“Wherever humility goes, all inner disquiet ceases and outward adversities do not produce alarming impressions.” – St. Theopan the Recluse Advent Outpost from the Backporch (#3) This is the last round, my friends, as we tip toe towards the solstice before falling on top of Christmas. This is the last Advent outpost in the series. See, last year my wife and I started an Advent neighborhood get together last year; soup, wine, bread, cheese, poetry, stories, hymns, and children bellowing. A eucharist of sorts, but more with an ancient turn to honoring both the light in the darkness, and the …
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Manifesto Contemplatio
Be like the foxwho makes more tracks than necessary,some in the wrong direction.Practice resurrection. – Wendell Berry (Manifesto: Mad Farmer Liberation Front) Webster’s dictionary defines Manifesto as such: a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer. Manifestos are all over the place. People of all stripes can find a manifesto that was written with them in mind; Women in Business, architect apprentices, and even for the passive aggressive. Some manifestos are dreary, droll, or toxic whose only functions are to name their superiority and who they exclude as the ‘other’. There was such an example …
046: Ordinary Mystic & Contemplative Shoveler (Mark Longhurst Interviews Host Paul Swanson)
“Stop talking, Daddy.” – Paul’s two-year old daughter If you are a regular listener to the Contemplify podcast, you might be scratching your head and wondering why I am pairing a drink with this conversation. Let me explain. My pal Mark Longhurst runs the top-notch website OrdinaryMystic.net reached out to me some time ago inquiring if I’d ever consider being interviewed on Contemplify so my fellow contemplatives could get a better sense of who I am. I agreed on the condition that Mark be the one to take interviewer reins. So today I am in the hot seat. My guest …
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