Spark My Muse

The Curious Life of Benjamin Lay – The Quaker Comet [SSL 287] 06.12.2023 20:46 ↓

Host Lisa Colon DeLay brings you lost history going 340 + years back. Find out how the tiny but mighty Quaker, Benjamin Lay, with his moral compass intact in a time of rampant suffering through international kidnapping, human trafficking, illegal bondage, and forced labor, used outrageous acts of protest gave momentum to the abolitionist movement long before the British colonies of America declare...

Killing My Childhood God [SSL 286] 29.11.2023 15:41 ↓

A reading from Eugene Peterson's potent book entitled Answering God by host Lisa Colón DeLay

Accompanying Ourselves [SSL 285] 22.11.2023 ↓

A short reflection on how we can heal from feeling abandoned from host Lisa Colon DeLay. Includes poem by Heidi Barr.

Sit. Feast on Your Life [SSL 284] 15.11.2023 12:45 ↓

An invitation to feast on your life. Reflections from host Lisa Colon DeLay and a poem by Nobel Prize winner Caribbean luminary, Derek Walcott

A World Without Birdsong [SSL 283] 08.11.2023 15:46 ↓

Discovering the impossible sadness of silent forests and noisy wars and featuring a poem by Nickole Brown

A Healing Presence in a Traumatized World | James Finley [SSL 282] 01.11.2023 16:39 ↓

Reading and reflecting on the event called A Healing Presence in a Traumatized World | James Finley [SSL 282]

What About Good Returns? [SSL 281] 25.10.2023 17:22 ↓

Reflecting on good returns and the work of pilgrimage companion Fiona Koefoed Jaspersen (Ordinary Pilgrim)

Below Flux [SSL 280] 18.10.2023 11:05 ↓

How we start sinking into the mysteries when the world is confounding

Vespers: The Work of God [SSL 279] 06.10.2023 10:25 ↓

Something about Vespers from my time with the Benedictines in Ponce, PR. The House of Initia Nova

A Pinch of Salt [SSL 278] 25.09.2023 10:16 ↓

A Pinch of Salt [SSL 278] On sorting out the hungers and cleaning out the wounds

Soft Spots and Heritage Month [SSL 277] 13.09.2023 17:51 ↓

On commitments, celebrations, and liberations of the heart, heritage, and greater good.

Eps. 224 Carl’s New Big Book 06.09.2023 48:50 ↓

Interview related to the extended new edition of McColman's popular previous work The Big Book of Christian Mysticism

Orientation-Where are you? [SSL 276] 30.08.2023 21:20 ↓

Reflections on the "who moved" myth about God plus two Book of Darkness and Light (Meister Eckhart) poems

Eps 223: A powerful conversation with Dr Terence Lester 23.08.2023 49:50 ↓

Eps 223 A conversation with Dr Terence Lester - beyond reconciliation to solidarity- we are All God's Children

Are You Lonely Tonight: The Missing Peace [SSL 275] 16.08.2023 21:42 ↓

Reflections on connection, awareness, eternity, and perception (some of which were prompted by the comments of Rupert Spira)

Eps 222. Spiritual Practices for Soul Care — 40 Ways to Deepen Your Faith: Dr Barbara L Peacock 09.08.2023 42:55 ↓

Spiritual Practices for Soul Care — 40 Ways to Deepen Your Faith with Dr Barbara L Peacock

Free People Free People | Blaine Hogan: Exit the Cave [SSL 274] 02.08.2023 14:05 ↓

A reading from author, artist, actor, and film director Blaine Hogan's inspiring and honest book: Exit the Cave!

Do You Invert Hospitality? SSL 273 26.07.2023 11:19 ↓

Today thoughts (and a reading from Cindy S. Lee) about connection, hospitality, and mutuality.

Thresholds at Wildhouse [SSL 272] 12.07.2023 25:23 ↓

Perspectives on resistance, grief, and noticing; plus poems of Jerome Gagnon

The Delicious Malicious SSL 271 28.06.2023 18:29 ↓

I'm revisiting Hanlon's razor with some new guidance on perspective.

How Dreams Wither SSL270 21.06.2023 16:04 ↓

Today is on how living in keeping with our authentic self helps our dreams to not wither (also information on The Spacious Path book, let It Matter podcast and more)

Howard Thurman on Prayer and Suffering SSL269 14.06.2023 18:22 ↓

Returning to Dr Barbara Peacock and her work. This time it's on wisdom from Howard Thurman on Prayer and Suffering

The Inner Instructor; Thomas R. Kelly SSL268 10.05.2023 14:59 ↓

Today, is a selected excerpt from a devotional classic from Quaker Thomas R. Kelly from the section entitled the Inner Light.

Coretta Scott King, Prayer and Civil Rights SSL 267 03.05.2023 17:59 ↓

Today I'm featuring the work of Dr Barbara L. Peacock and her essay and insights on Coretta Scott King with relationship to prayer and the struggle for civil rights.

Eps 221 Seasons of restlessness; Casey Tygrett 26.04.2023 51:40 ↓

Casey Tygrett sends wisdom into the center of our funk (help for our restless seasons)