How does the encounter with silence usher us into mystery? And how is our relationship with silence shaped by, or challenged by, the challenges and dynamics of social difference and privilege? What is the relationship between contemplation and communit...

Hello friends! - Can you believe that the Encountering Silence Podcast released its first episode six months ago?!? - Yes — our "pilot episode" was released on December 6, 2017. - This week we're celebrating our six-month-anniversary with a brief co...

"I'm rather obsessed with the mystics of all traditions," enthuses Mirabai Starr, as she muses on the profound relationship between silence and stillness and passionate/ecstatic mystical love. - In a rich conversation that touches on the beauty of the...

What is the relationship between silence, creativity, fear, doubt, death, and missing voices — especially in terms of art and literature? - To explore this provocative question, we turned to our mutual friend — and one of the most gifted and artic...

How is Silence related to the human body? To movement, exercise, and performance? To physical, as well as mental and spiritual, wellness? - Today we begin what we hope will be an ongoing conversation in the Encountering Silence world,

If you could take a snapshot of your relationship with silence today, what would it look like? Perhaps you will have just come back from visiting a city where tragedy has brought about a new quality of silence.

As a peace activist, biographer, and lover of silence, author Jim Forest's deep humility and sincere way of being reveal to us much about listening, truly seeing, and deeply caring for our fellow human beings. "The day starts in silence...

Richard Rohr talks with us in this episode about silence, spirituality, contemplation, action, and why discernment is essential for each of these areas of life. - One of the most popular and beloved of living authors writing about contemplation , Fr.

We love poetry — and we find that, of all literary forms, poetry seems to most quickly and assuredly bring the attentive reader to the threshold of silence. - "Poets all see silence as sacred ground," notes Kevin,

This week we have our first "return" guest, as Patrick Shen joins us again to discuss the new book he co-wrote and co-edited with Cassidy Hall, Notes on Silence. Describing the book as an "entry point" into silence,