the holy ordinary

For this episode of The Holy Ordinary "pop-up" podcast, Mark is joined by contemplative teacher, author, and friend Adam Bucko for a rich conversation about Mark’s book, The Holy Ordinary , and the contemplative dimensions of everyday life. Adam is the cofounder of Community of the Incarnation , the new monastic community that Mark belongs to. Originally recorded as a public event hosted by the Ce...

The Holy Ordinary Podcast is a “pop-up” podcast that explores the contemplative dimensions of everyday life. Every so often, host Mark Longhurst interviews authors, thinkers, and activists who illuminate the sacred, the just, and the beautiful in the midst of the ordinary. This episode is a re-release of an interview with Lerita Coleman Brown (1954-2025). Brown was a retreat leader, a spiritual di...

The Holy Ordinary podcast explores the contemplative dimensions of everyday life. Host Mark Longhurst interviews authors, thinkers, and activists who illuminate the sacred, the just, and the beautiful in the midst of the ordinary. This episode’s guest is Josue Perea. Josue is the Director of the Black Lives and Contemplation project for the Center for Spiritual Imagination, an organization that we...

This episode of "The Holy Ordinary" pop-up podcast is part one of a conversation with spiritual theologian Matthew Fox . Matthew is one of my heroes, someone who I consider to be a courageous, creative, spiritual genius. He is the author of 35 books, a leading proponent of creation theology, original blessing instead of original sin, and has had an enormous role in helping recover appreciation of...

The Holy Ordinary podcast is a "pop-up" podcast that explores the contemplative dimensions of everyday life. Host Mark Longhurst periodically interviews authors, thinkers, and activists who illuminate the sacred, the just, and the beautiful in the midst of the ordinary. In this episode, Mark speaks with author and Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Mercy Julia Walsh. Sister Julia is the host of the Me...

The Holy Ordinary Podcast is a "pop-up" podcast that explores the contemplative dimensions of everyday life. Host Mark Longhurst interviews authors, thinkers, activists who illuminate the sacred, the just, and the beautiful in the midst of the ordinary. This episode's guest is Lerita Coleman Brown. Coleman Brown is a retreat leader, a spiritual director, and the author of the book " What Makes You...

The guest of this podcast episode is Larry Rasmussen, a longtime Christian environmental ethics teacher and the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary. In 2022, he released the marvelous book “ The Planet You Inherit ,” which is a series of letters to his grandchildren about the planetary crises we all face. I’ve long been impacted by Rasmussen’s work, f...

"The Holy Ordinary" podcast is a pop-up podcast that explores the contemplative dimensions of everyday life. Author of The Holy Ordinary , host Mark Longhurst interviews writers, thinkers, and activists who help illuminate the sacred, the beautiful, and the just in the ordinary. In this episode, Mark speaks with Mirabai Starr, author of the exquisite book Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Gr...