Spark My Muse

Cristobal Colon sailed the ocean blue in 1492. He is commonly known by that name in Spain–where the words like colony, colonizer, colonial, colonel, and related words come from. In the United States his arrived to this hemisphere is celebrated on Columbus Day. He is known here as Christopher Columbus.

The conquest by Spain and Portugal and later by France, the Dutch, and the British, was a cultural, political, religious, and human genocide for the indigenous people already living in these lands. The empires from Europe filled their treasuries off the salve labor, stolen riches, and resources of others and also used religion to conquer as well.

Today, my guest Michael Jimenez talks about some theologians from Latin America that emerged during the decolonization period of the 20th Century. They are commonly known as Liberation Theologians.

What many of us have often been told is Theology (proper) is really a contextualized Euro-centric theology of Empire that treats other, even biblically-based ideas, and merely contextualized forms.

I hope our conversation will open you up to a new way of thinking about theologically and politically marginalized lies, voices, and stories. Thank you for spreading this important episode around to friends and others!

All sorts of resources and link related to this are available at patreon.com/sparkmymuse for this episode 141 - (https://www.patreon.com/posts/21928671) when you give $1. Dig in more deeply and read the books that will teach you more.

-Lisa

Cristobal Colon sailed the ocean blue in 1492. He is commonly known by that name in Spain–where the words like colony, colonizer, colonial, colonel, and related words come from. In the United States his arrived to this hemisphere is celebrated on Columbus Day. He is known here as Christopher Columbus.

The conquest by Spain and Portugal and later by France, the Dutch, and the British, was a cultural, political, religious, and human genocide for the indigenous people already living in these lands. The empires from Europe filled their treasuries off the salve labor, stolen riches, and resources of others and also used religion to conquer as well.

Today, my guest Michael Jimenez talks about some theologians from Latin America that emerged during the decolonization period of the 20th Century. They are commonly known as Liberation Theologians.

What many of us have often been told is Theology (proper) is really a contextualized Euro-centric theology of Empire that treats other, even biblically-based ideas, and merely contextualized forms.

I hope our conversation will open you up to a new way of thinking about theologically and politically marginalized lies, voices, and stories. Thank you for spreading this important episode around to friends and others!

All sorts of resources and link related to this are available at patreon.com/sparkmymuse for this episode 141 - (https://www.patreon.com/posts/21928671) when you give $1. Dig in more deeply and read the books that will teach you more.

-Lisa

Cristobal Colon sailed the ocean blue in 1492. He is commonly known by that name in Spain–where the words like colony, colonizer, colonial, colonel, and related words come from. In the United States his arrived to this hemisphere is celebrated on Columbus Day. He is known here as Christopher Columbus.

The conquest by Spain and Portugal and later by France, the Dutch, and the British, was a cultural, political, religious, and human genocide for the indigenous people already living in these lands. The empires from Europe filled their treasuries off the salve labor, stolen riches, and resources of others and also used religion to conquer as well.

Today, my guest Michael Jimenez talks about some theologians from Latin America that emerged during the decolonization period of the 20th Century. They are commonly known as Liberation Theologians.

What many of us have often been told is Theology (proper) is really a contextualized Euro-centric theology of Empire that treats other, even biblically-based ideas, and merely contextualized forms.

I hope our conversation will open you up to a new way of thinking about theologically and politically marginalized lies, voices, and stories. Thank you for spreading this important episode around to friends and others!

All sorts of resources and link related to this are available at patreon.com/sparkmymuse for this episode 141 - (https://www.patreon.com/posts/21928671) when you give $1. Dig in more deeply and read the books that will teach you more.

-Lisa

A reflection and a reading today about a stage of maturation called "Second Naivete" - were we can perhaps be reborn into wonder. This is gathered from "The Shattered Lantern by Ronald Rolheiser.

I am looking for friends and supporters who benefit from the program and believe in the weekly work being done. Please pitch in $1 or up to $25 each month at patreon.com/sparkmymuse - Your contribution will afford you access to extras and do a lot for my morale and help to defray some of the costs of producing the show–– which has always been a labor of love and sacrifice.

Thank you.

A reflection and a reading today about a stage of maturation called "Second Naivete" - were we can perhaps be reborn into wonder. This is gathered from "The Shattered Lantern by Ronald Rolheiser.

I am looking for friends and supporters who benefit from the program and believe in the weekly work being done. Please pitch in $1 or up to $25 each month at patreon.com/sparkmymuse - Your contribution will afford you access to extras and do a lot for my morale and help to defray some of the costs of producing the show–– which has always been a labor of love and sacrifice.

Thank you.

A reflection and a reading today about a stage of maturation called "Second Naivete" - were we can perhaps be reborn into wonder. This is gathered from "The Shattered Lantern by Ronald Rolheiser.

I am looking for friends and supporters who benefit from the program and believe in the weekly work being done. Please pitch in $1 or up to $25 each month at patreon.com/sparkmymuse - Your contribution will afford you access to extras and do a lot for my morale and help to defray some of the costs of producing the show–– which has always been a labor of love and sacrifice.

Thank you.

A reflection and a reading today about a stage of maturation called "Second Naivete" - were we can perhaps be reborn into wonder. This is gathered from "The Shattered Lantern by Ronald Rolheiser.

I am looking for friends and supporters who benefit from the program and believe in the weekly work being done. Please pitch in $1 or up to $25 each month at patreon.com/sparkmymuse - Your contribution will afford you access to extras and do a lot for my morale and help to defray some of the costs of producing the show–– which has always been a labor of love and sacrifice.

Thank you.

A powerful and largely ineffable mystic experience happened to Clint Sabom as a young man and in the years following it, he slowly began to process and integrate it into a richer spiritual life and understanding. Today I speak with him about what happened and the process of spiritual growth.

He spent a half a year at a monastery and today we will talk about how unique experience as well as the "stages of mysticism" in historical Christian Spirituality as researched and written about by Evelyn Underhill (originally from the time of early Christianity in the age of John Cassian (c. 360 CE, Scythia Minor) - the first to bring the ideas and practices monasticism and the contemplative life to the early medieval West)

Please enjoy the bonus material here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/21635112

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A powerful and largely ineffable mystic experience happened to Clint Sabom as a young man and in the years following it, he slowly began to process and integrate it into a richer spiritual life and understanding. Today I speak with him about what happened and the process of spiritual growth.

He spent a half a year at a monastery and today we will talk about how unique experience as well as the "stages of mysticism" in historical Christian Spirituality as researched and written about by Evelyn Underhill (originally from the time of early Christianity in the age of John Cassian (c. 360 CE, Scythia Minor) - the first to bring the ideas and practices monasticism and the contemplative life to the early medieval West)

Please enjoy the bonus material here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/21635112

as you sponsor the program at $1 or higher. (patreon.com/sparkmymuse)

A powerful and largely ineffable mystic experience happened to Clint Sabom as a young man and in the years following it, he slowly began to process and integrate it into a richer spiritual life and understanding. Today I speak with him about what happened and the process of spiritual growth.

He spent a half a year at a monastery and today we will talk about how unique experience as well as the "stages of mysticism" in historical Christian Spirituality as researched and written about by Evelyn Underhill (originally from the time of early Christianity in the age of John Cassian (c. 360 CE, Scythia Minor) - the first to bring the ideas and practices monasticism and the contemplative life to the early medieval West)

Please enjoy the bonus material here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/21635112

as you sponsor the program at $1 or higher. (patreon.com/sparkmymuse)