“Beautifully written and wise. An absolute treasure.” — Mirabai Starr A Wild Mystical Woman of the Desert with Amy Frykholm Amy Frykholm is a writer, scholar, and journalist. Long time listener’s will recognize Amy as the second guest ever on Contemplify when we spoke about her book on Julian of Norwich. For those new to Amy’s story, she has a PhD from Duke University and is a senior editor at The Christian Century. Her wry wit and adventurous spirit deserve a place in her accolades too. Today we talk about her latest work, Wild Woman: A Footnote, the Desert, and …
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Enlivening the First Christmas with Stephen Mitchell
“I love The First Christmas. What a charming way Stephen Mitchell has found to tell my favorite story of all, the Nativity, character by character (I love the donkey and the ox), with wise and thrilling interludes about God, reality, truth.” –Anne Lamott Enlivening the First Christmas with Stephen Mitchell Stephen Mitchell is a translator, author, and poet. I was first introduced to his work through his translation of the Tao Te Ching. Stephen was educated at Amherst, the Sorbonne, and Yale, and de-educated through intensive Zen practice. He is married to Byron Katie, founder of The Work. Today we talk …
Backporch Advent Outpost with Chris Dombrowski (#2)
“Ragged Anthem, a soulful book of longing that is as comic as it is reflective. These poems sing of humankind in need of something it can only seem to get from the natural world, and of how we won’t get it until we begin to understand ourselves as natural as any tree or river.” – Jericho Brown, author of The Tradition Backporch Advent Outpost with Chris Dombrowski (#2) Blessed Darkness and Blessed Light this Advent season. Here we are again, in the midst of Season Two of Contemplify, and I am sliding in another bonus episode as part of the 2nd …