March 31, 2025

The Empty Bowl: A Conversation With Rikki West

58 minutes

This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by How To Not Suck As A Christian by Jeremy Steele. Published by Quoir and is available now.
In this episode we chat with Rikki West
Rikki West is a former spiritual seeker and UC Berkeley–trained scientist who spent decades trying to reconcile scientific explanations of existence with her ordinary, real-life awareness. One adventure at a time, she found her way to a peace and beauty that changed all the questions. Her book Rootlines, a memoir of family healing, was published by She Writes Press in 2020. Mother of Noli and Godmother of Morgan, Rikki loves being outside in the alpine desert of northern New Mexico, where she lives with her wife Jill and and an old Yamaha.
You can find all things Rikki West related on her website
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March 31, 2025

The Empty Bowl: A Conversation With Rikki West

58 minutes

This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by How To Not Suck As A Christian by Jeremy Steele. Published by Quoir and is available now.
In this episode we chat with Rikki West
Rikki West is a former spiritual seeker and UC Berkeley–trained scientist who spent decades trying to reconcile scientific explanations of existence with her ordinary, real-life awareness. One adventure at a time, she found her way to a peace and beauty that changed all the questions. Her book Rootlines, a memoir of family healing, was published by She Writes Press in 2020. Mother of Noli and Godmother of Morgan, Rikki loves being outside in the alpine desert of northern New Mexico, where she lives with her wife Jill and and an old Yamaha.
You can find all things Rikki West related on her website
You can purchase The Empty Bowl on Bookshop.org
You can connect with This Is Not Church on:
Facebook Instagram TikTok YouTube
Also check out our Biolink for all things This Is Not Church related
Please like and follow our Quoircast Partners:
Heretic Happy Hour Messy Spirituality Apostates Anonymous Second Cup with Keith The Church Needs Therapy
Ideas Digest Snarky Faith Podcast Wild Olive Deadly Faith Spirituality Brew Pub Faith For The Rest Of Us
Jonathan_Foster Sacred Thoughts Holy Heretics Reframing Our Stories Bros Bibles & Beer Liminal Living
Love Covered Life The Social Jesus Project I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist Radical Love Live The God Squad
Each episode of This Is Not Church Podcast is expertly engineered by our producer The Podcast Doctor Eric Howell. If you’re thinking of starting a podcast you need to connect with Eric!