Episodes 8
Avg. Duration 20m
Activity Active
Since Aug 2025
Latest Episode Dec 2025

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Monthly
Format
Episodic
Consistency
76%
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About This Podcast

From information to transformation -- sacred reading is an ancient practice that can help us navigate the modern world. In this podcast, Lory Widmer Hess, an author, spiritual director, caregiver, and lifelong seeker of wholeness, explores reading as a contemplative doorway to deeper levels of peace, insight, and connectedness. Whatever your spiritual tradition or practice, or even if you have none, you are invited to join in the practice and make it your own. Learn more at sacredreading.org

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Recent Episodes

S1E7 The Fourth Movement: Resting

Dec 31, 2025 18m

In the seventh and last episode of the first season of the Sacred Reading Podcast, we’re exploring the movement of “resting” or silent contemplation. This can be extremely challenging in our restless…

S1E6 The Third Movement: Responding

Dec 10, 2025 18m

The third movement or step of Sacred Reading is responding, entering into conversation with the divine out of what has arisen within you through reading and reflection. In this episode, I share…

The Second Movement: Reflecting

Nov 05, 2025 16m

Enter the realm of meaning through consciously reflecting on a text. In this episode, I share a few ways to approach the process of reflection, giving you a chance to slow down and access different…

S1E4 The First Movement: Reading

Oct 13, 2025 13m

In this episode, we explore the first step or movement of the Sacred Reading practice: reading itself.Please visit sacredreading.org to learn about free online meetings you can join, to practice with…

Basic Practice - Secular Text

Sep 21, 2025 27m

This episode goes once more through the Sacred Reading practice, a simple sequence you can use on your own or in a group. The text this time is a poem by Walt Whitman, A Noiseless Patient…

S1E2 Basic Practice - Scriptural text

Sep 07, 2025 30m

In this episode, I share a simple sequence you can use as a Sacred Reading practice on your own or in a group. The text I've chosen is the first Psalm from the Christian and Jewish scriptures, one of…

What Is Sacred Reading?

Aug 27, 2025 15m

What is the practice of sacred reading? This episode offers a brief overview of the origins and form of the practice, which is rooted in the monastic tradition of lectio divina. The four movements or…

S1 Sacred Reading Trailer

Aug 26, 2025 1m Trailer

Introducing the new podcast, Sacred Reading.

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Sacred Reading has published 8 episodes since August 2025, covering topics in Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality.

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Sacred Reading is currently active with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 20m.

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