Podcast appearances and mentions of Kathleen Norris

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2023 123:38

The brick New England mansion on the rocky coast had been Gabrielle's only home. She leaves and returns to find Wastewater Hall a deadly menace filled with evil. As Gabrielle works to uncover the cause of this transformation to terror and hate she comes closer to death as she uncovers the answer.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Black Flemings, by Kathleen Norris. Part II.

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2023 121:45

The brick New England mansion on the rocky coast had been Gabrielle's only home. She leaves and returns to find Wastewater Hall a deadly menace filled with evil. As Gabrielle works to uncover the cause of this transformation to terror and hate she comes closer to death as she uncovers the answer.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Black Flemings, by Kathleen Norris. Part I.

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2023 133:35

The brick New England mansion on the rocky coast had been Gabrielle's only home. She leaves and returns to find Wastewater Hall a deadly menace filled with evil. As Gabrielle works to uncover the cause of this transformation to terror and hate she comes closer to death as she uncovers the answer.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Black Flemings, by Kathleen Norris. Part V.

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2023 125:49

The brick New England mansion on the rocky coast had been Gabrielle's only home. She leaves and returns to find Wastewater Hall a deadly menace filled with evil. As Gabrielle works to uncover the cause of this transformation to terror and hate she comes closer to death as she uncovers the answer.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Black Flemings, by Kathleen Norris. Part IV.

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2023 129:41

The brick New England mansion on the rocky coast had been Gabrielle's only home. She leaves and returns to find Wastewater Hall a deadly menace filled with evil. As Gabrielle works to uncover the cause of this transformation to terror and hate she comes closer to death as she uncovers the answer.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Kathleen Norris' "Little Girls in Church"

The Daily Poem

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2023 9:48

Today's poem is by Kathleen Norris (born July 27, 1947), an American poet and essayist. She is the author Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, The Cloister Walk (1996), The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and "Women's Work" (1998), and other books. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

Episode 9: The OTRNow Radio Program Mother's Day-01

Old Time Radio - OTRNow

Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2023 171:16

The OTRNow Radio Program Mother's Day-01The Life Of Riley. May 14, 1944. Blue Network. Riley fixes dinner for Mothers Day. William Bendix, Ken Niles (announcer), Irving Brecher (creator, producer), Lou Kosloff (music), Paula Winslowe, Sharon Douglas, Conrad Binyon.Hallmark Playhouse. May 05, 1949. CBS net. "Mother". Hallmark Cards. There is unusually fine acting in this well-written story of motherhood and an errant daughter. James Hilton (host), Kathleen Norris (author), Linda Darnell, Verna Felton.The Quiz Kids. May 09, 1948. NBC net. Alka-Seltzer, One-A-Day. A Mother's Day show. The mothers of the Quiz Kids join the competition. The first question is, "If you combined the symbols for molybdinum, thorium, and Erbium, what would you have?". Joel Kupperman, Marcella Conlon, Naomi Cooks, Alma Mullin, Patrick Owen Conlon, Rose Cook, Sarah Kupperman, Mark Mullin, Joe Kelly (host), Franklin Ferguson (announcer).Maxwell House Coffee Time. May 20, 1948. NBC net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. Gracie's mother is staying with the Burns'. She doesn't think much of George's career in show business. George Burns, Gracie Allen, Meredith Willson and His Orchestra, Tobe Reed (announcer), Verna Felton.This Is Your FBI. May 25, 1951. ABC net. "Old Mother Larceny". The Equitable Life Assurance Society. Stolen wrist watches and binoculars are the stock in trade of the fun-loving Berian brothers...and their mom. The system cue is added live. Stacy Harris, Larry Keating (announcer), William Woodson (narrator), Tony Barrett, Ted de Corsia, Charles Maxwell, John Mitchum, Jeanette Nolan, Victor Rodman, John Sheehan, Jerry D. Lewis (writer), Frederick Steiner (composer, conductor), Jerry Devine (producer).Suspense. January 04, 1959. CBS net. "Don't Call Me Mother". 4-Way Cold Tablets, Fitch Shampoo, Tums. A good story about a possessive mother who's determined to break up her son's marriage. Agnes Moorehead, Cathy Lewis, James McCallion, Barney Phillips, Norman Alden, George Walsh (announcer), William N. Robson (writer, producer, director).

Knowing as Sheep

A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2023 26:13

There is a divinity that shapes our ends-but we can help by listening for Its voice. —Kathleen Norris

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Episode 177: Dakota

Warm Thoughts

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2023 1:57

This past week I had read the book "Dakota," a spiritual geography by Kathleen Norris, who lives in Lemmon, South Dakota with her husband David Droyer, who is a poet. Kathleen has also written two books of poetry, "Falling Off," and "The Middle of the World." Perhaps some of you have read this memoir, which is a remarkable new work of nonfiction. She writes with humor and lyrical grace. It's a book of stories about the Great Plains where things timeless and deep can be found, offering gifts of grace and revelation. It's about second, third, and fourth generation Americans who have lived on the land for many years apart from the mainstream American culture, which has become more urban and filled with cities with every passing year. It is about aging congregations in small towns. I choose not to tell you much more hoping you will read it for yourself. Many of my readers have their stories of pioneer days to tell. I would love to hear from you!Warm Thoughts from Dakota: Handwritten prayer and Bible: Keep me friendly to myself. Keep me gentle in disappointment. The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. TS Eliot. Poets and Christians are people who believe in the power of words to affect change in the human heart. Kathleen Norris. Have a beautiful day in the afterglow of Easter! Warm Thoughts from the Little Home on the Prairie Over a Cup of Tea by Luetta G Werner Published in the Marion Record April 11th, 1996.Download the Found Photo Freebie and cherish your memories of the past.Enjoy flipping through the Vintage Photo Book on your coffee table.I hope you enjoyed this podcast episode! Please follow along on this journey by going to visualbenedictions.com or following me on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest. You can listen to the podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, and Overcast. And don't forget to rate and review so more people can tune in! I'd greatly appreciate it.Till next time,Trina

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10.23.22 SOTM (wk16) Judging Makes Us Blind

The VUE Church Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2022 26:41

Matthew 7:1-5 says, “Do not judge…” What does Jesus mean by that? Is it ever right to call out something wrong in another? Ultimately, Jesus gives us a big generous gift of truth-telling with love for us to practice here. We'd love for you to join us in person at one of our Sunday gatherings--10a at Gower Elementary. You can visit us online at vuechurch.org SLIDES/QUOTES George read in our gathering: “Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are. The Word of God is so weak that it suffers to be despised and rejected by people. The Word accepts the resistance it encounters and bears it.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship "Perhaps the greatest blessing that religious inheritance can bestow is an open mind, one that can listen without judging. Such people do not have a closed-off air or a boastful demeanor. In them, it is clear, their wounds have opened the way to compassion for others. And compassion is the strength and soul of religion." — Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, Kathleen Norris

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The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young

Sermons from Grace Cathedral

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2022 15:09

“I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God” (Jer. 31). Jeremiah 31:27-34 Psalm 119:97-104 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5 Luke 18:1-8 “When the Son of humanity comes will he find faith on earth” (Lk. 18)? These words from two thousand years ago are the defining question of our time. This week the House Committee on the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol concluded its hearings. We have seen indisputable evidence that politicians continue to use false claims of electoral fraud to secure their own power.[1] Last month the governors of Florida and Texas falsely promised jobs and resettlement help to asylum seekers who they sent to Washington, D.C. and Martha's Vineyard. They used immigrants, including children, as part of a political stunt.[2] This action echoes the way that black southerners were bused out of the south by segregationist White Citizens' Councils to cities with prominent integrationist leaders in 1962.[3] This week in Ukraine and Iran ordinary people were slaughtered because of a distant political agenda, because of an ideology. Here at home we see terrible poverty and neglect on our own streets. “When the Son of humanity comes, will he find faith on earth?” In the face of the heartbreaking cruelty and dishonesty of his own time Jesus tells his friends, “a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart” (Lk. 18). Jesus tells this story near the end of his own journey to Jerusalem, as he talks about the end of time when God's realm of justice, peace and love will come. The Hebrew Bible frequently demands that the powerful have a special responsibility to widows, strangers and orphans. These groups are vulnerable because they have no male relatives to defend them. Although widows in the Bible (like in the stories of Ruth or Elijah and the widow of Zarephath) often model tenacity, resourcefulness and initiative, they represent vulnerability just as the judge symbolizes power. In several sections of Luke's Gospel he uses a “how much more” argument. “If you then, who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him” (Lk. 11:13).[4] This parable uses this same logic. A widow comes to a judge seeking justice. He does not believe in God. Nor does he respect people. He refuses to help her until he reasons that, “because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out” (Lk. 18). Let me point out two ways in which the Greek version differs from the English translation. When the judge says that he does not want the widow to “wear him out” the Greek word for this is hupopiazē. It is an expression from boxing. It means to literally give someone a black eye. The judge doesn't want the widow to embarrass him or injure his reputation. Second, the Greek more strongly conveys urgency, impatience and conviction. Greek uses double negatives to add emphasis. It's almost as if Jesus raises his voice to underline what he means. A more literal version might be, “And will not God give vengeance to his chosen ones who are crying day and night? And be impatient to help them!”[5] The point is not that God resembles the unjust judge. In almost every respect Jesus describes God as the opposite. The judge is self-centered. He only uses people. But God is full of love, impatient for his children to thrive. Jesus is unafraid to be humiliated for our sake. The purpose of this “how much more” story is for us to trust God and to persist in prayer.[6] Today I want to give you one picture of a faithless world and then to consider how faith humanizes us. In college I knew a woman whose favorite story was Ernest Hemmingway's "The Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber." This always worried me about her partly because of the story's misogyny but mostly because of its position with regard to faith. We meet Francis Macomber as a thirty-five year old American business tycoon on safari in East Africa. As the story unfolds we gradually come to realize that he has committed the cardinal sin in the universe of Hemingway fiction. The day before he betrayed his manliness and ran in fear from a wounded lion who had been concealed in the tall grass. Margot, his wife, does not try to comfort him in his humiliation. Instead, she despises this act of cowardice and as a consequence she sleeps with the safari leader that night. Hemmingway also seems to hate his own fictitious character, because he wouldn't leave his wife, because "he would take anything" from her.[7] The next day the group goes in pursuit of a dangerous buffalo. Then, suddenly, in an almost religious conversion, Macomber changes. Hemmingway writes, that “[f]or the first time in his life he felt wholly without fear. Instead of fear he had a feeling of definite elation.” The safari leader admires this new courage. His wife fears it because she no longer has the power to make him ashamed of being afraid. Why is it called a "Short Happy Life"? Only moments later as Macomber tries to flush the buffalo out of the long grass, “he [feels] a sudden white-hot, blinding flash explode inside his head and that was all he ever felt.” Although his wife claimed she was aiming at the buffalo, she shot him in the back of the head. When the son of man comes will he find faith on earth? In Hemmingway's universe there is no faith. Men can never depend on women, or on other men. Every person is either a conquest or an adversary. The individual can only rely on an elusive courage that comes miraculously from within, an irrational bravery which completely isolates each soul from all else. The theologian H. Richard Niebuhr emphasizes that faith means more than merely faith in God. Faith concerns all the ways that we are connected to and support and depend on each other. “We see this possibility – that human history will come to its end… in the gangrenous corruption of a social life in which every promise, contract, treaty and “word of honor” is given and received in deception and distrust. If [human beings] can no longer have faith in each other, can they exist as [human beings]?”[8] What shall we do in this time before the second coming of Christ? We need to pray and not lose hope. We also need to strive to be people of honesty and integrity, to listen and care for others. To use the language of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) we need to treat people as ends rather than as means to our own goals. The heartbreaking sin of this judge was his inability to see the widow as a person. I have a friend named Sue Everson who is a world authority on hopelessness. As a medical researcher she studies the effect that hopelessness has on our health. One of her more startling statistics is that people who feel hopeless are twenty percent more likely to die in the next four years from a stroke. Hopelessness increases your chance of a stroke to the same degree that smoking a pack of cigarettes a day does. Sue scientifically studies how religion seems to make people less hopeless.[9] Today with churches around the world we celebrate the Children's Sabbath. A central part of what we do together involves our care for children and families. We teach children how to listen spiritually, how to pray and not lose heart. Professor Lisa Miller has been our guest on the forum twice. She argues that denying our spirituality is not just untrue but unhealthy for us and especially for children. Using new techniques ranging from twin studies to neuroimaging, scientists are coming to a new appreciation for just how important spirituality is for human flourishing. Miller claims that all children possess a kind of “natural spirituality.” This interest in the Holy, this, “direct sense of… the heartbeat of the living universe… precedes and transcends language, culture and religion.”[10] This spirituality protects us, but not completely, from depression, anxiety and the tendency to misuse alcohol and drugs. So what is the most important thing that we can do as adults for children? We can support their Sunday School teachers and the families who gather here. We can take their questions seriously. We can listen to them.[11] And so the conversation continues every week here. In life we are forever asking and being asked a simple question, “do you believe me?”[12] Do you? Seeing what is happening in the world, it is easy to struggle with a crisis of trust right now. I trust God but I don't know if the Son will find faith on earth. And yet at the same time I feel remarkably supported by the life I find at Grace Cathedral. C.S. Lewis writes that, “Faith… is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of changing moods….” Because of this he says we need to pray and hold some of the Christian ideals in our mind for a period of time every day. We need to worship because, “We have to be continually reminded of what we believe… Belief has to be fed…” People do not cease to be Christian because of a good argument but because they simply drift away. Kathleen Norris writes, “prayer is not asking for what you think you want but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine. To be made more grateful, more able to see the good in what you have been given instead of always grieving for what might have been.”[13] My friends pray always and do not lose heart. Be trustworthy and care for the children. When the Son of humanity comes may he find faith on earth. [1] Alan Feuer, Luke Broadwater, Maggie Haberman, Katie Benner and Michael S. Schmidt, “Jan. 6: The Story So Far,” The New York Times, 14 October 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/us/politics/jan-6-timeline.html?name=styln-capitol-mob®ion=TOP_BANNER&block=storyline_menu_recirc&action=click&pgtype=Article&variant=show&is_new=false [2] Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Eileen Sullivan, “Is That Legal: How Scores of Migrants Came to be Shipped North,” The New York Times, 16 September 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/16/us/politics/migrants-marthas-vineyard-desantis.html?name=styln-marthas-vineyard-immigrants®ion=TOP_BANNER&block=storyline_menu_recirc&action=click&pgtype=Article&variant=show&is_new=false and https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/02/us/migrants-marthas-vineyard-desantis-texas.html [3] Jacey Fortin, “When Segregationists Offered One-Way Tickets to Black Southerners,” The New York Times, 14 October 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/02/us/migrants-marthas-vineyard-desantis-texas.html [4] See also, “But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you – you of little faith!” (Lk. 12:28). [5] 22 Pent (10-16-16) 24C. [6] Ibid. [7] Hemingway cynically writes, "They had a sound basis of union. Margot was too beautiful for Macomber to divorce her and Macomber had too much money for Margot ever to leave him now." Ernest Hemingway, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” The Short Stories of Ernest Hemmingway (NY: Scribners/Macmillan, 1987) 18. See also, 20 Pent (10-21-01) 24C. [8] “We see this possibility – that human history will come to its end neither in a brotherhood of [humanity] nor in universal death under the blows of natural or man-made catastrophe, but in the gangrenous corruption of a social life in which every promise, contract, treaty and “word of honor” is given and received in deception and distrust. If [human beings] can no longer have faith in each other, can they exist as [human beings]?” H. Richard Niebuhr, Faith on Earth: An Inquiry into the Structure of Human Faith ed. Richard R. Niebuhr (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989) 1. [9] 20 Pent (10-17-04) 24C. [10] Lisa Miller, The Spiritual Child: The New Science on Parenting for Health and Lifelong Thriving (NY: Picador, 2015) 25. [11] Miller quotes a parent who says, “I didn't realize for a long time that when my child asks a question and I say, “I don't know,” and just leave it at that, I'm actually stopping the conversation.” Ibid., 47. [12] H. Richard Niebuhr, Faith on Earth: An Inquiry into the Structure of Human Faith ed. Richard R. Niebuhr (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989) 22. [13] Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith (NY: Riverhead Books, 1998) 60-1.

Wandering in the Spiritual Desert (encore)

Interfaith Voices Podcast (hour-long version)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2022 18:00

There are times when people of faith feel, for a while, far from God. Former NPR religion correspondent Barbara Bradley Hagerty sits down with two spiritual scholars to talk about their experiences with "the dark night of the soul".

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181. A Day In the Life: NOON EDITION

Out of the Ordinary

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2022 41:58

Key Conversation Points: Do you agree with medieval monks and think the middle of the day has a noon day demon waiting for us? Kathleen Norris writes in her book, Acedia & me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life, "Might we consider boredom as not only necessary for our life but also as one of its greatest blessings....a precious chance to be alone with our thoughts and alone with God." Middle of the Day Quiz: Are you productive and focused like Lisa-Jo or need a boost like Christie? Madeleine L'engle's explanation about time from Walking on Water brings a godly perspective to our minutes and our days. Lisa-Jo quotes her past professor, a Catholic attoney, as she processes a holy rhythm of what God wants with our time which is more than billable hours. Podcast links: Follow Lisa-Jo on Instagram @lisajobaker and Christie at @christiepurifoy and please leave a review about what you think about today's podcast! Click here to join the conversations we have with listeners every week around the podcast. https://www.blackbarnonline.com/ _______ Sponsor appreciation: We're so grateful to partner with show sponsors that keep making our work possible. Click here to visit Olive & June for 20% off your first Mani System. Salon-perfect nails from home is now a dream come true with Olive & June! https://www.oliveandjune.com/ordinary Click here to visit Green Chef and use code ordinary130 to get $130 off including free shipping! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! https://greenchef.com/ordinary130 Click here to join over 1 million people taking charge of their mental health through the online counseling offered by BetterHelp. Get 10% off your first month. http://www.betterhelp.com/ordinary Click here to visit Nutrafol and use the promo code ORDINARY to save $15 off your first subscription. Plus, FREE shipping on every order. https://nutrafol.com/ Click here to visit Ritual and use the promo code ORDINARY to save 10% on your first three months. http://www.ritual.com/ORDINARY _______ Click here to sign up for your own digital Paper&String care package curated by Christie, Lisa-Jo and friends. http://outoftheordinarypodcast.com/ps

History's Forgotten - Season 2 - Episode 7 - Our Forgotten Family History

Eagle Nation Online

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2022 33:05

In this episode: For the final episode of History's Forgotten, seniors Christi Norris, Caleb Audia and Amanda Hare are joined by genealogist Kathleen Norris. Kathleen shared some forgotten stories of Audia and Hare's families. From family migration history, past work life and marriages, looking at past family actions gives a larger overview of the decisions and climate of the past time. Many of these decisions shaped the opportunities had today and all play an important part in current life. Topics covered: Family migration Marriages Certificates Deaths Biographies

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Vollkommen wie Christus

Unser Täglich Brot | Our Daily Bread Ministries e.V.

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2022

„Perfektionismus ist eines der furchterregendsten Wörter, die ich kenne“, schreibt Kathleen Norris. Der moderne Perfektionismus hat nichts mit der im Buch Matthäus beschriebenen Vollkommenheit gemeinsam. Den modernen Perfektionismus beschreibt sie als „ein ernsthaftes psychologisches Leiden, das Menschen zu ängstlich macht, notwendige Risiken einzugehen“. Das als „vollkommen“ übersetzte Wort im Matthäus-Evangelium bedeutet aber vielmehr reif, komplett oder ganz. Norris schlussfolgert: „Vollkommen zu sein ... bedeutet, Raum für Wachstum zu schaffen und reif genug zu werden, um uns anderen zu schenken.“

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Perfect Like Christ

Our Daily Bread Podcast | Our Daily Bread

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2022

“Perfectionism is one of the scariest words I know,” Kathleen Norris writes, thoughtfully contrasting modern-day perfectionism with the “perfection” described in Matthew. Modern-day perfectionism she describes as a “a serious psychological affliction that makes people too timid to take necessary risks.” But the word translated “perfect” in Matthew actually means mature, complete, or whole. Norris concludes, “To be perfect . . . is to make room for growth [and become] mature enough to give ourselves to others.” Understanding perfection this way helps makes sense of the profound story told in Matthew 19, where a man asks Jesus what good he can do that will be rewarded in the life to come (v. 16). Jesus responds, “Keep the commandments” (v. 17). The man thought he’d obeyed all of them, yet he still knew something was missing. “What do I still lack?” (v. 20) he asks. That’s when Jesus identifies the man’s wealth as the vise-grip stifling his heart. “If you want to be perfect” (v. 21), He responds—whole, open to giving to and receiving from others in God’s kingdom—then he must be willing to let go of what’s been closing off his heart from others. Each of us has our own version of this—possessions or habits we cling to as a futile attempt to control. Today, hear Jesus’ gentle invitation to surrender—and find freedom in the wholeness that’s only possible in Him (v. 26).

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Garden Chatter with Gift Ideas, Plus Slow Down

The Gardenangelists

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2021 38:38

Carol and Dee talk about Peperomias and Pecans, plus books, gift ideas, and more on this week's podcast episode.A few helpful links:The Quotidian Mysteries, by Kathleen Norris.NGB's Year of the Peperomia info, plus their Red Bubble Store with Pansy productsWhat are the Differences in Pecan Varieties? By Royalty Pecan Farms.Pecan Varieties for Oklahoma | Oklahoma State UniversityOur friend, Jenks FarmerOn the Bookshelf: Planting for Honeybees: The Grower's Guide to Creating a Buzz, by Sarah Wyndham-Lewis and James Lewis WestonAlso Some Ancient Gentlemen: Being an Examination of Certain People, Plants, and Gardens, by Tyler WhittleLego Botanical Bouquet, Lego Bird of Paradise, Lego Bonsai. (Affiliate links)GeezLouiseDesigns on Etsy for miniature paper plants.Email Carol if you want a typewritten note! carol@caroljmichel.comAffiliate link to Botanical Interest Seeds. (If you buy something from them after using this link, we earn a small commission at no cost to you.)Email us at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.Book links are also affiliate links.

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Kathleen Norris, The Rainbow's End

For Reading Out Loud

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2021 37:16

Kathleen Norris's engaging story about success and the incidental expenses. Also, in this November month, when we give thanks for abundance, a poem by Dick Ferrell about the poignant and not-so-plain beauty of this month.

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Poetry from Studio 47 - Episode 103 - Kathleen Norris

Poetry from Studio 47

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2021 3:20

American poet and essayist, Kathleen Norris

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The Second Story

A Drink With a Friend

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2021 45:23

In the last episode, Seth shared a sacramental story from his life. In this one, they continue their chat with Tsh sharing a sacramental story from hers. Because after all, most of the sacred stuff in life shows up in our ordinary moments. Seth: Newsletter | Website Tsh: Newsletter | Website Pick up a round of drinks & help keep the show going Come to Italy with us! Try Hallow free for 30 days Tsh's Rule of Life workshop Typhoon's new album, Sympathetic Magic The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, & Women's Work, by Kathleen Norris

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EPISODE REPLAY: Jeffrey Overstreet on Evangelicals and the Movies

Veterans of Culture Wars

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2021 92:14

Roger Ebert said, "The movies are like a machine that generates empathy." Film critic and author Jeffrey Overstreet joins the pod to talk about how Evangelicals approach movies, cinematic art, transcendence, and empathy, as well as spiritually based themes in the films by the Coen Bros. He also shares some of his favorite films from 2020. -Jeffrey Overstreet's website: lookingcloser.org -"The Theology of the Coen Brothers? A Conversation Between Matt Zoller Seitz and Jeffrey Overstreet" https://www.lookingcloser.org/blog/2018/04/20/the-theology-of-the-coen-brothers-a-conversation-between-matt-zoller-seitz-and-jeffrey-overstreet/ -Buy Jeffrey's memoir of moviegoing and faith, "Through a Screen Darkly": https://www.amazon.com/Through-Screen-Darkly-Looking-Closer/dp/0830743154/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1N4KTUBB4XHQO&dchild=1&keywords=through+a+screen+darkly&qid=1613176010&sprefix=through+a+screen+%2Caps%2C204&sr=8-1 -Buy Jeffrey's fantasy novel "Auralia's Colors": https://www.thriftbooks.com/series/the-auralia-thread/42859/ Mentioned on the Pod: Book: "Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith" by Kathleen Norris. Song: "Street Hassle" by Lou Reed. Film: Midnight Run (d. Martin Brest) Film: Extra Ordinary (d. Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman) Film: Lady Bird (d. Greta Gerwig) Film: Little Fish (d. Chad Hartigan) Film: Save Yourselves! (d. Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson) Overstreet's Top 5 Films of 2020: 5) Shirley (d. Josephine Decker) 4) Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (d. Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross) 3) Lover's Rock (d. Steve McQueen) 2) Minari (d. Lee Isaac Chung) 1) Nomadland (d. Chloe Zhao) -Check out Zach's music by going to: https://muzach.bandcamp.com -Read Dave's occasional blogging at: www.dangeroushope.wordpress.com. Twitter: Zach- @muzach Dave- @Davejlester Jeffrey- @overstweet Podcast music by Zach Malm Logo by Zach Malm

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Patience Coda: Ryan McAnnally-Linz and Evan Rosa / Courage, Control, Kairos Time, and Roasting S'mores as an Exercise in Patience

For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2021 51:39

You can't just chatter about patience. If patience moderates our sorrows, then it's ultimately a deeper spiritual virtue that can't be instrumentalized to feel better—it's more deeply connected to a joy and hope that recognizes to what and to whom we are in demand, to whom we're responsible, brings closer attention to the present moment, and acknowledges our limitations and lack of control. In this episode, Ryan McAnnally-Linz and Evan Rosa review and reflect on the six episodes that made up our series on patience: why it's so hard, what's good about it, and how we might cultivate it.These six episodes explored patience in its theological, ethical, and psychological context, offering cultural and social diagnosis of our modern predicament with patience, defining the virtue in its divine and human contexts, and then considering the practical cultivation of patience as a way of life.This series featured interviews with Andrew Root (Luther Seminary), Kathryn Tanner (Yale Divinity School), Paul Dafydd Jones (University of Virginia), Adam Eitel (Yale Divinity School), Sarah Schnitker (Baylor University), and Tish Harrison Warren (priest, author, and New York Times columnist).Show NotesModerating sorrowsJames 5:7: "Be patient therefore beloved until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious crop from the earth, being patient with it, until it receives the early and the late rains. You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts. For the coming of the Lord is near."The patient way to make a s'moreAn unexpected s'mores tutorialKairos vs Chronos: often overdone, it applies when you're talking about patience.Time with kids at bed time is incommensurate with work productivity time; comparing the two is a category mistake."One of the things that these conversations about patients had had started to clue me into was the importance of being attuned to the proper activity or thing for which this time is—a less uniform account of time that says for instance, you know, the bedtime routine with my children that time is for that. And so thinking of it as somehow commensurate with work productivity time would be a category mistake of a sort. It would be an unfaithfulness. And so that impatience derives from a lack of attentiveness to the temporal texture of our lives in really relation to God." (Ryan)There can be "patient hurry"Patience is like audio compression: it sets a threshold that is sensitive to the sorrow in our life and moderates or mitigates it.Episode summariesPatience Part 1, Andy Root: "To say that I'm busy is to indicate that I'm in demand."Feeling busy = feeling importantRecognitionAttending to the present, accepting a different form of "being in demand."Patience Part 2, Kathy Tanner: "There's no profit in waiting."Connecting economy to patience."Something has to hold firm in order for you to take risks."Stability and the steadfast love of God.Patience Part 3, Paul Dafydd Jones: "The Psalms of lament and complaint can get, as we know, incredibly dark, incredibly bleak. One operation of divine patience could be that God gives ancient Israel the time and space to accuse God. God is patient with expressions of trauma, expressions of guilt, expressions of deep anguish. And God is so patient with them that they get included in the Canon. Like, some of the most powerful, skeptical, doubtful, angry moments are found in the Psalms. So God's letting be at this moment and letting happen includes within it God's honoring of grief and trauma, such that those moments become part of the scriptures."Psalms of complaintPsychologist Julie Exline on anger with GodAnger with God is consistent with patiencePatience Part 4, Adam Eitel: "Moderating sorrow is not to suppress it or develop an affected callousness or disenchanted, jaded relation to the things one really loves."It's hard to chatter about patience.Patience and joyPatience Part 5, Sarah Schnitker: Identify, Imagine, and SyncNormativity and a truer cognitive reappraisal of one's emotional statePatience Part 6, Tish Harrison Warren: "God intended man to have all good, but in his, God's, time and therefore all disobedience, all sin consists essentially in breaking out of time. Hence the restoration of order by the Son of God had to be the annulment of that premature snatching at knowledge, the beating down of the hand, outstretched toward eternity, the repentant return from a false, swift transfer of eternity to a true, slow confinement in time. Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity. More central, even the humility, the power to wait, to persevere, to hold out, to endure to the end, not to transcend one's own limitations, not to force issues by playing the hero or the titan, but to practice the virtue that lies beyond heroism: the meekness of the Lamb which is led."Control and Meekness: Meekness is controlled strengthProduction NotesThis podcast featured Ryan McAnnally-Linz and Evan RosaEdited and Produced by Evan RosaHosted by Evan RosaProduction Assistance by Martin Chan & Nathan JowersA Production of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture at Yale Divinity School https://faith.yale.edu/aboutSupport For the Life of the World podcast by giving to the Yale Center for Faith & Culture: https://faith.yale.edu/givePart 1 Show Notes: Andrew RootDoubling down and the temptation to make up for lost timeHartmut Rosa and Modernity as AccelerationAcceleration across three categories: technology, social change, and pace of life"Decay rate” is accelerating—we can sense that things get old and obsolete much faster (e.g., phones, computers)Riding the wave of accelerated social change"We've become enamored with gadgets and time-saving technologies."“Getting more actions within units of time"Multi-taskingExpectations and waiting as an attack on the self"Waiting feels like a moral failure."Give yourself a break; people are under a huge amount of guilt that they're not using their time or curating the self they could have."You're screwing up my flow here, man."When I'm feeling the acceleration of time: “Get the bleep out of my way. My humanity is worn down through the acceleration."Busyness as an indicator of a good life“To say that I'm busy is to indicate that I'm in demand.""Stripping time of its sacred weight."Mid-life crises and the hollowness of timePatience is not just "go slower”Eric Fromm's "having mode" vs "being mode" of actionWaiting doesn't become the absence of somethingPixar's Soul, rushing to find purpose, failing to see the gift of connectedness to othersNot all resonance is good (e.g., the raging resonance of Capitol rioters)How would the church offer truly good opportunities for resonanceBonhoeffer and the community of resonant realityLuther's theology of the cross—being with and being for—sharing in the momentReceiving the act of being with and being forInstrumentalization vs resonanceBearing with one another in weakness, pain, and sufferingEncountering each other by putting down accelerated goals to be with and for the otherFlow or resonance in one's relationship to timeArtists, mystics, and a correlation with psychological flowPart 2 Show Notes: Kathryn TannerListen to Patience Part 1 on Time, Acceleration, and Waiting, with Andrew Root (July 24, 2021)What does patience have to do with money?Is time money?What is finance dominated capitalism?Viewing economy and our relationship to time through past, present, and future"Chained to the past”—debt is no longer designed to be paid off, and you can't escape it“Urgent focus on the present”—emergencies, preoccupation, short-term outlook, and anxietyWorkplace studiesPoverty, Emergency, and a Lack of Resources (Time or Money)Lack of time and resources makes you fixated on the presentA Christian sense of the urgency of the presentSufficient supply of God's graceThe right way to focus on the present"Consideration of the present for all intents and purposes collapses into concern about the future."The future is already embedded and encased in the present value of things.Stock market and collapsing the present into future expectationsPulling the future into the presentGamestop and making the future present, and the present futurePatience and elongating the presentFulsomeness, amplitude, expansiveness of God's graceRace, savings, and dire circumstancesPatience as a means to elongating the presentStability, volatility, and waiting“There's no profit in waiting"God's steadfast love and commitmentKierkegaard's Works of LoveAugustine's unstable volatile world and the implication of investing only in God's love and stability"Something has to hold firm in order for you to take risks."Part 3 Show Notes: Paul Dafydd JonesGod's patienceApostle Peter: “The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some think of slowness, but is patient with you.” (2 Peter 3)Tertullian and Cyprian"You need to think about who God is, and what God is doing before you think about who human beings are, and what we're called to become."Augustine: "God is patient, without any passion."Patience: Creation, providence, incarnation, TrinityCreatures are given time and space to "reward God's patience"This is not God getting out of the way; it's non-competitive between God and world.Colin Gunton: for the problem of evil, God's patience is a good place to start."God's patience occurs at a pace that is rarely congenial to us ... the world's history is not unfolding at the pace or the shape we would like.""God gives ancient Israel the time and space to accuse. God is patient with expressions of trauma, expressions of guilt, expressions of deep anguish. And God is so patient with them that they get included in the Canon.""Some of the most powerful, skeptical, doubtful, angry moments, are found in the psalms.""God patiently beholds the suffering of God's creatures, particularly with respect to ancient Israel, that somehow the traumas of creaturely life are present to God, and God in some sense has to bear or endure them."Beholding Suffering vs Enduring SufferingGod's responsibility for the entirety of the cosmos: "There's no getting God off the hook for things that happen in God's universe."And yet God doesn't approve of everything that occurs.Confident expectancy: "Moving to meet the kingdom that is coming towards us.""God's patience empowers us to act."The patience of God incarnate; Christ is patience incarnate"Israel is waiting for a Messiah."We cannot understand Christ as savior of the world without understanding him as Messiah of ancient Israel.God's solidarity with us"The pursuit of salvation runs through togetherness with creation in the deepest possible sense."Letting Be vs Letting Happen"Jesus has to negotiate the quotidian."Crucifixion as the one moment of divine impatience with sinTheology of the cross as an imperative"Christians often are not comfortable with complexity. We want to think in terms of assurance. And we want that assurance to be comforting in a fairly quick-fire away. I think theologians have the task of exposing that as an ersatz hope and insisting that faith includes complexity. It involves lingering over ambiguity. Trying to fit together. multi-dimensional beliefs that are this lattice work—none of which can be reduced to a pithy, marketing quip.""Theologians need to be patient in order to honor the complexity of Christian faith. ... That's called intellectual responsibility.""Christianity is not going to cease to be weaponized by snake-oil salespeople."Staying with complexity and ambiguity"The capacity to tell the truth is in short supply.""Human beings are called to respond to God's patience. Human beings are called to make good on God's patience. The covenant of grace, which is fulfilled in Christ and which is animated by the spirit, makes that a possibility. It's not an easy possibility of real life. I mean, not just because of sin and finitude, but because of the complexities of the world that we live in. But learning how to respond to God's patience, both through forms of waiting, through forms of activity, and sometimes through moments of intemperate resistance is I think at the heart of Christian life.""People should not get in the way of human flourishing ... brought about by the empowering patience of the Holy Spirit. ... That's a gospel moment. That's a kairos moment."Part 4 Show Notes: Adam EitelThe context for Thomas Aquinas and his friars"The friars are on the verge of being canceled."What is a virtue? "To have them is to have a kind of excellence and to be able to do excellent things."Where does patience fit in the virtues?Matter and ObjectThe matter of a virtue is the thing it's about, and the matter of patience is sorrow.Sorrow can have right or wrong objects and can be excessive or deficient.Sorrow is elicited by evil, that is, the diminishment of good.Patience is a moderating virtue for the passions, similar to courage.Patience is connected to fortitude or courage in moderating our response to "the saddest things.""Patience moderates or constrains sorrow, so that it doesn't go beyond its proper limit. When we become too absorbed in trouble or woe, alot of other things start to go wrong. That's what Gregory the Great called patience the guardian of the virtues. .... deteriorate." (or to ... guardian of the virtues in that sense.")What does it feel like to be patient on this account?You can't experience patience without experiencing joy."Joy is the antithesis of sorrow. Its remedy."Remedies: Take a bath, go to sleep, drink some wine, talk to a friend ... and at the top of the list is contemplation of God.Contemplation for Aquinas: prayer, chanting psalms, drawing one's mind to the presence of God.Experientia Dei—taste and see"This is scandalous to most virtue theorists ... but you can't have patience, or at least not much of it, without contemplation.""Moderating sorrow is not to suppress it or develop an affected callousness or disenchanted, jaded relation to the things one really loves.""Patience never means ignoring or turning away from the thing that's genuinely sorrowful."Diminishment of sorrow by nesting it among the many other goods.Modulate one's understanding of the thing that's sorrowful.The sorrow of losing a childYou can only write about it from inside of it.What is it? "Beneath the agitation, some kind of low grade anger, is there some sorrow? What has been lost? What have I been wanting that is not here? What's beneath the anger? What is it?"What scripture anchors you? "Find that scripture that anchors you in patience, and let it become yours. Let God speak to you through it.Part 5 Show Notes: Sarah SchnitkerThis episode was made possible in part by a grant from Blueprint 1543.Why study patience from a psychological perspective?Patience as notably absentCan we suffer well? Can we wait well?David Baily Harned: Has patience gone out of style since the industrial revolution (Patience: How We Wait Upon the World)Waiting as a form of sufferingDaily hassles patience, interpersonal patience, and life hardships patienceMeasuring patience is easier than measuring love, joy, or gratitude, because it isn't as socially valued in contemporary lifeHow virtue channels toward different goalsPatience can help you achieve your goals by helping you regulate emotion, allowing you to stay calm, making decisions, persist through difficultiesPatience and the pursuit of justicePatience and assertiveness“If you're a doormat, it's not because you are patient, it's because you lack assertiveness."Aristotelian "Golden Mean” thinking: neither recklessly pushing through or giving up and disengaging. Patience allows you to pursue the goal in an emotionally stable wayUnity of the virtues: “We need a constellation of virtues for a person to really flourish in this world."Golden Mean, excess, deficiency, too much and too littleAcedia and Me, Kathleen Norris on a forgotten viceAcedia in relationship: “Even in the pandemic… monotony…"The overlapping symptoms of acedia and depressionPatience is negatively correlated with depression symptoms; people with more life-hardships patience is a strength that helps people cope with some types of depressionPatience and gratitude buffer against ultimate struggles with existential meaning and suicide riskHow do you become more patient?“It requires patience to become more patient."Three Step Process for becoming more patient: Identify, Imagine, and SyncStep 1: Identify your emotional state. Patience is not suppression; it begins with attention and noticing—identifying what's going on.Step 2: Cognitive reappraisal: one of the most effective ways to regulate our emotions. Think about your own emotions from another person's perspective, or in light of the bigger picture. Take each particular situation and reappraise it.Find benefits. Turn a curse into a blessing. Find opportunities.Step 3: Sync with your purpose. Create a narrative that supports the meaning of suffering. For many this is religious faithReappraising cognitive reappraisal: How convinced do you have to be? You'd have to find something with “epistemic teeth”—is this something you can rationally endorse and know, and can you feel it?Combining patience and gratitude practices, allowing for multiple emotions at once, and reimagining and reappraising one's life within your understanding of purpose and meaning.Provide psychological distance to attenuate emotional response.The existential relevance of faith for patience; theological background of patiencePatience and a life worth livingLove, the unity of the virtues, and "the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation" (2 Peter 3)Part 6 Show Notes: Tish Harrison Warren"Part of becoming more patient is noticing how impatient you are. ... It's so not-linear."Kids will slow you down and expose your impatiencePatience often looks like other things—"it looks like contentment, it looks like trust, it looks like endurance."Patience and humility: "We are not the President of the United States. Things can go on without us.""Our entire life is lived in a posture of waiting."Waiting for the eschaton, the return of Christ, and things set rightThe illusion of control—James 4:13-14Has Urs Von Balthasar: "God intended man to have all good, but in his, God's, time and therefore all disobedience, all sin consists essentially in breaking out of time. Hence the restoration of order by the Son of God had to be the annulment of that premature snatching at knowledge, the beating down of the hand, outstretched toward eternity, the repentant return from a false, swift transfer of eternity to a true, slow confinement in time. Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity. More central, even the humility, the power to wait, to persevere, to hold out, to endure to the end, not to transcend one's own limitations, not to force issues by playing the hero or the titan, but to practice the virtue that lies beyond heroism: the meekness of the Lamb which is led.""We are creatures in time."Robert Wilken: "singular mark of patience is hope"Activism and patience together"Patience can get a bad rap, that Christians are just wanting to become bovine."Patience but not quietism, a long wait but not gradualismThe ultimate need to discern the momentClarence Jordan and Martin Luther King Jr.The practices of discernment for individuals and communitiesSocial media trains us to be impatientThe meaning of urgent change is changingInternet advocacy and a connected world makes us less patient people"It takes real work to slow down and listen to another person's perspective, especially if you disagree with them."We often don't have the patience to even understand someone else.Real conversations with real peopleSilence, solitude"Having a body requires an enormous amount of patience.""My kids are so slow. They're the one's teaching me to be patient!"Little hardships of boredom and discomfort"Life with a body and life with real people inevitably involves patience.""Patience is something we learn our way out of through privilege and through being, you know, important adults."

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Patience Part 5: Sarah Schnitker / The Psychology of Patience

For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2021 47:16

What is the place of patience in a life worth living? Evidence from psychology suggests that it plays an important role in managing life's stresses, contributing to a greater sense of well-being, and is even negatively correlated with depression and suicide risk. Psychologist Sarah Schnitker (Baylor University) explains her research on patience, how psychological methodology integrates with theology and philosophy to define and measure the virtue, and offers an evidence-based intervention for becoming more patient. She also discusses the connection between patience and gratitude, the role of patience in a meaningful life, and how acedia, a forgotten vice to modern people, lurks in the shadows when we are deficient in patience.Part 5 of a 6-episode series on Patience, hosted by Ryan McAnnally-Linz.Show NotesThis episode was made possible in part by a grant from Blueprint 1543.Why study patience from a psychological perspective?Patience as notably absentCan we suffer well? Can we wait well?David Baily Harned: Has patience gone out of style since the industrial revolution (Patience: How We Wait Upon the World)Waiting as a form of sufferingDaily hassles patience, interpersonal patience, and life hardships patienceMeasuring patience is easier than measuring love, joy, or gratitude, because it isn't as socially valued in contemporary lifeHow virtue channels toward different goalsPatience can help you achieve your goals by helping you regulate emotion, allowing you to stay calm, making decisions, persist through difficultiesPatience and the pursuit of justicePatience and assertiveness“If you're a doormat, it's not because you are patient, it's because you lack assertiveness."Aristotelian "Golden Mean” thinking: neither recklessly pushing through or giving up and disengaging. Patience allows you to pursue the goal in an emotionally stable wayUnity of the virtues: “We need a constellation of virtues for a person to really flourish in this world."Golden Mean, excess, deficiency, too much and too littleAcedia and Me, Kathleen Norris on a forgotten viceAcedia in relationship: “Even in the pandemic… monotony…"The overlapping symptoms of acedia and depressionPatience is negatively correlated with depression symptoms; people with more life-hardships patience is a strength that helps people cope with some types of depressionPatience and gratitude buffer against ultimate struggles with existential meaning and suicide riskHow do you become more patient? “It requires patience to become more patient."Three Step Process for becoming more patient: Identify, Imagine, and SyncStep 1: Identify your emotional state. Patience is not suppression; it begins with attention and noticing—identifying what's going on.Step 2: Cognitive reappraisal: one of the most effective ways to regulate our emotions. Think about your own emotions from another person's perspective, or in light of the bigger picture. Take each particular situation and reappraise it. Find benefits. Turn a curse into a blessing. Find opportunities.Step 3: Sync with your purpose. Create a narrative that supports the meaning of suffering. For many this is religious faithReappraising cognitive reappraisal: How convinced do you have to be? You'd have to find something with “epistemic teeth”—is this something you can rationally endorse and know, and can you feel it? Combining patience and gratitude practices, allowing for multiple emotions at once, and reimagining and reappraising one's life within your understanding of purpose and meaning.Provide psychological distance to attenuate emotional response.The existential relevance of faith for patience; theological background of patiencePatience and a life worth livingLove, the unity of the virtues, and "the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation" (2 Peter 3)About Sarah SchnitkerSarah Schnitker is Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Baylor University. She holds a PhD and an MA in Personality and Social Psychology from the University of California, Davis, and a BA in Psychology from Grove City College. Schnitker studies virtue and character development in adolescents and emerging adults, with a focus on the role of spirituality and religion in virtue formation. She specializes in the study of patience, self-control, gratitude, generosity, and thrift. Schnitker has procured more than $3.5 million in funding as a principle investigator on multiple research grants, and she has published in a variety of scientific journals and edited volumes. Schnitker is a Member-at-Large for APA Division 36 – Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, is a Consulting Editor for the organization's flagship journal, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, and is the recipient of the Virginia Sexton American Psychological Association's Division 36 Mentoring Award. Follow her on Twitter @DrSchnitker.Production NotesThis podcast featured psychologist Sarah Schnitker and theologian Ryan McAnnally-LinzEdited and Produced by Evan RosaHosted by Evan RosaProduction Assistance by Martin Chan & Nathan JowersA Production of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture at Yale Divinity School https://faith.yale.edu/aboutSupport For the Life of the World podcast by giving to the Yale Center for Faith & Culture: https://faith.yale.edu/give

Kathleen Norris, Poor Dear Margaret Kirby

For Reading Out Loud

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2021 31:19

In “Poor Dear Margaret Kirby,” the significance of a devastating loss is realized only much later. A wise, insightful story by Kathleen Norris (1880-1966).

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Conversation with author Kathleen Norris

Failing Boldly

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2021 38:59

One of the benefits of doing a podcast is it gives me the opportunity to reach out to people whose work I've long admired and see if there's any chance they'd like to talk to me. It's always a joyful surprise when many of them say yes. That was the case when I heard from Kathleen Norris and when she agreed to this conversation. I was greatly formed in my early days of ministry by her books, “The Cloister Walk” and “Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith,” and she's written numerous other poems and books, as well, including “Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and A Writer's Life,” which we talk about in this episode. Kathleen recently wrote an article in The Christian Century entitled "We have to be willing to begin again: This is true of failures in writing, in faith, in life itself.” She writes about failure in this article and that, of course, inspired me to reach out. You can learn more about Kathleen on her Facebook page and subscribe to her e-newsletter at Soul Telegram. To learn more about my ministry and back episodes of this podcast, you can go to my web site. Thanks again for listening.

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79: The Laundry Episode

Finding Holy

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2021 31:15

What does our laundry have to do with the big ideas of life? At the Finding Holy podcast, I ask all my guests about their laundry routines. In this episode, hear why I ask that question, some memorable routines, and some tips for you as you connect the dots between the things that matter and your everyday, holy life. LINKS The Quotidian Mysteries by Kathleen Norris: https://amzn.to/3AStaYD Follow Ashley on Twitter or Instagram Curious about the original episodes? Check these out: Jen Pollock Michel, episode 70 on habits of faith Katelyn Beaty, episode 69, on influencer culture and women John Starke, episode 68, on prayer in a pandemic Sam Wheatley, episode 8, on parking in NYC Leslie Leyland Fields, episode 47, on how your story matters Dennae Pierre, episode 25, on ministry in an ordinary place Mike Cosper, episode 21 , on imagination, mental health and writing Season 5 -- all about finding a Spacious Life through your limits -- starts in August! Subscribe to stay tuned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7. Ritual

Nuance Tea

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2021 37:14

In episode 7, Brittany and Aurelia speak on the ways rituals have informed our routine, creativity and expansion. Hear the ways we all can make space for daily spiritual practice through the art of quotidian & community. Listen to Nuance Tea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify or your favorite podcast platform! Theme song by Sherricka Yvette, Jam Session Find her music on Spotify Follow her on IG @sherrickayvette Show Intro (0:25) The Essentials (1:40) Brittany is grounding herself in the garden & watching mindless TV Aurelia is focusing on spiritual practice & centering through prayer Mantra (8:22) Breathe & proceed. Maya: “There's something about seeing the word breathe that makes you want to surrender & lean into it…” Embrace self-compassion. Larry: “I can show myself compassion by smiling at all the beautiful ways I fall short of the person I tell myself I should be…” Ritual Conversation (15:54) The quotidian connection (Influenced by Kathleen Norris' book) Distinction between one-time & continual ritual moments Limitless ways to think about ritual in your own life Find our communiTEA on IG & Facebook @nuanceteapodcast (36:30)

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Friday, March 12, 2021

Christian History Almanac

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2021 7:44

The year was 2000. Today we remember the Archbishop Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei. The reading is "Imperatives" by Kathleen Norris. #OTD #ChristianHistory #1517 — FULL TRANSCRIPTS available: https://www.1517.org/podcasts/the-christian-history-almanac GIVE BACK: Support the work of 1517 today CONTACT: CHA@1517.org SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play FOLLOW US: Facebook Twitter Audio production by Christopher Gillespie (gillespie.media).

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The PloughRead: The Gift of Death by Leslie Verner

The PloughCast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2021 15:58

Observing the death of a dear friend, Leslie Verner reflects on chronos (clock time) versus kairos, moments that reveal what truly matters. She draws on Madeleine L'Engle's Walking on Water, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity, George Eliot's Middlemarch, When Breath Becomes Air, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, Jean-Charles Nault, Kathleen Norris, Saint Benedict, Evagrius, and the New Testament. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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015: Looking Closer at Evangelicals and the Movies: Film Critic Jeffrey Overstreet

Veterans of Culture Wars

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2021 92:14

Roger Ebert said, "The movies are like a machine that generates empathy." Film critic and author Jeffrey Overstreet joins the pod to talk about how Evangelicals approach movies, cinematic art, transcendence, and empathy, as well as spiritually based themes in the films by the Coen Bros. He also shares some of his favorite films from 2020. -Jeffrey Overstreet's website: lookingcloser.org -"The Theology of the Coen Brothers? A Conversation Between Matt Zoller Seitz and Jeffrey Overstreet" https://www.lookingcloser.org/blog/2018/04/20/the-theology-of-the-coen-brothers-a-conversation-between-matt-zoller-seitz-and-jeffrey-overstreet/ -Buy Jeffrey's memoir of moviegoing and faith, "Through a Screen Darkly": https://www.amazon.com/Through-Screen-Darkly-Looking-Closer/dp/0830743154/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1N4KTUBB4XHQO&dchild=1&keywords=through+a+screen+darkly&qid=1613176010&sprefix=through+a+screen+%2Caps%2C204&sr=8-1 -Buy Jeffrey's fantasy novel "Auralia's Colors": https://www.thriftbooks.com/series/the-auralia-thread/42859/ Mentioned on the Pod: Book: "Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith" by Kathleen Norris. Song: "Street Hassle" by Lou Reed. Film: Midnight Run (d. Martin Brest) Film: Extra Ordinary (d. Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman) Film: Lady Bird (d. Greta Gerwig) Film: Little Fish (d. Chad Hartigan) Film: Save Yourselves! (d. Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson) Overstreet's Top 5 Films of 2020: 5) Shirley (d. Josephine Decker) 4) Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (d. Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross) 3) Lover's Rock (d. Steve McQueen) 2) Minari (d. Lee Isaac Chung) 1) Nomadland (d. Chloe Zhao) -Check out Zach's music by going to: https://muzach.bandcamp.com -Read Dave's occasional blogging at: www.dangeroushope.wordpress.com. Twitter: Zach- @muzach Dave- @Davejlester Jeffrey- @overstweet Podcast music by Zach Malm Logo by Zach Malm

Ash Wednesday, Lent, and Advice for Spiritual Wanderers

Pod Have Mercy.

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2021 37:33

On the new season of Pod Have Mercy, we're looking at stories of faith from fresh perspectives. On this week's episode, Jackson checks in with writer Traci Rhoades. They discuss how Ash Wednesday and spiritual practices have changed with our times and the beauty of looking at traditions outside our own. You can read Traci's blog at tracesoffaith.com You can find Little Girls in Church by Kathleen Norris here: https://cutt.ly/SlpKB6g You can also find Sounding the Seasons: Seventy Sonnets for Christian Year by Malcolm Guite here: https://cutt.ly/ulpLekM

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I love you, let's break up 사랑해, 우리 헤어지자 - #청춘기록 Record of Youth Ep 13-16

Kingka Podcast - K-Drama and Language Learning

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2020 40:11

Wrapping up our take on #청춘기록 (Record of Youth), here's an episode where we sum up all our thoughts especially about the relationships that we came to love or hate in the show. Please look below for details of the discussion.00:00 monologue and introduction03:20 Record of Youth impressions, rewatch value07:40 commentary on (character) relationships - love ships, friendship, family ship, whatever ship LOL16:40 is it really the biggest let down of the year? who is the real antagonist? we all need our own 민재누나24:30 language discussion (vocabulary words of the week, sentence pattern of the week, favorite phrase of the week)and more!!!Did you like this episode? Or perhaps, do you have questions?Send us a tweet @RomeJuanatas or @kingkapodcastYou can also follow this Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/kingkapodcastor follow the podcast on IG: 킹카 King of K-Drama (@kingkapodcast)-----**Vocabulary Words of the Week**1. 다큐로 받으면 literal meaning - if you take it as a documentaryimplied meaning - if you take it too seriouslysample sentence:야, 너 이걸 다큐로 받으면 어떡해? Hey don't take it so seriously인생은 원래 다큐야 드라마가 아니라고 Life is serious. It's no joking matter2. 신용하다 信用 credit, credibility; (신뢰) confidence (in), trust, believe (in), rely onsample sentence:아무의 진술을 신용하다Give credit [or credence] to a person's statement 3. 친밀감 (親密感) sense of closeness, intimacy sample sentence:결혼을 이루는 것은 결혼식이나 정부에서 발행한 종잇장이 아니라 바로 친밀감이다. (캐슬린 노리스, 남녀명언)Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state. (Kathleen Norris)4. 근사하다 nice , wonderful , marvelous , (informal) great , (informal) fabulous , (formal) splendid sample sentence:이 둘의 연기 또한 아주 근사하다.They're also very good actors. 5. 단도직입 單刀直入 straightforwardnesssample sentence:단도직입적으로 말해 주지 않을래?Won't you speak frankly? **Sentence pattern of the week**(ㅇㅇㅇ) 필요 없다 [I/We/They] don't need (blank)[He/She/It] doesn't need (blank)sample: 기죽을 필요 없다 We don't need to feel small **Favorite quote of the week**너한테 아름답게 기억되고 싶어 기억해 줘우리가 함께한 모든 시간I want to be remembered as a beautiful memoryPromise me that you'll rememberthe time we spent together

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Saints In Limbo - Hearth and Home

Saints In Limbo

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2020 11:34

What does it mean to be 'home'? And what do we long for when we are homesick? For some its the saltwater. For others the mountains. A place we have known and loved all our lives. For others it is the people that make it feel like home. This week we explore the word home and what it means to different people and how we find our true homes the same way we might discover our true north. A reading from The Messenger of Magnolia Street and West With the Night by Beryl Markham and references about Rick Bragg's Ava's Man and Kathleen Norris's The Cloister Walk.

71. Creative Placemaking in Small Towns with Judy Larson

The Growing Small Towns Show

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2020 45:22

Judy Larson, writer, musician, and artist, can remember a time when she wouldn't have considered herself a “creative”. On today's show, she shares her journey of embracing her own creativity, nurturing those skills and talents in others, and the impact it's had on her own life and her community. Not sure what creative placemaking even is? You need to listen to this one! About Judy With a background in healthcare and economic development, JUDY LARSON has found her passion in building healthy communities. She's a connector and communicator, a listener and lover of people. In 2018, Judy helped to establish Placemakers Co-op, a group dedicated to creating space for makers and do-ers to share ideas, collaborate, build relationships and use their talents. In addition to hosting a unique community-focused event each month, Placemakers Co-op also works with LIVE Inc., an entity that provides services for people with developmental disabilities. Judy has been instrumental in forging a relationship between the two groups by organizing events and classes, (including an artist in residence) for all to enjoy, regardless of ability. In the spirit of People First Language, she believes we are all “people needing support”--people who are happier, healthier and better able to use and expand our talents when we are in a healthy, supportive community. In this episode, we cover: The one thing each of us is compelled to give to the world The difference between Strategic Planning and Strategic Doing What “Fail with Friends” is and how to start one in your community How to use micro-commitments to build involvement The value of simply creating space for people to explore Links + Resources Mentioned The Placemakers Co-Op website: https://www.placemakersco-op.com/ Artists to check out and support! John Lopez: http://www.johnlopezstudio.com/ Brittany Schnell: https://brittanyography.com/ Kathleen Norris: https://writingforyourlife.com/ Shasta Marie Designs: https://shastamariedesigns.com/ Subscribe + Review Thanks for tuning into this week's episode of The Growing Small Towns Show! If the information in our conversations and interviews has helped you in your small town, head out to Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Spotify, subscribe to the show, and leave us an honest review. Your reviews and feedback will not only help us continue to deliver relevant, helpful content, but it will also help us reach even more small-town trailblazers just like you!

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"Reading Hope in Trying Times" with Kathleen Norris

Writing for Your Life podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2020 32:07

Kathleen shares her thoughts on the cornonavirus crisis and discusses her ways of dealing with adversity. Learn more about Kathleen here: http://barclayagency.com/site/speaker/kathleen-norris

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THE RAINBOW'S END by KATHLEEN NORRIS

1001 Greatest Love Stories

Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2020 41:22

A young actress, convalescing at the beach in the company of her doctor and his wife, is hounded by a young girl who idolizes her. An unusual series of events occur which reveal that they have more in common than they knew. NEW Enjoy THE 1001 HISTORY CHALLENGE on Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-history-challenge/id1482436263 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Android devices here: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=479022&refid=stpr. Get all of our shows at one website: www.1001storiespodcast.com HERE: (main website all 1001 shows) https://www.1001storiespodcast.com or HERE: at Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Iwdojx2zx4jj2xj25fwupwrdcxq or HERE at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-history-challenge/id1482436263 CALLING ALL FANS.. REVIEWS NEEDED FOR NEW SHOWS! REVIEWS NEEDED FOR NEW SHOWS! A SECOND NEW SHOW AT 1001- 1001 HISTORY'S BEST STORYTELLERS- OUR INTERVIEWS WITH SOME OF TODAY'S BEST HISTORY AUTHORS ...LINKS BELOW... all shows available at www.1001storiespodcast.com The Apple Podcast Link for 1001 History's Best Storytellers: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 The Stitcher.com link for 1001 History's Best Storytellers is:: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=474955&refid=stpr. SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Open these links to enjoy our shows! APPLE USERS Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2 Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901

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Kathleen Norris: Silence, Acedia, and Pandemic (Part Two)

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2020 29:20

This week's episode — our 100th overall, not counting our "pilot episode" — features the conclusion of Kathleen Norris's second conversation with Encountering Silence. Kathleen Norris is the award-winning poet, writer, and author of The New York Times bestsellers The Cloister Walk, Acedia and Me, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, Amazing Grace and The Virgin of Bennington. She’s also published seven books of poetry, her first being the 1971 Big Table Younger Poets award-winning Falling Off. I provide myself with enough chocolate to keep going. — Kathleen Norris Kathleen’s work explores the spiritual life with an intimate and historical perspective. Cassiday notes, "Her book Acedia & me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life accompanied me in the most beautiful ways a book ever has and truly changed my life—and it remains among my top 3 favorite books alongside Thomas Merton and Mary Oliver. I wept through the book feeling more understood and clear-headed about my own spiritual journey than ever before." This is part two of a two-part episode. Click here to listen to part one. I'll never forget, I was talking to an Episcopal nun; when I told her I was writing a book about acedia, she said, 'Well you know, you've taken on the devil himself.' And now that I've finished that book, I know exactly what she meant. She was absolutely right about that. The crazy thing is that her comment didn't stop me, I just kept going with it. — Kathleen Norris Amid the pandemic Kathleen shared some recent work on the National Catholic Reporter, offering tips for coping with acedia amid this time of slowing down and staying in. She writes, "I recognize acedia when it does turn up. Being forced to stay still is a breeding ground….It's the feeling of being totally bored and totally restless. It's a horrible combination… It isn't just depression. It isn't just boredom. It's a lot of things." Widowed in 2003, Kathleen is no stranger to living alone. She now divides her time between South Dakota and Honolulu, Hawaii. In our previous conversation with Kathleen in 2018, she had this to say: Silence sometimes shows you what you’re really suffering from… just to sit there and let the silence sink in, and often that’s when you discover what it is you’re really worried about, what you’re really suffering from, what your real concerns are, because when you’re busy in the world either with activity or a lot of verbal stuff going on, you’re ignoring some of those deeper things, and sitting in silence for a while, it will start to surface. Some of the resources and authors mentioned in this episode: Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace Kathleen Norris, Acedia and Me Kathleen Norris, Acedia and Me Audiobook Kathleen Norris, The Virgin of Bennington Kathleen Norris, Falling Off Kathleen Norris, Journey (includes the poem "The Presbyterian Women Serve Coffee at the Home") Patrick Shen, In Pursuit of Silence Episode 100: Silence, Acedia and Pandemic: A Conversation with Kathleen Norris (Part Two) Hosted by: Cassidy Hall With: Kevin Johnson, Carl McColman Guest: Kathleen Norris Date Recorded: April 27, 2020

Kathleen Norris: Silence, Acedia, and Pandemic (Part Two)

The Englewood Review of Books Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2020 1760:12

This week's episode — our 100th overall, not counting our "pilot episode" — features the conclusion of Kathleen Norris's second conversation with Encountering Silence. Kathleen Norris is the award-winning poet, writer, and author of The New York Times bestsellers The Cloister Walk, Acedia and Me, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, Amazing Grace and The Virgin of Bennington. She’s also published seven books of poetry, her first being the 1971 Big Table Younger Poets award-winning Falling Off. I provide myself with enough chocolate to keep going. — Kathleen Norris Kathleen’s work explores the spiritual life with an intimate and historical perspective. Cassiday notes, "Her book Acedia & me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life accompanied me in the most beautiful ways a book ever has and truly changed my life—and it remains among my top 3 favorite books alongside Thomas Merton and Mary Oliver. I wept through the book feeling more understood and clear-headed about my own spiritual journey than ever before." This is part two of a two-part episode. Click here to listen to part one. I'll never forget, I was talking to an Episcopal nun; when I told her I was writing a book about acedia, she said, 'Well you know, you've taken on the devil himself.' And now that I've finished that book, I know exactly what she meant. She was absolutely right about that. The crazy thing is that her comment didn't stop me, I just kept going with it. — Kathleen Norris Amid the pandemic Kathleen shared some recent work on the National Catholic Reporter, offering tips for coping with acedia amid this time of slowing down and staying in. She writes, "I recognize acedia when it does turn up. Being forced to stay still is a breeding ground….It's the feeling of being totally bored and totally restless. It's a horrible combination… It isn't just depression. It isn't just boredom. It's a lot of things." Widowed in 2003, Kathleen is no stranger to living alone. She now divides her time between South Dakota and Honolulu, Hawaii. In our previous conversation with Kathleen in 2018, she had this to say: Silence sometimes shows you what you’re really suffering from… just to sit there and let the silence sink in, and often that’s when you discover what it is you’re really worried about, what you’re really suffering from, what your real concerns are, because when you’re busy in the world either with activity or a lot of verbal stuff going on, you’re ignoring some of those deeper things, and sitting in silence for a while, it will start to surface. Some of the resources and authors mentioned in this episode: Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace Kathleen Norris, Acedia and Me Kathleen Norris, Acedia and Me Audiobook Kathleen Norris, The Virgin of Bennington Kathleen Norris, Falling Off Kathleen Norris, Journey (includes the poem "The Presbyterian Women Serve Coffee at the Home") Patrick Shen, In Pursuit of Silence Episode 100: Silence, Acedia and Pandemic: A Conversation with Kathleen Norris (Part Two) Hosted by: Cassidy Hall With: Kevin Johnson, Carl McColman Guest: Kathleen Norris Date Recorded: April 27, 2020

Episode 5 - Reading Under Quarantine (part 1) with Ashley Hales & Brandon O'Brien

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2020 30:58

In the first of a two-part conversation about reading under the Covid "quarantine," Chris and Jen have a lively discussion with writers Ashley Hales and Brandon O'Brien. They discuss what their reading experience is like right now, what types of books and authors they're gravitating to, and get pretty honest about the challenges of home life during this season.Books mentioned in this episode:Keeping Place: Reflections on the Meaning of Home by Jen Pollock MichelFinding Holy in the Suburbs: Living Faithfully in the Land of Too Much by Ashley HalesThe Imperfect Pastor: Discovering Joy in Our Limitations through a Daily Apprenticeship with Jesus by Zack EswineLove Big, Be Well: Letters to a Small-Town Church by Winn CollierThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisA Spacious Life by Ashley Hales (forthcoming release, working title)Not From Around Here: What Unites Us, What Divides Us, and How We Can Move Forward by Brandon O'BrienSilence by Shusako EndoThe Power and the Glory by Graham GreeneThe End of the Affair by Graham GreeneHillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. VanceAcedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life by Kathleen Norris

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Kathleen Norris: Silence, Acedia, and Pandemic (Part One)

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2020 35:30

Our returning guest Kathleen Norris is the award-winning poet, writer, and author of The New York Times bestsellers The Cloister Walk, Acedia and Me, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, Amazing Grace, and The Virgin of Bennington. She’s also published seven books of poetry, her first being the 1971 Big Table Younger Poets award-winning Falling Off. Kathleen’s work explores the spiritual life with an intimate and historical perspective. Cassidy notes, "Her book Acedia & me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life accompanied me in the most beautiful ways a book ever has and truly changed my life—and it remains among my top 3 favorite books alongside Thomas Merton and Mary Oliver. I wept through the book feeling more understood and clear-headed about my own spiritual journey than ever before." This is part one of a two-part interview. Click here to listen to part two. Amid the pandemic Kathleen shared some recent work on the National Catholic Reporter, offering tips for coping with acedia amid this time of slowing down and staying in. She writes, "I recognize acedia when it does turn up. Being forced to stay still is a breeding ground….It's the feeling of being totally bored and totally restless. It's a horrible combination… It isn't just depression. It isn't just boredom. It's a lot of things." Acedia is a bad thought, it's a passion that is opportunistic, just like this virus. It will strike just when we're at a low point, our immune system is down, because we're feeling anxious and tired and restless and bored and sad about how things used to be — and all of those things are classic signs of acedia. — Kathleen Norris Widowed in 2003, Kathleen is no stranger to living alone. She now divides her time between South Dakota and Honolulu, Hawaii. Silence sometimes shows you what you’re really suffering from… just to sit there and let the silence sink in, and often that’s when you discover what it is you’re really worried about, what you’re really suffering from, what your real concerns are, because when you’re busy in the world either with activity or a lot of verbal stuff going on, you’re ignoring some of those deeper things, and sitting in silence for a while, it will start to surface. — Kathleen Norris Some of the resources and authors mentioned in this episode: Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace Kathleen Norris, Acedia and Me Kathleen Norris, Acedia and Me Audiobook Kathleen Norris, The Virgin of Bennington Kathleen Norris, Falling Off Saint Benedict, The Rule of Saint Benedict William Shakespeare, Collected Works Isaac Newton, The Principia The Desert Mothers and Fathers, Early Christian Wisdom Sayings Dante, The Divine Comedy Ignatius of Loyola, Personal Writings Thomas Aquinas, Selected Writings Evagrius Ponticus, The Praktikos & Chapters on Prayer Alexis Trader, Ancient Christian Wisdom and Aaron Beck’s Cognitive Therapy: A Meeting of Minds Gregory the Great, Pastoral Care Saint Ambrose, On Virginity Gail Fitzpatrick, OCSO, Seasons of Grace: Wisdom from the Cloister The opposite of acedia is love. So that if you can work your way through acedia, stagger through all of those bad thoughts that are telling you that nothing matters, and reconnect with other people, realizing who you love and doing what love requires ... that is one way we can fight our way through acedia. — Kathleen Norris Episode 99: Silence, Acedia and Pandemic: A Conversation with Kathleen Norris (Part One) Hosted by: Cassidy Hall With: Kevin Johnson, Carl McColman Guest: Kathleen Norris Date Recorded: April 27, 2020 Featured photo by Edwin Hooper on Unsplash.

Kathleen Norris: Silence, Acedia, and Pandemic (Part One)

Christian History Almanac

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2020 2130:12

Our returning guest Kathleen Norris is the award-winning poet, writer, and author of The New York Times bestsellers The Cloister Walk, Acedia and Me, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, Amazing Grace, and The Virgin of Bennington. She’s also published seven books of poetry, her first being the 1971 Big Table Younger Poets award-winning Falling Off. Kathleen’s work explores the spiritual life with an intimate and historical perspective. Cassidy notes, "Her book Acedia & me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life accompanied me in the most beautiful ways a book ever has and truly changed my life—and it remains among my top 3 favorite books alongside Thomas Merton and Mary Oliver. I wept through the book feeling more understood and clear-headed about my own spiritual journey than ever before." This is part one of a two-part interview. Click here to listen to part two. Amid the pandemic Kathleen shared some recent work on the National Catholic Reporter, offering tips for coping with acedia amid this time of slowing down and staying in. She writes, "I recognize acedia when it does turn up. Being forced to stay still is a breeding ground….It's the feeling of being totally bored and totally restless. It's a horrible combination… It isn't just depression. It isn't just boredom. It's a lot of things." Acedia is a bad thought, it's a passion that is opportunistic, just like this virus. It will strike just when we're at a low point, our immune system is down, because we're feeling anxious and tired and restless and bored and sad about how things used to be — and all of those things are classic signs of acedia. — Kathleen Norris Widowed in 2003, Kathleen is no stranger to living alone. She now divides her time between South Dakota and Honolulu, Hawaii. Silence sometimes shows you what you’re really suffering from… just to sit there and let the silence sink in, and often that’s when you discover what it is you’re really worried about, what you’re really suffering from, what your real concerns are, because when you’re busy in the world either with activity or a lot of verbal stuff going on, you’re ignoring some of those deeper things, and sitting in silence for a while, it will start to surface. — Kathleen Norris Some of the resources and authors mentioned in this episode: Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace Kathleen Norris, Acedia and Me Kathleen Norris, Acedia and Me Audiobook Kathleen Norris, The Virgin of Bennington Kathleen Norris, Falling Off Saint Benedict, The Rule of Saint Benedict William Shakespeare, Collected Works Isaac Newton, The Principia The Desert Mothers and Fathers, Early Christian Wisdom Sayings Dante, The Divine Comedy Ignatius of Loyola, Personal Writings Thomas Aquinas, Selected Writings Evagrius Ponticus, The Praktikos & Chapters on Prayer Alexis Trader, Ancient Christian Wisdom and Aaron Beck’s Cognitive Therapy: A Meeting of Minds Gregory the Great, Pastoral Care Saint Ambrose, On Virginity Gail Fitzpatrick, OCSO, Seasons of Grace: Wisdom from the Cloister The opposite of acedia is love. So that if you can work your way through acedia, stagger through all of those bad thoughts that are telling you that nothing matters, and reconnect with other people, realizing who you love and doing what love requires ... that is one way we can fight our way through acedia. — Kathleen Norris Episode 99: Silence, Acedia and Pandemic: A Conversation with Kathleen Norris (Part One) Hosted by: Cassidy Hall With: Kevin Johnson, Carl McColman Guest: Kathleen Norris Date Recorded: April 27, 2020

Saturday, April 25, 2020

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2020 7:55

On this day, we celebrate the feast of St. Mark and remember Charles Fuller b. 1887. The reading is "Imperatives" by Kathleen Norris. — Questions? Comments? Show Ideas? Send them to us at CHA@1517.org. And, of course, share us with a friend or two! Please subscribe, rate, and review us on the following Podcast portals and apps: Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play You can also like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. This show was produced by Christopher Gillespie, a Lutheran pastor (stjohnrandomlake.org), coffee roaster (gillespie.coffee), and media producer (gillespie.media). We’re a part of 1517 Podcasts, a network of shows dedicated to delivering Christ-centered content. Our podcasts cover a multitude of content, from Christian doctrine, apologetics, cultural engagement, and powerful preaching. Support the work of 1517 today.

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Questions that go unanswered, life in a monastery and the deepest kind of love

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2020 11:52

This episode offers a mixtape of stories that explore questions that go unanswered, life in a monastery and the many expressions of love. Find my work on Instagram @robin_norgren and @youbeyou4life. Show notes: taking flight by Kelly Rae Roberts, the cloister walk by Kathleen Norris and deepen the way you live your life by Robin Norgren, M.A. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/robin-norgren/support

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Rhythms in monastic living, a poem and your life

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2020 13:04

This episode offers three stories that give perspective on rhythms in our lives and in the world. Find my work on Instagram under @robin_norgren and @youbeyou4life. Show notes: the cloister walk by Kathleen Norris, saved by a poem by Kim Rosen and deepen the way you live your life by Robin Norgren, M.A. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/robin-norgren/support

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Do not fear: honoring the quest

fear quest honoring kathleen norris

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2020 16:32

This episode shares three stories that give perspective on letting go of fear, the value of a quest and making hard choices. Find me on Instagram under @robin_norgren or @youbeyou4life. Show notes: the cloister walk by Kathleen Norris, the happiness of pursuit by Chris guillebeau and your creative peace by Robin Norgren. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/robin-norgren/support

The poet, seeing clearly and the shadow side of action

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2020 18:36

This episode tells three stories around the themes of the poet, clarity and the shadow side of action. Find my work on Instagram under @robin_norgren and @youbeyou4life. Show notes: devotions by Mary Oliver, the cloister walk by Kathleen Norris and the active life by Parker j Palmer. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/robin-norgren/support

Begin a quest, looking for meaning and enjoying life

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2020 20:13

This episode discusses the criteria of a quest, the rules we need to follow in life and how rest is found in creativity. Find me on Instagram at @robin_norgren or @yourbeyou4life. Show notes: the happiness of pursuit by Chris guillebeau, your creative peace by Robin Norgren and the cloister walk by Kathleen Norris. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/robin-norgren/support

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1001 Greatest Love Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2020 33:51

A wealthy young San Francisco married couple whose lives seem to be growing apart suddenly experience a financial calamity and things turn from bad to worse.. This is a powerful story of the strength of the human spirit and the ability that some people have to change their lives for the better after being faced with the worst.. Support our show and checkout www.simplisafe.com/1001! Only 14.99/mo- no long contracts-no tools required. This is a great product- highly reviewed (40,000 Amazon reviews)- we recommend it. NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Android devices here: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=479022&refid=stpr. Get all of our shows at one website: www.1001storiespodcast.com HERE: (main website all 1001 shows) https://www.1001storiespodcast.com or HERE: at Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Iwdojx2zx4jj2xj25fwupwrdcxq or HERE at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-history-challenge/id1482436263 CALLING ALL FANS.. REVIEWS NEEDED FOR NEW SHOWS! REVIEWS NEEDED FOR NEW SHOWS! A SECOND NEW SHOW AT 1001- 1001 HISTORY'S BEST STORYTELLERS- OUR INTERVIEWS WITH SOME OF TODAY'S BEST HISTORY AUTHORS ...LINKS BELOW... all shows available at www.1001storiespodcast.com The Apple Podcast Link for 1001 History's Best Storytellers: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 The Stitcher.com link for 1001 History's Best Storytellers is:: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=474955&refid=stpr. SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Open these links to enjoy our shows! APPLE USERS Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2 Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Player.fm FREE: https://player.fm/series/1001-radio-days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Classic-Short-Stories-%26-Tales-id1323543?country=us 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Heroes%2C-Legends%2C-Histories-%26-Mysteries-Podcast-id1323418?country=us 1001 Stories for the Road:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Stories-For-The-Road-id1324757?country=us Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to www.1001storiesnetwork.com- our home website with Megaphon

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Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby by Kathleen Norris

LitReading - Classic Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2020 26:21

Happiness has always been elusive, usually found in unexpected places and, often, in the wake of the worst life eventsIn this heart-warming story, an affluent couple discovers what is truly important in life in the wake of both a fiscal and physical tragedy.Kathleen Norris was, for a time, the highest paid female writer in early 20th-century America.

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Hidden power, wholeness and words of love

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2020 14:32

This episode talks about the power a woman embodies, the real way to wholeness and how love can be found within the right words spoken at the right time. Find my work on Instagram under @robin_norgren or @youbeyou4life. Show notes: the cloister walk by Kathleen Norris, an active life by Parker j. Palmer and devotions by Mary Oliver. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/robin-norgren/support

Waiting for the Light | a sermon for Candlemas

saint benedict's table

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2020 15:32

A sermon for Candlemas - The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord - on Luke 2:22-40, offered by Rachel Twigg on February 2, 2020.This podcast is created at saint benedict's table, a congregation of the Anglican Church of Canada in Winnipeg. We've been podcasting since 2006 and put a renewed focus on this ministry in 2019.Our goal is to provide rich and stimulating audio resources to the wider church and engage topics and issues relevant to the concerns and questions of the larger culture in which we live.

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Actions Speak

Foundry UMC

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2019 20:13

Actions Speak…A sermon preached by Rev. Ginger E. Gaines-Cirelli at Foundry UMC, November 24, 2019, Reign of Christ Sunday, “Becoming Beloved” series. Text: Luke 6:27a, 31, 46-49 “But I say to you that listen…Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Throughout this Becoming Beloved series we have heard those two lines from Jesus’ Sermon on the Plain. Listen…Do… And while we have not focused on these words specifically, they have been a common thread throughout all the teachings of Jesus that we’ve explored. Today, the final section of teaching in Jesus’ sermon makes the connection between listening and doing explicit. Jesus calls out those who call him “Lord” but don’t do what he teaches. This seems an appropriate text for this day traditionally celebrated as “Reign of Christ” Sunday and on a day when many among us will affirm or reaffirm the promise to “serve [Jesus Christ] as Lord, in union with the Church which Christ has opened to people of all ages, nations, orientations, and races.” What does it mean to call Jesus your “Lord?” It’s a “walk your talk” message we receive today in the Gospel. And walking our talk, of course, is a matter of integrity. Are you taking the teachings of Jesus to heart, into your inward center, and allowing them to shape and inspire your outward actions? Do your words—what you say you value and desire—match what you actually do with your self and your stuff? I can’t help but think of Stephen Colbert’s statement that “If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.” As I recall, these words were spoken in the context of those who assert that the United States is “a Christian nation.” Colbert’s words highlight one of many disconnects between our stated values and our actions as a nation—we could name what’s been happening at the border, environmental policy, voter suppression, children going hungry in our backyards, and on and on. Colbert’s words also shine a light on people who call themselves Christian but ignore the teachings of Jesus, acting in ways that directly contradict them. Whether it is a nation, a church, or an individual, actions speak louder than words. The metaphor Jesus uses to get the point across is a foundation for a house. Those who listen and act upon Jesus’ words are like one who is willing to do what? Notice that the first thing Jesus says it that the one who acts on what they hear is willing to dig deeply. This is no quick or shallow activity requiring no effort or time. In order to get to the solid place, there’s some digging required, some excavation, a willingness to keep at it and to go deep. This is much of what we have been thinking about together over these past weeks. It is the work of paying attention to how our circumstances affect our hearts. It is the excavation and extraction of bitterness and hatred and prejudice and blinding fear from our inward center, trusting God to do within us what we can’t do ourselves. It is a willingness to get real and own our stuff—as citizens, as faith community, as persons. And all this is not the stuff of shallow study or proof texting scripture or checking a “went-to-church” box. It is the work of allowing the Word of God revealed in Jesus to cut through all our rationalizations and defenses and to change our lives. In the process, the bedrock is discovered, offering a firm foundation. A firm foundation is a foundation based on something real and true, not illusions or empty promises or lies. And, Lord knows, there are plenty of temptations, voices urging us to throw up a house on a shiny patch of sand with a nice water view and to buy the sales pitch that the spot hasn’t been stolen from others and the waters here never rise and the grace of this plot is cheap and will satisfy all you need to thrive without your ever having to do any maintenance or further investment of yourself. Jesus honors us enough to believe that we’ll see through that garbage. And says in essence, “Listen deeply and let my words and my love and my mercy and my grace give you the courage and strength to be real, to face the truth, and to act in ways that build something that lasts, to build a life on the solid rock of justice and compassion and gentleness and stewardship of the earth and love of God and of neighbor.” This all matters because when flood waters come—when we’re paddling as fast as we can but can’t keep up, when powerful forces are overwhelming us, when the stuff of life makes us feel like we’re drowning—the house built on that solid foundation will stand; when the waters ebb, we will have come through it whole. Blowing off the words of Jesus, being unwilling to do what it takes to “build our house well,” leaves us vulnerable and weak when trouble comes near. It’s not that living by the teachings of Jesus to be loving, non-retaliatory, merciful, generous, forgiving, humble, self-aware, and persons of integrity will keep us from getting hurt, disappointed, or damaged. It’s that no matter what happens, our foundation will hold us, our sense of meaning and purpose will help us keep perspective, our “inward center,” full of the love which has been lavished upon us by God, will be solid, keeping us from completely falling apart. Think of anyone you’ve seen persevere with grace and love in the face of persecution. Think not only of the fact that they are able to stand fast with the waters breaking against them, but also of the way that their witness inspires others. I also think of the Gospel-inspired teaching of MLK who famously taught that “Returning hate for hate multiplies hate… Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” Our hateful actions multiply hate… What we do is like fuel. Where we put our energy is like gasoline on whatever fire we throw it on. We can stoke the light and warmth of love and justice and peace or we can stoke the destructive fires of hatred, fear, and greed. Our actions, what we do with our time and energy, affects not only our own selves and household, but also the communities in which we live. Our actions affect the integrity of the household of God. We can burn the house down or light and fuel a warming fire at its center. Our goal here at Foundry is to create and nurture beloved community—a community that is fully inclusive, anti-racist, anti-colonial, humble, joyful, committed, faithful, generous, peacemaking, just, sacrificial—a community of integrity where love is not just a word we speak but the beating heart of all our actions. We know that in community, this is the work of lifetimes, of generations. Across years, every generation has to make sure the foundation remains sound, needs to check for fissures or erosion, needs to make sure the foundation is solid and sure enough to hold the new structures and challenges and revelations of the age. That is our work in these days. Each one of us has a role to play. We do our part by doing our own work on ourselves and having integrity around our own promises to participate fully in this shared life with our prayers, presence, gifts, service, and witness. We do our part by showing up when we are called to stand in solidarity and advocacy with our neighbors. We do our part by taking seriously our mission to love God and love each other. Simply showing up here in community is an important piece of all of these things.We may tend to think of coming to church or being in worship as something we do for ourselves—and, my hope is that what happens in this place any day of the week is nourishing for your life and growth. But I was recently reminded that our active participation in faith community isn’t ultimately something we do for ourselves. Writer Kathleen Norris remembers a pastor once saying that we “go to church for other people. Because someone may need you there.” Someone may be encouraged just to see your face or to share conversation over coffee or to connect about things you’re trying to manage at work or at home or a health issue, or the complicated realities of the dating scene. Someone may need you to see them, to receive them, to remember their name or to offer a handshake or a hug even if you don’t know their name. Our act of getting ourselves here to Foundry—or whatever faith community we call home—is a concrete act of love for God and for each other. Someone may need you here. If our collective commitment is to show up for each other, it means that others will show up for you. And if all of us come willing own our own stuff, do our work, and offer ourselves in love to God and each other, letting love and justice flow into all our actions in the world then we might be able, with integrity, to call Jesus “Lord,” we might, with integrity, claim we’re actively becoming beloved community. And that kind of community is one that withstands all the storms that rage across the years. That kind of community is one that offers hope and nourishes lives in every season. That kind of community changes the world. By God’s grace may it be so. i. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/327220-if-this-is-going-to-be-a-christian-nation-that ii. [1] Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, New York: Riverhead Books, 1998, p. 203-204.

Poor Dear Margaret Kirby by Kathleen Norris [22 minutes]

Read Me A Bedtime Story

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2019 22:30

A sweet tale of love lost, love found and the beauty of the simple things. Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Email Gillian at bedtimestorypod@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bedtime-story/support

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God rescues us? (8-25-19)

Kurt Borgmann Preaching

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2019 19:25

Camp Mack Sunday; Psalm 71:1-6; The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary," Robert Alter; "Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith," Kathleen Norris; Benediction: May God grant you an open door, a sure step, a taste of freedom, a courageous heart, a clear mind, a strong faith. And the peace of Christ go with you. Amen.

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Episode 67 - Beating the Summer Noon Day Devil

The Catholic Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2019 56:56

Topics we discussed:What acedia isHow we battle against the noon-day devilWhy acedia is rooted in an idolatry of ourselvesWorking with our handsTaking a cue from Christ and fighting the devil with Scripture Resources we mentioned: Daily Rosary Meditations with Holy Family School of Faith The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times by Dom Jean-Charles NaultThe Art of Manliness Podcast: The Quest for a Moral LifeFather Mike Schmitz's video on AcediaSt. Benedict Knew How to Beat the Blues by Elizabeth Scalia??Acedia and Me by Kathleen NorrisiBreviary appRebecca K. Renyold's poem about Psalm 23?Find Holy Family School of Faith:OnlineImages mentioned in this episode:L'Angélus by Jean-François Millet

Repent (3-24-19)

Kurt Borgmann Preaching

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2019 18:22

Luke 13:1-9; "Repentance," from Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, by Kathleen Norris; "The Voice of the Gardener," by Stephen Montgomery, from DayOne.org, 3/24/19.

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Kathleen Norris, Part Two: Silence, Poetry, and Acedia (Episode 36)

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2018 33:47

In this episode we conclude our interview with poet and essayist Kathleen Norris. In part one of the interview, Kathleen and Cassidy explored topics such as poetry, creativity, silence (of course) and acedia — a spiritual malady that she wrote about movingly in her memoir Acedia and Me. This is part two of a two part interview. Click here to listen to part one. Katherine Norris on Skype with Kevin Johnson and Carl McColman. This week the conversation continues with reflection on the value of monastic spirituality, the question of whether religion can be a force for good in today's world, how even monks can experience an overload of regulation, how toxic silence and self-censorship is a problem particularly for many women, and how a good writer moves beyond simple expression to caring for the reader. Structuring a life around writing is as crazy as structuring a life around prayer. — Kathleen Norris By drawing connections between poetry and prayer, or between liturgy and poetry, Kathleen Norris explores how a contemplative heart beats at the center of creativity as well as spirituality. She goes on to discuss the difficulties inherent in recording an audiobook, gives some pointers about reading her work, and offers a few thoughts on the challenge of using poetry while preaching. At the end of the interview Carl and Kevin join Cassidy and Kathleen (via Skype), to ask a few final questions. She offers a particularly spiritual perspective on who her "silence heroes" are, and reflects on how one of the most important qualities for her as writer has been simple candor. Liturgy itself is a poem — the daily liturgy of the monastery plus the eucharist, the mass, it really functions like a poem during the day — you know you're going to be entering this realm again of the mystery and the poetry and all of that, and then you're going to go and do your chores and do whatever else you're doing, but there is a certain poetic quality to it, that is really refreshing, and I think that's one of the big appeals to me — it was the poetry that drew me in. — Kathleen Norris Katherine Norris and Cassidy Hall Some of the resources and authors mentioned in this episode: Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace Kathleen Norris, Acedia and Me Kathleen Norris, Acedia and Me Audiobook Kathleen Norris, The Virgin of Bennington Kathleen Norris, Falling Off (includes "Prayer to Eve") Tillie Olson, Silences Tillie Olson, Tell Me a Riddle and Other Stories John Sayles (dir.), Brother From Another Planet John Berryman, The Dream Songs Thomas Merton, Audio recordings on various topics Denise Levertov, The Stream and the Sapphire Robert Frost, The Poetry of Robert Frost Jane Flanders, Timepiece(includes "Planting Onions") Rumi, The Essential Rumi Emily Dickinson, Letters Episode 36: Silence, Poetry and Acedia: A Conversation with Kathleen Norris (Part Two) Hosted by: Cassidy Hall With: Kevin Johnson, Carl McColman Guest: Kathleen Norris Date Recorded: September 17, 2018

Kathleen Norris, Part Two: Silence, Poetry, and Acedia (Episode 36)

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2018 2027:12

In this episode we conclude our interview with poet and essayist Kathleen Norris. In part one of the interview, Kathleen and Cassidy explored topics such as poetry, creativity, silence (of course) and acedia — a spiritual malady that she wrote about movingly in her memoir Acedia and Me. This is part two of a two part interview. Click here to listen to part one. Katherine Norris on Skype with Kevin Johnson and Carl McColman. This week the conversation continues with reflection on the value of monastic spirituality, the question of whether religion can be a force for good in today's world, how even monks can experience an overload of regulation, how toxic silence and self-censorship is a problem particularly for many women, and how a good writer moves beyond simple expression to caring for the reader. Structuring a life around writing is as crazy as structuring a life around prayer. — Kathleen Norris By drawing connections between poetry and prayer, or between liturgy and poetry, Kathleen Norris explores how a contemplative heart beats at the center of creativity as well as spirituality. She goes on to discuss the difficulties inherent in recording an audiobook, gives some pointers about reading her work, and offers a few thoughts on the challenge of using poetry while preaching. At the end of the interview Carl and Kevin join Cassidy and Kathleen (via Skype), to ask a few final questions. She offers a particularly spiritual perspective on who her "silence heroes" are, and reflects on how one of the most important qualities for her as writer has been simple candor. Liturgy itself is a poem — the daily liturgy of the monastery plus the eucharist, the mass, it really functions like a poem during the day — you know you're going to be entering this realm again of the mystery and the poetry and all of that, and then you're going to go and do your chores and do whatever else you're doing, but there is a certain poetic quality to it, that is really refreshing, and I think that's one of the big appeals to me — it was the poetry that drew me in. — Kathleen Norris Katherine Norris and Cassidy Hall Some of the resources and authors mentioned in this episode: Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace Kathleen Norris, Acedia and Me Kathleen Norris, Acedia and Me Audiobook Kathleen Norris, The Virgin of Bennington Kathleen Norris, Falling Off (includes "Prayer to Eve") Tillie Olson, Silences Tillie Olson, Tell Me a Riddle and Other Stories John Sayles (dir.), Brother From Another Planet John Berryman, The Dream Songs Thomas Merton, Audio recordings on various topics Denise Levertov, The Stream and the Sapphire Robert Frost, The Poetry of Robert Frost Jane Flanders, Timepiece(includes "Planting Onions") Rumi, The Essential Rumi Emily Dickinson, Letters Episode 36: Silence, Poetry and Acedia: A Conversation with Kathleen Norris (Part Two) Hosted by: Cassidy Hall With: Kevin Johnson, Carl McColman Guest: Kathleen Norris Date Recorded: September 17, 2018

Kathleen Norris, Part One: Silence, Poetry, and Acedia (Episode 35)

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2018 2063:12

Kathleen Norris and Cassidy Hall A self-described "evangelist for poetry," Kathleen Norris explores the spiritual life in both intimate and historical ways, through her award-winning poetry and luminous works of literary nonfiction, including Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, The Cloister Walk, and Acedia and Me. In addition to her distinguished literary career, she is a Presbyterian layperson and a Benedictine Oblate. "There's natural noise, like wind, that contributes to silence. It may be loud, in fact, but it's not mechanical noise, it's not human generated noise. It actually feels more like silence than not — like rain, or ocean waves, or wind in grass and trees. That has a silent quality to it." — Kathleen Norris This is part one of a two-part interview. Click here to listen to part two. Norris launches into her interview by recounting stories of introducing children to silence, moving on to muse about "the terror of the blank page" and how silence is not always a comfortable presence. She muses on how the structured life of a monastery has been a blessing to her both as a contemplative and as a writer; how her earliest encounters with silence were bound up with family dynamics; and how silence became her ally as a young poet in college. "Silence sometimes shows you what you're really suffering from... just to sit there and let the silence sink in, and often that's when you discover what it is you're really worried about, what you're really suffering from, what your real concerns are, because when you're busy in the world either with activity or a lot of verbal stuff going on, you're ignoring some of those deeper things, and sitting in silence for a while, it will start to surface." — Kathleen Norris Her conversation with Cassidy (Carl and Kevin join in later in the conversation, and will appear in part two of this interview) covers a wide range, from musing on the relationship between silence and the sounds of nature, to the ways in which silence can touch on situations like depression, vulnerability, and acedia. She muses on how noisy cities are (she spends some of her time in Honolulu) and reflects on how people in our culture have created a "coccoon of noise" that seems to arise out of an existential fear of silence. "Acedia basically means not being able to care, even to the extent that you no longer care that you can't care. It's this really weird mixture of restlessness, boredom, despair... I agree with the desert monks that it is a major human emotion, the same as anger or greed or envy; it's just been ignored." — Kathleen Norris Some of the resources and authors mentioned in this episode: Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk Kathleen Norris, Acedia and Me Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace Kathleen Norris, The Virgin of Bennington Kathleen Norris, Falling Off Thomas Merton, Collected Poems of Thomas Merton David Dwyer, Ariana Olisvos: Her Last Works and Days Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language" found in Essays William Stafford, Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems The Psalms Jane Flanders, Timepiece Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems Denise Levertov, The Collected Poems Ann Porter, Living Things: Collected Poems Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias Mechthild of Magdeburg, The Flowing Light of the Godhead Evagrius Ponticus, The Praktikos & Chapters on Prayer The Desert Mothers, Spiritual Practices from the Women of the Wilderness Robert Wise, dir., The Sound of Music Gregory the Great, Dialogues Kathleen Norris on Skype with Carl McColman and Kevin Johnson.

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Kathleen Norris, Part One: Silence, Poetry, and Acedia (Episode 35)

Stories of Yore and Yours

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2018 34:23

Kathleen Norris and Cassidy Hall A self-described "evangelist for poetry," Kathleen Norris explores the spiritual life in both intimate and historical ways, through her award-winning poetry and luminous works of literary nonfiction, including Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, The Cloister Walk, and Acedia and Me. In addition to her distinguished literary career, she is a Presbyterian layperson and a Benedictine Oblate. "There's natural noise, like wind, that contributes to silence. It may be loud, in fact, but it's not mechanical noise, it's not human generated noise. It actually feels more like silence than not — like rain, or ocean waves, or wind in grass and trees. That has a silent quality to it." — Kathleen Norris This is part one of a two-part interview. Click here to listen to part two. Norris launches into her interview by recounting stories of introducing children to silence, moving on to muse about "the terror of the blank page" and how silence is not always a comfortable presence. She muses on how the structured life of a monastery has been a blessing to her both as a contemplative and as a writer; how her earliest encounters with silence were bound up with family dynamics; and how silence became her ally as a young poet in college. "Silence sometimes shows you what you're really suffering from... just to sit there and let the silence sink in, and often that's when you discover what it is you're really worried about, what you're really suffering from, what your real concerns are, because when you're busy in the world either with activity or a lot of verbal stuff going on, you're ignoring some of those deeper things, and sitting in silence for a while, it will start to surface." — Kathleen Norris Her conversation with Cassidy (Carl and Kevin join in later in the conversation, and will appear in part two of this interview) covers a wide range, from musing on the relationship between silence and the sounds of nature, to the ways in which silence can touch on situations like depression, vulnerability, and acedia. She muses on how noisy cities are (she spends some of her time in Honolulu) and reflects on how people in our culture have created a "coccoon of noise" that seems to arise out of an existential fear of silence. "Acedia basically means not being able to care, even to the extent that you no longer care that you can't care. It's this really weird mixture of restlessness, boredom, despair... I agree with the desert monks that it is a major human emotion, the same as anger or greed or envy; it's just been ignored." — Kathleen Norris Some of the resources and authors mentioned in this episode: Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk Kathleen Norris, Acedia and Me Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace Kathleen Norris, The Virgin of Bennington Kathleen Norris, Falling Off Thomas Merton, Collected Poems of Thomas Merton David Dwyer, Ariana Olisvos: Her Last Works and Days Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language" found in Essays William Stafford, Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems The Psalms Jane Flanders, Timepiece Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems Denise Levertov, The Collected Poems Ann Porter, Living Things: Collected Poems Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias Mechthild of Magdeburg, The Flowing Light of the Godhead Evagrius Ponticus, The Praktikos & Chapters on Prayer The Desert Mothers, Spiritual Practices from the Women of the Wilderness Robert Wise, dir., The Sound of Music Gregory the Great, Dialogues Kathleen Norris on Skype with Carl McColman and Kevin Johnson. Listen to part 2 of this interview to hear their conversation. Episode 35: Silence, Poetry and Acedia: A Conversation with Kathleen Norris (Part One) Hosted by: Cassidy Hall Guest: Kathleen Norris Date Recorded: September 17, 2018

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Episode 21: Kathleen Norris and the Long Road to Happiness in "Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby"

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2018 31:27

In two weeks, we’ll kick off a slate of October shows that promise to offer all kinds of creeps, spooks, and scares. So this week, let’s have a feel-good story, shall we? Join host Shawn Ennis for Kathleen Norris’s tale of an unexpected, and somewhat circuitous path to happiness with “Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby!” 0:00 – What is this, who am I, what are we doing here? 3:44 – Intro to Kathleen Norris and this week’s story 4:39 – “Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby” 30:01 – Afterword/Closing the Show 30:41 – What’s coming next week? See you then! This week’s podcast partner: Netflix ‘n Swill Website: https://www.netflixnswill.com/ Have you written a short story that you want to have read? Submit it to the show! Email: syypodcast@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/syypodcast Twitter: @syypodcast Instagram: @syypodcast Subscribe, rate and review on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1373775434?ls=1 For a full list of music and sound effect credits, visit http://syypodcast.libsyn.com/blog (Sounds recorded in-studio not credited.) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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Christian Feminist Podcast 83: Quotidian Mysteries

The Christian Feminist Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2018 1:00

Christina Bieber Lake leads Alexis Neal and Victoria Reynolds Farmer in a discussion of Kathleen Norris' The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and Women's Work.

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Believer

Foundry UMC

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2018 24:08

Believer A sermon preached by Rev. Ginger E. Gaines-Cirelli at Foundry UMC, April 22, 2018, the third Sunday after Easter. Polyphony sermon series. Texts: Psalm 119:64-74, Acts 5:12-21 Describing the process of an infant learning to communicate with the sounds of her voice, author Kathleen Norris writes, “Eventually the rudiments of words come; often ‘Mama,’ Dada,’ ‘Me,’ and the all-powerful ‘No!’ An unqualified ‘Yes’ is a harder sell, to both children and adults. To say ‘yes’ is to make a leap of faith, to risk oneself in a new and often scary relationship. Not being quite sure of what we are doing, or where it will lead us, we try on assent, we commit ourselves to affirmation. With luck, we find that our efforts are rewarded. The vocabulary of faith begins.”[i] It’s easy to make things more complicated than they are. And when we are talking about God things can really get out of hand. So I love Norris’s reminder that faith—at least its vocabulary—begins with simply saying “yes.” We “try on assent” and “commit ourselves to affirmation” and this risky leap of faith is done in the context of relationship. We all know something about this. Someone says “yes” to me—am I willing to respond with my own “yes?” Someone reaches out to me in relationship, will I affirm that action and that person by reaching back? Such a move will change your life, will lead to new experiences—and to places you’d never imagine. Through the experience of human relationship, we learn about love, trust, commitment, friendship. We also learn the pain of betrayal when our trust is broken, we learn the frailty of our own constancy when we fail to be a good friend or partner, we learn the heartbreak that follows when one we have loved deeply must be released into the arms of death. These experiences teach us about real love and commitment and help us identify what and who is worth risking our “yes” for. Folks have often said that Jesus is God’s “yes” to us and to the world—that is to say, Jesus is God’s affirmation of us and the sign that God believes in us even with so many good reasons to just pack it in. God, it seems, loves us and is determined to hang in there with us even when we’re at our worst. God, it seems, continues to reach out to us to offer encouragement, friendship, correction, and guidance along our journey. God evidently will forgive us time and again to help us live and love more freely, wisely, and lovingly in relationship with others. That is the Gospel, the good news of this life we share as followers of Jesus. Kathleen Norris says, such news, such love, such a God “is not readily understandable.” I imagine many would find that an understatement. One of the great perversions within the Church is the teaching—either explicit or implicit—that if you have doubts you’re supposed to pretend you don’t, that if you struggle with teachings of the faith or with issues in your life, then you don’t really belong in the Church. I can think of nothing further from the truth. Sadly, there are those who stay away from the life-giving experience of Christian community because no one has ever convinced them that they don’t have to have all the answers—or that they don’t have to blindly go along with what they’ve heard or been taught about the Church, about Jesus, about the Bible. Also, sadly, there are those who have been part of the Church for years who have never felt it was OK to admit what they don’t understand. And so they never ask their questions and so they are never able to develop or deepen their faith. Every week you hear me say “no matter what you believe or doubt” you’re welcome to come and bring it! And even though I say that pretty much without fail, I imagine there are still folks who struggle to trust that their doubts and beliefs are really welcome. There are plenty of good reasons for this difficulty. Norris writes, “The word ‘belief’ has been impoverished; it has come to mean a head-over-heart intellectual assent. When people ask, ‘What do you believe?’ they are usually asking ‘What do you think?’ I have come to see that my education, even my religious education, left me with a faulty and inadequate sense of religious belief as a kind of suspension of the intellect. Religion, as I came to understand it, was a primitive relic that could not stand up to the advances made in our understanding of human psychological development or the inquiry of higher mathematics and the modern sciences.” She goes on to share “When I first stumbled upon the Benedictine abbey…I was surprised to find the monks so unconcerned with my weighty doubts and intellectual frustrations over Christianity…I was a bit disappointed—I had thought that my doubts were spectacular obstacles to my faith and was confused but intrigued when an old monk blithely stated that doubt is merely the seed of faith, a sign that faith is alive and ready to grow.”[ii] This is quite different from what lots of folks will imagine or experience of the Christian perspective on doubt and belief. So many who write Christianity off do so because they think, as Norris did, that it requires them to believe ridiculous things. Others reject or abandon the faith because they get a taste of a form of Christianity that is so narrow and legalistic that there is little or no room for questions, for freedom to explore the depths of a wondrous God, for space to wrestle with themselves in the safety of divine love. Some Christian tribes do emphasize strict adherence to their understanding of the Bible or theological concepts as a requirement to be counted among the “believers.” This more legalistic approach can lead to a great deal of fear and guilt that you aren’t thinking right or feeling what you’re supposed to feel or doing the right things. It can end up feeling like a very dysfunctional—if not abusive—relationship. But the word most often translated “believe” in the Bible—pisteuo in the Greek—is not defined as only what you think or as blind surrender to a questionable relationship Pisteuo means several things including “thinking to be true,” “place confidence in,” and “entrusting or being entrusted with a thing.” One resource says, “The verb πιστεύω works two ways like the English verb ‘commit.’ If you commit yourself to someone, then you are entrusting yourself to them… At the same time you are supporting them. The two sides are really the summary of a covenantal relationship.”[iii] (“I believe in you”…) Kathleen Norris says that “at its Greek root, ‘to believe’ simply means ‘to give one’s heart to.’ Thus, if we can determine what it is we give our heart to, then we will know what it is we believe.”[iv] What I want to suggest today is that to be a “believer” doesn’t mean you are without doubts or that you’ve sacrificed your critical thinking. To be a believer doesn’t require you to pretend you understand things that baffle you or to act in ways that challenge your sense of integrity. A believer is one who as a result of thinking there is something somehow True about the Gospel message, places confidence in God, and entrusts their heart to God. A “believer” is simply one who—in one way or another—has been drawn to the love of God and has decided to say “yes” to the journey. The book of Acts in the Bible is the story of the people who first risked saying “yes.” The lives of those who traveled with Jesus had a first-hand experience of what it feels like to be perfectly loved and forgiven. Lord knows the apostles had asked questions, had doubts, missed the point, failed spectacularly in trying to do what Jesus did. And yet because Jesus believed in them and didn’t give up on them and loved them, they kept walking the path, kept trying to follow and to learn. They witnessed the wonders of the risen Jesus who appeared to them, proving they didn’t need to be afraid, even of death. Their changed lives and the story they had to tell and the power of love that flowed from Holy Spirit through them was powerful and healing. It must have been amazing to see them, these simple, uneducated people—without title or standing in the community—risk so much (even jail!) to share their story and to care for those whom others ignored or cast out. This is what the apostles did and, through them, other people learned of the good news of God’s love and mercy and meaning and came alongside to travel the way of Jesus. An angel (literally messenger) of God comes to the rescue of the imprisoned apostles and relates this charge: “Go, stand in the temple and tell the people the whole message about this life.” Notice, the angel doesn’t set them free to go and tell the “rules” or the “ideas”…they’re encouraged to tell the whole message about this life. “This life” is the life they had been given—a life of loving and just relationship with God and other people, a life that is meaningful and purposeful. It’s a life that says “yes” to love, that says “yes” to compassion, that says “yes” to forgiveness, that says “yes” to vulnerability, that says “yes” to risk and trust and generosity and solidarity… For centuries it is this life that has drawn people to embrace the Christian spiritual path. That path is well-worn and there are sign posts along the way in the form of spiritual practices, theologies born out of the crucible of experience, prayers, songs, and stories, all resources to help you grow more strong and free, more wise and kind, to help you discern the ups and downs, twists and turns of this life. We are encouraged to bring our intellect and questions to all of it, to engage the resources and words and images of our faith with the curiosity of an explorer and the wonder of a child. What if we perceived a “believer” not as someone who has all the answers but who trusts God enough to sit in the ambiguity and frustration of the questions? What if we perceived a “believer” not as someone who thought a certain way, but rather as someone who lived a certain way, as someone who loved a certain way? What if being a “believer” is a willingness to entertain Spirit as a companion along your journey, to make yourself available in the spaces where Jesus reportedly shows up (along the margins, among the poor and disenfranchised, with the sick and grieving), and to sit in the discomfort of uncertainty that is guaranteed when we stumble into places like this one? What if? I don’t have all the answers. Thanks be to God. [i] Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, (New York: Riverhead Books, 1998), 1. [ii] Ibid., 62-63. [iii] http://www.torahtimes.org/NewTranslation/concordance/pisteuo_definition.html [iv] Kathleen Norris, 62.

Fighting the Noonday Demon: Kathleen Norris on Acedia, Boredom, and Desert Spirituality

The Table Audio w/ Evan Rosa

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2018 41:32

A spiritual riddle to the modern mind: A desert monk burns all of his baskets as a means of fighting off the so-called “Noonday Demon.” Evan Rosa interviews celebrated writer Kathleen Norris, author of The Cloisterwalk, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, and the Quotidian Mysteries, about her 2008 book, Acedia & me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer’s Life—discussing ancient Christian spirituality and the deadly vice of acedia, with commentary from theologian Jerry Sittser. Acedia was taken off the list of deadly vices in the 6th century, only to rear its ugly head in contemporary technological life. Has the noonday demon been haunting you? Well, now you’ll know its name.

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The Summer of Love: The Love That Pursues Us

First Presbyterian Church of San Anselmo

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2017 14:02

Psalm 139: Even though people commonly think it's their task to "find God," Psalm 139 describes a God who never gives up on finding us, being present with us, and loving us.

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S3 E6: Embracing Your Season of Creativity with Lisa Hensley

Chasing Creative

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2017 41:23

We're chatting with Lisa Hensley about how she embraces her season of motherhood and makes space for creativity as she raises three (soon to be four!) boys. Lisa is the master at working within the life she's living rather than wishing she had more time to create. Listen in to hear her wisdom! Lisa Hensley is a writer, podcaster, and volleyball coach who pursues other creative interests. She and her husband have three boys, including one with a rare disease, are expecting another, and live in a college town in rural Kentucky. Her online spaces encourage women to thrive as mamas and grow as creatives. Sign up for our completely not-overwhelming newsletter to get updates about the podcast, i.e. when new seasons air! Here's where you can find Lisa Delighting in My Days blog Podcast Instagram Facebook Here's where you can find Abbigail Website Twitter Instagram Facebook Here's where you can find Ashley Website Writing blog Twitter Instagram Pinterest Mini-Book Club Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey The Life-Giving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming by Sally Clarkson and Sarah Clarkson The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and "Women's Work" by Kathleen Norris

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Episode 088: Lent Series, Part Two

All In! Living the Mission of God

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2017 16:49

This week we are continuing our Lenten series using the prayer of Saint Ephrem. If you missed last week's episode, go back and listen and get up to speed on what we're doing. This prayer goes back about 1800 years. It is used around the time of Lent. Here is how it goes: The Lenten Prayer of Saint Ephrem O Lord and Master of my life! Take from me the spirit of sloth, faint-heartedness, lust for power, and idle talk. But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to Your servant. Yes, O Lord and King! Grant me to see my own errors and not to judge my brother; For You are blessed unto ages of ages. Amen. A. Today I want to focus on the first two negative parts of the prayer. Sloth and Faint-heartedness. Acedia: “The demon of acedia, also called the ‘noonday devil,’ is the most oppressive of all demons.” Evagrius of Pontus B. The basic disease is Sloth It is that strange laziness and passivity that pushes us down, not up. Procrastination is one of its manifestations Sloth constantly convinces us that not changing is desirable. It is in fact a deeply rooted cynicism, which to every spiritual challenge responds “what for?” and makes our life one tremendous spiritual waste. Sloth “It is the root of all sin because it poisons the spiritual energy at its very source.” [Alexander Schmemann, Great Lent, p. 34] “Carelessness is the initial phase of sin.” “I fear that we in the mass media are creating such a market for mediocrity that we've diminished the incentive for excellence. We celebrate notoriety as though it were an achievement. Fame has come to mean being recognized by more people who don't know anything about you. In politics, we have encouraged the displacement of thoughtfulness by the artful cliché.” [Citation: Ted Koppel, on receiving the "Broadcaster of the Year" award. Christianity Today, Vol. 30, no. 3.] Prov. 12:24, Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and become a slave. Prov. 15:19, A lazy person has trouble all through life; the path of the upright is easy! (NLT) Prov. 18:9, A lazy person is as bad as someone who destroys things. Prov. 19:24, The sluggard buries his hand in the dish, and will not even bring it back to his mouth. Prov. 21:25, The desire of the sluggard puts him to death, for his hands refuse to work; C. The result of Sloth is faint-heartedness It is the state of the soul, which the Church Fathers considered the greatest danger to the soul. Despondency makes it impossible to see the good or the positive; it is the reduction of everything to pessimism. It is a demonic power because the Devil is fundamentally a liar. He lies about God and about the world; Satan fills life with darkness. Faint-heartedness (despondency) is the suicide of the soul because when one is possessed by it he is absolutely unable to see the light and to desire it. Practical Lessons Learned in Dealing with Sloth and Faintheartedness (Acedia) See it, but Don’t Feed it. Submit it to God in Prayer Overcome Evil with Good Feed on Scripture, Prayer, and Worship until restored With Reflection/Contemplation With Obedience: Do the next right thing Daily Practice: Prayer and Devotional Reading using The Book of Common Prayer (or whatever you use) The Lenten Prayer of St Ephrem Journaling can be helpful During prayer, a “little seed” or thought may come to the surface, follow it. Recommended Resources Book of Common Prayer App Acedia and its Discontents: Metaphysical Boredom in an Empire of Desire by R.J. Snell The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times by Jean-Charles Nault Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and A Writer’s Life by Kathleen Norris If you're enjoying this podcast, spread the word by sharing it with your friends and leaving a review on iTunes. I encourage you to send me your feedback or suggestions for an interview. Help me help you. You can email me at jroper@foursquare.org, or direct message me on Facebook. You can also submit any feedback or questions here. Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes or Stitcher so you don't miss an episode. As always, you can connect with me on Facebook or Twitter. It's your life, now go live it! I am among the more than two dozen missionaries supported by the Foursquare Missions International Global Missions Fund. To support our global missions efforts, visit The Global Missions Fund. Post may contain affiliate links. All proceeds are used to support the missions work. Thanks for listening!

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Acedia, the Noonday Demon, 5 of 8 - The 7 Deadly Sins - Fr. Michael Flowers - 3-8-15

St. Aidan's Anglican Church, Kansas City - weekly talks

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2015 23:27

In the 4th Century, in the wake of Constantine legalizing Christianity, loads of people flooded into the church without true conversion. Many chose to keep in step with the powers that be. Constantinople became the “New Rome”, the seat of power for the Roman Empire. Note that when the persecutions ceased, the Church slowly lost its counter-cultural witness and become domesticated. As the Church grew not only in numbers, but wealth and political power, across the Empire, a new movement arose, thousands fled to the Egyptian desert, so much not to escape a spiritually deadening culture, but to do spiritual battle with the devil. Jesus’ forty days in the wilderness was their model. In the desert they would learn how to master their passions, discovering a new form of martyrdom, and in return, provide a prophetic community within the Church, calling her back to the path of transformation. One such figure, Evagrius fled Constantinople to a tiny monastery in Egypt. The desert monasteries were partially communal, leaving the greater part of the day in silence and solitude. Evagrius came to recognize 8 spiritually defeating thoughts which were common battles across the desert communities. Theses were gluttony, lust, greed, vainglory, sadness, anger, pride and acedia. His list of 8 became the basis for what would be later reorganized by Pope Gregory the Great in the 6th C as the seven deadly sins. Gregory folded sadness into acedia (sloth), vainglory into pride and added envy. Great numbers of people from all over the world would flock to these desert hermits for counsel and prayer. They became the true curates, one who cares for souls. Evagrius observed that during the hottest part of the day, from 10 AM to 2 PM, the monks would fall into a stupor and, at times, have delusional thoughts, leading them away from their vocation. After much discernment, a line from Psalm 91:6 caught his attention regarding God’s protection against the plague , the disaster, the destruction at noonday. As a handle for this plight, they named it the noonday demon, and called the effect ACEDIA which came to later be called sloth (shifting the inner wisdom of the heart to more external and physical laziness). What on earth is Acedia and how is discerning its many manifestations relevant today? It is frustratingly difficult to define and impossible is the attempt with one word. The desert fathers considered it the most insidious of all sins. • It’s a sense of moral and spiritual apathy where one just doesn’t care. • It causes us to neglect what we should do by creating diversions that may lead to frivolous activity and distraction. • It aims at leading us away from spiritual growth and relationship with God … this is why its considered one of the top three insidious evils. • It breeds self-pity, to mope, to be dejected, despondent, complacent towards God and his mission in the world. • Acedia is the disease of our modern age and the modern Church, caught in all manner of addictions, some to divert us and others to numb. Kathleen Norris, in her book, Acedia and Me, says its like a spiritual morphine. The pain is there but you don’t feel it anymore. • Acedia breeds a cynicism about God, his Church and his Kingdom. We see this in Nathaniel’s initial attitude upon hearing about Jesus. “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” • Isaiah describes it in his phrase, “No one arouses himself to take hold of me.” • Acedia is faint-hearted; listless, unmoved, unresponsive to God and his Word. It is a spiritual paralysis of the will towards participating in God. • It is often confused with depression but only mimics some of the symptoms. • It is often confused with our modern understanding of SLOTH but goes much deeper than physical and mental laziness.

T is for Tired - Audio

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2013 31:04

Check the drugstore, and we'll find products to rev us up and to put us back to sleep. We treat our tiredness rather than listening to it. Rev. Ken Beldon discusses the last of the four emotional states of HALT (Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired). He quotes Jesus, Carl Jung, Reinhold Neibuhr, writer Kathleen Norris, poet Wendell Berry, Bob Dylan, even Pinocchio.

T is for Tired - PDF

jesus christ balance rev tired angry lonely bob dylan pinocchio carl jung wendell berry kathleen norris

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2013

Check the drugstore, and we'll find products to rev us up and to put us back to sleep. We treat our tiredness rather than listening to it. Rev. Ken Beldon discusses the last of the four emotional states of HALT (Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired). He quotes Jesus, Carl Jung, Reinhold Neibuhr, writer Kathleen Norris, poet Wendell Berry, Bob Dylan, even Pinocchio.

T is for Tired - PDF

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2013

Check the drugstore, and we'll find products to rev us up and to put us back to sleep. We treat our tiredness rather than listening to it. Rev. Ken Beldon discusses the last of the four emotional states of HALT (Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired). He quotes Jesus, Carl Jung, Reinhold Neibuhr, writer Kathleen Norris, poet Wendell Berry, Bob Dylan, even Pinocchio.

T is for Tired - Audio