Josh Banner is a spiritual director and host of the Invitation Podcast. This is part two of our deep dive interview. (Here is Part 1). We discuss spiritual direction, how contemplative prayer helped him have more fun, and ways to find deep rest in things you are already doing.

We also talk about the following:

• A rule of life and using time well.
• Josh’s mancrush with superheroes of the faith.
• The summer book series with A Sunlit Absence by Father Martin Laird.
• How to pray during covid-19 and how to start praying with 5 minutes a day.
• Rich Mullins.
• The connection between creativity and contemplative practice.

Find Josh at The Invitation Podcast: https://invitationpodcast.org/. Check out his free resources on praying to Examen & 40 Ways to Spend 5 minutes with God HERE: https://www.invitationpodcast.org/downloads.

Links from this episode:

• Part 1 of this interview: http://bit.ly/jbannerP1,
• Poet Susanna Childress: https://awst-press.com/susanna-childress,
• With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman: https://amzn.to/3l1IRVt,
• Phoebe Judge’s podcasts: Criminal: https://www.wunc.org/people/phoebe-judge. This is Love: https://www.radiotopia.fm/podcasts/this-is-love,
• Father Martin Laird’s books:

Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation: https://amzn.to/2YAN60L,

A Sunlit Absence: Silence, Awareness, and Contemplation: https://amzn.to/2QcwuHW,

An Ocean of Light: Contemplation, Transformation, and Liberation: https://amzn.to/31harWZ, * Norman Wirzba’s Living the Sabbath: https://amzn.to/31gWc4u.

Music is by Ordinary Neighbors: https://rebrand.ly/b08f8.

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