being born in the human soul and into history.”
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  • Within Our Darkest Night

    Within Our Darkest Night
    Dec 11 2021
    A beautiful Taizé chant can guide us through Advent, and we can turn to it whenever we feel lost, alone, or overwhelmed. The following line is sung again and again: “Within our darkest night, you kindle the fire that never dies away, never dies away.” The ‘dark night’ speaks to this time of year, to the Advent journey towards the holy birth, and to the times on the spiritual journey when we are bereft and stripped down to utter humility. St. John of the Cross describes the dark night as “sheer grace” because it allows us to find what burns in our hearts. We would never be inclined to do so otherwise.
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