LISTEN NOW We welcome Dr. Lucille Tures, psychologist, spiritual director, teacher, and founder of Theama Institute, for a conversation about Christian mysticism, spiritual abuse, and the life-long work of integration. Lucille shares her experience growing up in a Christian mystical environment, her later involvement in a coercive spiritual community with a narcissistic mentor, and the painful but generative process of helping rebuild that community around trust rather than c

LISTEN NOW Molly Baskette has spent decades helping progressive churches come alive. A longtime UCC minister, preacher, author of Real Good Church, and self-described transformation junkie, Molly has recently made a major vocational turn: leaving parish ministry and stepping into work as a psychedelically assisted spiritual care provider. That's plenty to talk about right there! But we also discuss calling, burn out, and leaving church well: not in bitterness or collapse, but

LISTEN NOW Documentary filmmaker Haydn Reiss joins us to talk about Robert Bly, poetry, translation, longing, grief, and the mysterious art of finding the right words for what the soul knows. We explore Bly’s cultural impact, his gift for speaking to the hunger of men, the strange alchemy poetry can work in a life, and what it means to preserve voices that still have the power to change us. Along the way, we also discuss William Stafford, Rumi, Coleman Barks, and why poetry m

LISTEN NOW What does it mean to live in relationship with our dead? In our episode “Speaking with the Dead,” we discussed Michael’s recent contact with his deceased best childhood friend. We knew we needed someone with real experience and insight to help us think through the meaning of that encounter, so we called on Perdita Finn . You may remember Perdita from our episode “Portal to the Great Mother,” where she and her husband Clark Strand joined us to talk about their rosar