Earth and Spirit Podcast
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The Earth and Spirit Podcast fosters engaging conversations with change-makers working at the intersection of meditative spiritual practice, social healing, and ecology. It is a production of the Passionist Earth & Spirit Center (www.earthandspiritcenter.org), a nonprofit, interfaith spirituality center located in Louisville, Kentucky. (Please donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/)
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Carmel Bowman and Maggie Hettinger describe themselves as ordinary citizens of rural Kentucky who are trying to help move the needle on climate change. From their own lifestyle choices to their active efforts with the Citizens' Climate Lobby, they are passionately engaged for positive change. In this podcast, recorded during one of the Earth & Spirit Center’s live community conversations events, Carmel and Maggie invite us to consider a realistic path for the U.S. to reach net carbon neutrality by 2050 or earlier.
https://citizensclimatelobby.org/
https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/class/community-conversations/
https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/
In a time of ecological and social crisis, it can be tempting to retreat from the world and pine nostalgically for some earlier, simpler, purer way of life: like the Garden of Eden. In this episode, scripture scholar and back-to-the-land homesteader Rev. Dr. Patricia Tull invites us to consider what lessons we might learn from Eden as we try to create a more just, beautiful, and thriving world. This conversation weaves together erudite scriptural reflection, intimate and practical experience on the land, and heart-felt conviction about what it means to be human.
Links and Resources:
Inhabiting Eden: Christians, the Bible, and the Ecological Crisis, by Patricia K. Tull
www.earthandspiritcenter.org
Joe Phelps is a retired Baptist pastor with a long history of making good trouble in regard to hunger, poverty, race, and other social justice and equity challenges. As part of the Earth & Spirit Center’s Community Conversations series, Joe joined host Kyle Kramer along with a live Zoom audience to talk about the intense racial tensions in Louisville, KY, his many friendships and collaborations across color lines, and how he has sustained his engagement and advocacy over time.
Links and Resources:
Earth & Spirit Center Community Conversations: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/class/community-conversations/
Empower West: https://empowerwest.com/
Facebook group: White Women Demand Justice For Breonna
Black Power by Stokely Carmichael
White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones
The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights by Carole Boston Weatherford
In this episode, Earth & Spirit Podcast host Kyle Kramer sits down for a conversation with Nellie Springston, the Earth & Spirit Center's program coordinator for youth, family, and education. Nellie offers practical advice for parents who are having to figure out childcare, at-home schooling, and other challenges. Nellie is also the founder of Calma: Calm and Loving Minds Achieve (www.calmakids.org), which provides mindfulness resources for parents and educators.
This short trailer introduces the Earth & Spirit Podcast, a production of the Earth & Spirit Center, a nonprofit, interfaith spirituality center in Louisville, KY (www.earthandspiritcenter.org). This podcast is made possible by support from the Kalliopeia Foundation (www.kalliopeia.org).
Inward Bound Mindfulness is a nonprofit organization offering intensive mindfulness retreats to youth across the country. In this episode, Inward Bound Executive Director Erik Osugi, and Nikki Cistac, the lead for programs and community engagement, talk about the transformative power of mindfulness for a richly diverse community of young people.
Resources:
Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/
Earth & Spirit Center website: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/
Inward Bound Mindfulness website: https://inwardboundmind.org/
Contact Erik Osugi: erik@inwardboundmind.org
Contact Nikki Cistac: nikki@inwardboundmind.org
Matt Weir is a Louisville-based sculptor and stonecarver who has been commissioned to create an outdoor sculpture for the Earth & Spirit Center. In this episode, Matt reflects on his creative process, including the cosmic humility and contemplative practice entailed in working slowly with ancient natural materials.
RESOURCES:
Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/
Learn more about the Earth & Spirit Center: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/
Falls Art Foundry: https://fallsartfoundry.com/
Matt Weir’s website: https://mweirworks.com/
Louisville Visual Art: https://www.louisvillevisualart.org/
Information about the Louisville Visual Art’s Curate, Purchase, Inspire program, which is funding the installation of Matt’s sculpture on the Earth & Spirit Center campus: https://www.louisvillevisualart.org/cpi
Louisville Collegiate School is an independent school committed to whole-child education. In this episode, Head of School Rob Macrae and Assistant Head of School Jim McGuire describe how they are introducing spiritual practices and principles in a secular educational context, as a way to cultivate kids with self-awareness, a sense of community, resilience, and a commitment to the common good of people and planet.
RESOURCES:
Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/
Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/
Louisville Collegiate School: https://louisvillecollegiate.org/
Collaborative for Spirituality in Education: https://spiritualityineducation.org/
Awakened Schools Institute: https://spiritualityineducation.org/awakened-schools/
Will Hunter is a former monk, hermit, and wilderness therapy guide, who currently serves as the retreat director for the Earth & Spirit Center in Louisville, KY. In this episode, Will and I talk about the evolution of monastic life and how the desert or wilderness spirituality of monastic practice is possible – and even essential – for all of us, even in the midst of our built environments and our busy lives.
Resources:
Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/
Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/
Will’s upcoming three-week course on Wilderness Spirituality (in-person and online via Zoom): https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/class/wilderness-spirituality/
Shelly Sowell is a therapist and well-being coach who integrates mindfulness and self-compassion into her work with individuals and organizations. In this episode, we reflect on how mindfulness provides a helpful path of healing, integration, and hope for individuals and communities in the wake of the 2024 elections.
RESOURCES:
Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/
Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/
Shelly's website: shellysowell.com
Shelly’s Instagram: @buildamindfullife
Shelly’s blog page: https://www.shellysowell.com/blog
Blog Post on Fear: https://www.shellysowell.com/blog/buildamindfullife-workingwithfear
Blog Post on Supporting Kids: https://www.shellysowell.com/blog/buildamindfullife-electionanxiety
Blog Post from last year on Prepping for Holidays: https://www.shellysowell.com/blog/mindfullyprepfamilyholidays
In this brief episode, Earth & Spirit Podcast host and producer Kyle Kramer gives some background on why the podcast feed has been dark for a bit, and what the future holds for the podcast moving forward.
David Gershon is the co-founder and CEO of Empowerment Institute, author of a dozen books, and is one of the foremost social change experts in the world. In this conversation, David shares his vision of world peace by 2030 and the inspired and inspiring way he is helping create the means to achieve it.
RESOURCES:
Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/
Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/
Registration link for World Building Workshop in Louisville on September 7, 2024: https://poe.earth/POEWBWorkshop
Learn more about the Peace on Earth by 2030 Movement: https://peace2030.earth
Learn more about the Peace Game and the Peace Game App:
https://peacegame.earth
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1arS7L8fkp2DgKgfuD3GOAxykugYm3TwGusaZ8Zw5ZA4/edit?usp=sharing
https://poe.earth/app
Learn more about David’s work and writing: https://empowermentinstitute.net
Brayton Bowen is an organizational consultant, author, educator, and speaker, who served as a senior human resources officer for Fortune 500 companies. He’s also a fierce advocate for compassion in the workplace. In this episode, we explore the benefits compassion can bring in organizational life and beyond.
RESOURCES:
Donate to support the Earth & Spirit Podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/
Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/
Brayton’s website: https://buildingbetterworldsofwork.com/
Brayton’s books: https://buildingbetterworldsofwork.com/success-resources/
John Gage is a Louisville-based folk singer-songwriter and a former public radio host. For over six decades, his music has engaged deeply with spirituality, social justice, and care for the Earth. John brought his beloved old Martin guitar with him to the Earth & Spirit Center to add a few live songs to this wide-ranging conversation about music as a force for good in the world. His most recent album, Circles of Our Lives, features several Wendell Berry poems that John set to music, one of which he performed during this conversation. John teaches music for the Camp Odyssey summer programs at the Earth & Spirit Center, so since our summer camps are in full swing, we are re-airing this episode, which originally aired in 2021.
Resources:
Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/
Earth & Spirit Center website: www.earthandspiritcenter.org
John Gage on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/26zYYPXePtVOO7hHjieUGj
Mat McDermott is Senior Director of Communications for the Hindu American Foundation, a non-profit advocacy organization for the Hindu American community, and an author and contributor for many Hindu American Foundation policy positions on environmental care and the ethical treatment of animals. This conversation explores how Hindu spirituality, and especially the various forms of yoga, help cultivate an ethic of love and care for the sacred world we all share.
RESOURCES:
Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/
Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/
Hindu American Foundation: https://www.hinduamerican.org/
Learn more about the June 21 International Day of Yoga
In honor of the Earth & Spirit Center’s upcoming summer camps, we’re replaying an episode from the archives, about the importance of nature-based free play. Claude Stephens is the Facilitator of Outreach and Regenerative Design for Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest. He’s also the director of Bernheim’s Children at Play Network, an initiative that helps connect children to nature through free play. This conversation explores the importance of free play in nature as an engine of inspiration and imagination, empowerment, equity, and efforts to sustain healthy communities and landscapes.
RESOURCES:
Earth & Spirit Center: https://earthandspiritcenter.org/
Bernheim Research Forest and Arboretum: https://bernheim.org/
Children At Play Network: https://childrenatplaynetwork.com/
Reverend Seifu Anil Singh-Molares is a priest in the Rinzai Zen Buddhist tradition and serves as the executive director of Spiritual Directors International, an interfaith non-profit that provides resources for spiritual guidance and counsel. This conversation explores what spiritual direction is and how important it is for discerning wisdom and divine presence in all aspects of our life.
RESOURCES:
Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/
Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/
Spiritual Directors International: https://www.sdicompanions.org/
Contact Rev. Seifu: anilsm@sdiworld.org
Rebecca and Pete Davis are a sister-and-brother filmmaking team who have created “Join or Die,” a documentary film about the decline of civic life in America and the importance of joining clubs and other associations as a way to restore the health of our democracy. This episode explores how we are all made for belonging and how we can lean into the profoundly joyful work of becoming more deeply connected to our places and to each other.
RESOURCES:
Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/
Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/
Join or Die film: https://putnamdoc.com/
Osprey Orielle Lake is the founder executive director of WECAN, the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network, and the author of The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis. In this episode, we explore how embracing a different story about our belonging in a living, animate world can transform our self-understanding and can help to heal our relationship with ourselves, each other, and the rest of the living Earth.
RESOURCES:
Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/
Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/
Osprey’s organization, Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network: https://www.wecaninternational.org/
Osprey’s new book, The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis
Tom Williams is a Louisville-based labor relations attorney with a deep commitment to the contemplative path, with the wild idea that a lawyer’s vocation may ultimately be to serve as a healer. In this conversation, Tom shares how he puts spiritual principles and insights into action as a tireless advocate for radical compassion, restorative justice, equity, and inclusion.
RESOURCES:
Donate to support the Earth & Spirit Center and this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/
Visit the Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/
Learn more about Restorative Justice: https://www.voamid.org/services/restorative-justice/
Learn more about Tom’s legal practice: https://www.skofirm.com/attorney/thomas-m-williams/
Compassion Games International: https://www.compassiongames.org/
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