Spark My Muse

Eps. 210 Faithful Faith | Guests; Ben Sternke and Matt Tebbe 27.07.2022 43:31 ↓

Host Lisa Colón DeLay speaks with pastors and co-founders of Gravity Leadership Ben Sternke and Matt Tebbe about their spiritual formation book Having the Mind of Christ: Eight Axioms to Cultivate a Robust Faith.

What Do Efforts Earn? | Gary W. Moon on Dallas Willard [SSL 238] 20.07.2022 22:41 ↓

Featuring Dallas Willard's thoughts on transformation via excerpt of an essay by Gary W. Moon.

Ada Limón; Rest Stop [SSL 237] 13.07.2022 22:02 ↓

Celebrating the work of Ada Limón, the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate.

A book of longing; Yahia Lababidi [SSL 236] 06.07.2022 18:01 ↓

Featuring "Learning to Pray: A book of Longing" by poet and aphorist, Yahia Lababidi.

All Too Familiar | Wisdom from John O'Donohue [SSL235] 29.06.2022 9:23 ↓

In this episode, host Lisa Colon DeLay brings you wisdom from a companion of the heart and spirit, a very good friend of the soul—John O’Donohue.

Thou Art There | Howard Thurman [SSL 235] 22.06.2022 24:21 ↓

Meditations from Psalm 139 from Dr Howard Thurman from For the Inward Journey

Slouching Toward Radiance; Heidi Barr [SSL 234] 15.06.2022 17:31 ↓

Slouching Toward Radiance is the luminescent book of poetry by Heidi Barr that I'll be featuring that today. 

Desert Songs | Yahia Lababidi [SSL 233] 08.06.2022 18:01 ↓

New work from award-winning Egyptian-American poet and aphorist Yahia Lababidi (Desert Songs)

A shipwrecked world; Anthony of the Desert | Henri Nouwen [SSL 232] 01.06.2022 15:16 ↓

Excerpts from a book by Henri Nouwen called The Way of the Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers.

Cultural Grief, Leadership, and Blame [SSL 231] | Micha Boyett and the Slow Way 25.05.2022 20:11 ↓

Cultural Grief, Leadership, Blame, and the Slow Way work of Micha Boyett

Amma Theodora, Desert Mother [SSL 230] 18.05.2022 13:51 ↓

Today I bring you the work of Margaret Guenther and the wisdom of Amma Theodora of Alexandria.

Still Life [SSL 229] 11.05.2022 20:31 ↓

Today, I'm featuring the weekly work of curation (Still Life newsletter) by Michael Wright.

Befriending Ourselves | Sacred Pulse: April Fiet [SSL 228] 04.05.2022 16:16 ↓

Ending our self-cruelty (featuring the work of April Fiet)

Conscious Reality [SSL 227] 27.04.2022 11:26 ↓

Looking deeper than our 3 dimensional reality with Donald Hoffman.

Five Fifths [SSL 226] 20.04.2022 13:41 ↓

Featuring the work of Kevin Robinson and Three Fifths Magazine

This Somewhere [SSL 225] 13.04.2022 18:01 ↓

Bringing some things to you today to help you remember about life and hope. Thank you to author Mark S. Burrows.

Love is Victorious [SSL 224] 06.04.2022 12:21 ↓

Clean water is not common on the U.S. island of Puerto Rico. I have updates and I'm alsosharing a special prayer that speaks to love that moves us past our selfishness and ambitions toward the the greatest good.

The Prayer of Quiet in Paradise [SSL 223] 30.03.2022 16:36 ↓

More from the island today (recorded from a cabin in the rainforest of Naguabo, Puerto Rico) and a reading from my book The Wild Land Within on prayers that do not contain words.

The Challenge of Exile [SSL 222] 23.03.2022 10:00 ↓

Living in the shadow of alienation

Prayers of the East [SSL 221] 16.03.2022 16:07 ↓

A look at prayers from the earliest Christian traditions.

I Eat the Stars | poet and astronomer, Rebecca Elson [SSL 220] 09.03.2022 13:01 ↓

Reflections on awe and mortality (through the work of Rebecca Elson)

We Shiver Together | poet, Nikky Finney [SSL 219] 02.03.2022 22:41 ↓

The work of poet, Nikky Finney.

Five Decades In [SSL 218] 23.02.2022 15:16 ↓

Birthday reflections and a word of encouragement

Strength to be Free | Howard Thurman [SSL 217] 16.02.2022 20:31 ↓

Wisdom from Dr Howard Thurman on the Strength to be free, Not giving up, and The Ministry of the Living Spirit of the Living God.

Winter Sundays | Robert Hayden [SSL 216] 09.02.2022 13:41 ↓

"In Robert Hayden's work the actualities of history and culture became the launching places for flights of imagination and intelligence. His voice characterized by musical diction and an exquisite feeling for the formality of pattern is a seminal one in American life and literature." — Arnold Rampersad