Season Two
MUSING
Old Growth Forest
“The death of the forest is the end of our life.”
— Dorothy Stang
EPISODE SEVEN
Solitude at the Center of All Beauty with Fenton Johnson
“I love Fenton Johnson’s sensibility. It’s a joy and a balm to see the world through his eyes―and to rediscover solitude as our deepest and most powerful source of creativity and spirituality, even for people who are coupled.”
— Susan Cain, author of Quiet and Quiet Power
EPISODE SIX
The Harmonic Resonance Found in Unknowing with Brie Stoner
“Creativity is not relegated to the realm of artists, for me it is synonymous with the embodied inherent movement of becoming. In every moment it seems this divine universe is waiting for us to have enough courage to dream, risk, leap forward into the unfamiliar next.”
— Brie Stoner
EPISODE FIVE
A Wild Mystical Woman of the Desert with Amy Frykholm
“Beautifully written and wise. An absolute treasure.”
— Mirabai Starr
EPISODE FOUR
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
ADVENT BONUS!
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
ADVENT BONUS!
Backporch Advent Outpost with Todd Davis (#1)
“Reading Todd Davis’s gorgeous poems, you can’t help but feel that the capacities of human vision, and also our appetite for exactly this way of seeing and naming, have been mysteriously, precisely increased.”
—Jane Hirshfield, author of Come, Thief and The Beauty
EPISODE THREE
The Monastic Heart & Prophetic Imagination with Sr. Joan Chittister
“Refreshing, practical . . . We learn that the ‘monastic heart’ is a portable thing, a heart that we all can carry in our busy lives as we respond deeply to the suffering of Mother Earth and the world around us. . . . A beautiful, handy guide to bringing out the best in ourselves as we try to serve the future charged with the wisdom of the past.”
– Rev. Matthew Fox, author of Julian of Norwich and Hildegard of Bingen
EPISODE TWO
Slow Yourself to be Awed with J. Drew Lanham
“Lanham’s is a vision and voice I admire; I’m as grateful for this book, this field guide, as he is grateful for the wildness in the world.”
– Sean Hill, author of Dangerous Goods
EPISODE ONE
Gary Nabhan (aka Brother Coyote) on Wisdom Gleaned from Fishers & Farmers
“Gary Nabhan’s work reminds us of what I can describe only as historical wonder…”
– Wendell Berry
TRAILER
Season Two Trailer
“Nothing great is ever accomplished without enthusiasm.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson