Podcast

Parabola Podcast, Episode 9: “Spiritual Practice”

October 1, 2016By Betsy Cornwell

“Often I have come across stern pronouncements directed at people like me: One cannot dabble, say the priests and scholars. Spirituality is not a tasting menu. “New Agers” who borrow a bit of this religion […]

Parabola Podcast, Episode 8: “Sin”

September 1, 2016By Betsy Cornwell

What is sin? How do we find redemption and forgiveness, and how can we offer such grace to others? Story editor Betsy Cornwell explores our Spring 2015 issue, “Sin,” in Parabola’s monthly twenty-minute podcast. This episode […]

Parabola Podcast, Episode 7: “Ways of Healing”

August 1, 2016By Betsy Cornwell

Story editor Betsy Cornwell explores our current issue, “Ways of Healing,” in PARABOLA Magazine’s podcast. Learn more about this issue or become a subscriber at parabola.org. This episode also includes Kenneth Lawrence’s retelling of the Japanese […]

Parabola Podcast, Episode 6: “Angels & Demons”

July 1, 2016By Betsy Cornwell

Story editor Betsy Cornwell looks back at our Angels and Demons issue (Summer 2015) in PARABOLA Magazine’s podcast.

Edgar Degas, The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer, model executed ca. 1880, cast 1922, The Met FI

Parabola Podcast, Episode 5: “Embodiment”

June 1, 2016By Betsy Cornwell

Story editor Betsy Cornwell looks at our Summer 2014 Issue, EMBODIMENT, in Parabola Magazine’s monthly podcast.

Parabola Podcast, Episode 4: “Innocence and Experience”

May 1, 2016By Betsy Cornwell

Story editor Betsy Cornwell looks at our current issue, Innocence and Experience, in PARABOLA Magazine’s monthly podcast. The episode features excerpts from J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and Tracy Cochran’s essay “Lessons from Lucifer.” Learn more […]

Parabola Podcast, Episode 3: “The Divine Feminine”

April 1, 2016By Betsy Cornwell

Story editor Betsy Cornwell looks at our current issue, The Divine Feminine, in PARABOLA Magazine’s podcast. Learn more about the issue here. This episode also features a retelling of “Fish Basket Kuan-Yin” by professional storyteller […]

John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893), Spirit of the Night, 1879.

Parabola Podcast, Episode 2: “Goodness”

March 1, 2016By Betsy Cornwell

Story editor Betsy Cornwell looks back at our Goodness issue (Winter 2014) in PARABOLA Magazine’s podcast.

Kolomon Moser (1868-1918) 1805, Bookplate.

Parabola Podcast, Episode 1: “Beauty”

February 3, 2016By Betsy Cornwell

Story editor Betsy Cornwell looks back at our Beauty issue (Winter 2010) in PARABOLA’s inaugural podcast.

Stephen Weiss, MD, portrait of Brother David Steindl-Rast, Mt. Saviour Monastery, Elmira, NY

Learning to Die, by Brother David Steindl-Rast

The only point where one can start to talk about anything, including death, is where one finds oneself. And for me this is as a Benedictine monk. In the rule of St. Benedict, the momenta […]

The Art of Cleaning, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and Hilary Hart

Housework as spiritual practice, from a Sufi master

Marion Woodman and the Search for the Conscious Feminine, by Patty de Llosa

“The true feminine is the receptacle of love. The true masculine is the spirit that goes into the eternal unknown in search of meaning. The great container, the Self, is paradoxically both male and female […]

Hearing the Cries of the World, by Mark Nepo

This story is so old we don’t know who told it or who it’s about, except that it speaks to all of us. We no longer know if it was a “he” or “she” at the center of the story. […]

To Go Beyond Thought, an Interview with Karen Armstrong

One bright spring day, Parabola met with Karen Armstrong in her suite at the Parker Meridian hotel in Manhattan. The petite, friendly 62-year-old British ex-nun, arguably the most influential commentator on religion in the English-speaking […]

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