Spark My Muse

My guest is author Phoebe Farag Mikhail. She serves alongside her husband at St. Antonious & St. Mina Coptic Orthodox Church in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and works in international development. Our conversation includes the topics of her book: Putting Joy Into Practice: Seven Ways to Lift Your Spirit from the Early Church

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Today's Soul School Lesson contains some snippet readings and reflections from the book "The Artist's Rule: A 12-week Journey-Nurturing your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom", by Christine Valters Paintner on the powers of rightly aligned humility in the spiritual life and what toxic versions of it look like too. [See the audio player below.]

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June 5-7, 2020

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My guest is author Galye Boss. Her stunning Advent book about how various North American animals wait out and survive the dark, cold winter was an instant classic. Now, she releases a fitting second book, this time for Lent. This too, is another gorgeously-illustrated book that features 24 amazing animals of the world that are vanishing from existence. (David G. Klein, Illustrator)

Our conversation covers topics in both her books and a lovely reading from Wild Hope by Gayle.

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Today, Soul School Lesson is reflection on how relationships help mirror our own frailties, a bit about Jean Paul Sartre's famous line in his play "No Exit", and a reading of a short story called "Breadcrumbs of Love".

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My guest is Khristi Lauren Adams. We will be speaking about topics such as identity, the image of God, finding our authentic self, culture bias, and more as we discuss her powerful book "Parable of the Brown Girl: The Sacred Lives of Girls of Color"

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A special event is planned for June 2020 - soul care, retreat, and pilgrimage in an amazing setting. More about that at sacredspacessantafe.eventbrite.com - Financial assistance is available!

What happens when we want comfort? Someone may want to give it to us in exchange for our power of choice. We lose our inherent humanizing freedoms when we give over our decision-making ability to people and companies to make our lives “better”.

A Soul School Lesson with a reading and reflection from "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art" by Madeleine L'Engle. Important ideas on choice, freedom, art, faith and being human.

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My guest is Robert J. Monson. We are speaking about his work at the non profit Sub: culture Inc., Podcasting two programs, and an important conversation on grief, community, and contemplative prayer. His music entitled 1 Peter 4 Meditation is featured on this episode.

This episode is being released at the same time as Robert is releasing my interview with him (January 22, 2020) on The Hive podcast. CHECK IT OUT here: https://anchor.fm/subculture-inc

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Do people seem more angry and triggered? Are you? I have been.

There are more opportunities for us to be reminded of past pain. When that happens, the regions for rational thought and empathy shut off in our brain. Today on on Soul School I will use Dr Liz Mullinar’s invaluable resource “Heal for Life” to teach us how to truly DE-TRIGGER ourselves.

I’ve employed this valuable wisdom many times already. Pass this episode along. Everyone needs to be aware of how past trauma resurfaces!

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Today Mark S. Burrows joins me to discuss is translations and themes of work of Meister Eckhart and Rainer Maria Rilke, and his own book of powerful poems. Get the companion post for this episode with plenty of links and extras here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/32794606 (unlock it for just a $1 contribution if you are not already a patron)

[ Mark S. Burrows is poet, translator, teacher, and scholar, much in demand as a speaker and retreat leader on spirituality and poetics. He is well known, internationally, for his work on theology, spirituality, and the arts, and for his academic work on mysticism. A longtime resident of New England, he divides his time between Germany, where he teaches religion and literature at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Bochum, and Camden, Maine. ]

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I’m starting off 2020 with a reading from Henri Nouwen and prayer of the heart. Enjoy this way to center down as we fortify ourselves for what lies ahead.

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