- 193
- Episodes
- 8
- Transcribed
- 231
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
About Contemplify
The Contemplify podcast kindles the examined life for contemplatives in the world. Through artful musings & conversations with scholars, creatives, and master teachers each episode delivers a subtly intoxicating* exchange on the contemplative lifestyle with practical takeaways to emulate in daily life. Host, Paul Swanson, is a husband, father and contemplative educator at the Center for Action and Contemplation and co-host of Another Name for Every Thing with Richard Rohr**. *Contemplify is best served with a pint in hand. Please listen responsibly. ** All shenanigans, tom foolery and bally-hoo posted on Contemplify are my own. Contemplify is not representative of the Center for Action and Contemplation or Richard Rohr on any matter.
- Publisher
- Paul Swanson | Contemplative Shoveler
- Category
- religion & spirituality · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 20 Jul 2016
- Latest episode
- 1 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
8 of 193 episodes have a transcript.
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Thomas Gardner on Poverty Creek Journal
1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Noah Davis on The Last Beast We Revel In
1 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Todd Goddard on Jim Harrison (author of Devouring Time: Jim Harrison, A Writer's Life)
Inside a recent episode
Thomas Gardner on Poverty Creek Journal
Published 1 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And I've realized both from my own running and from my own spiritual life living and from reading and writing, this is sort of out of Wittgenstein too, but you realize that limits are actually not just a or your finitude, that's not just a negative part of your life. That actually opens up a whole realm of possibility. You know, Emily Dickinson writes this poem, I dwell in possibility, a fairer house than prose, more numerous of windows, more something of doors. And the possibility that possibilities that come to you when you embrace your limits, they're everything for me. […]
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- Thomas Gardner
- Noah Davis
- Todd Goddard
- Sasha Waters
- Beverly Lanzetta
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 181 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 50 ratings
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