Spark My Muse

Closing out 2023, host Lisa Colon DeLay shares insights on forgiveness from Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1931-2021) and the African concept of ubuntu that can make the future possible.

Host Lisa Colon DeLay brings you just a bit more from Bishop Kallistos Ware. This time about personhood.

Hot Lisa Colon DeLay brings you one of the most influential people to bring the gifts of Eastern Orthodox Christianity into the view of the English speaking and Evangelical world is the topic today: Reverend and Bishop Kallistos Ware (1934-2022)

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 declared independence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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