Contemplify
BookmarkPaul Swanson | Contemplative Shoveler
Contemplify is a society podcast hosted by Paul Swanson | Contemplative Shoveler. It has 187 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.
The Contemplify podcast kindles the examined life for contemplatives in the world. Through artful musings & conversations with scholars, creatives, and master teachers each episode delivers a subtly intoxicating* exchange on the contemplative lifestyle with practical takeaways to emulate in daily life. Host, Paul Swanson, is a husband, father and contemplative educator at the Center for Action and Contemplation and co-host of Another Name for Every Thing with Richard Rohr**.*Contemplify is best served with a pint in hand. Please listen responsibly.** All shenanigans, tom foolery and bally-hoo posted on Contemplify are my own. Contemplify is not representative of the Center for Action and Contemplation or Richard Rohr on any matter.
society ·en ·187 episodes
Philip Connors on The Mountain Knows the Mountain: A Fire Watch Diary
Anna Tivel on Animal Poem, Short Stories, and Checking Your Shoes
Dr. Martin Shaw on Liturgies of the Wild
Vision for a New Cabinet by Teddy Macker (Season 7 Trailer)
The Famous One
Remembering Lerita Coleman Brown on Waiting for a Word in the Heart
Stay Outside (or Non-Liturgical Liturgical Calendar Musing)
Gail Straub on Embracing Our Human Family
Mark Longhurst on The Holy Ordinary
Haleh Liza Gafori Brings Water to the Thirsty
Contemplative Parenting with Aizaiah G. Yong and Nereyda Yong
[Rebroadcast] Dr. Larry Ward on America's Racial Karma, the Fragrance of Wisdom, and Learning How To Suffer Less
Amy Frykholm on Journey to the Wild Heart
Todd Davis on Ditch Memory
Sr. Laura Swan, OSB on the Radical Wisdom of the Beguines
Patrick Boland on Contemplative Leadership
Cynthia Bourgeault on Thomas Keating, Christian Nonduality, and Mystical Maps
Intensification of Life (Season 6 Trailer)
Peter Traben Haas on Prayer as a Practice of Centering, Abiding, & Radiating
Backporch Advent Outpost with Hadewijch and the Mother of Love
Katherine May on Enchantment, Building Community, Tasting Words, and a Drink of Lake Water
Andrew Krivak on the Inheritance of Loss, Death as a Character, and Like the Appearance of Horses
Remembering Dr. Barbara Holmes (Replay of 2016 Conversation)
Amy Leach on Becoming Salt of the Universe
Ben Katt on Getting Quiet, Midlife, and the Power of Ritual (also, we chat about David Hasselhoff)
Jeffrey Martin on Thank God We Left the Garden, Letters, and Literature
Susan Murphy on Zen Koans for Facing the Climate Crisis, the vast meaning of Country, and Cooling Fires
Drew Jackson on Touch the Earth, Poetry as a Lifesaver, and the Importance of Lucille Clifton
Tracy Cochran on the Art of Presence, Mistakes as Practice, & the Grief of Awakening
Brian McLaren on Life After Doom, Patient Urgency, & Complexifying Hope
Cassidy Hall on Queering Contemplation, Letting Go of Thomas Merton, and Expanding Foundations
Dr. Larry Ward on America's Racial Karma, the Fragrance of Wisdom, and Learning How To Suffer Less
David James Duncan on the Unintentional Menagerie of Sun House, Friendship, and the Beguines
Harmonizing In The Empty Fullness
Turn the Morning into Forever
Reduced to the Scale of Our Competence
Eat the Wild Thing
Lo-Fi & Hushed / 2023 Winter Solstice Session / To Know the Dark
Listen to the Rice, the Rice Will Teach You Everything with Lucien Miller
In Hard Times, In All Times, Eat Sacred Words
Kim Haines-Eitzen on Practicing the Cello in the Dark and Sonorous Deserts
Lerita Coleman Brown on Waiting for a Word in the Heart
Lo-Fi & Hushed Contemplative Practice Session (September 2023 / Autumn Equinox)
David Shumate on When Words Become Thunder
Douglas E. Christie on Depth Without Resolution
Carmen Acevedo Butcher Follows the Mystical Tugs on the Heart
Lisa Wells on Holding a Fierce and Loving Gaze
Scott Avett on Being Here for the Feast
Haleh Liza Gafori on Putting Mystery in the Middle
Belden Lane on the Unbroken Desert of God
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