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Conversations and enriching content to set alight your inner life and our life together

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Conversations and enriching content to set alight your inner life and our life together

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@sparkmymuse

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English


Episodes
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Measuring Infinity through Embodiment [SSL 307]

5/8/2024
Lisa Colon DeLay features an insightful work from Image Journal's editor-in-chief James K.A. Smith on, among other things, the impact of the life's work of Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt) on display at the Guggenheim in 2023.

Duration:00:17:00

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Eps 226 – Guest, Cassidy Hall: Queering Contemplation

5/1/2024
Returning guest, Cassidy Hallconverses with host Lisa Colon DeLay on a variety of topics from Cassidy's new book entitled Queering Contemplation.

Duration:00:44:39

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Reason as a Venture of Trust [SSL 306]

4/24/2024
An explanation of how first principles precede reason in determining reality (article by David Bentley Hart). Reason begin with a venture in trust. Read and reflected on by host Lisa Colon DeLay.

Duration:00:20:40

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Who Were You Before? [SSL 305]

4/17/2024
An exploration of how certain temptations and misguided desires start early on in us when we are vulnerable and young and become wounded.

Duration:00:16:00

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Was the Mother of Jesus a Slave? SSL 304

4/10/2024
Dr Candida Moss shares the work of Dr Mitzi J. Smith which brings to light the Greek wording in the gospel of Luke where Mary shares her enslaved identity, suggesting Jesus could have been born enslaved.

Duration:00:16:20

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Prophecy: Beauty Will Save the World [SSL 303]

4/3/2024
The meaning of Dostoevsky's puzzling words, his biography steeped in suffering, and interacting with the transcendent are featured today.

Duration:00:12:10

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Spring Lavishly [SSL 302]

3/27/2024
On Eater lilies, remembrance, fasting, hope, rebirth and two poems to help us as we settle into this holiday week 2024.

Duration:00:07:50

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Downright Awestruck [SSL 301]

3/20/2024
Today we are probing our sense of mystery and wonder: Experiencing awe is vital for human flourishing.

Duration:00:19:05

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Dancing at the Midnight Hour [SSL 300]

3/13/2024
How to thrive in the middle of chaos. Otis Moss III

Duration:00:15:40

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Can Righteousness Include Contempt? [SSL 299]

3/6/2024
Host, Lisa Colon DeLay offers a reflection on the relationship between righteousness and contempt.

Duration:00:13:05

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Alternate Ascension Day [SSL 298]

2/29/2024
A little-known top theologian of the last century, Sergius N. Bulgakov regarding the coming of the Kingdom on Ascension Day.

Duration:00:12:15

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How to Eat Angel’s Bread [SSL 297]

2/21/2024
Host Lisa Colon DeLay reflects on what is meant by Angel's Bread (the virtue) that combat the vice Dragon's Wine according to Evagrius Ponticus, via Fr. Gabriel Bunge

Duration:00:09:00

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Where is God in the Genocide? [SSL 296]

2/14/2024
Unpacking part of a book review (by Michael O'Neil) on "The Doors of the Seas" by David Bentley Hart on issues of God's Providence, Sovereignty, Free Will, suffering, evil and more.

Duration:00:16:11

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Wild Beasts and Dragon’s Wine [SSL 295]

2/7/2024
Evagrius Ponticus (345-399 CE) was an expert of the inner life and today host Lisa Colon DeLay reads from Fr. Gabriel Bunge's book to learn what Evagrius meant by "Dragon's Wine and Angel's Bread".

Duration:00:18:15

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The Inner Life of a Leader [SSL 294]

1/31/2024
Host Lisa Colon DeLay reads Jasmine Bellamy's guidance for doing inner work to be a compassionate and competent leader.

Duration:00:11:40

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Hidden in Plain Sight [SSL 293]

1/24/2024
Today host Lisa Colon DeLay explores the treasures of deeper mysteries that are a grace. More from Carl McColman.

Duration:00:23:00

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The Wounded Healer [SSL 292]

1/18/2024
Learning from Henri Nouwen how "in our own woundedness, we can become a source of life for others"

Duration:00:13:15

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Eps 225: Guest, Carmen Acevedo Butcher on Brother Lawrence

1/10/2024
Today is an unveiling of Carmen Acevedo Butcher's scintillating new translation of the classic: "Practice of the Presence" about Brother Lawrence (Nicholas Herman).

Duration:00:41:50

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Having What is Hoped For in 2024 [SSL 291]

1/3/2024
Host Lisa Colon DeLay speaks about hope and disappointment two things we may tend to feel at the end of a year and beginning of a new one at sometimes.

Duration:00:09:50

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End of 2023—SSL 290: There is no future without this main thing

12/27/2023
Closing out 2023, host Lisa Colon DeLay shares insights on forgiveness from Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1931-2021) and the African concept of ubuntu that can make the future possible.

Duration:00:17:20