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

Slouching Toward Radiance; Heidi Barr [SSL 234] 15.06.2022 17:29 ↓

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 17:59 ↓

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 15:14 ↓

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 20:08 ↓

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

Amma Theodora, Desert Mother [SSL 230] 18.05.2022 13:49 ↓

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

Still Life [SSL 229] 11.05.2022 20:29 ↓

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 16:14 ↓

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

Conscious Reality [SSL 227] 27.04.2022 11:24 ↓

Looking deeper than our 3 dimensional reality with Donald Hoffman.

Five Fifths [SSL 226] 20.04.2022 13:39 ↓

Featuring the work of Kevin Robinson and Three Fifths Magazine

This Somewhere [SSL 225] 13.04.2022 17:59 ↓

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 12:20 ↓

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 16:34 ↓

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 9:59 ↓

Living in the shadow of alienation

Prayers of the East [SSL 221] 16.03.2022 16:05 ↓

A look at prayers from the earliest Christian traditions.

I Eat the Stars | poet and astronomer, Rebecca Elson [SSL 220] 09.03.2022 12:59 ↓

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

We Shiver Together | poet, Nikky Finney [SSL 219] 02.03.2022 22:38 ↓

The work of poet, Nikky Finney.

Five Decades In [SSL 218] 23.02.2022 15:14 ↓

Birthday reflections and a word of encouragement

Strength to be Free | Howard Thurman [SSL 217] 16.02.2022 20:28 ↓

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 13:39 ↓

"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 15:29 ↓

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 11:19 ↓

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 15:00 ↓

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 11:30 ↓

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 11:02 ↓

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 11:20 ↓

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