Opening Minds, Opening Hearts
Contemplative Outreach Limited
4.8from 70 ratings
- 40
- Episodes
- 8
- Transcribed
- 70
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 8M
- YouTube views
About Opening Minds, Opening Hearts
Are you seeking to deepen your interior life through the practice of Centering Prayer? Do you have a desire to develop a closer connection to the divine as well as those around you? Opening Minds, Opening Hearts is a podcast for both the curious meditator and long-time practitioner of Centering Prayer. On each episode, hosts Colleen Thomas and Mark Dannenfelser will reflect on the method of Centering Prayer with some friends of Contemplative Outreach who share their personal experiences of encountering God through the prayer, and through their work in the world. Topics discussed will include New Monasticism, the value of silence, the practice of contemplation and the call to social action. Through this podcast, we hope to provide new perspectives on the future of this prayer in the rapidly changing spiritual and technological landscape. Centering Prayer is a practice and a gift and we are excited to share this blessing with our listeners.
- Publisher
- Contemplative Outreach Limited
- Category
- religion & spirituality
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 16 Nov 2022
- Latest episode
- 18 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
8 of 40 episodes have a transcript.
18 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
S4 EP8 The Psychology of Centering Prayer with Jesse Fox, PhD
4 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
S4 EP7: All of You is Welcome with Jim McElroy
20 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
S4 EP6 Healing Happens in the Body with Heather Ruce
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S4 EP8 The Psychology of Centering Prayer with Jesse Fox, PhD
Published 18 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And it's not all pathology either. Grief is very challenging suffering, and that's not a pathological thing. But how do we carry our grief or how do we carry our anxiety? And the practice does help us with that. It helps, I think, create a container for it. I think one of the challenges for people when they do encounter suffering of any kind is creating a container large enough to hold it. And I think that this is part of the reason why if you remain on this pathway, it is a race to the bottom. Spirituality is not a race to the top of moral accomplishment. It really is a race to the bottom of existential surrender. […]
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- Jesse Fox
- Jim McElroy
- Heather Ruce
- Howard B
- Lawrence Hamilton
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- YouTube views
- 7,656,860
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 50 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 20 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100
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- Quality
- 41
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 51
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