Find Your Center, Find Your Feet

Cynthia Bourgeault: Author of many books including The Wisdom Jesus and Wisdom Way of Knowing

Cynthia Bourgeault is a modern-day mystic, Episcopal priest, writer, and internationally known retreat leader. She divides her time between solitude and sailing the waters around her seaside hermitage in Maine and traveling globally to teach and spread the recovery of the Christian contemplative and Wisdom paths. In this podcast Cynthia offers a teaching on the 50 Thin Days of Easter, the Easter-tide days between Easter and Pentecost, when Jesus is offering his final  teaching and transmissions by way of a series of miraculous visitations. Cynthia invites us too to tune into this sacred season for our own ongoing transformation. To learn more about Cynthia  see wisdomwaypoints.org
For more information about Moravian Theological Seminary's Spiritual Direction Program: https://www.moravianseminary.edu/academics/certificate/spiritual-direction
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com

Nancy Bieber: Author of Decision Making and Spiritual Discernment: the Sacred Art of Finding Your Way

Nancy Bieber is Author of Decision Making and Spiritual Discernment: the Sacred Art of Finding Your Way. Nancy rooted in her Quaker tradition, is a spiritual director and psychologist, a writer and teacher. She has taught at the School of the Spirit (Quaker), Oasis Ministries (ecumenical), and Lancaster Theological Seminary. She has frequently led retreats and workshops for groups around the country. Nancy has written 3 books: Decision Making and Spiritual Discernment: The Sacred Art of Finding our Way; Fianna’s Story: A True Story of Love, Grief and Faith (the story of her grandparents); and the book Those Who Came Before (a story of her ancestors).
For more information about Moravian Theological Seminary's Spiritual Direction Program: https://www.moravianseminary.edu/academics/certificate/spiritual-direction
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com

Dr Libby Osgood: Author of Green Saints for a Green Generation

Dr. Libby Osgood is an Associate Professor in Sustainable Design Engineering at the University of Prince Edward Island in Canada and a religious sister of the Congregation of Notre Dame de Montreal. She is an aerospace engineer who worked on two NASA satellites as a systems engineer with Orbital Sciences. She holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Dalhousie University and is a member of the 2024 3M National Teaching Fellowship and International Federation of National Teaching Fellows. She researches faith & science, humanitarian engineering, and engineering design teaching practices. Libby published two theological books: a "Book of Hours" which collected the writings of Teilhard de Chardin into prayers, and “Green Saints for a Green Generation” which brings together 12 scientists, sisters, and theologians to highlight canonized saints and not-yet canonized ecological witnesses who can provide hope and inspire us to ecological action.
For more information about Moravian Theological Seminary's Spiritual Direction Program: https://www.moravianseminary.edu/academics/certificate/spiritual-direction
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com

Dr. Lerita Coleman Brown, What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman

Join Marcella for a conversation with Dr. Lerita Coleman Brown, an embodied spirit, author, speaker, heart (1995) and kidney (2005) transplant recipient, former psychology professor who considers each day to be a walk of gratitude, trust, and hope. A graduate of the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation, she serves as a spiritual director/companion, retreat leader and encourages the pursuit of a spiritual life. Dr. Brown is author of the book: What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman (2023). In this book Brown beckons readers into their own apprenticeship with Thurman and walks with us through Thurman’s inimitable life and commitments as he summons us into our own experience of God.
For more information about Moravian Theological Seminary's Spiritual Direction Program: https://www.moravianseminary.edu/academics/certificate/spiritual-direction
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com

A Lifestyle of Sharing God’s Goodness with Rev. Dr. Glen Stoudt

Rev. Dr. Glen Stoudt shares what it means to live “a lifestyle of sharing God’s goodness." Retired from congregational ministry with the United Church of Canada, the Rev. Dr. Glen Stoudt serves as a spiritual director in his ongoing ministry in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. On this podcast episode he shares with Pam what it means to live “a lifestyle of sharing God’s goodness."
Glen taught in the MDiv program for many years at Moravian Theological Seminary and is a graduate of the MTS Spiritual Direction Training Program. 
For more information about Moravian Theological Seminary's Spiritual Direction Program: https://www.moravianseminary.edu/academics/certificate/spiritual-direction
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com
*This conversation originally aired on the Talking Joy Podcast with Pam Robertson in 2023. www.talkingjoy.org
 
 
 

A Roadmap to Another New Year Meditation

Join Pam for a guided meditation as we reflect on 2024 and write goals for the New Year, 2025. What could you use more of in your life? What could you use less of in your life? What is your word for 2025? There is a blank canvas on the road before you, follow along and write your goals and intentions as a spiritual practice.
 
For more information about Moravian Theological Seminary's Spiritual Direction Program: https://www.moravianseminary.edu/academics/certificate/spiritual-direction
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com
 
 
 
 

A conversation with Jessica Morris, Author of Higher Powered: One Woman's Journey of Personal Eschatology

This conversation with Jessica Morris is honest, raw, real and beautiful. Jessica shares both the 'good and the challenging' of being raised in a family 'influenced by the disease of alcoholism' with a pastor father. Higher Powered: One Woman's Journey of Personal Eschatology is an autobiographical book, a light for any who are hungry...particularly for anyone in recovery..and all others. Jessica is a 2020 graduate of Moravian Seminary's Spiritual Direction Graduate Certificate Program, and the Master's of Arts in Theological Studies.
Book: Higher Powered: One Woman's Journey of Personal Eschatology
For more information about Moravian Theological Seminary's Spiritual Direction Program: https://www.moravianseminary.edu/academics/certificate/spiritual-direction
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com
 

Conscious Practices for Advent with Pam and Marcella

Pam and Wisdom teacher Marcella Kraybill-Greggo discuss four conscious Spiritual Practices for Advent. One invitation this season is to "catch" yourself and see how many times you notice crossing a threshold and allow yourself to sink through the level of initial chatter of your mind and discover the rhythm of the work you are doing. This podcast offers ways we can remember or recollect ourselves while baking, wrapping and celebrating in the weeks ahead. Always coming back to our breath and finding our feet. Marcella directs the Spiritual Direction Training program at Moravian Seminary.
For more information about Moravian Theological Seminary's Spiritual Direction Program: https://www.moravianseminary.edu/academics/certificate/spiritual-direction
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com
 
 

Guided Advent Meditation, Focusing on Hope, Peace, Love & Joy

Join Pam Robertson for a guided Advent meditation focusing on these themes each week: hope, peace, love and joy! Listen along to a Christmas story about being present followed by suggestions from author Joyce Rupp on how to cultivate more presence for yourself this holiday season. Finally a list of where to find the Christmas story in the Bible. 
Resources:
Opening: Matthew West that invites readers to return to God during the Christmas season in his book, Come Home for Christmas.  
Where is the Christmas story in the Bible?Prophecy-Isaiah 9 notably v. 6-7Mary & the Annunciation Luke 1: 26-38 (announcement from the Angel Gabriel)Joseph & visit from the angel in a dream-Matthew 1: 18 - 25Mary visits Elizabeth & Mary's Magnificat (song of praise) -Luke 1:39-56 The birth of Jesus-Luke 2: 1 - 7Shepherds and angels-Luke 2: 8 - 20Visit of the Magi-Matthew 2: 1-12
Story: A Christmas Miracle, Family Circle, Dec.2013 by Glennon Doyle Melton
Suggestions for giving the present of presence by Joyce Rupp. 
For more information about Moravian Theological Seminary's Spiritual Direction Program: https://www.moravianseminary.edu/academics/certificate/spiritual-direction
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com
 

Cathy Hardy, Author of Walk With Me:Transformation through the Pathway of Spiritual Direction

Join us for a conversation with Cathy AJ Hardy a spiritual director, retreat facilitator, and founder of Soul Care ®, offering courses in spiritual formation and direction. A facilitator of soul work for the past two decades, Cathy is also the author of four books: Love Breathes with Me (2018), Walk With Me (2020), and Love Breathes With Me II (2022), and Pause; A Year of Soulful Meditation (2023). 
 
In addition to her passion for guiding others in their spiritual growth, Cathy is also a poet and award-winning singer-songwriter, her most recent album being released this year is called Here I Am.  Cathy lives in Mission, B.C. among the mountains, rivers, and forests. 
More about Cathy at: Cathyajhardy.com
Soulcare.ca
For more information about Moravian Theological Seminary's Spiritual Direction Program: https://www.moravianseminary.edu/academics/certificate/spiritual-direction
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com