Read. Pray. Write.: Recent Episodes
Read. Pray. Write.
Christian chart-busting singer-songwriter Flamy Grant shares a spiritual journey that has arrived at a Christian music ministry full of love, acceptance, and LGBTQ identity.
s creation in our common home, even dandelions are divine. A spiritual reading featuring Grace Ji-Sun Kim.
Learn how Christian views of the deity have contributed to the climate crisis, and how changing God to a verb can heal the Earth.
In times where evil seems pervasive, we can still persevere with our own goodness, infused with trust in a God of justice. A video lectio divina.
A spiritual reading meditation featuring author Judith Valente about how a contemplative life allows us to see the sacred and poetic in everyday activities, even hanging laundry.
The Italian Soul: How to Savor the Full Joys of Life, shares achievable approaches to life/work balance, community connectedness and awareness of the transcendent in every moment.
When you realize that your need to help is actually hurting--both yourselves and others--it is time to surrender with prayer.
Two spiritual seekers—one a Trappist monk and the other a journalist—ponder the universal questions about the meant of life through death.
Inclusion, an act of mercy, is manifested in opening one’s arms wide to welcome without excluding or labeling others--Pope Francis
Those on the path toward greater spiritual freedom and love find strength in a very undramatic and almost unnoticeable ways when they avoid letting egos and self-preoccupations to take over.
Thomas Merton reminds us that “True encounter with Christ liberates something in us, a power we did not know we had, a hope.”
Christine Valter Paintner offers a mediation to soften knots in our heart, body, and soul through vulnerability.
Christ died and was buried in all of us. Every time you do something physically to honor a deceased person you are performing a work of mercy.
This reading reminds not just fathers and sons, but also mothers, daughters and all those who parent or are parented that God the Father awaits our return from loneliness, anger, jealousy and desolation with His ever-ready blessing.
In her desperate plea, Queen Esther recognizes that only the Lord can help relieve our deepest pain.
I understood that God’s roadmap for me diverged from the paths of those I loved. I realized the best I could offer my lost ones was prayer.
Painter Joe Anastasi's pauses in contemplative prayer in order to see the light and dignity of the homeless he serves.
Ash Wednesday is not only about atonement, it is about hope in the Resurrection. How do you approach God: with confidence in his mercy or temerity?
A singer-songwriter discusses how writing poetry and lyrics have helped her get through "dark nights of the soul."
Thomas Merton suggests that being at peace with life's confusion and contradictions is possible if we know and trust God's presence.
A musical gift to our listeners: an original tune by Irish guitarist Martin Dunlea titled "Where's the Silence?"