Parker J. Palmer, Part 1: On the Brink of Silence (Episode 33)
Parker J. Palmer is a world-renowned writer, speaker, educator, and activist whose work explores issues and concerns related to spirituality, education, communi...
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Paul Quenon, OCSO: Silence and Poetry at Gethsemani Abbey (Episode 32)
Poet, photographer, and memoirist Br. Paul Quenon, OCSO sat down to chat with Cassidy Hall this past July when she was visiting Gethsemani Abbey. Author of seve...
Silence in the Summertime (Episode 31)
It’s summertime! How do you find silence amidst the droning of cicadas or locusts? What does it mean to be silent during the electric crackle of a late af...
Leah Weiss: Silence at Work (Episode 30)
Unless you work in a library or a monastery, you may not intuitively associate “silence” and “work.” But it doesn’t have to be tha...
James Finley: Silence and Vulnerability (Episode 29)
Author, retreat leader, and psychologist James Finley brings his experience as a student and spiritual directee of Thomas Merton to his work guiding others into...
Paula Pryce: Silence, Bodily Knowing and Ritual (Episode 28)
What happens when a friendly anthropologist conducts an ethnographic study of contemporary contemplative Christianity in America, looking at subjects both in mo...
Kenneth S. Leong: Silence, Christianity and Zen (Episode 27)
How does silence impact spirituality at the level of interfaith or interreligious engagement? Our guest today, Kenneth Leong, wrote a seminal book on Christian-...
Barbara A. Holmes: Silence as Unspeakable Joy (Episode 26)
How does the encounter with silence usher us into mystery? And how is our relationship with silence shaped by, or challenged by, the challenges and dynamics of ...
Six Months of Encountering Silence! (Episode 25)
Hello friends! Can you believe that the Encountering Silence Podcast released its first episode six months ago?!? Yes — our “pilot episode” was rele...
Mirabai Starr: Silence, Stillness, Passion, and Embodiment (Episode 24)
“I’m rather obsessed with the mystics of all traditions,” enthuses Mirabai Starr, as she muses on the profound relationship between silence an...
Jessica Mesman Griffith: The Silence of Missing Voices (Episode 23)
What is the relationship between silence, creativity, fear, doubt, death, and missing voices — especially in terms of art and literature? To explore this provoc...
Kurt Johnson: Silence, the Body, and Movement (Episode 22)
How is Silence related to the human body? To movement, exercise, and performance? To physical, as well as mental and spiritual, wellness? Today we begin what we...
Encountering Silence in Our Busy Lives (Episode 21)
If you could take a snapshot of your relationship with silence today, what would it look like? Perhaps you will have just come back from visiting a city where t...
Jim Forest: Silence and Peacemaking (Episode 20)
As a peace activist, biographer, and lover of silence, author Jim Forest’s deep humility and sincere way of being reveal to us much about listening, truly...
Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM: Silence, Action, and Contemplation (Episode 19)
Richard Rohr talks with us in this episode about silence, spirituality, contemplation, action, and why discernment is essential for each of these areas of life....