“Hall retrains our imaginations for a spirituality that is more strange, more beautiful, and more honest than the doctrines we’ve often been cornered into.”
— Cole Arthur Riley
Cassidy Hall is an author, award-winning filmmaker, podcaster, ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, and leading voice in contemplative spirituality. She is the cohost of the Encountering Silence podcast and the host of Contemplating Now and Queering Contemplation podcasts. Her latest book is Queering Contemplation, Finding Queerness in the Roots and Future of Contemplative Spirituality. Cassidy is widely published and currently resides in Indianapolis, where she is studying for her DMin degree.
In our conversation Cassidy and I talk about what drew her into contemplative spirituality and what expanded its horizons, falling head over heels with a tree, and the gift of queering contemplation, and much more.
Visit Cassidy Hall at cassidyhall.com | IG: @casshall
Episode Show Notes
Works by Cassidy Hall
- Queering Contemplation: Finding Queerness in the Roots and Future of Contemplative Spirituality
- In Pursuit of Silence (film)
- Day of a Stranger (film)
- “Maybe it’s time for me to let go of Thomas Merton” by Cassidy Hall
Resources & People Mentioned
- Georgia O’Keefe
- Dr. Barbara Holmes
- Crisis Contemplation by Dr. Barbara Holmes
- Thomas Keating
- Therese Taylor-Stinson
- Lerita Coleman Brown
- Cole Arthur Riley
- New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
- Audre Lorde
- Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology by Pamela R. Lightsey
- Richard Rohr
- James Finley
- Jim Forest
- Dan Berrigan
- Joy Bostic
- Thich Nhat Hahn
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- D.T. Suzuki
- David the Dendrite
- Belden Lane
Drink Recommended
- Lavender honey tea or mezcal with Topo Chico and lime
Photo pulled from cassidyhall.com
Links to book purchases give a kickback to a local New Mexican bookstore and Contemplify
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