Latest Meditaton Podcast Episodes
The Art of Spiritual Companioning with Rev. Seifu Anil Singh-Molares
Earth and Spirit Podcast - May 08, 2024 11:30 - 1 hourReverend Seifu Anil Singh-Molares is a priest in the Rinzai Zen Buddhist tradition and serves as the executive director of Spiritual Directors International, an interfaith non-profit that provides resources for spiritual guidance and counsel. This conversation explores what spiritual direction i...
Join or Die: Rebecca and Pete Davis on Healthy Democracy and the Joy of Belonging
Earth and Spirit Podcast - April 24, 2024 11:00 - 1 hourRebecca and Pete Davis are a sister-and-brother filmmaking team who have created “Join or Die,” a documentary film about the decline of civic life in America and the importance of joining clubs and other associations as a way to restore the health of our democracy. This episode explores how we a...
The Story is in Our Bones: Osprey Orielle Lake on New (and Ancient) Worldviews for Health in the Human-Earth Relationship
Earth and Spirit Podcast - April 10, 2024 16:22 - 1 hourOsprey Orielle Lake is the founder executive director of WECAN, the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network, and the author of The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis. In this episode, we explore how embracing a different story about our belong...
Big Love: Attorney Tom Williams on Contemplative Practice, Compassionate Justice, and the Lawyer as a Healer
Earth and Spirit Podcast - March 27, 2024 11:30 - 1 hourTom Williams is a Louisville-based labor relations attorney with a deep commitment to the contemplative path, with the wild idea that a lawyer’s vocation may ultimately be to serve as a healer. In this conversation, Tom shares how he puts spiritual principles and insights into action as a tireles...
Sabbath Economics with Dr. Susan Taylor
Earth and Spirit Podcast - March 13, 2024 11:00 - 1 hourDr. Susan Taylor is a PhD economist who has given her life to weaving together commitments of religious faith and commitments to a more just economy. In this episode, we reflect on the central and complicated role that money plays in human life. As an alternative to bare-knuckled capitalism, Su...
Michael Hollifield M.D. on Bringing Mindfulness and Healing to Victims of War
Earth and Spirit Podcast - February 28, 2024 12:00 - 1 hourDr. Michael Hollifield is a psychiatrist and general practitioner who serves as the Founder, President, and CEO of the War Survivors Institute, a nonprofit organization devoted to restoring health to civilians and soldiers who have been harmed by war, as well as mitigating the causes of violent c...
Writing as Spiritual Practice: Denise Davis on Creating an “Isle of Peace”
Earth and Spirit Podcast - February 14, 2024 12:00 - 1 hourDenise Davis taught writing for decades and is deeply committed to the spiritual journey and to journaling as a particular avenue of spiritual practice. In this conversation, Denise describes journaling as a chance to create what Howard Thurman called an Isle of Peace, where it’s safe to reflect...
Everyone is Unshakably Good: Stephanie Barnett on Compassion, Belonging, and Belovedness
Earth and Spirit Podcast - January 31, 2024 12:00 - 1 hourStephanie Barnett is a healthcare consultant, spiritual director, and nonprofit leader who understands her work as accompanying those on the margins, including young mothers who are in active recovery from substance abuse. In this conversation, Stephanie shares how compassion is the spiritual th...
Matthew Fox on Creation Spirituality and Original Blessing – From the Archive
Earth and Spirit Podcast - January 17, 2024 12:00 - 1 hourMatthew Fox is an author, theologian, and activist Episcopal priest whose radical interfaith work attempts to reawaken us to the sacredness of the created world. In this conversation, originally released in October 2022, Matthew reflects on how creation-centered spirituality, and the marriage of...
Andy Loving on Spirituality, Money, and Socially Responsible Investing
Earth and Spirit Podcast - January 03, 2024 12:00 - 53 minutesAndy Loving is the founder of Just Money Advisors, a financial advising firm that specializes in working with clients who have strong interests in socially responsible and ecologically sustainable investing. This conversation delves into the complicated role that money plays in our lives and how ...
Dr. Patricia Gianotti on Spiritual Integration
Earth and Spirit Podcast - December 20, 2023 12:30 - 56 minutesDr. Patricia Gianotti is the Academic Director of The Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy at Loyola University Chicago. As a clinician in private practice, she works with clients around issues related to trauma, shame, and narcissism. She’s also the founder of the Center for Spiritual Integrati...
Stepping Lightly, Keeping Focus, and Finding Gratitude, Part 2: Di Anne and Tom Kerrigan on Bringing Mindfulness to the Masses
Earth and Spirit Podcast - December 04, 2023 12:00 - 31 minutesAfter successful careers in business, Di Anne and Tom Kerrigan have become deeply involved in sharing mindfulness with those who need its practical benefits but may have barriers to access. This episode is the second half of a conversation with them about the democratization of mindfulness and t...
Stepping Lightly, Keeping Focus, and Finding Gratitude; Part 1: Di Anne and Tom Kerrigan on Bringing Mindfulness to the Masses
Earth and Spirit Podcast - November 22, 2023 12:00 - 39 minutesDi Anne and Tom Kerrigan are an entrepreneurial couple who sold their successful business and then devoted their considerable energy and talents to sharing mindfulness with underserved community members, in collaboration with the Earth & Spirit Center. In this first of a two-part conversation, D...
Jim Wayne on Kindness and Care in Politics, Mental Healthcare, and Leadership
Earth and Spirit Podcast - October 25, 2023 11:00 - 1 hourJim Wayne is a psychotherapist, business owner, a novelist, and for almost three decades until 2019, an elected representative in the Kentucky House. He’s been a tireless advocate for tax reforms, concern for the poor, and mental health care concerns. He’s also a person for whom prayer, meditat...
Discovering Fire: Kathleen Duffy on Teilhard de Chardin and the Evolutionary Energy of Love
Earth and Spirit Podcast - October 11, 2023 11:30 - 56 minutesSister Kathleen Duffy is a member of a Catholic religious order, the Sisters of Saint Joseph, and she’s also had a decades-long academic career as a molecular physicist at Chestnut Hill College. In this weaving together of science and spirituality, she’s been guided by the paleontologist and myst...
The Well-Gardened Mind, Part 2: Dr. Sue Stuart Smith on the Power of Gardens and Nature for Mental Health and Well-Being
Earth and Spirit Podcast - September 27, 2023 11:00 - 33 minutesDr. Sue Stuart-Smith is a UK-based psychiatrist and psychotherapist, an avid gardener, and the author of The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature. In this second installment of a two-part conversation, Sue reflects on the fundamental human need to connect with the rest of the livi...
The Well-Gardened Mind: Dr. Sue Stuart Smith on the Power of Gardens and Nature for Mental Health and Well-Being – Part 1
Earth and Spirit Podcast - September 13, 2023 21:51 - 31 minutesDr. Sue Stuart-Smith is a UK-based psychiatrist and psychotherapist, an avid gardener, and the author of The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature. Over her long career in psychotherapy, Sue has seen the power of gardens and nature connection to heal trauma, cultivate mindfulness a...
Listening with the Heart: Dr. Kathleen Coyne on Contemplation, Compassion, and Community Development
Earth and Spirit Podcast - September 02, 2023 02:05 - 1 hourDr. Kathleen Coyne grew up among the indigenous peoples of Northern Canada, which set her on a lifelong journey as a community development expert and an advocate for equity and justice, especially with those who are on the margins. She’s also deeply committed to the spiritual path of Christian m...
Martin Boroson Part 2 – Mindfulness in a Moment
Earth and Spirit Podcast - August 15, 2023 21:44 - 1 hourMartin Boroson’s experience spans the study of Western and Eastern spiritual traditions, much of that work done at Yale University, but also the world of business and management. An ordained Zen priest, Marty also earned an MBA from the Yale School of Management. He is the founder of the One Mo...
Martin Boroson Part 1 – A Mystical Story of Creation
Earth and Spirit Podcast - August 02, 2023 11:00 - 40 minutesMartin Boroson studied Western philosophy at Yale, followed by private study of Eastern philosophy and the work of Carl Jung. He also earned an MBA from the Yale School of Management. He is a leadership coach, founder of the One-Moment Company, and an ordained Zen priest in the Hollow Bones Rinza...
Turning the Tables: Host Kyle Kramer Becomes the Guest
Earth and Spirit Podcast - July 19, 2023 11:00 - 56 minutesWe’re trying something a little different for this episode. As the host of the Earth & spirit Podcast, I always get to ask the questions. But this time, we’re turning the mics around. Dan Galvin, who’s part of the Earth & Spirit Center team, agreed to be the host and to put me in the hot seat ...
Therapist Lois Luckett on Connecting To Self and Nature for Mental Health
Earth and Spirit Podcast - July 05, 2023 13:53 - 1 hourLois Luckett is a licensed clinical social worker who has been in private counseling practice since 1980. In this podcast conversation, Lois shares how mindfulness, body awareness, and connection to the natural world can help us feel safe, learn to trust, and become more healthy and whole. RES...
Gail Worcelo on the Vision and Legacy of Thomas Berry (from the archive)
Earth and Spirit Podcast - June 21, 2023 11:00 - 1 hourSr. Gail Worcelo co-founded the Green Mountain Monastery in 1999, encouraged and supported by her friend and mentor, the late Thomas Berry. Berry, a cultural historian and Passionist priest, was a ground-breaking thinker who contemplated the new story science has given us of 13.8 billion-year hi...
Jud Hendrix on Belonging and the Beloved Community
Earth and Spirit Podcast - June 07, 2023 11:00 - 1 hourJud Hendrix is the executive director of Interfaith Paths to Peace, a nonprofit organization with a mission of building peace, justice, and compassion by uniting and organizing people of diverse faiths, races, and cultures. In this episode, Jud reflects on spirituality, social change, hope, and ...
Dr. Hannah Bland on Mindfulness and Mental Health
Earth and Spirit Podcast - May 24, 2023 15:07 - 59 minutesDr. Hannah Bland is a licensed counselor, an assistant professor of mental health counseling, and the director of the mental health counseling education program at Spalding University. She has worked extensively in prisons, the foster care system, and rape crisis centers, among other difficult c...
Jimmy Springston on Mindful Organizations
Earth and Spirit Podcast - May 10, 2023 11:30 - 1 hourJimmy Springston is a former Air Force officer and chief operating officer of a multi-million-dollar commercial construction company, who now coaches other leaders. In this podcast conversation, Jimmy reflects on how to create organizational cultures that are more mindful, emotionally intelligen...
Joe Grant and the Duty of Delight
Earth and Spirit Podcast - April 26, 2023 11:30 - 1 hourJoe Grant is a Scotland-born modern-day mystic, spiritual guide, retreat leader at Holy Hills Hermitage in rural Kentucky, and the author of numerous books and articles about scripture, justice and spirituality. Joe has worked with indigenous peoples of the U.S. and in Latin America. In this con...
The Sacred Depths of Nature: Dr. Ursula Goodenough on Science and Spirituality
Earth and Spirit Podcast - April 15, 2023 11:00 - 59 minutesDr. Ursula Goodenough is professor emerita of biology at Washington University, the president of the Religious Naturalist Association, and the author of The Sacred Depths of Nature: How Life Has Emerged and Evolved. This conversation explores the story of how science can inspire deep reverence a...
Gretchen “Bunny” Nash on Stress, Trauma and Mindful Resilience
Earth and Spirit Podcast - March 31, 2023 17:09 - 1 hourGretchen “Bunny” Nash has worked for decades with children and adults facing emotional and behavioral challenges as well as various forms of trauma. In this conversation, Bunny shares how mindfulness practices can rewire our brains to foster stress resilience, compassion, and greater well-being ...
We Don’t Have to Do It Alone: Toni Temporiti on Empowering Women Through Trust and Community
Earth and Spirit Podcast - March 15, 2023 11:00 - 1 hourSr. Toni Temporiti, PhD is the founder of Microfinancing Partners in Africa, an organization that provides loans to empower women who struggle with poverty. In this episode, Sr. Toni reflects on the power of listening, community, and courage for creating a more beautiful and sustainable world – ...
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