Falling Upward (Listener Questions: Part 2) With Cassidy Hall

Everything Belongs: Living the Teachings of Richard Rohr Forward

Center for Action and Contemplation

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 723 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Part 2 of our episodes responding to your questions. This episode continues the conversation from the previous episode responding to listener questions from Season 1 of Everything Belongs. About the guest: Cassidy Hall (she/her/hers) (MA, MDiv, MTS) is an author, award-winning filmmaker, podcaster, ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, and leading voice in contemplative spirituality. She is the cohost of the Encountering Silence podcast and the creator of the Contemplating Now and Queering Contemplation podcasts. Her films include In Pursuit of Silence and Day of a Stranger. Her forthcoming book, Queering Contemplation, Finding Queerness in the Roots and Future of Contemplative Spirituality is set for release in May of 2024. Cassidy is widely published and currently resides in Indianapolis, where she is studying for her DMin degree. Resources: A PDF of the transcript for this episode is available here. Grab a copy of the newly revised version of Falling Upward, with a new foreword by Brené Brown here. To learn more about Cassidy Hall, visit her website here. Grab a copy of Cassidy's book, Queering Contemplation, here. Connie Zweig's book The Inner Work of Age: From Role to Soul can be found here.

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. To learn more, visit
0:05.4	cac.org.
0:08.2	Hey, everyone. My name is Corey, and I'm part of the team that produces Everything Belongs.
0:12.9	We wanted to let you know that this is part two of a three-part series in responding to the listener
0:17.9	questions of season one. Thanks for listening.
0:24.5	One of the things that you might notice
0:26.5	is that all of us having this conversation are,
0:29.3	what are we all about 30s and 40s?
0:31.9	I think I'm the old man in the room.
0:33.3	And I thought it'd be fun to bring in some different perspectives from outside of the room, maybe a little bit of elder wisdom, and also tap into some of our favorite guests, which is not to say that anyone that you don't hear is not one of our favorite guests.
0:47.1	But we have phoned a few friends for a few of your questions.
0:52.2	And so you'll hear some outside voices throughout this episode,
0:56.2	and we're so excited about their contribution.
1:03.1	All right.
1:03.9	So our next question is coming from Pete.
1:07.6	He writes,
1:08.6	Hi, thanks so much for the podcast.
1:12.1	I've just listened to the latest episode from Dr. B. and Brian and found it rich and stimulating. I was surprisingly diagnosed
1:17.3	with an incurable cancer at age 48 last year. 12 months on, I'm responding well to chemotherapy,
1:23.2	but I know I only have a few years to live, maybe less. Before my diagnosis, I had noticed
1:28.7	myself begin the second half of life journey in recent years, having four adult kids who still
1:33.0	live with my wife and I, and a job where I was increasingly holding a third-way space to bring
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