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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Both the mystic and the activist pursue lives disentangled from institutions, lives that pursue communal well-being…
The Last Supper Was a Drag Brunch, and we’re all invited…
“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…”
“contemplation is a much more deliberate activity, a person decides to engage in this work…mysticism is much more involuntary.”
Jim Forest was an activist and author, but more than anything he was a man of relationship and ritual. To know Jim was to know his family, his partner Nancy Forest-Flier, to feel his friendship, and to see the countless ways he saw and loved the world with great wonder. Jim looked and listened with…
“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.”
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…
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…