Episodes
Jan. 2, 2024
Having What is Hoped For in 2024 [SSL 291]
Host Lisa Colon DeLay speaks about hope and disappointment two things we may tend to feel at the end of a year and beginning of a new one at sometimes.
Dec. 26, 2023
End of 2023—SSL 290: There is no future without this main thing
Closing out 2023, host Lisa Colon DeLay shares insights on forgiveness from Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1931-2021) and the African concept of ubuntu that can make the future possible.
Dec. 19, 2023
Personhood means relationship [SSL 289]
Host Lisa Colon DeLay brings you just a bit more from Bishop Kallistos Ware. This time about personhood.
Dec. 12, 2023
Tracking the new Evangelical interest in Christian Eastern Orthodox [SSL288]
Hot Lisa Colon DeLay brings you one of the most influential people to bring the gifts of Eastern Orthodox Christianity into the view of the English speaking and Evangelical world is the topic today: Reverend and Bishop Kallistos Ware (1934-2022)
Dec. 5, 2023
The Curious Life of Benjamin Lay – The Quaker Comet [SSL 287]
Host Lisa Colon DeLay brings you lost history going 340 + years back. Find out how the tiny but mighty Quaker, Benjamin Lay, with his moral compass intact in a time of rampant suffering through international kidnapping, human trafficking, illegal bondage, and forced labor, used outrageous acts of protest gave momentum to the abolitionist movement long before the British colonies of America declared independence.
Nov. 28, 2023
Killing My Childhood God [SSL 286]
A reading from Eugene Peterson's potent book entitled Answering God by host Lisa Colón DeLay
Nov. 21, 2023
Accompanying Ourselves [SSL 285]
A short reflection on how we can heal from feeling abandoned from host Lisa Colon DeLay. Includes poem by Heidi Barr.
Nov. 14, 2023
Sit. Feast on Your Life [SSL 284]
An invitation to feast on your life. Reflections from host Lisa Colon DeLay and a poem by Nobel Prize winner Caribbean luminary, Derek Walcott
Nov. 7, 2023
A World Without Birdsong [SSL 283]
Discovering the impossible sadness of silent forests and noisy wars and featuring a poem by Nickole Brown
Nov. 1, 2023
A Healing Presence in a Traumatized World | James Finley [SSL 282]
Reading and reflecting on the event called A Healing Presence in a Traumatized World | James Finley [SSL 282]
Oct. 25, 2023
What About Good Returns? [SSL 281]
Reflecting on good returns and the work of pilgrimage companion Fiona Koefoed Jaspersen (Ordinary Pilgrim)
Oct. 18, 2023
Below Flux [SSL 280]
How we start sinking into the mysteries when the world is confounding
Oct. 6, 2023
Vespers: The Work of God [SSL 279]
Something about Vespers from my time with the Benedictines in Ponce, PR. The House of Initia Nova
Sept. 25, 2023
A Pinch of Salt [SSL 278]
A Pinch of Salt [SSL 278] On sorting out the hungers and cleaning out the wounds
Sept. 13, 2023
Soft Spots and Heritage Month [SSL 277]
On commitments, celebrations, and liberations of the heart, heritage, and greater good.
Sept. 6, 2023
Eps. 224 Carl’s New Big Book
Interview related to the extended new edition of McColman's popular previous work The Big Book of Christian Mysticism
Aug. 30, 2023
Orientation-Where are you? [SSL 276]
Reflections on the "who moved" myth about God plus two Book of Darkness and Light (Meister Eckhart) poems
Aug. 23, 2023
Eps 223: A powerful conversation with Dr Terence Lester
Eps 223 A conversation with Dr Terence Lester - beyond reconciliation to solidarity- we are All God's Children
Aug. 16, 2023
Are You Lonely Tonight: The Missing Peace [SSL 275]
Reflections on connection, awareness, eternity, and perception (some of which were prompted by the comments of Rupert Spira)
Aug. 9, 2023
Eps 222. Spiritual Practices for Soul Care — 40 Ways to Deepen Your Faith: Dr Barbara L Peacock
Spiritual Practices for Soul Care — 40 Ways to Deepen Your Faith with Dr Barbara L Peacock
Aug. 2, 2023
Free People Free People | Blaine Hogan: Exit the Cave [SSL 274]
A reading from author, artist, actor, and film director Blaine Hogan's inspiring and honest book: Exit the Cave!
July 26, 2023
Do You Invert Hospitality? SSL 273
Today thoughts (and a reading from Cindy S. Lee) about connection, hospitality, and mutuality.
July 12, 2023
Thresholds at Wildhouse [SSL 272]
Perspectives on resistance, grief, and noticing; plus poems of Jerome Gagnon
June 28, 2023
The Delicious Malicious SSL 271
I'm revisiting Hanlon's razor with some new guidance on perspective.