Lisa Colón DeLay

Soul School Archives - Lisa Colón DeLay | Spiritual Formation and the Way of the Desert Elders

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Listen in as your host, Lisa Colón DeLay, engages in meaningful conversation with a diverse selection of best-selling authors, influencers, luminaries, leaders, unique thinkers, spiritual teachers, and ordinary people who lead interesting lives and do good in their part of the world. Soul School episodes are short reflections from the host. Check the audio weekly archives (at sparkmymuse.com) going back to April 2015 to enjoy a range of fascinating themes and distinguished guests like Seth Godin, Mark Nepo, Krista Tippett, Parker J. Palmer, Dr Daniel J. Siegel MD, Fr. James Martin, Omid Safi,...

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Lisa Colón DeLay

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Religion

Podcast website

lisadelay.com

Latest episode

Jan 7, 2026

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Episodes

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

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

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

Amma Theodora, Desert Mother [SSL 230] 18.05.2022

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

Still Life [SSL 229] 11.05.2022

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

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

Conscious Reality [SSL 227] 27.04.2022

Looking deeper than our 3 dimensional reality with Donald Hoffman.

Five Fifths [SSL 226] 20.04.2022

Featuring the work of Kevin Robinson and Three Fifths Magazine

This Somewhere [SSL 225] 13.04.2022

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

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

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

Living in the shadow of alienation

Prayers of the East [SSL 221] 16.03.2022

A look at prayers from the earliest Christian traditions.

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

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

We Shiver Together | poet, Nikky Finney [SSL 219] 02.03.2022

The work of poet, Nikky Finney.

Five Decades In [SSL 218] 23.02.2022

Birthday reflections and a word of encouragement

Strength to be Free | Howard Thurman [SSL 217] 16.02.2022

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

"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

Seek Room for Peace | Howard Thurman [SSL215] 02.02.2022

Readings today come from "For the Inward Journey" by Howard Thurman and brought to you by host Lisa Colón DeLay.

A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart [SSL 214] 26.01.2022

The final installment in the January 2022 Series on "Strength to Love" by MLK Jr. - Selected readings and reflection on Chapter 1 - A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart. A collaboration of Lisa Colón DeLay and Robert J Monson.

Loving Your Enemies-MLK Jr. [SSL213] 12.01.2022

How can we love our enemies? MLK Jr. offers us four ways in his book "Strength to Love" [January 2022 Series with Lisa Colón DeLay and Robert J. Monson]

Go, Be Free [SSL 212] 29.12.2021

Freedom in Christ and the Kingdom of God. A reading and reflection from Beth Allison Barr's book "The Making of Biblical Womanhood".

Honest, deep, vulnerable faith [SSL 211] 15.12.2021

Host Lisa Colón DeLay does reading and reflection on deep, honest and vulnerable hope and faith from Danté Stewart's book "Shoutin in the Fire"

Reflections on the Prince of Peace [SSL 210] 01.12.2021

Reflecting on the peace of Advent and the Prince of Peace.

Our Curious DNA of Desire [SSL 209] 17.11.2021

A look into the unknown instincts that create our desires and rivalries.

Praying with the Gospels; Tips from Thomas Merton [SSL 208] 03.11.2021

Tips from Thomas Merton on meditation, mental temperament, and how to use the gospel scenes to create intimacy with Jesus during prayer

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