REFLECTING LIGHT

Join us this week as we discuss "Eve and Adam: Discovering the Beautiful Balance" with the author, Mindy Brown. Mindy and Mandy address some of the misconceptions about Eve, as well as look at how her character and heroism foreshadow and emulate the work of the Savior. How can Eve and her story reframe and inform our own ideas and attitudes toward mortality. Listen in!

LOVE OTHERS. The end.

In this episode, Mandy examines the definitions and context of Eros as well as indulges in some delicious love poetry for every person and situation. Happy Valentines Day!

Reflecting Light starts off the month of February with a podcast about agape, or the love of God. Mandy expands this idea by examining both the Greek and Hebrew definitions of God's love. She also introduces us to some beautiful English and Bengali poetry about mans' relationship with the Gods. Listen in!

Based on a superb Ted Talk by Dewitt Jones, a former photographer for the National Geographic, this episode explores how "celebrating the good" can change our perspective and outlook on life.  Mandy encourages all of us to find as many right answers as we can by "changing our lens" or point of view.  

What does knowledge really consist of?  What are the most important things we can learn in this life?   Hugh Nibley outlines just two things we can truly learn here.  Join Mandy as she reveals those two things and how learning them can help us grow in knowledge and in our love for each other.

In this episode, Reflecting Light welcomes our first guest, Mike Day, for a discussion about the ancient temple prototype and how it continues to show up in modern culture.  We look at movies, stories, myth, scripture and apocrypha to find the themes and elements common to the archetypal hero's journey.  Join us!

In this final episode about the advent of Christ, Mandy explores some of the traditions surrounding the visit of the magi.  Through the lens of two apocryphal works, she examines the different ways the star is described as well as where the treasures they brought originated from.  She concludes with some of the things we can learn from the magi and a call to "look up." 

Welcome to the new year with Reflecting Light!  In this episode, Mandy asks us to look back on the year 2020 and the way everything we had grown used to changed.  We had to adapt and grow.  She invites us to examine the ways the we were taught and instructed by Grace and how we can use that as an impetus for continued growth in greeting the new year.  

Oftentimes, the songs of Christmas carry a deeper level in many of their lyrics.  In this episode, Mandy walks us through a few familiar Christmas songs to show us a tiny bit of that meaning as well as inform us of the oral traditions about the nativity that were alive and well when the songs were composed.  
Reflecting Light and Mandy would like to wish you EACH a very Mary/Merry Christmas and a wonderful holiday season!