Episode Archives

Spiritual Reading can help us heal

In a new book, RPW Host Jean P. Kelly tells how Spiritual Reading allowed her to recognize and avoid unhealthy relationships. She shows readers how to rewrite their own stories, receiving wisdom offered by the world’s greatest spiritual teachers.

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Have No Desire to be Perfect

Lent reminds us that perfection is never the goal, even for those called to avowed life.

Finding Grace to Practice More Healing, Less Helping

Unbalanced relationships threaten to harden us. Spiritual Reading creates the space and grace to soften our hearts even when we feel desperate and isolated.

Love, Pray, Listen, then let prodigal children go

We wait for our adult kids. And we rely on the Father, who understands. After all,. we also were wayward prodigals once, living for our whims.

Listening for the holy means accepting others as beloved.

“It was not until I lost my hearing that I started learning to listen .”

Speak with Love, not Judgement

Love of neighbor requires holding our tongue and not correcting others, says Catherine of Sienna and this month’s author.

Pray: Even negative emotions can be welcomed as guests

Ancient poet, Rumi, encourages us to accept all emotions as bearers of wisdom.

Pray: Tears are a Gift

Tears can be holy water if we are brave enough to share our grief and joy and ecstasy and despair with others.

A Pilgrimage toward Joy: Read & Pray [Rebroadcast]

A literary pilgrimage leads to a new openness to trust and hope.

Pray: Death teaches love & how to “be”

Two spiritual seekers—one a Trappist monk and the other a journalist—ponder the universal questions about the meaning of life through death.