Latest Examinedlife Podcast Episodes
Dr. Larry Ward on America's Racial Karma, the Fragrance of Wisdom, and Learning How To Suffer Less
Contemplify - June 30, 2024 10:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsDr. Larry Ward is a senior teacher in Buddhist Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village tradition, the author of the book America's Racial Karma, and co-author with his wife, Peggy, of Love's Garden: A Guide To Mindful Relationships. Dr. Ward brings forty years of international experience in ...
David James Duncan on the Unintentional Menagerie of Sun House, Friendship, and the Beguines
Contemplify - June 16, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsDavid James Duncan is the author of the classic novels The River Why and The Brothers K, the story collection River Teeth, the nonfiction collection and National Book Award finalist, My Story as Told by Water, the best-selling collection of “churchless sermons," God Laughs & Plays. And lest we ...
Harmonizing In The Empty Fullness
Contemplify - June 09, 2024 23:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsSeason Five Trailer Contemplify.com
Turn the Morning into Forever
Contemplify - May 21, 2024 10:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsA musing on time, eternality, and childeren
Reduced to the Scale of Our Competence
Contemplify - April 24, 2024 10:16 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsA musing on limitations
Eat the Wild Thing
Contemplify - April 12, 2024 07:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsA musing on wild things and ingesting God
Lo-Fi & Hushed / 2023 Winter Solstice Session / To Know the Dark
Contemplify - January 02, 2024 23:40 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsEach solstice and equinox Contemplify offers a public Lo-Fi & Hushed contemplative practice session for both free and supporting subscribers of the Non-Required Reading List. For those interested, go tell it on the mountain… The third week of Advent salted on joy. Not because of the circumstanc...
Listen to the Rice, the Rice Will Teach You Everything with Lucien Miller
Contemplify - November 29, 2023 08:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratings"Oshida’s life and legacy is an experience of the spiritual senses knowing the mystical voice. Biblical in sources and Buddhist in form, reading this book took me as a reader to the great pause of silence." — Sister Meg Funk, OSB Lucien Miller received his PhD in comparative literature f...
In Hard Times, In All Times, Eat Sacred Words
Contemplify - November 09, 2023 02:21 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratings"You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves." — 'Wild Geese' by Mary Oliver Carmen Acevedo Butcher, PhD, is an author, teacher, poet, and awa...
Kim Haines-Eitzen on Practicing the Cello in the Dark and Sonorous Deserts
Contemplify - October 25, 2023 07:02 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsDr. Kim Haines-Eitzen is a Professor of Religious Studies with specialties in Early Christianity, Early Judaism, and other ancient Mediterranean Religions at Cornell University. Her book Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks—and What It Can Teach Us explores the dynam...
Lerita Coleman Brown on Waiting for a Word in the Heart
Contemplify - October 11, 2023 07:02 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratings"I highly recommend What Makes You Come Alive to churches, religious and educational institutions, and spiritual seekers everywhere who are looking for an inward journey that finds its home in the world of nature, people, and things." — Walter Earl Fluker - Editor and Director of the Howard Th...
Lo-Fi & Hushed Contemplative Practice Session (September 2023 / Autumn Equinox)
Contemplify - September 27, 2023 20:26 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsLo-Fi & Hushed is weekly space for the contemplative practice of lectio divina with poetry. This practice is graceful, transformative, and subdued. Lo-Fi & Hushed is available worldwide, on Riverside livestream, and you can participate from the hallows of your own home. “I do not complain of s...
David Shumate on When Words Become Thunder
Contemplify - September 13, 2023 07:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 153 ratings"David Shumate's High Water Mark is absolutely fresh and unpredictable. . . . You will be surprised by your confrontation with the utterly first rate." — Jim Harrison David Shumate is the author of The Floating Bridge and High Water Mark, winner of the 2003 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize....
Douglas E. Christie on Depth Without Resolution
Contemplify - August 30, 2023 07:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsDouglas E. Christie, Ph.D., is Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is author of The Word in the Desert: Scripture and the Quest for Early Christian Monasticism; The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology; and The Insurmountable Darkness of Lo...
Carmen Acevedo Butcher Follows the Mystical Tugs on the Heart
Contemplify - August 16, 2023 07:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsCarmen Acevedo Butcher, PhD, is an author, teacher, poet, and award-winning translator of spiritual texts. If I had to pick a favorite, it would be Brother Lawrence’s Practice of the Presence. Her dynamic work around the evolution of language and the necessity of just and inclusive language has ...
Lisa Wells on Holding a Fierce and Loving Gaze
Contemplify - August 02, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsLisa Wells is an author, poet, and co-founder of a small, nonprofit press based in Seattle, Washington called Letter Machine Editions. Her latest work is Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World. In Believers Lisa locates folks who meet the climate catastrophe with a fierce and loving ga...
Scott Avett on Being Here for the Feast
Contemplify - July 19, 2023 07:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsScott Avett is a visual artist, musician, and songwriter. No amount of descriptors quite do him justice. Scott’s work was met by my ears before my eyes. His songs slip into the ear stream, reverberate off the rib cage and remind the heart it was born free. Scott’s paintings hold your gaze in abs...
Haleh Liza Gafori on Putting Mystery in the Middle
Contemplify - July 05, 2023 07:05 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsHaleh Liza Gafori is a translator, vocalist, poet, and educator born in New York City of Iranian descent. Her latest work, is a translation of Rumi poems entitled Gold. I first heard one of her translations of Rumi sitting around a campfire on a Sunday morning in Patagonia, Arizona. I was ...
Belden Lane on the Unbroken Desert of God
Contemplify - June 20, 2023 07:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsBelden Lane is Professor Emeritus of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University, author of numerous books including The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality and Backpacking with the Saints: Wilderness Hiking as Spiritual Practice. Belden Lane is a true elde...
Your Naked Freedom
Contemplify - June 13, 2023 07:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsGood poetry is inherently spiritual. It is a clown car of interpretation. Once a door of perception is opened, endless and surprising “Ahas” tumble out. When you have a spiritual teacher who embodies a poem, their words become thunder and contemplation soaks you. Get a taste of Season Four of ...
Spare Me Nothing
Contemplify - May 12, 2023 12:39 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsA musing on practice, desire, and its evolutions vist contemplify.com
James Finley on the Healing Path
Contemplify - March 30, 2023 07:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsI was overly giddy, strangely nervous, but above all grateful to be in conversation with James Finley about his breathtaking new book, The Healing Path: A Memoir and an Invitation. Each page is a thousand pages deep, that is how Jim walks about the world, drawing from the depths and teaching wit...
It's Not About the Beer, It's About the Beer
Contemplify - February 25, 2023 03:21 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsA musing inspired by Shawn Askinosie's story about Belgium beer brewing monks and the parables of Jesus from Feb 2023 vist contemplify.com
Prairie Eye & Woods Eye
Contemplify - February 08, 2023 13:16 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsA musing on Bill Holm's "Horizontal Grandeur" pulled from his book of essays, The Music of Failure.
Sitting on the Present Moment
Contemplify - January 24, 2023 09:09 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsA musing on the present moment of awareness that holds everything.
Engaged Contemplation in a Heartbreaking World with Fr. Adam Bucko
Contemplify - November 27, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsFather Adam Bucko has been a committed voice in the movement for the renewal of Christian Contemplative Spirituality and the growing New Monastic movement. He has taught engaged contemplative spirituality in Europe and the United States and has authored Let Your Heartbreak be Your Guide: Lessons...
Heathen
Contemplify - November 09, 2022 10:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsMusing from November 9th, 2022 inspired by by reading Chris Dombrowski's The River You Touch Visit contemplify.com
Vitality Out of Emptiness with Fr. David Denny
Contemplify - October 21, 2022 20:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsFr. David Denny is a lifelong seeker whose commitment to the unfolding mystery of life has brought him to explore the deserts of place and soul. In 1975 Fr Dave entered the Spiritual Life Institute, a contemplative monastic community rooted in the Carmelite tradition. And in 2005, he left that...
The River You Touch with Chris Dombrowski
Contemplify - October 02, 2022 15:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsI have been waiting years to have this conversation with author, poet, and fly-fishing guide Chris Dombrowski. There is a kinship I feel with Chris's lens on life. He is a top-shelf writer to boot. The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water comes out October 11th, 2022. I have read it ...
Inarticulate as Watercolors, Brazen as Graffiti
Contemplify - September 17, 2022 01:23 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsMusing from September 16, 2022 visit contemplify.com
Related Examinedlife Topics
- Philosophy 3
- Ethics 2