The Clerestory Podcast

Laura Kisthardt shares an insightful guide to Advent Devotionals.

In "Pure in Heart: A Post-Purity Reflection on Faith and Friendship," Libya Kate examines the damaging effects of purity culture on women and female friendships.

In "Absence Makes the Heart," Heather Burtman reflects upon her experience staying at a monastery over her twenty-seventh birthday and the interwoven nature of absence and presence in light of love and faith.

In this episode, Claire Ashmead reads her essay, "Ridiculous But True," an examination of the mysteries of faith, atheism, and attending services at St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh.

In the first episode of the Clerestory Podcast, Kimi Bryson reads her essay "Wrong Is Not My Name," a reflection on identity, deconstruction, the nature of hope, and not abandoning oneself.

Introducing The Clerestory Podcast: Stories from Clerestory Magazine. Clerestory Magazine is a new space for writers, artists, and activists to reflect upon personal experience, social issues, and culture through contemplative modes of storytelling and inquiry.