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A podcast mining deep the treasures of the Christian wisdom and mystical traditions for today's spiritual sojourner.
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Friday Jul 23, 2021
Friday Jul 23, 2021
Amy is an award-winning writer, scholar, and journalist whose nonfiction works cover the territory of religion throughout history from saints to apocalyptists. A senior editor for the Christian Century magazine, she appears frequently on television and radio programs as an expert in American religion. After receiving her PhD from Duke University, she went on to write several books, including Rapture Culture: Left Behind in Evangelical America and Julian of Norwich: A Contemplative Biography.
You can find Amy's work on her website: https://amyfrykholm.com
And her book on St Mary of Egypt "Wild Woman: A Footnote, The Desert, and My Quest for an Elusive Saint" is due to be released on 3rd August and is available from her website, as well as on Amazon and other online booksellers.
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Carmen Acevedo Butcher is an author, poet, and teacher. A translator of Early Modern French, German, Latin, Middle English, and Old English, she has made accessible works by writers including Ælfric, The Cloud's Anonymous, Hildegard of Bingen, Julian of Norwich, and Mechthild of Magdeburg. Her rendition of The Cloud of Unknowing (Shambhala Pocket Library, 2018) won an Author of the Year award from the Georgia Writers Association in 2010. Her tenth book, a translation of Presence by the seventeenth-century friar Lawrence, will be released by Broadleaf Books in 2021.
Carmen currently teaches in the College Writing Programs at UC Berkeley. As a Lecturer Teaching Fellow, she conducts workshops on inclusive language as praxis, and collaboration with Gen Z.
Recommended Books by Carmen:
The Cloud of Unknowing: With the Book of Privy Counsel, 2009
St. Hildegard of Bingen, Doctor of the Church: A Spiritual Reader, 2013
God of Mercy: Ælfric's Sermons and Theology, 2006
Man of Blessing: A Life of St. Benedict, 2012
Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
Carmen Acevedo Butcher is an author, poet, and teacher. A translator of Early Modern French, German, Latin, Middle English, and Old English, she has made accessible works by writers including Ælfric, The Cloud's Anonymous, Hildegard of Bingen, Julian of Norwich, and Mechthild of Magdeburg. Her rendition of The Cloud of Unknowing (Shambhala Pocket Library, 2018) won an Author of the Year award from the Georgia Writers Association in 2010. Her tenth book, a translation of Presence by the seventeenth-century friar Lawrence, will be released by Broadleaf Books in 2021.
Carmen currently teaches in the College Writing Programs at UC Berkeley. As a Lecturer Teaching Fellow, she conducts workshops on inclusive language as praxis, and collaboration with Gen Z.
Recommended Books by Carmen:
The Cloud of Unknowing: With the Book of Privy Counsel, 2009
St. Hildegard of Bingen, Doctor of the Church: A Spiritual Reader, 2013
God of Mercy: Ælfric's Sermons and Theology, 2006
Man of Blessing: A Life of St. Benedict, 2012
Monday Mar 15, 2021
Monday Mar 15, 2021
There's none better than, Dr. Sebastian Brock, to guide us through the treasures of Issac the Syrian. He is a doctor in the academic field of classical Syriac languages and Syriac literature and has studied at Trinity College, Cambridge and then in Oxford for his PhD. He has a lecturer in Birmingham, in the department of theology. And mostly recently, until his retirement in 2003, as a reader in Syriac Studies at Oxford University. So there's none better than someone who actually understands Isaac in his original tongue and to help us understand what a wonderful legacy, Isaac has given us.
Further reading:
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian
https://www.bostonmonks.com/product_info.php/cPath/75_105/products_id/635
The Spiritual World Of Isaac The Syrian by Hilarion Alfeyev
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spiritual-World-Syrian-Cistercian-Studies/dp/0879077751/ref=sr_1_1?crid=28R6KZPIRN48G&dchild=1&keywords=isaac+the+syrian&qid=1615817803&sprefix=Issac+the+%2Caps%2C143&sr=8-1
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Joining me to discuss, understand and unpick the treasures that Fr Keating has left us is Marie Anne Best. And Marie Anne has worked in various capacities with Contemplative Outreach. In recent years, probably the last 10 years of father Keating's life, she was the project manager for all his latest works of production, whether it be books or video production series and his teachings.
She has been instrumental in working very closely alongside Fr Keating. So there is no better person to discuss his legacy and who Fr Keating was and the integrity he brought to everything that he did.
Useful links to take your contemplative practice further.
https://contemplativeoutreach.org.uk
https://www.contemplativeoutreach.org
Recommended books:
Open Mind, Open Heart
Intimacy With God
Invitation to Love
The Welcoming Prayer
Welcome, welcome, welcome
I welcome everything that comes to me today;
because I know it is for my healing.
I welcome all thoughts, feelings, emotions, persons, situations and conditions;
I let go of my desire for power and control
I let go of my desire for affection, esteem, approval and pleasure;
I let go of my desire for survival and security;
I let go of my desire to change every situation, condition, person, or myself.
I simply open myself to the love and presence of God and God’s action within me.
Monday Feb 15, 2021
Monday Feb 15, 2021
Carl McColman is the author of several books, including The Big Book of Christian Mysticism. This book is about embedding the mystical spirituality of the Christian tradition in our own lives that we might then be transformed through them.
Carl is a, blogger and a lay associate of the Cistercian monastery of the Holy Spirit in Georgia. He's an author of many books and there's at least 19 on Amazon at the moment.
Carl also co-hosts the podcast, Encountering Silence. So be sure to check that out as well.
Here are some helpful links if you want to follow up any of the recommendations from this episode.
Books:
The Little Book of Christian Mysticism: Essential Wisdom of Saints, Seers, and Sages
Big Book Of Christian Mysticism: The Essential Guide to Contemplative
Answering The Contemplative Call: First Steps on the Mystical Path
Unteachable Lessons: Why Wisdom Can't be Taught and Why That's Okay
Christian Mystics: 108 Seers, Saints, and Sages
Befriending Silence: Discovering the Gifts of Cistercian Spirituality
Eternal Heart: The Mystical Path to a Joyful Life (for pre-order)
Encountering Silence Podcast link:
https://podcasts.bcast.fm/encountering-silence
Carl's Website link:
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Liz has been a member of the world. Community for Christian meditation for over 30 years. And as part of that, she has been an active in active member of that community in various capacities.
Over the years, as national coordinator, leading many meditation groups, leading retreats writing, and being asked to, come. Internationally to speak. She has spoken before on Evelyn Underhill. And some of those things can be found on, YouTube as well. And she's also written for, and presented some things on the worldwide community for Christian meditation website.
So do check those things out, such as contemplation in the time of crisis, which might be quite relevant for many of us at this particular time. She leads retreats and is also active as a spiritual director.
Wisdom's Table YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBVaFGN057QZ2-ARnba_Cdw
The World Community for Christian Meditation https://www.wccm.org
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Stefan Gillow Reynolds is a Benedictine Oblate and is part of The World Community for Christian Meditation. He's a PhD from London University where he also taught and an author of two books, "Living with the Mind of Christ - Mindfulness of Christ in Christian Spirituality" & The Wisdom of Love in the Song of Songs". Stefan has also contributed to several edited volumes as well.
He is the author of The Roots of Christian Mysticism Course (link below), which is taught through The School of Meditation through The World Community for Christian Meditation.
Today, we're going to explore Christian mysticism, starting with Jesus and Paul and St. John.
The World Community for Christian Meditation https://www.wccm.org
The Roots of Christian Mysticism Course via The School of Meditation https://www.theschoolofmeditation.org/all-courses/the-roots-of-christian-mysticism-1/
Sunday Jan 17, 2021
Sunday Jan 17, 2021
Special Announcement about new resources being published on the Wisdom's Table YouTube Channel as of 24th January 2021.
Here is the link to the YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBVaFGN057QZ2-ARnba_Cdw
And if you would like to provide feedback or make suggestions for future episodes please use this email address:
Monday Jan 04, 2021
Monday Jan 04, 2021
In this episode, we mine the rich treasures of Evagrius with Kim Natajara, a Benedictine oblate, and also an oblate of The World Community for Christian Meditation.
She headed up the school of meditation for 17 years. She has lived and studied the mystic Evagrius since 1993.
Kim was formerly a college lecturer in both French and German.
Co-author of a book "Journey to the Heart: Christian Contemplation Through the Centuries", which takes the whole picture of Christian mysticism from Jesus right through to the present day. As well as several other books on Meditation and Christian Spiritual practice.
If you would like to know more about The World Community for Christian Meditation and explore its rich resources visit their website at https://www.wccm.org