Marta Szabo & The Guru Looked Good - The MonkCast

Erik Guzman August 30th, 2010

Join me on the MonkCast as I talk with Marta Szabo, author of The Guru Looked Good

The Guru Looked Good details Marta's ten plus years as a staff member in Gurumayi's ashram, the same yogic monastery that Elizabeth Gilbert describes in her bestseller/movie Eat, Pray, Love.

However, the picture painted by Szabo portrays the experience of working intimately with a guru in an international spiritual organization that extravagantly promises happiness, demands service, hypes a guru as God … (Read More)

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Evolving in Monkey Town - Rachel Held Evans on SBE

Erik Guzman August 27th, 2010

Rachel Held Evans grew up in Dayton, Tennessee, a town that epitomized Christian fundamentalism during the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925.

Join Rachel on Steve Brown Etc. as we talk about her crisis of faith and how she came to a place where knowing all the answers isn't as important as asking questions.

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Rachel Held Evans is an award-winning writer and author of Evolving in Monkey Town: H … (Read More)

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"Killing the Indian in the Child" & Forgiveness - Maracle & Boone on SBE

Erik Guzman August 20th, 2010

Could you forgive the people who took your children from you and then reeducated them in an effort to destroy your way of life? Me either, but that's what's happening in Canada.

Join Barry Maracle and Steve Boone as we talk about the Canadian government's effort to "kill the Indian in the child" and the extraordinary forgiveness of Canada's native peoples.

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Ian Cron - The MonkCast

Erik Guzman August 19th, 2010

Join me on the MonkCast as I talk with Ian Cron (that's him in the pic to the right…the white one).

Ian is the author of Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim's Tale, a book on St. Francis of Assisi that Phyllis Tickle calls "…absolutely seductive…a feast for the soul as well as a great, churning, joyful romp for the spirit!" The Archbishop of Canterbury liked the book too. So Ian has that going for him…which is nice.

Listen as we talk about mysticism and swap … (Read More)

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May God Bless the Hell Out of You!

Erik Guzman August 19th, 2010

God is not fair. He gleefully flaunts it too. He shoves it in our faces. Jesus' version of reality is devoid of common sense. The Kingdom of God might as well be called, “Crazy Upside-down Jesus World.”

Here's an example.

Say I need some landscaping done at my house. So I go to the day-laborer place and I hire up all the guys standing around. We agree on $100 per guy for a day's work. They work hard for a couple hours, but it doesn't look like we'll get all th … (Read More)

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Return to El Salvador - Jamie Moffett on SBE

Erik Guzman May 28th, 2010

Join Jamie Moffett on this edition of Steve Brown Etc. to hear the story of how hope is triumphing over fear in El Salvador, and how you're involved in that country's ongoing story.

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Jamie Moffett is the director of Return to El Salvador, a new documentary narrated by Martin Sheen about life after civil war. Along with Shane Claiborne, Jamie is co-founder of The Simple Way. He also … (Read More)

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