PODCAST · religion
Spark My Muse
by Lisa Colón DeLay
Conversations and enriching content to set alight your inner life and our life together
Episodes
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Radical Mystics: Skye and Debonee
Today is a special double header. Part one is here (edited a little for the audio podcast) and you can also enjoy it on my Substack and my youtube. But remember there's more! I'm the FIRST guest on Radical Mystics! Part 2 is here: (click the image below!)...
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The Meeting Place – featuring the work of Laura Kauffman
We need to build the muscles to create inner solitude.
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How Good it is to Center-down
Today, I share a bit about something we need so urgently. Howard Thurman is a spiritual mentor I most cherish. You can do a search on this website and find much more work I've down related to him. Please check it out. ONE MORE THINGA related article I just wrote is a great companion to my audio...
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How rigidity means emotional immaturity
There's a dynamic connection between flexibility and healthy personalities. It took me many years of healing to not be swept into self-hate when I messed up. Here's what helped.
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The world on fire
finding a new despair in the future from the elderly
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Desire, Wanting, Bliss
Here is a excerpt as part of the series I've created for my Spark My Muse YouTube Channel (Here's the link to find the rest: youtube.com/@Sparkmymuse) This part 4 in the series of 7 explores how the nature of desire is a signpost to the infinite. Longing, bliss, desire are more than they appear…
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Being, Consciousness, Bliss
What you are about to hear is part two of seven in a series explaining a foundational book by David Bentley Hart. My interest in high theism is strengthened by the fact that you can have a deep faith, be a skeptic, or a confused doubter and still embrace these first principles and ideas about...
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Softness and Desire: Guest, Robert J. Monson
Today, I give you some excerpts from my live chat conversation with scholar Robert J. Monson. We speak together some about the desert elders, but also about Robert's work at the intersection of Blackness, disability, and softness (among other things) and we get into the topics of lust, sexuality,...
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Letting Event-based Forms of Church Die
Recording of live event with Cindy S Lee on the desert elders
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Vainglory, Envy, Pride and Creating a Rule of Life
Vainglory, Envy, Pride and Creating a Rule of Life
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Temptations of the Body – 4/12/26
Hello friends, I'm back to share something from the lesson I did at Bethesda EC Church in Reedsville, PA on 4/12/26 and it is the 2nd of four. Some of you may enjoy WATCHING this, and you can try this link: https://youtu.be/YzQE-rGNNpo?si=BsjvHxs1-HoaTjYl At that channel you will also find the…
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The finale
The finale of a four part series on consciousness
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Lent Week 1 – (clips)
Coptic Christian Phoebe Farag Mikhail on the first theme of Lent and the Desert Elders
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Who is the God we speak of?
Hi friends,This episode was first created for my youtube channel and I hope you enjoy it here. There are two more in this series at the channel, so please check them out if it interests you. When you Subscribe you can be notified of new material, be able to leave comments, and get alerts for my...
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The Flaws of Original Sin (doctrine)
The flaws of the Original Sin doctrine...
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Big News of Launch Week
What big news happened during launch week?
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Eps 240: Guest, Mark Longhurst, The Holy Ordinary
Experiencing the mystery of God in ordinary moments and finding embodied spirituality.
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Insights from the Launch Team
"Lisa, what do you hope for with the release of this book?"
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How Life on Screens leaves out the Right Brain Chemicals We Need
Research and Tactics for more meaning
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2025 Review and Connection in 2026
How I defeated the threats of loneliness
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Eps 239: Lee and Simon from a Presby Podcast
Lee Coate and Simon Doong from A Matter of Faith: A Presby Podcast conversed with me on the themes of the Sermon on the Mount and on Christianity in the time of Empire (and conservative Christians cult mentalities) To watch the (unedited) conversation go here: YouTube.com/@Sparkmymuse Here's the...
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Eps 238 Jenn Layte, Follower and hearing the voice of God
Today I feature a friend of the pod, Rev Jenn Layte to converse about her newest book Follower: How Getting Close to Jesus Brings You to Yourself Please check out my YouTube Channel and subscribe. I'm pivoting beyond audio to video which also includes my Substack page
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Eps. 237: Hedgehogs, Basilisks, Unicorns, and learning from Medieval teachings
Today is a conversation with Grace Hamman, PhD about her wonderful new book "Ask of Old Paths: Medieval Virtues and Vices for a Whole and Holy Life" Find photos, video, book link, and more at the substack Get my new book pairs well with Grace's (The Way of the Desert Elders) here
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ARRIVED: Advanced Reader Copies [SSL 344]
A special reading from Way of the Desert Elders
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Finding a Buried (emotional) Corpse [SSL 343]
Nearly healed from nasal surgery, I'm back to talk about emotions I didn't know I had buried and how they pop up (in all of us). Don't forget to get your copy of The Way of the Desert Elders VIDEO of this podcast can be found on the YouTube Channel here
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411 on gluttony and lust
I'm starting a series on the main chapters of my book. We begin with gluttony and lust and learn how the desert elders dealt with these two issues that reared their heads in the desert setting. By understanding their perspective, we can fortify ourselves against the very same obstacles that...
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Why do the Wicked Prosper?
Friends, I'm not okay. I've been struggling with the question: Why do the Wicked prosper? I have been feeling terrible sorrow and today I'll be reading the chapter in Psalms that has been keeping me afloat.
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The Comfort of Endorsement
Today is a bit different, I'm bringing you word from others. Kind folks who've come alongside me to help others understand the new work. You hear from them today. It is a great comfort to me to have this outpouring of care. Thank you, dear ones! Please make sure to check out the new desert elders...
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Journey to Joy – An enchanting (midlife) tale
conversation about a fairy tale literary work with Christine Valters Paintner
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Book Announcement
My newest book "The Way of the Desert Elders" is now listed on Amazon here tiny.cc/elders PLEASE PRE-ORDER! Today, I give you a brief into to the book details and read and explain the table of contents.
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Eps 236 : Community Witnessing and Care; Cindy S. Lee
My conversation with author, Cindy S. Lee involves topics of great importance and interest to me. Cindy is thoughtful and spacious and one of just a few contemporary authors I cite in my new book on topics of spiritual formation.We discuss themes of her book: Contemplative Witnessing: BIPOC...
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Eps. 235 | Saving Face: Guest, Aimee Byrd
Aimee Byrd on identity, belonging, healing, church abuse, and seeing ourselves in each other.
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The Inner Terrain of Love [SSL 342]
I was delighted to be a return guest to Jasmine Bellamy's monthly occasion called "The Call to Love Experience"—a live online gathering that provides spiritual grounding, learning, deep listening and where we discussed themes in my first book (The Wild Land Within) and my upcoming book (The Way…
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Eps: 234 Purposeful Pruning in Evangelicalism; Michelle Van Loon
A return guest Michelle Van Loon speaks to me about her 50 years involved in many versions of Christian Evangelism and getting rid of what is non essential from her book Downsizing. Get over to the YouTube Channel here to see some videos and PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! Get her book here (Amazon affiliate...
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Celebrating 10 years
Hello! Today I celebrating ten years of bringing you Spark My Muse podcast episodes. 606 releases! Even better? See my video message about it and go here
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The highest compliment: Sarah “the female man of God” [SSL341]
Today is an introduction to wise Amma Sarah of the Christian Desert Era.
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Why Religion began with Blood Sacrifices? [SSL 340]
the three momentous conceptions from Réne Girard and his keen insights on human behavior, violence, and...
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Eps 233: Beth Allison Barr; Women in Church Leadership
Beth is back and we have a great conversation about her newest book Becoming The Pastor's Wife: How Marriage replaced Ordination as a Path to Ministry. Don't miss the extras and links here: https://sparkmymuse.substack.com/publish/post/159866213 To hear the bonus material go here:...
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The Three Woes [SSL 340]
Host, Lisa Colon DeLay instructs on the three core wounds we all experience and how her new product creates a unique visual representation of these places for each person.
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Guest Esp. 232: Storyteller, Max Stossel
A conversation with storyteller and performer Max Stossel.
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Eps 231: Mark S. Burrows on Rilke and the invitation to joy
Host, Lisa Colon DeLay and Mark S. Burrows discuss his new books and translation projects of poet Rainer Maria Rilke in a fascinating conversation.
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[Howard Thurman] Limited Series: Part 11 – FINAL episode!
Limited Series: Part 11 (Howard Thurman) final episode on Imagination as the Angelos of God
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Limited Series – part 10 : Howard Thurman: Disciplines of the Spirit | Retaliation and Reconciliation
This and one more installment will bring an end to this series that offers Howard Thurman's wisdom from 1963 to our time. It's a time when violence, hate, and othering are quite apparent and hope for human reconciliation in our nation and world seem scant. Thurman's thoughts on what is needed…
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Limited Series – part 9 : Howard Thurman: Disciplines of the Spirit | The story of the axe-wielding barber
Limited Series – part 9 : Howard Thurman: Disciplines of the Spirit | How Ma Walker reconciled the axe-wielding barber
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Limited Series – part 8 : Howard Thurman: Disciplines of the Spirit, PRAYER [2 of 2]
From host Lisa Colon DeLay and Spark My Muse podcast as Limited Series – part 8 : Howard Thurman: Disciplines of the Spirit on PRAYER [2 of 2]
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Limited Series – part 7 : : : Howard Thurman: Disciplines of the Spirit PRAYER 1 of 2
Host Lis Colon DeLay of Spark My Muse podcast bring a Limited Series – part 7 : : : Howard Thurman: Disciplines of the Spirit PRAYER [1 of 2]
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Limited Series – part 6 : : : Howard Thurman: Disciplines of the Spirit [Why the Innocent Suffer] section 3
Thurman speaking about the suffering of the innocent and the intertwining of death, life, and suffering (from the Disciples of the Spirit)
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Limited Series – part 5 : : : Howard Thurman: Disciplines of the Spirit [Is there purpose in Suffering]
PART 2 of the chapter on Suffering in the 1963 work of Dr Howard Thurman called The Disciplines of the Spirit (host Lisa Colon DeLay)
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Limited Series – part 4 : : : Howard Thurman: Disciplines of the Spirit [Pain and Suffering]
A reading and reflection from the Suffering chapter from Disciples of the Spirit by Dr Howard Thurman (1962)
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Limited Series – part 3 : : : Howard Thurman: Disciplines of the Spirit [Wisdom and Stature]
A reading and reflection from the Wisdom and Stature chapter from Disciples of the Spirit by Dr Howard Thurman (1962)
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Conversations and enriching content to set alight your inner life and our life together
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