https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zssrv-15d3a85

I sat down with Roger Wolsey to discuss his book Discovering Fire: Spiritual Practices that Transform Lives. Roger is a spiritual director, pastor, speaker and blogger. He is well known in progressive Christian circles as the author of Kissing Fish: Christianity for People Who Don’t Like Christianity. His latest book explores spiritual practices that have nurtured and aided Roger in his own journey from woundedness to wholeness. Some of these practices come to us from the Christian Tradition; some of them are practiced by the Spiritual-but-Not-Religious set and yet are a resource that Christians and other spiritual travelers can all draw on for their own journey to wholeness. 

If you would like to check out Roger’s work, you can find him on his Facebook Author page, his Kissing Fish Book Facebook page, at RogerWolsey.com or on his blog at Patheos, Holy Kiss: 

https://www.facebook.com/RogerWolseySoulCoach

https://www.facebook.com/KissingFishBook 

https://www.rogerwolsey.com/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/rogerwolsey/

If you would like to purchase Discovering Fire, you can find it on Amazon and Audible:

https://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Fire-Spiritual-Practices-Transform/dp/B0BZ9V9V8H

https://www.audible.com/pd/Discovering-Fire-Audiobook/B0CPTHKW8Q?qid=1712382762&sr=1-1&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=HYD4Z70JK1CZY7NPC01S&pageLoadId=PHcJynqUsVFdAgx1&creativeId=0d6f6720-f41c-457e-a42b-8c8dceb62f2c

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8tj8x-159ca68

I got to sit down with Maki Ash Van Steenwyk (She/They) to discuss the role that embodiment plays in spirituality, activism, in our mutual belonging, and in the ways, we navigate the world.

If you want to connect with Ashe in her work, head on over to Center for Prophetic Imagination website: https://propheticimagination.org/

Or you can also follow the Center for Prophetic Imagination on 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/propheticimagination

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/propheticimagination/?hl=en

Threads: https://www.threads.net/@propheticimagination?hl=en

If you are interested in checking out books that Ashe has written here isa linked to some of the books she has written or contributed t(pay no attention that this is Amazon, and find these books elsewhere): https://www.amazon.com/stores/Mark-Van-Steenwyk/author/B002BMN6IS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1709538273&sr=8-1&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ww7i9-1591f04

Julio Hernandez is a pastor and activist here in the US, but his family heritage is Salvadorian. We got together to discuss the legacy and witness of Archbishop Óscar Romero and the first of his Pastoral Letters, The Easter Church, written on Easter Sunday, April 10, 1977.  

If you are interested in learning more about Saint Óscar Romero, you can find links to his writings (including the pastoral letters) at the Archbishop Romero Trust: http://www.romerotrust.org.uk/

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-a4dt3-157d8af

I got to chat with Christine Sine—author, activist, gardener, contemplative, spiritual director and “liturgical rebel—about what Lent is and how we can practice it. What I loved about this conversation was how passionate and insightful Christine is. And I learned a lot. Did you know that Lent was in the hunger time in the Northern Hemisphere, so the practice of giving stuff up, was away for more well-off Christians to identify with the suffering poor who struggled through these winter months? 

I know you are going to find this conversation enlightening and encouraging as you seek to practice your way through the Lenten season. 

If you want to catch up with what Christine Sine’s work you can follow her on her website: https://godspacelight.com/. Purchase her books @ https://www.amazon.com/stores/Christine-Sine/author/B00BL4EC3A?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1707821520&sr=8-1&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true or follow her on Facebook or Instagram

Look for her podcast: Liturgical Rebels (Coming Soon!)

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-uvmsa-155120c

Mark Yaconelli wrote Between the Listening and the Telling in 2022. We had a great conversation about it then, and after a long delay I present it to you for your listening pleasure. Mark reminds us of the hunger in each of us to connect, to be heard, to be understood. You will want to listen to this!

You can order Mark’s book from Broadleaf Books: https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/productgroup/2046/Between-the-Listening-and-the-Telling

And catch up with his work as a story-catcher, and teacher of story-craft through his non-profit, The Hearth:

https://www.thehearthcommunity.com

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3zybw-1512e16

One of my favorite seasons in the church year is this season before Christmas (beginning Sunday Dec. 3 this year) where we prepare our hearts for Christmas and the coming of Christ. I sat down to talk to Stacey Gleddiesmith, Director of Worship Arts at Columbia Bible College, in Abbotsford, BC to discuss what Advent is and how we may practice it.

You can connect with Stacey through her faculty page at Columbia Bible College: https://columbiabc.edu/instructor/stacey-gleddiesmith/

or her blog:

https://thinkingworship.com/ 

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7sa7j-14febf0

I got to sit down with author, pastor, spiritual director Zac Cannon to discuss his creative process and the ways spiritual direction and spiritual practices have enabled to be more present in his vocation as writer and as a creative. Zac is a good friend and we got to hang out together as part of a Spiritual Direction program we both attended. 

You can pick up his novella, Sunflower, on Amazon; https://www.amazon.com/Sunflower-Zac-Cannon-ebook/dp/B0B8JZZH3Y/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1Z9311LTDWQ9I&keywords=zac+cannon&qid=1700175757&sprefix=zac+can%2Caps%2C955&sr=8-1 

and the Scifi anthology, Augmented, Vol 1. (Quoir Publishing) edited by Keith Giles and Matthew Distefano: https://www.amazon.com/Augmented-Science-Fiction-Anthology-Vol-ebook/dp/B0CKZXXTMN/ref=sr_1_1?crid=113G5GCA51WQ4&keywords=augmented+keith+giles&qid=1700176051&sprefix=augmented+keith+giles%2Caps%2C246&sr=8-1

Zac’s website is: www.withwanderingawe.com