Explore Spirituality

Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Professor of Theology, author, S&H contributor, and the host of Madang podcast returns to the Spirituality & Health Podcast to discuss her new book Invisible and her experience at COP26 Summit.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reverend Dr. Jacqui Lewis is the first female and first Black Senior Minister at the historic Collegiate Church in New York City, which dates to 1628. Her new book, Fierce Love: A Bold Path to Ferocious Courage and Rule-Breaking Kindness That Can Heal the World was featured in Spirituality & Health’s Books We Love 2021 and is available now.Read Rev. Lewis’ guest column in the September/October 2021 issue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shelly Tygielski is the author of Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self-Care Can Change the World and founder of the global grassroots mutual aid organization Pandemic of Love. Her work has been featured by over 100 media outlets, including CNN Heroes, The Kelly Clarkson Show, CBS This Morning, the New York Times, and Washington Post.Tygielski’s book Sit Down to Rise Up was reviewed in the November/December 2021 issue of Spirituality & Health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lisa Broderick is a business executive, social entrepreneur, and founder and Executive Director of Police2Peace—an organization devoted to reshaping policing in America. Her new book is All the Time in the World: Learn to Control Your Experience of Time to Live a Life Without Limitations. In this episode Rabbi Rami and Broderick explore two startling claims: “You can control your experience of time” and “You can live without limitations.” They dive into the science of brainwaves and states of consciousness and sleep through the lens of time, developing a limitless nature, and much more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pamela Seelig’s journey began after a diagnosis of Bell’s Palsy, which led her to leave her high-stress Wall Street job and seek out alternative medicines to begin her healing process—which brought her into the world of yoga and meditation. She has now been practicing yoga for over 25 years. Seelig’s new book Threads of Yoga: Themes, Reflections, and Meditations to Weave into Your Practice was featured in Books We Love in the September/October 2021 issue of Spirituality & Health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Pavlovitz is a pastor, writer, and activist. His blog, Stuff That Needs To Be Said reaches a diverse worldwide audience. He is the author of such books as A Bigger Table: Building Messy, Authentic, and Hopeful Spiritual Community, and Hope and Other Superpowers: A Life-Affirming, Love-Defending, Butt-Kicking, World-Saving Manifesto. His new book is If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk: Finding a Faith That Makes Us Better Humans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Thurman is Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, and co-founder and president of Tibet House US. A close friend of His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama for over half a century, Bob is the first ordained American Buddhist monk in the Tibetan tradition. A passionate activist for the plight of the Tibetan people, a skilled translator of Buddhist texts, and an inspiring writer of popular books on Buddhism—Thurman’s newest book is Wisdom Is Bliss: Four Friendly Fun Facts That Can Change Your Life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Connie Zweig is a psychotherapist, former executive editor at Jeremy P Tarcher Publishing, a columnist for Esquire Magazine and a contributor to the LA Times, the author and co-author of several books on the psychology of the shadow. Her newest book is the Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul.In this episode Rami and Zweig discuss aging and midlife, fear, changing careers, cultivating deeper awareness, and more. “During our midlife period of life, we're all empire-building. We're building families and careers and our ego development is peaking. Then as those responsibilities begin to fall away, whether it's in our 50s, or 60s, 70s, or 80s, and there's a shift in the structure of our days and the demands and the stress on us, most people get disoriented. They don't know where to turn. They don't know what's meaningful to them anymore.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alejandro Mandes is a social worker and theologian. He is the founder of Immigrant Hope and is devoted to equipping immigrants with the tools to find the hope of the gospel, a path to legal residency, and a home and church that accepts them. His new book is Embracing the New Samaria: Opening Our Eyes to Our Multiethnic Future. Read our review of Embracing the New Samaria: Opening Our Eyes to Our Multiethnic Future from the July/August issue of Spirituality & Health. Mandes asks “Who aren’t we reaching?” In this episode Rami and Mandes discuss the multiethnic future of the Christian church, opening the doors to all individuals of all races and cultures, salvation outside the church, God’s love and image in humanity, and much more. “I think we try to understand God in paradigms we set up that are not always crystal clear. And I’m okay with that abstraction.”  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tao Lin, is a novelist, poet, essayist, short-story author, and artist. He has published numerous novels and novella, two books of poetry, a collection of short stories, a memoir, and an assortment of digital content. His latest novel is called Leave Society, and a review of the book appears in the July/August 2021 issue of Spirituality & Health. Tao Lin, welcome to essential conversations.In this episode, Rabbi Rami and Lin discuss the philosophical nuances and therapeutic benefits of microdosing and recreational drug use, Daoism, autism, death and “leaving society,” and much more.“When I first got really disillusioned with my life ... I took a big dose of psilocybin and that combined with listening to a lot of Terence McKenna, made me have this idea that I should leave society, leave the life I had in New York City where I was really depressed. Then at that point, I realized that I didn't know what I would leave towards.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices