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Spark My Muse — 100 episodes

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Radical Mystics: Skye and Debonee

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The Meeting Place – featuring the work of Laura Kauffman

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How Good it is to Center-down

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How rigidity means emotional immaturity

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The world on fire

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Desire, Wanting, Bliss

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Being, Consciousness, Bliss

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Softness and Desire: Guest, Robert J. Monson

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Letting Event-based Forms of Church Die

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Vainglory, Envy, Pride and Creating a Rule of Life

11

Temptations of the Body – 4/12/26

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The finale

13

Lent Week 1 – (clips)

14

Who is the God we speak of?

15

The Flaws of Original Sin (doctrine)

16

Big News of Launch Week

17

Eps 240: Guest, Mark Longhurst, The Holy Ordinary

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Insights from the Launch Team

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How Life on Screens leaves out the Right Brain Chemicals We Need

20

2025 Review and Connection in 2026

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Eps 239: Lee and Simon from a Presby Podcast

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Eps 238 Jenn Layte, Follower and hearing the voice of God

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Eps. 237: Hedgehogs, Basilisks, Unicorns, and learning from Medieval teachings

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ARRIVED: Advanced Reader Copies [SSL 344]

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Finding a Buried (emotional) Corpse [SSL 343]

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411 on gluttony and lust

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Why do the Wicked Prosper?

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The Comfort of Endorsement

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Journey to Joy – An enchanting (midlife) tale

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Book Announcement

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Eps 236 : Community Witnessing and Care; Cindy S. Lee

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Eps. 235 | Saving Face: Guest, Aimee Byrd

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The Inner Terrain of Love [SSL 342]

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Eps: 234 Purposeful Pruning in Evangelicalism; Michelle Van Loon

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Celebrating 10 years

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The highest compliment: Sarah “the female man of God” [SSL341]

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Why Religion began with Blood Sacrifices? [SSL 340]

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Eps 233: Beth Allison Barr; Women in Church Leadership

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The Three Woes [SSL 340]

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Guest Esp. 232: Storyteller, Max Stossel

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Eps 231: Mark S. Burrows on Rilke and the invitation to joy

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[Howard Thurman] Limited Series: Part 11 – FINAL episode!

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Limited Series – part 10 : Howard Thurman: Disciplines of the Spirit | Retaliation and Reconciliation

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Limited Series – part 9 : Howard Thurman: Disciplines of the Spirit | The story of the axe-wielding barber

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Limited Series – part 8 : Howard Thurman: Disciplines of the Spirit, PRAYER [2 of 2]

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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

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Limited Series – part 5 : : : Howard Thurman: Disciplines of the Spirit [Is there purpose in Suffering]

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Limited Series – part 4 : : : Howard Thurman: Disciplines of the Spirit [Pain and Suffering]

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Limited Series – part 3 : : : Howard Thurman: Disciplines of the Spirit [Wisdom and Stature]

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Limited Series, part 2 : : : Howard Thurman: Disciplines of the Spirit [Commitment]

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Limited Series – part 1 : : : Howard Thurman: Disciplines of the Spirit

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December Pause [SSL 339]

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Unanswered Prayer: Insights from Howard Thurman [SSL 338]

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Eps 230: Discernment as Formation | Adam Shields, guest

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The Lord is slow to anger and rich in love [SSL 337]

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An Altar in the World: Feeling Pain [SSL 326]

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Expectation as Patience: Henri Nouwen [SSL325]

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Treachery and Remorse [SSL 324]

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Give and Take [ssl 323]

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Don’t Fear the Desert [SSL 322]

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The Soldier who cut his Cape in Half: Martin of Tours [SSL 321]

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What is to Blame? [SSL 320]

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Faith & Writing [SSL 319]

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The Scandal of Secret Giving [SSL 318]

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A restful musing: Robert the contemplative [SSL 317]

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Gravity and Grace: Insights from Simone Weil [SSL 316]

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Already and Not Yet (Gardens) [SSL 315]

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Eps 229: Guest interview with Chuck DeGroat; “Healing What’s Within””

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Do you know Abba Macarius? [SSL 314]

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The Temptation to Despair [SSL 313]

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Home Somewhere: Howard Thurman on Human Dignity [SSL 312]

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Eps. 228: Guest, Tiffany Dawn; on Leaving Her Tiny Christian Bubble

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Unlearning the Business Model [SSL 311]

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Eps. 227 | Guest, Micha Boyett: Blessed are the Rest of Us

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The Lazarus Effect [SSL 310]

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Has Life Ever Felt NOT Real? [SSL 309]

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Unlearning the 5 Love Languages and Other Fables [SSL 308]

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Measuring Infinity through Embodiment [SSL 307]

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Eps 226 – Guest, Cassidy Hall: Queering Contemplation

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Reason as a Venture of Trust [SSL 306]

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Who Were You Before? [SSL 305]

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Was the Mother of Jesus a Slave? SSL 304

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Prophecy: Beauty Will Save the World [SSL 303]

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Spring Lavishly [SSL 302]

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Downright Awestruck [SSL 301]

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Dancing at the Midnight Hour [SSL 300]

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Can Righteousness Include Contempt? [SSL 299]

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Alternate Ascension Day [SSL 298]

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How to Eat Angel’s Bread [SSL 297]

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Where is God in the Genocide? [SSL 296]

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Wild Beasts and Dragon’s Wine [SSL 295]