This week on The Habit Podcast, Jonathan Rogers talks with Christiana Peterson, author of Awakened by Death: Live-Giving Lessons from the Mystics.

They discuss the link between mysticism and mortality, our culture’s lack of rituals for confronting death, the writer’s role in engaging with mortality as an antidote for self-absorption, and death’s ability to teach compassion.

This week on The Habit Podcast, Jonathan Rogers talks with Christiana Peterson, author of Awakened by Death: Live-Giving Lessons from the Mystics.
They discuss the link between mysticism and mortality, our culture&rsquo;s lack of rituals for confronting death, the writer&rsquo;s role in engaging with mortality as an antidote for self-absorption, and death&rsquo;s ability to teach compassion.

Conversations with writers about writing, hosted by Jonathan Rogers.

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S2 E48: Christiana Peterson

Lore Ferguson Wilbert writes about spiritual formation, faith, culture, and theology in life. She is the proprietor of an excellent Substack called Sayable.  She has also been known to teach writing and do editorial work. Her new book is The Understory: An Invitation to Rootedness and Resilience from the Forest Floor. In this episode, Lore and Jonathan Rogers talk about what it means to really believe that death can’t help but give rise to life. We also talk about mycorrhizal fungi.

Lore Ferguson Wilbert writes about spiritual formation, faith, culture, and theology in life. She is the proprietor of an excellent Substack called <a href="https://lorewilbert.com/">Sayable</a>.  She has also been known to teach writing and do editorial work. Her new book is <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-understory-an-invitation-to-rootedness-and-resilience-from-the-forest-floor-lore-ferguson-wilbert/20656719?ean=9781587435706">The Understory: An Invitation to Rootedness and Resilience from the Forest Floor</a>. In this episode, Lore and Jonathan Rogers talk about what it means to really believe that death can’t help but give rise to life. We also talk about mycorrhizal fungi.

Lore Wilbert on the Life that Grows Out of Death

As host of the Read-Aloud Revival Podcast and the Read-Aloud Revival Online Community, Sarah MacKenzie has brought untold joy to bookish families. Besides connecting families with other people’s books, Sarah has started writing and publishing her own picture books. Her latest is Because Barbara: Barbara Cooney Paints Her World. Illustrated by Eileen Ryan Ewen, this picture-book biography tells the story of one of America’s best-loved and most celebrated children’s book illustrators. Because Barbara is available for preorder. If you order by June 18, 2024, you can get free Bonuses, including a Family Book Club Guide, audiobook, videobook, and an invitation to a Zoom Book Party Picnic with the author & Illustrator!.

As host of the <a href="https://readaloudrevival.com/">Read-Aloud Revival</a> Podcast and the Read-Aloud Revival Online Community, Sarah MacKenzie has brought untold joy to bookish families. Besides connecting families with other people’s books, Sarah has started writing and publishing her own picture books. Her latest is <a href="https://waxwingbooks.com/because-barbara/">Because Barbara: Barbara Cooney Paints Her World</a>. Illustrated by Eileen Ryan Ewen, this picture-book biography tells the story of one of America’s best-loved and most celebrated children’s book illustrators. Because Barbara is available for preorder. If you order by June 18, 2024, you can get free Bonuses, including a Family Book Club Guide, audiobook, videobook, and an invitation to a Zoom Book Party Picnic with the author &amp; Illustrator!.

Sarah MacKenzie Tells the Story of Hope

Malcolm Guite is a poet-priest. Jeremy Begbie has called him "one of the most important Christian poets of our time." In this episode, Malcolm and Jonathan Rogers discuss imagination as a way of knowing.

This episode is brought to you by The Habit Membership, a community of writers who learn together and give each other a little more courage. Find out more at TheHabit.co.

<a href="https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/">Malcolm Guite</a> is a poet-priest. Jeremy Begbie has called him "one of the most important Christian poets of our time." In this episode, Malcolm and Jonathan Rogers discuss imagination as a way of knowing.
This episode is brought to you by The Habit Membership, a community of writers who learn together and give each other a little more courage. Find out more at <a href="TheHabit.co">TheHabit.co</a>.

S2 E48: Christiana Peterson

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