10 episodes
Read. Pray. Write. Read. Pray. Write.
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3.9 • 7 Ratings
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Pray-as-you-go with episodes that bring together music, an inspiring text, time for meditation, brief interviews with faith-filled creatives who share how sacred reading can provide soul food for us all, and writing prompts on the www.readpraywrite.com website for further contemplation.
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Finding Self in the Inner Sanctuary
“Now, through vulnerability, a teeming curiosity, embodiment, and interconnection, I continueto step into the rooted contemplative life.” Cassidy Hall
In QUEERING CONTEMPLATION: Finding Queerness in the Roots and Future of Contemplative Spirituality, Cassidy Hall considers how all the meanings of queerness might awaken contemplation and life. She shares how pausing contemplatively before engaging is an inner stance, a way of navigating both an interior world and relationships.
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About the Author & Text
Cassidy Hall (she/her/hers) (MA, MDiv, MTS) is an author, award-winning filmmaker, podcaster, ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, and leading voice in contemplative spirituality. She is the cohost of the Encountering Silence podcast and the creator of the Contemplating Now and Queering Contemplation podcasts. Her films include In Pursuit of Silence and Day of a Stranger. Cassidy is widely published and currently resides in Indianapolis, where she is studying for her DMin degree. -
Good Friday Mediation: Admitting Fault is Restorative
Psalm 4 remains relevant today because few feelings are more unvarnished than the regret, embarrassment, humility and pain we feel when we must admit our failings, or confess a sin. In this rebroadcast, we meditate on how “trembling and weeping” are restorative, evidence that our hearts have not hardened.
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Have No Desire to be Perfect
“I had no desire to be perfect and I didn’t want a life of conformity….God was calling me to be authentically myself the person who God made me to be..” Sr. Julia Walsh
Lent reminds us that perfection is never the goal, even for those called to avowed life. In FOR LOVE OF THE BROKEN BODY (Monkfish), Franciscan sister Julia Walsh admits that even she fights the “shoulds” when it comes to spiritual life.
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About the Author & Text
Julia Walsh is a Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration who is part of The Fireplace Community in Chicago. She serves as a spiritual director and vocation minister plus hosts the Messy Jesus Business podcast. A widely published spiritual writer, her work is found in places such as America, Geez, Global Sisters Report and St. Anthony Messenger. She is host of the podcast Messy Jesus Business. -
Finding Grace to Practice More Healing, Less Helping
“I would not allow hurt to harden my body, mind, and spirit, as it had so many troubled souls in my life.” –– Jean P. Kelly
All of us recycle pain, but few of us caught in a spiral of suffering have the energy, the knowledge, and the courage to spot and manage deep dysfunction in family and romantic relationships.In Less Helping Them, More Healing You podcast host Jean Kelly offers an approach to reading as meditation that is not another task to add to a fraught day of healing one’s self by one’s self. It is an invitation to join an ancient community of seekers who have practiced, taught, and embodied centeredness—a detachment—achieved through texts of all kinds, not just scriptural or religious.
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About the Author & Text
Author, educator, and podcast host Jean P. Kelly believes in the power of stories, both hers and others, to heal and restore hope in both individuals and communities.In her new book, Less Helping Them, More Healing You; The Transcendent Gift of an Ancient Spiritual Practice, Jean teaches that Spiritual Reading can heal because it creates the time, space, and grace necessary to achieve authentic self-knowledge, self-acceptance and self-gift, even in times of desperation. Her memoir not only shares how the ancient practice helped her recover from unbalanced relationships, but also offers tips for practical application of Spiritual Reading in your life.Over the last 30 years, Jean’s writing as been published in local, regional and national publications and websites. She regularly contributes essays, cultural commentary, video lectionary reflections, and journalistic stories to U.S. Catholic, Sojourners and others, often exploring the intersections of faith, intellect, and writing and reading as forms of prayer. -
Love, Pray, Listen, then let prodigal children go
“We long for restoration of relationship. And we rely on the Father, who understands. After all, we also were wayward prodigals once, living for our whims.” – Mary DeMuth.
Unparenting children begins the first time we drop them at daycare or a playdate. That doesn’t make letting go any easier when they are adults, until we remember that they were never ours. Children were and are God’s, writes author Mary DeMuth in her new book, Love, Pray, Listen: Parenting your Wayward Adult Kids with Joy.
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About the Author & Text
Mary DeMuth is literary agent, international speaker, podcaster, and she’s the novelist and nonfiction author of nearly 50 books, including 90-Day Bible Reading Challenge (Bethany 2023). She loves to help people re-story their lives. Find out more at marydemuth.com. -
Listening for the holy means accepting others as beloved.
“Even before losing my hearing, so much of my identity was upheld by trying to meet expectations, gain and maintain approval, and avoid rejection at all costs. I was deaf to the voice of God calling me the beloved.” Sarah Forti
“From our center of being grounded in contemplative practices, we can choose to listen for the Holy by receiving the other as a whole person, not merely their words, but God’s intention for them as his beloved,” writes Sarah Forti in “Listening for the Holy,” from Soul Food: Nourishing Essays on Contemplative Living and Leadership.
About the Author & Text
Sarah Forti is the co-director of “Crossing the Threshold”, a two-year Contemplative Leadership program at the Shalem Institute of Spiritual Formation in Washington, DC. Sarah also teaches Group Spiritual Direction at Shalem, and serves as Director of Missions and Ministry Programming at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Bon Air, VA.
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Customer Reviews
Provoking
This is not your standard faith based podcast. Artists, musicians, writers, speakers, activists and others share their faith in action and how it influences and motivates their works. I have yet to listen to an episode that has not had me reflecting days later on something said by a guest or discussed with the host. Well worth your time. Do something good for yourself and have a listen.
Refreshing guide to prayer
Interesting guests and thought-provoking approach to Lectio Divina.
A new perspective on Lectio Divina
I have to say I am very excited to have found this new enterprise and am even more excited to have landed on so soon after it hit the air. I tend to be late to the parade far more often then being in time to see to see the first float go by.
This is going to be good podcast, perhaps a great one. I have practiced Lectio Divina for more than 10 years but sometimes the effort becomes difficult and the voice that speaks the message of the text is hard to discern. This format is one that lends itself to casual walks with a dog because the bite offered is easy enough to chew and swallow without becoming to focused I risk being waffled by a passing car.
I expect there will be times when the shared reflection will enough to prompt some insight worthy of consideration. Other times, such as today, I will prompted to spend more time to study because the topic hits a nerve.
I became a fan of Cassidy Hall through the Encountering Silence podcast so I was thrilled to listen to the podcast which began with an ever provocative quote from Merton which urges me to spend less time searching and more time in contemplation to find my own voice, my own wisdom and my own path.
50 stars would be more appropriate than the 5 available.
Well done, very well done indeed.