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The Spacious and the Sacred

by Andi Chatburn, Audre Rickard, Heather Fignar, Irene Dunlop

4 new episodes each season exploring the themes of the sacred in the transitions from one season to the next.

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Episodes

  1. 118 What is Hope part 2

    It's spring and in episodes 117-120 we are talking about hope. What is it? How do we talk about this intangible thing? Can it be toxic? We don't have the answers, but we lean into the conversation. Gathering Word: “Hope” is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson “Hope” is the thing with...

  2. 117 What is Hope?

    It's spring and in episodes 117-120 we are talking about hope. What is it? How do we talk about this intangible thing? Can it be toxic? We don't have the answers, but we lean into the conversation. Gathering Word: “Hope” is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson “Hope” is the thing with...

  3. 116 Dormancy

    Episodes 113-116 move us from fall to winter at winter solstice. How do we hold onto hope in a dark season? How do we actively wait in the long dark night? Gathering Word Excerpt from It Will be Okay by Lysa TerKeurst One morning, the Farmer came into the shed, as He had on many days. “Little...

  4. 115 The Long Dark Night

    Episodes 113-116 move us from fall to winter at winter solstice. How do we hold onto hope in a dark season? How do we actively wait in the long dark night? Gathering Word by Alexander John Shaia Christmas falls at the darkest moment of the year. It is also the very moment when the light is once...

  5. 114 Dreaming in the Dark

    Episodes 113-116 move us from fall to winter at winter solstice. What happens when the winds shift and the days darken? Gathering Word: Sweet Darkness Written by David Whyte When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone, no part of the world can find you. Time to go...

  6. 113 Shifting Winds

    Episodes 113-116 move us from fall to winter at winter solstice. What happens when the winds shift and the days darken? Gathering Word: A Liturgy for those who feel distant from God by Heidi Johnston Every Moment Holy Volume III I recall with longing days when the waters parted at your command…

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  7. 112 Letting Go

    Episodes 109-112 move us from summer to fall. In this episode we discuss the letting go and a grandmother's kazoo band. Gathering word: The Consequences of Death by Pattiann Rodgers from Firekeeper: Selected Poems (2005) Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis. You might previously have thought Each death...

  8. 111 Storing Up

    Episodes 109-112 move us from summer to fall. In this episode, we contemplate what it means to store up glimmers as sustenance for our future selves. Gathering word a poem by Heather Fingar What if we celebrated the smaller? The way we hoot and holler When tinies learn to high five Blow kisses,...

  9. 110 Harvest & Gratitude

    Episodes 109-112 move us from summer to fall. In this episode we discuss gratitude for Harvest even when it's messy. Gathering word by Morgan Harper Nichols You are allowed to have Gratitude for the present And Hope for the future at the same time ______________ Andi Chatburn:...

  10. 109 Celebrations of Summer

    Episodes 109-112 move us from summer to fall. In this episode we discuss out favorite summer moments - including a cold plunge in a glacial creek. Gathering word is a portion of Taste and See by Puno Selesho Taste and see. You have loved me in my quiet, danced with me in my wild. You take…

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  11. 108 Thresholds

    Episodes 105-108 Moving from Spring to Summer in these 4 episodes. Gathering Word: Threshold by Maggie Smith You want a door you can be on both sides of at once. You want to be on both sides of here and there, now and then, together and—(what did we call the life we would wish back? The old life?...

  12. 107 Abundance

    Episodes 105-108 Moving from Spring to Summer in these 4 episodes. Gathering Word: The Gift of Strawberries Excerpt from “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer In a way, I was raised by strawberries, fields of them. Not to exclude the maples, hemlocks, white pines, goldenrod, asters…

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  13. 106 Discernment and Pruning

    Episodes 105-108 Moving from Spring to summer in these 4 episodes. Gathering Word: The Journey By Mary Oliver One day you finally knew What you had to do, and began, Though the voices around you Kept shouting Their bad advice‚ Though the whole house Began to tremble And you felt the old tug At…

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  14. 105 Chaos and Cacophony

    Episodes 105-108 Moving from Spring to summer in these 4 episodes. Gathering Word -Mark Nepo, Seven Thousand Ways to Listen, page 247 "When jarred into feeling how precious life is and how swiftly time moves through us, we are overcome with an urgency not to waste another second. Now we feel the...

  15. 104 Greening

    Episodes 101-104 On the spring equinox we talk about the transition from Winter to Spring. Gathering Word - Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May "We must emerge slowly from our wintering. We must test the air and be ready to shrink back into safety when...

  16. 103 Unfurling

    Episodes 101-104 On the spring equinox, we talk about the transition from Winter to Spring Gathering Word - For a New Beginning by John O’Donohue In out-of-the-way places of the heart, Where your thoughts never think to wander, This beginning has been quietly forming, Waiting until you were ready...

  17. 102 Melting

    Episodes 101-104 On the spring equinox we talk about the transition from Winter to Spring Gathering Word - Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur love will come and when love comes love will hold you love will call your name and you will melt sometimes though love will hurt you but love will never mean to...

  18. 101 Transitions

    Episodes 101-104 On the spring equinox we talk about the transition from Winter to Spring Gathering Word - Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May "Everybody winters at one time or another; some winter over and over again. Wintering is a season in the cold. It...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

4 new episodes each season exploring the themes of the sacred in the transitions from one season to the next.

HOSTED BY

Andi Chatburn, Audre Rickard, Heather Fignar, Irene Dunlop

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