Earth Makers: Queer Dharma, Human Stories, and Recovery.

We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. Please email Joey at earthmakerspod@gmail.com if you need some spiritual care today.

We humbly asked our Higher Power to remove our shortcomings. Follow Isabel Rae McKenzie @birdpoems on Twitter and find her work on Medium.com!

We were entirely ready to have our Higher Power remove all these shortcomings.

We admitted to our Higher Power, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. Email Josiah at earthmakerspod@gmail.com if you need help with your 5th step!

We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of our higher power...

We continue our series on the 12 Steps. CW: this episode features a personal story about a miscarriage. Please take care of yourself and stop listening if that’s what you need.

We begin our series on The 12 Steps, a sacred text of recovery, with the spiritual principle of honesty. Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over our addictions, that our lives had become unmanageable.”

We reflect on bodies and embodied thought and practice through the work of Jane Vennard in her book Fully Awake and Truly Alive. Published by Skylight Paths Publishing in Woodstock in 2013. The selection is found on pg. 3.

We take a short pause to hear from BIPOC voices on anger and rage as a path of liberation. Happy Juneteenth! The quotes are found in Love and Rage by Lama Rod Owens, published by North Atlantic books in Berkeley in 2020. The quotes are found on pgs. 1 and 3.

Trigger Warning: There are discussions of suicide in this episode. See you next season! Thanks for all the support! If you use Apple Podcasts please help Josiah out by writing a review and leaving a star rating! Today, we reflect on the power of letting go through a reflection by Mechtild of Magdeburg found in Christian Mystics by Matthew Fox, published by New World Library in Novato in 2011. The...

We reflect on facing the past and making decisions through Padraig Ó Tauma’s poem “Jacob and Esau.” The poem can be found at https://poets.org/poem/jacob-and-esau

Josiah talks to us about his experience as a mystic and reads to us, again, from The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr, published by Convergent in New York in 2019. The selection is found on pg. 1.

We reflect on our problems with words and how we can reframe words like Christ through Richard Rohr and Caryll Houselander’s work. The selection is found in The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr, published by Convergent Books in New York in 2019, on pgs. 2 and 3.

We reflect on the Divine feminine and meditate on a prayer from Wild Mercy by Mirabai Starr. Published by Sounds True in Boulder in 2019. The selection is found on pgs. xi and xii.

We reflect on the word and concept “God” and meditate on the words of 13th century mystic Meister Eckhart through Meditations with Meister Eckhart by Matthew Fox and published by Bear & Company in Rochester, VT in 1983. The selection is found on pgs. 12-16.

We reflect on poetry as an act of justice in Layli Long Soldier’s poem, “38.” The excerpt is found in the collection Whereas, published by Graywolf Press in 2017 in Minneapolis, on pgs. 51-53.

Despite all evidence to the contrary, God loves you. Please watch Queer Eye Season 5, Episode 1 on Netflix.

We reflect on how a story from a galaxy far, far away has helped make togetherness possible.

Josiah reads his article from 2018 on finding the Divine in the movies. The article can be found at https://link.medium.com/kDAnQ03756

We reflect on finding value in self care first. Email Josiah at chaplainja@gmail.com

Josiah, a queer guy, leads us on a reflection of how to love who we actually are through the work of Peter Sweasey found here: https://www.lionsroar.com/queer-spirituality-peter-sweasey/

We reflect on the gift of anger through Rev. Fred Rogers’ song published in 1968.

We reflect on our addiction to goals and goal setting through a passage from This: Becoming Free by Michael Gungor. Published in Petaluma by Roundtree Press in 2019.

We practice listening to the language of the suffering. Josiah’s email is chaplainja@gmail.com