The Slow Way

Sep 17 2024 100 ep. 17 mins 7
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A sacred space for all the frantic strivers, serial doers and weary achievers. You're invited in for a moment of reflection, an opportunity for prayer, and a chance to practice going slow.

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101. On Holy Pleasure

Sep 17 2024 15 mins  
I find that Jesus is always in the business of calling us to his way, a way that will totally ruin our comfort seeking, surface level naval gazing. He demands a bigger, truer pleasure. The kind that wakes up our whole selves — our desires, our bodies, our moral courage, our self-giving love. This is the final The Slow Way Podcast episode. I have delighted in recording these epis

100. Celebrating 100 Episodes of The Slow Way Podcast!

Jul 02 2024 11 mins  
Celebrating all the stories, all the practices, all my attempts to tell the truth. Here's a link to Micha's new book Blessed Are The Rest of Us: How Limits and Longing Make Us Whole. Find it at Target, Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Bookshop.org Blessed on Amazon here! It's availble at 40% off the price of other booksellers at BakerBookHouse. Just use the code SLOWWAY at checkout.

99. Sunshine and Vapor

Jun 25 2024 16 mins  
It’s true that the world is beautiful. And it’s also true that the beauty and goodness in the world can dissolve in front of us. Life is unpredictable, like the author of Ecclesiastes says, it’s a “chasing after the wind.” Click here for Robert Siegel's book A Pentecost of Finches. Here's a link to his poem "Aubade." I lov

98. Meaning and the Stories That Shape Us

Jun 18 2024 17 mins  
How we make meaning is how we live. And the gift of the spiritual life is that it teaches us to make meaning, to find our story in a bigger story. * I’m looking for stories from YOU about what The Slow Way means to you. Here’s how to help! Record a video or voice memo of you sharing one or more of the following: Where do you listen to The Slow Way? How do you use the Slow Pract

97. On Increasing and Deepening "Our Capacity for God"

Jun 11 2024 19 mins  
I’ve been working out how to offer the young people I love a vibrant faith that insists on their own goodness, their own original spark, and I am still fumbling a bit to give them language for encountering God. I believe that the long-way of conversion is a good way. And that Jesus’s invitation to move toward wholeness is the kind of faith I want for the kids I love. I’m not

96. The Practice of Seeing in a Harsh World

Jun 04 2024 15 mins  
When we pray, when we practice holding tight to the vision God has for the world, it makes sense that we might begin to make eye contact as a form of prayer. You are important. You matter. I see you. What is the life of loving our neighbor if it isn’t the overflow of sacred love? Jonathan spent the day waiting to be seen. And my gift was that I had the longing of Holy Spirit in m

95. On Being "At Peace and In Place"

May 28 2024 14 mins  
The work of God is not just slow, it’s remarkable. It’s intricate. It’s miraculous, precisely because it takes so much time. As I wrote last week, we are unlearning the ways of an anxious culture. When I first began this process of unlearning, I hoped it wouldn’t ache to release the anxious ways I had followed all of my life. But it did ache, and it still does. Slowing our

94. Contemplative Life—Strange, Mysterious, Queer

May 21 2024 12 mins  
Those unlearning the ways of an anxious culture are leaning into queerness as a metaphor for approaching the sacred: We are leaning into “possibilities beyond”...We’re learning a new path. Find Jonathan Merritt's children's book My Guncle and Me here. Find Queering Contemplation by Cassidy Hall here. Find the Contemplating Now podcast episode I quoted from with Therese

93. A Conversation With Chris Hohorst (my husband!)

May 14 2024 30 mins  
This past week I made it home for good after a wild month of traveling and speaking about my book, just in time to sit down with my toughest reader, my life companion, and my favorite guy around, Chris Hohorst, on his experience of Blessed Are The Rest of Us. We've never done this sort of thing before, and it was a delight. A few more links! Find out more about Suzanne Stabile he

92. The Blessed Are The Rest of Us book launch conversation, with special guest, Shauna Niequist

Apr 16 2024 47 mins  
Last Wednesday night, I had the opportunity to gather with friends, family, and readers in the beautiful General Theological Seminary Chapel of the Good Shepherd, to talk about my new book, Blessed Are the Rest of Us. I was honored to have my friend, the beloved author Shauna Niequist, with me to chat about the process of writing the book, some of the books major themes, and even w