All Episodes

Thomas Gardner on Poverty Creek Journal

Noah Davis on The Last Beast We Revel In

Todd Goddard on Jim Harrison (author of Devouring Time: Jim Harrison, A Writer's Life)

Sasha Waters on Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

Beverly Lanzetta on Birthing a New Mysticism

Dr. Liza J. Rankow on Soul Medicine for a Fractured World

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

Your Naked Freedom

Spare Me Nothing

James Finley on the Healing Path

It's Not About the Beer, It's About the Beer

Prairie Eye & Woods Eye

Sitting on the Present Moment

Engaged Contemplation in a Heartbreaking World with Fr. Adam Bucko

Heathen

Vitality Out of Emptiness with Fr. David Denny

The River You Touch with Chris Dombrowski

Inarticulate as Watercolors, Brazen as Graffiti

Nine Poems from Coffin Honey by Todd Davis

A Revelatory Elegy of Unknowing with Todd Davis (author of Coffin Honey)

Contemplative Gleanings from the Hermits of Big Sur with Paula Huston

Bill Porter (Red Pine) on Zen and Taoist Masters, Mountain Hermits, & the Life of a Translator

Here There Are Woods, Foxes (Season 3 Trailer)

An Old Growth Forest

Solitude at the Center of All Beauty with Fenton Johnson

The Harmonic Resonance Found in Unknowing with Brie Stoner

A Wild Mystical Woman of the Desert with Amy Frykholm

Enlivening the First Christmas with Stephen Mitchell

Backporch Advent Outpost with Chris Dombrowski (#2)

Backporch Advent Outpost with Todd Davis (#1)

The Monastic Heart & Prophetic Imagination with Sr. Joan Chittister

Slow Yourself to be Awed with J. Drew Lanham

Gary Nabhan (aka Brother Coyote) on Wisdom Gleaned from Fishers & Farmers

Season Two Trailer

Your Work Should Be the Praise of What You Love (September Musing)

Like People or Dogs

Charlie Chaplin in the Gears of Modern Times

Scott Ballew on Talking to Mountains & the Sublimity of Sad Songs

Tending to the Spiritual Interior of Language with Lia Purpura

Deadstock in the Storm with Jeffrey Foucault

Being is Action with Andrew Krivak

Immersion Journalist of the Soul with Fred Bahnson

Answering the Monk Within with Beverly Lanzetta

Advent Outpost from the Backporch (#3)

Advent Outpost from the Backporch (#2)

Advent Outpost from the Backporch (#1)

Apprentice to the Slow Immediacy of Daily Life with Douglas E. Christie

Everybody Now: Climate Emergency and Sacred Duty

Moth & Mother / New Foundations

Subtle Sacraments & The Quiet Mind

Poetic Nature of Walking with Jonathon Stalls