Katie Grubbs, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Marie Hause talk about John Donne's elegies. 

Victoria Reynolds Farmer, Kayla Beth Moore, and Christina Bieber Lake talk about the devotional practice of lectio divina.

Knowing 

What is lectio divina? 

https://www.usccb.org/bible/national-bible-week/upload/lectio-divina.pdf

What  are our experiences with this form of interpretation?

How has it helped us think differently about Biblical texts or our own religious practices?

Reading 

We will perform a lectio divina reading of a Biblical passage and discuss it afterwards. We encourage our listeners to use your Bibles along with us.

Passage: James 4:13-17 (New American but feel free to use your own)

13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we shall go into such and such a town, spend a year there doing business, and make a profit”—

14 you have no idea what your life will be like tomorrow.* You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears.

15 Instead you should say, “If the Lord wills it,* we shall live to do this or that.”

16 But now you are boasting in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

17 So for one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, it is a sin.

Reflection:

What did we notice that we wouldn’t have through just reading alone?

What did we learn from each other’s perspectives and observations?

How can we bring lessons from this kind of reading and observing to other parts of our spiritual lives?

Passing On

Christina: M. Basil Pennington, Lectio Divina: Renewing the Ancient Practice of Teaching the Scriptures

KB: Son of Laughter by Frederick Buechner 

Victoria: Daily Lectio Divina podcast by Sharon Garlough Brown https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daily-lectio-divina/id1507769421

Marie Hause, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Leah Flennikan talk about Christine di Pizan's medieval classic The Book of the City of Ladies. 

Alexis Neal, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Kayla Beth Moore discuss George Eliot’s classic novel.

Laurie Norris, Katie Grubbs, and Victoria Reynolds Farmer talk about aunts, real and fictional. 

In this year's Halloween crossover episode, Christina Bieber Lake, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Danny Anderson talk about John Carpenter's 1980 film The Fog. 

Victoria Reynolds Farmer, Christina Bieber Lake, and Marie Hause talk about Teresa of Avila.

Knowing

Reading

Interior Castle

Let nothing disturb you

Autobiography

Passing On

Alexis Neal, Sarah Thomas, and Victoria Reynolds Farmer talk about the recent Apple+ series Schmigadoon. 

Sara Klooster, Christina Bieber Lake, and Laurie Norris, talk about the animated television series Arcane, an adaptation of the video game League of Legends. 

Christina Bieber Lake, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Katie Grubbs talk about Roxane Gay's memoir Hunger.