SoulStream, Living from the Heart Podcast

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On the SoulStream “Living from the Heart” podcast, we explore encountering God personally, integrating body, soul, mind, and spirit to live authentically in Christ. We discuss becoming open to God’s presence, overcoming obstacles, embracing transformation into Jesus’ image, and cultivating supportive practices. Additionally, we delve into understanding prayer as responsive to the Holy Spirit, ancient practices, and living out contemplative prayer to love neighbors, care for the earth, and seek justice. soulstream926.substack.com

  1. 3d ago

    The Inscape Within with Doug Webber

    Trigger warning: This episode includes a brief discussion of suicide and suicidal thoughts. What is happening within us beneath the noise, activity, and demands of everyday life? In this episode of Living from the Heart, Rod sits down with Doug Webber at his cabin on Bowen Island, overlooking the ocean and surrounded by the sounds of nature and planes and helicopters! Their conversation begins with the idea of “inscape,” a word Doug encountered through the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. It becomes a doorway into a deeply personal conversation about Doug’s experience with severe depression, the people who helped carry him through it, and the importance of community when we cannot navigate our way forward on our own. Doug also reflects on his changing relationship with Christianity, his discovery of contemplative spirituality, and the ways poetry, nature, silence, centering prayer, and vulnerable community have shaped his spiritual life. Together, Rod and Doug explore what it means to move beyond simply thinking about God and toward experiencing the presence of God in ordinary life. They discuss mountains and forests, the digital world, spiritual practices, and Doug’s current question: How can the awareness we experience in prayer become part of the way we live throughout the rest of the day? If you or someone you know is struggling, in Canada you can call or text 988 to reach the Suicide Crisis Helpline, available 24 hours a day. Links: SoulStream.org The last SoulStream Living from the Heart podcast on SubStack: Attention, Communion, and Personhood: A Conversation with Felicia Wu Song This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit soulstream926.substack.com

    The Inscape Within with Doug Webber

  2. Aug 24

    Attention, Communion, and Personhood: A Conversation with Felicia Wu Song

    Sociologist Felicia Wu Song joins us to explore how digital culture shapes our spiritual lives and relationships. Learn how practicing presence and contemplation helps us recover personhood and live more fully with genuine connection. Discover “counter-liturgies” that can reshape our desires, restore attention, and transform how we show up for the people we love in a hyperconnected world. Links: Felicia Wu Song Website Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence and Place in the Digital Age. InterVarsity Press Academic, November 2021. SoulStream.org The last SoulStream Living from the Heart podcast on SubStack: The Land Knows Me: Eco-Spiritual Direction with Deb Metzger This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit soulstream926.substack.com

    Attention, Communion, and Personhood: A Conversation with Felicia Wu Song

  3. Jul 6

    The Land Knows Me: Eco-Spiritual Direction with Deb Metzger

    What if the land you live on actually knows you? In this episode, we visit with Deb Metzger, an eco-spiritual companion, farmer, and retired Lutheran minister who has lived her whole life within two miles of the Ohio farmland that raised her. Deb shares stories of a nuthatch that helped her grieve, wildlife holding vigil at her father’s death, and a vow made kneeling beside a murdered coyote. Together we explore what it means to let nature be more than a backdrop to behold rather than watch, to find God with “fur and talons and scales and wings,” and to stay tender-hearted on a hurting planet. If you’ve ever sensed something holy on a walk in the woods and wondered if you were crazy, this conversation is your permission slip to be open and take it in. Links: Deb Metzger SoulStream.org The last SoulStream Living from the Heart podcast on SubStack: When the Earth Becomes Spiritual Director This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit soulstream926.substack.com

    The Land Knows Me: Eco-Spiritual Direction with Deb Metzger

  4. Jun 11

    When the Earth Becomes Spiritual Director

    In this episode of Living from the Heart, we speak with Victoria Loorz, MDiv, wild church pastor, eco-spiritual director, and cofounder of the Center for Wild Spirituality. Victoria is the founder of the first Church of the Wild in Ojai, California, and author of Church of the Wild. After twenty years serving in indoor churches, she began helping people rediscover spiritual community with the land, creatures, and the “more-than-human world.” Our conversation explores eco-spiritual direction, a way of companioning people that includes not only the person and the presence of God but also the “more-than-human” world. Victoria shares stories of birds, fish, dreams, land, and wild places becoming part of the sacred conversation. Victoria reminds us that living from the heart is not separate from the earth. It is a way of being fully present to God, to ourselves, to one another, and to the living world around us. Links: Victoria Loorz Center for Wild Spirituality Victoria’s Books SoulStream.org The last SoulStream Living from the Heart podcast on SubStack: The Making of Modern Spiritual Direction with Paul Burgmayer This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit soulstream926.substack.com

    When the Earth Becomes Spiritual Director

  5. May 7

    The Making of Modern Spiritual Direction with Paul Burgmayer

    Welcome to the SoulStream Living from the Heart podcast, a space where we slow down, listen deeply, and explore the sacred invitations woven through ordinary life. Today, we’re joined by Paul Burgmayer, a spiritual director, supervisor, musician, former scientist and educator, and the author of the new book, The Making of Modern Spiritual Direction, which is available now. In this conversation, Paul brings a thoughtful and grounded perspective to the practice of spiritual direction, including its history, its evolving shape, and the ways it invites us to pay attention to the movement of God in our lives. Together, we explore the relationship between thinking and feeling, the gift of deep listening, the wisdom found in contemplative practice, and the importance of finding our own authentic voice on the spiritual journey. Whether you are a spiritual director, a seeker, or simply someone longing for a more attentive and wholehearted way of living, we hope this conversation offers companionship, insight, and an invitation to listen more deeply. Links: Paul Burgmayer SoulStream.org The last SoulStream Living from the Heart podcast on SubStack: Living from the Heart with Brent Unrau and Cherie Tetz This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit soulstream926.substack.com

    The Making of Modern Spiritual Direction with Paul Burgmayer

  6. May 4

    Living from the Heart: Celebrating 50 Conversations

    Welcome to SoulStream Living from the Heart, a space where we slow down, listen deeply, and explore what it means to live with authenticity, compassion, and connection. Today’s episode feels a little special. This is our 50th episode, and it’s a chance to pause, to give thanks, and to reflect on the many stories, voices, and shared moments that have brought us here. SoulStream is a contemplative community rooted in love, presence, and discernment. We believe transformation happens through honest connection with ourselves, with others, and with God, and that transformation unfolds gently when we learn to listen well. In this episode, we are joined by Cat Anderson, Board Chair of SoulStream, and John Lunn, Executive Director. Together, we will explore the heart of this community and the journey that continues to shape it. Links: SoulStream.org The last SoulStream Living from the Heart podcast on SubStack: Resting in the Mystery: Suhail Stephen on Spiritual Direction, Contemplative Listening, and the Love of God This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit soulstream926.substack.com

    Living from the Heart: Celebrating 50 Conversations

  7. Apr 27

    Living from the Heart with Brent Unrau and Cherie Tetz

    Welcome to the SoulStream Living from the Heart podcast, a space where we slow down, listen deeply, and explore what it means to live with greater authenticity, compassion, and connection. Today, we’re joined by two wonderful guides on this journey, Brent Unrau and Cherie Tetz. Both are longtime facilitators with SoulStream’s Living from the Heart program, and they bring years of experience in spiritual direction and contemplative practice. In this conversation, they share not only their wisdom but also their personal stories of transformation and the courage to live more deeply from the heart. Links: The Living from the Heart Program SoulStream.org The last SoulStream Living from the Heart podcast on SubStack: Living from the Heart: Celebrating 50 Conversations This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit soulstream926.substack.com

  8. Mar 31

    Resting in the Mystery: Suhail Stephen on Spiritual Direction, Contemplative Listening, and the Love of God

    In this episode of the SoulStream: Living from the Heart podcast, Rod sits down with Suhail Stephen, spiritual director, pastor of West End Abbey in Winnipeg, and founder of the School of Mercy and Justice, for a conversation about what it means to be present to God and to others. Suhail shares his origin story in spiritual direction: a “magnetic attraction” to something he couldn’t yet name, rooted in a deep desire to experience God and to accompany others in that same experience. He reflects on his first experiences of receiving spiritual direction, which felt like discovering a missing puzzle piece, a space to be listened to without an agenda, and how that experience changed him. Suhail also comments on what makes listening such a profoundly loving act, why the gap between our theology and our lived experience of God is one of the most common places people get stuck, and how healing our image of God is often at the heart of spiritual transformation. Suhail closes with a beautiful set of Lenten reflection questions for the community and a personal answer to what “living from the heart” means: keeping the love of God at the center, and living as authentically as possible from who God has made you to be. Topics in this episode: spiritual direction, contemplative prayer, listening, discernment, charismatic and contemplative spirituality, image of God, Lent, embodiment, vocation Links: Listen with Love PodcastWest End Abbeywritingisprayer.com SoulStream.org The last SoulStream Living from the Heart podcast on SoulStream: Walking the Stations: An Immersive Encounter Through Art and Faith This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit soulstream926.substack.com

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On the SoulStream “Living from the Heart” podcast, we explore encountering God personally, integrating body, soul, mind, and spirit to live authentically in Christ. We discuss becoming open to God’s presence, overcoming obstacles, embracing transformation into Jesus’ image, and cultivating supportive practices. Additionally, we delve into understanding prayer as responsive to the Holy Spirit, ancient practices, and living out contemplative prayer to love neighbors, care for the earth, and seek justice. soulstream926.substack.com

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