Episode 96 - Nature and the Care of the Soul with Belden Lane, Part 2
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This season is all about Complex Conversations and how these conversations can help us buffet the fierce winds that are blowing in our lives.
SHOW NOTES
We are continuing the conversation with Steve and Belden Lane today.
Belden and Steve discuss why lament is absolutely necessary for each of us, and how lament is the way out of our national meltdown, our constant state of living on the edge in a frazzled world.
It is stunning, sobering, and powerfully hope filled - don’t miss this conversation!
Special Guest Belden C. Lane
Belden and his dog Joey
Belden C. Lane is a Presbyterian theologian who teaches on a Jesuit faculty at Saint Louis University. His interests include the relationship between geography and faith, wilderness backpacking in the Ozarks, the magic of storytelling, desert spirituality, exposing students to urban poverty through the Catholic Worker community, and the poetry of Rumi. He also works with men, helping to lead initiation rites through Richard Rohr's program for Men as Learners and Elders in Albuquerque.
He lives with his wife Patricia, a spiritual director and retired school teacher, in Saint Louis. Drawn to sacred places around the world, his travels have involved camping in Egypt, Ireland and the Virgin Islands; hiking in Greece, Hawaii, and Australia; and study in England, Israel and Mexico. For six years I served in the pastorate, from a village parish in western New York State to the historic First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. Some time ago he found himself delightfully introduced as a Presbyterian minister teaching at a Roman Catholic university telling Jewish stories at the Vedanta Society.
Belden’s Books:
The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality
Ravished by Beauty: The Surprising Legacy of Reformed Spirituality
Backpacking with the Saints: Wilderness Hiking as Spiritual Practice
Mentioned in podcast
Apophatic and Cataphatic Tradition
Paula D’Arcy’s book The Gift of the Red Bird
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