Poem by Thom Shuman (CC BY 2.0) Episode by Kyle Oliver (CC BY 2.0) Photo: “Argument Street” by Garry Knight via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Media links: Podcast subscription, SoundCloud audio, direct audio This week we’re featuring poetry by Thom Shuman. To kick things off, we have a poem inspired by Matthew 15:11—and a conversation between Thom and Kyle […]

Episode & photo by Kyle Oliver for prayr.cc (CC BY 2.0) Cover photo: “bronx_hall_of_justice” by Dan DeLuca via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Media links: Podcast subscription, SoundCloud audio, direct audio On the last day of my four-week grand jury term of service, I felt moved to reflect, especially on the pathos and paradox of an experience being simultaneously […]

Episode by Kyle Oliver for prayr.cc (CC BY 2.0) Image: “jonah” by piotr mamnaimie via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Media links: Podcast subscription, SoundCloud audio, direct audio On today’s episode, we have the entirety of the Book of Jonah (World English Bible translation). Twice in the last month or so I’ve had reasonably in-depth conversations in social settings […]

Episode by Kyle Oliver for prayr.cc (CC BY 2.0) Image: “Mai Chau Valley paddy field Impression” [cropped] by Neville Wootton via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Media links: Podcast subscription, SoundCloud audio, direct audio, music only This week’s podcast episode once again incorporates the lovely “Dragon Country (Apple & Clove)” by Alexander Westmacott, this time as music “in conversation” with a […]

Poem by George Herbert (Public Domain) Episode by Kyle Oliver for prayr.cc (CC BY 2.0) Music: “Dragon Country (Apple & Clove)” by Alexander Westmacott via Free Music Archive (CC BY 4.0) Photo: “While the sky whirls away” by Derek Finch via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Media links: Podcast subscription, SoundCloud audio, direct audio, music only […]

Episode by Kyle Oliver for prayr.cc (CC BY 2.0) Song: “Ecchu-Owara-Bushi (kokyu solo)” by Ecchu-Yatsuo-Owara-Dojyo via Soundcloud (CC BY 3.0) Media links: Podcast subscription, SoundCloud audio, direct audio, music only Monday means podcast day. Today we’re returning to a Music for Prayer episode. This is a track from a Creative Commons Japan remix project called, if I’m understanding correctly, Ecchu-Owara-Bushi. This […]

Episode by Kyle Oliver for prayr.cc (CC BY 2.0) Photo: “breathe” by Mae Chevrette via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Media links: Podcast subscription, SoundCloud audio, direct audio, YouTube video Our first conversation about prayer. We’ll do this every month or so. I think it’s important to set some context for how/why we might pray with media and in other “non-traditional” […]

Episode by Kyle Oliver for prayr.cc (CC BY 2.0) Photo: “Cappella di S. M. Maddalena” by Christopher John SSF via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Music: “Easy Does It” by Kyle Oliver via SoundCloud (CC BY 2.0) Happy St. Francis Week from Creative Commons Prayer! Because he’s just that awesome, and his feast day is coming October 4. There’s a good […]

Our first guided reflection podcast, in the style of Pray As You Go—but shorter. It’s a story you’ve probably heard, about Elijah’s journey to meet God on a distant mountain.

Our first video-based Bible Illumination, a Storycenter-style visual interpretation of Psalm 5. The audio version on the podcast feed has a little bit of commentary about praying with the the psalms.