Find Your Center, Find Your Feet

Join us for a guided meditation as we listen into this season of transformation from summer into fall. We pray with the 'Gospel of Autumn' and engage Lectio Divina together with Joyce Rupp and  Macrina Weiderkehr's poem, Listening to Autumn. Listeners are invited to write their own 'I am Listening' prayer.
For more information about Moravian University School of Theology Spiritual Direction Certificate Program:   https://www.moravian.edu/school-theology/academics/certificates
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com
 

In the making of his book, The Making of Modern Spiritual Direction, Paul Burgmayer pulls back the curtain on a quiet revolution that reshaped one of the most intimate practices of the spiritual life. What emerges is a story few have told: spiritual direction as we know it is largely a 20th-century creation-forged in the tension between tradition and innovation, theology and psychology, authority and personal experience. Drawing on decades of research, rare archival discoveries, and interviews with key voices, Paul introduces the pioneers who reimagined spiritual direction-and asks what their legacy means for us now. 
For more information about Moravian University School of Theology Spiritual Direction Certificate Program:   https://www.moravian.edu/school-theology/academics/certificates
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com
 

Rev. Dr. Cynthia Bourgeault, is a modern-day mystic, Episcopal priest, writer, and internationally known retreat leader, teaching and spreading the recovery of the Christian contemplative and Wisdom paths.
One of her more recent books, Eye of the Heart: Journey into the Imaginal Realm investigates the imaginal realm--an energetic realm well known to the mystical traditions but often forgotten in our own times. It is invisible to the physical eye, but clearly perceptible through the eye of the heart. The imaginal realm has long been associated with the personal world of dreams and prophecy, and it also points toward a higher vision of our human purpose that is both evolutionary and collective. Cynthia explores both aspects of imaginal reality and talks about how we can cooperate more fully with its guidance in our lives.
For more information about Moravian University School of Theology Spiritual Direction Certificate Program:   https://www.moravian.edu/school-theology/academics/certificates
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com
 

Mahan Siler, who is in his early 90's, is a longtime Wisdom student of Cynthia Bourgeault and resides near Asheville, NC. He is a retired Baptist Pastor, social justice activist, mentor to many, and currently applies his systems awareness lens as an Elder. In this interview Mahan shares what it is like to prepare to become a good Ancestor.
 
For more information about Moravian University School of Theology Spiritual Direction Certificate Program:   https://www.moravian.edu/school-theology/academics/certificates
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com
 

Cynthia Bourgeault, a modern-day mystic, Episcopal priest, writer, and internationally known retreat leader, teaching and spreading the recovery of the Christian contemplative and Wisdom paths. In this podcast Cynthia offers another teaching on the 50 Thin Days of Easter, the Easter-tide days between Easter and Pentecost, particularly focusing on the final days of Ascension leading to Pentecost. Cynthia invites us to honor the energy of PENTECOST, learning what it means to be a human being with roots planted in resurrection life. The Holy Spirit comes down, affirming once again that the divine is not done with this world of form, as crazy as it may be. "Love calls us to the things of this world"... so we can allow the subtle to come down, like Jesus did, like the Holy Spirit did, and flow out into this world in form, infused and suffused, with the radiance that comes from this lighter living.
 
For more information about Moravian University School of Theology Spiritual Direction Certificate Program:   https://www.moravian.edu/school-theology/academics/certificates
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com
 
 

A  conversation with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, poet, teacher, speaker. She is a writing facilitator who co-hosts Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process, which is also on substack. Her daily audio series, The Poetic Path, is on the Ritual app. Her poems have appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, O Magazine, American Life in Poetry, and Carnegie Hall stage. Her recent collections are All the Honey and The Unfolding. In 2024, she became poet laureate for Evermore, helping others explore grief and love through poetry. Since 2006, she’s written a poem a day, sharing them for FREE on her daily blog, AHundredFallingVeils.com.  
 
For more information about Moravian University School of Theology Spiritual Direction Certificate Program:   https://www.moravian.edu/school-theology/academics/certificates
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com

Join this conversation with Cathy AJ Hardy about her experience of journeying through the Easter-tide experiences of the 50 Thin Days, as she continues to love her Beloveds through the veil.  Cathy is 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 last year is called Here I Am.  Cathy lives in  British Columbia among the mountains, rivers, and forests.
 
For more information about Moravian University School of Theology Spiritual Direction Certificate Program:   https://www.moravian.edu/school-theology/academics/certificates
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com

Dr. Erik Ranstrom shares his spiritual autobiography, how he was drawn to both Spiritual Direction and the Ignatian Exercises, and then he leads us in an Ignatian EXAMEN.
Dr. Erik Ranstrom is the Assistant Professor of Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care at our School of Theology at Moravian University, and serves as the Degree Coordinator of our Chaplaincy Program. Prior to his work at Moravian, Erik was an Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Rosemont College. He then made a transition to professional Spiritual Care after earning his Certificate in Spiritual Direction at Fairfield University in 2017. Erik also currently serves as Manager of Spiritual Care at Saint John Vianney Center, a state-licensed behavioral health hospital for clergy and religious. Erik received his PhD from Boston College in Comparative Theology, and an MA in Theology from Boston College. He additionally has a certificate in leading people through the Ignatian Exercises from Fairfield University.
For more information about Moravian University School of Theology Spiritual Direction Certificate Program:   https://www.moravian.edu/school-theology/academics/certificates
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com

Join us for an Easter Lectio Divina Meditation as we stand at the crossroad of spring. These words inspired by Macrina Wiederkehr, O.S.B., Steve Garners-Holmes and Henri Nouwen. 
For more information about Moravian University School of Theology Spiritual Direction Certificate Program:   https://www.moravian.edu/school-theology/academics/certificates
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com

A repost of our very first podcast episode in honor of our Beloved Amma Rita who now ‘supervises from the other side’ 
~Mary the Mother of Tenderness, be with our beloved Amma now.
Join Hosts Pam and Marcella as they have a conversation with MTS Spiritual Director Supervisors, Pat Herbst and Rita Pursel who we fondly call our Amma's. Listen as they share their journey as Spiritual Directors and the wisdom they learned along the way. Connect with us: https://www.moravian.edu/school-theology/academics/certificates
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com