In this episode of the Call to Love Experience, host Jasmine Bellamy and guests Tia Norman and Candance Green explore the themes of love, lament, and healing, particularly in the context of Black women's experiences. They discuss the importance of community, the role of silence and contemplation, and how joy can serve as a form of resistance in times of crisis. The conversation emphasizes the necessity of lament as a pathway to healing and the power of hospitality in fostering connection and support within the community.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

Centering Scripture: ‭‭Lamentations‬ ‭3‬:‭28‬-‭33‬ ‭MSG‬‬

Supplemental Scripture: Luke‬ ‭8‬:‭43-48

Joy Unspeakable by Dr. Barbara Holmes

Crisis Contemplation by Dr. Barbara Holmes

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Theme Music: Sunrise (Instrumental) by Matthew Hollingsworth

“32 years of ‘I Do.’ 32 years of journeying together through the mystery of life. 32 years of choosing, allowing, and accepting. 32 years of integrity—growing, forgiving, and creating a home where our insides match our outside.”

Fellow contemplative and love practitioner Felicia Murrell returns for part 2 alongside her husband Doug on the first anniversary of her book AND: The Restorative Power of Love In An Either/Or World.

When I read her beautiful 32nd-anniversary tribute to Doug, I knew they were the conversation partners I’d been waiting for to explore a topic I’ve wanted to discuss for a LONG time! Simply put—Felicia and Doug get it.This is not your typical conversation about love and relationships. It is deep, challenging, and expansive—an invitation to grow from the inside out.

Resources Mentioned in the Episode:

Centering Scripture: ‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭5‬:‭‭2‬ ‭MSG‬‬

Part 1 of Felicia Murrell on The Call to Love Experience- Season 2, Episode 8

The LOVING Leader

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Theme Music: Sunrise (Instrumental) by Matthew Hollingsworth

An ancient practice and sacred space for accompaniment, holding, listening, and healing. Together, we explore the essence of Spiritual Direction, clarifying what it is (and what it isn’t) and its vital role in fostering spiritual growth and healing.

Karen Simms Tolson is the editor of Wisdom of Our Elders: Living in Spirit, Wisdom, Deep Mercy, and Truth. She has been a Spiritual Director for more than a decade and serves on the board of Spiritual Directors International, the global learning community committed to the art and contemplative practice of spiritual companionship. Find out more about Karen at Healingwisdom.com.

Puanani Calvillo is a spiritual director, facilitator, educator and weight lifter who serves on the faculty of the Liberated Together Spiritual Direction School where she trains and supervises those seeking to become spiritual directors. Find out more about Puanani at puananirosario.com.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

Centering Scripture: Hebrews 11:1-3 MSG

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Spiritual Directors in our beloved community: Jasmine Bellamy, Andrea Cammarota, Felicia Murrell

Theme Music: Sunrise (Instrumental) by Matthew Hollingsworth

This experience is an invitation—a call to join our spiritual community and engage in this collective contemplative practice. Together, we examine the theology of love and cultivate its practice in our lives.

Our focus is transformation—becoming a Community of Practice. In each episode, we offer practices to help us grow in love, together.

So, make yourself comfortable. Light a candle, grab your journal, and open your heart as we listen, engage, and reflect in this communal space.

Our guest is Rev Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft. the founder of Raising Imagination and Consulting Community Minister at @middlechurch. She is a social engineer, cultural critic, organizer, writer, facilitator, and public theologian who is passionate about the intersections of race, faith, politics, and parenting.

Amanda is my beloved sister-in-hooks (bell hooks, that is- you won't want to miss her personal reflection at the end!)

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

Centering Scripture: Matthew 2:9-18 NLT

Joyfully Anticipating Love, Jasmine Bellamy

God Speaks Through Wombs: Poems on God's Unexpected Coming, Drew Jackson

See No Stranger, Valerie Kaur

"The Work of Christmas," Dr. Howard Thurman

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Theme Music: Sunrise (Instrumental) by Matthew Hollingsworth

This is Season 3 where we are focusing on transforming together into a Community of Practice.

Deep faith invites us to securely attach to God, Eternal Love. In my experience, as we go inward to our centering place, we find a source of grounding—a place to anchor ourselves in times that may feel hard to navigate.

Tonight we’ll dive into what it means to live out this truth. Together, we’ll explore what attachment theory has to do with our relationship to God, our relationship to Love.

Our guests are experts on attachment theory.

On his podcast, Attaching to God, Dr. Geoff Holsclaw, a pastor and a professor, connects relational neuroscience and attachment theory to our life of faith so we grow into spiritual and relational maturity.

Dr. Rod Smith was an assistant professor for leadership development at the US Air Force Academy. He connects love, through a conceptual framework on attachment theory to authentic leadership development.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

Centering Text: Ephesians‬ ‭3‬:‭14‬-‭19‬ ‭CEB‬‬

To explore more about attachment theory with Geoff and his wife and co-author Cyd, their forthcoming book, Landscapes of the Soul: How the Science and Spirituality of Attachment Can Move You into Confident Faith, Courage, and Connection, is available for pre-order.

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Theme Song: Sunrise (Instrumental) by Matthew Hollingsworth

This is Season 3 where we are focusing on transforming together into a Community of Practice. This conversation explores the contemplative life, practices, and preaching through the lens of the Black Church.

Our guest, Dr. E. Trey Clark, PhD, is an assistant professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, Dean of Fuller Chapel, and co-founder and director of The Black Contemplative Society. He is the author of Black Contemplative Preaching: A Hidden History of Prayer, Proclamation, and Prophetic Witness.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

Centering Text: Psalms‬ ‭139‬:‭7‬-‭16‬ ‭MSG

The Black Contemplative Society

https://www.blackcontemplativesociety.org/

Black Contemplative Preaching: A Hidden History of Prayer, Proclamation, and Prophetic Witness

https://www.baylorpress.com/9781481321990/black-contemplative-preaching/

The Sound of the Genuine: Dr. Howard Thurman delivered at Spelman College, 1980

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Theme Song: Sunrise (Instrumental) by Matthew Hollingsworth

Welcome to our Daily Love Practice as we endeavor to cultivate our life of love together in community.

Centering Quote: Jack Zavada, J. Pittman McGehee

Centering Text: John 13:34-35

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Welcome to our Daily Love Practice as we endeavor to cultivate our life of love together in community.

Centering Quote: Iyanla Vanzant, Ruby Francisco, Khalil Gibran

Centering Text: Proverbs 18:21, Deuteronomy 30:19

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