Dr. Lerita Coleman Brown is a retreat leader, speaker, spiritual companion, and professor emerita of psychology at Agnes Scott College. Professor Brown frequently speaks on contemplative spirituality and Howard Thurman. She is the author of What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman and When the Heart Speaks, Listen: Discovering Inner Wisdom. She has been featured in PBS documentaries about Howard Thurman and the Black church. She lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia. In our conversation, Professor Brown and I talk about the life, mysticism, and work of Howard Thurman, as well as his affinity to emperor penguins. …
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Lo-Fi & Hushed Contemplative Practice Session (September 2023 / Autumn Equinox)
Good morning, good people. Welcome to the grand experiment of Lo-Fi & Hushed, this very first one marks the passage of the Autumn Equinox. And since it is the very first one, I am going to use this space before Lectio to offer a brief introduction on Lectio Divina for those whom this is new for and then we will do a slightly shortened version of lo-fi and hushed. In future sessions, the thought before Lectio will be much briefer A few quotes on Lectio Divina… “Seek by reading and you will find by meditating; cry in prayer and the …
David Shumate on When Words Become Thunder
“David Shumate’s High Water Mark is absolutely fresh and unpredictable. . . . You will be surprised by your confrontation with the utterly first rate.” — Jim Harrison David Shumate is the author of The Floating Bridge and High Water Mark, winner of the 2003 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. His poetry has appeared widely in literary journals and has been anthologized in Good Poems for Hard Times, The Best American Poetry and The Writer’s Almanac. Shumate is poet-in-residence at Marian University and lives in Zionsville, Indiana. David and I talk about poems that surprise you, the elemental essence that gardening, cooking, contemplation, poetry share, what it means …