podcast
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My Whole Life is Queer: An Interview with Rev. Kittredge Cherry
A portion of this interview will be included in my forthcoming book, Queering Contemplation: Finding Queerness in the Roots and Future of Contemplative Spirituality.
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Queering Contemplation is Now Available for Pre-Order!
What would it mean to queer contemplation? Queering Contemplation now available for pre-order!
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Awakening Mysticism with the Scholarship of Three African American Women
Both the mystic and the activist pursue lives disentangled from institutions, lives that pursue communal well-being…
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Sacred Attention | A Conversation with Cole Arthur Riley
“contemplation for me is a certain commitment to paying attention to the Divine in all things… Mysticism, I think it’s kind of a fidelity to magic and mystery…”
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The Unnamed Mystics | A Conversation with Dr. Kimberly D. Russaw
“contemplation is a much more deliberate activity, a person decides to engage in this work…mysticism is much more involuntary.”
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Opening Unto Mystery | A Conversation with Dr. Elyse Ambrose
How am I willing to be changed by what I encounter in the mystery?
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The Fierce Call of Love | A Conversation with Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis
“Love is the call on our lives. And it’s a fierce call, a fierce love. And I believe that if we could speak more about that we could build a revolution that included people of faith and people of no faith.”
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Speaking Down Barriers | A Conversation with Poet Davelyn Hill
Transcript: DAVELYN HALL: I don’t think I can say that I am a mystic without being connected to community. So I can’t say that for me. I need to be connected to community in order to be a mystic, how do you not? Cassidy Hall: Welcome to Contemplating Now, a podcast about the intersection of contemplation and…
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Breathing Mysticism | A Conversation with Dr. Angela N. Parker
Transcript: Dr Angela Parker: I don’t often think about contemplative actions going together. But what does contemplative action look like among people where the breath of God is going through groups of people? And I think that’s what we see with protests, with the Black Lives Matter protests, that there’s that contemplative action that actually…
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The Privilege of Contemplation | A Conversation with Dr. Anthea Butler
“being a contemplative doesn’t mean that you escape society, or you escape the world, but that you find a place to anchor yourself firmly first of all, and then secondarily, take care of those things in the ways in which you need to take care of them.”
Dr. Cassidy Hall, DMin, MDiv, MTS, MA 