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Makers & Mystics
Makers & Mystics is the podcast for the art-driven, spiritually adventurous seekers of truth and lovers of life.
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S15 E15: Resistance and Flow (Season Finale)
In this season finale, Stephen Roach closes out our exploration of creative flow with a rich conversation with several artists from the Makers & Mysti...
S15 E14: Sound Symbols: Foley Art in Film with Ronnie Van Der Veer
Behind the curtain of cinema lies a hidden language, spoken not in words, but in sound.
In this episode of Makers and Mystics, Stephen Ro...
Artist Profile Series 39: Simeon Stylites
What does the life of a bizarre fifth-century monk have to offer our lives in the modern world today?
This episode of the Makers and Mys...
Confessional Transcendence with Poet and Actor Amy Leigh Wicks
Amy Leigh Wicks is a poet, actress, and educator from New York City. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Victoria University of Wellington in New...
S15 E12: The Ghost Life with Prasanta Verma
As artists, we live our lives between worlds, the one in which we imagine and the one in which we must survive. But what do we do when the life we ima...
S15 E11: Urgency and Intimacy with Julian Davis Reid
“How do we hold both urgency and intimacy in our creative practices? How can an artist become a vessel of divine presence — not only in churches, but...
S15 E10: The Art of Becoming: Jon Guerra on Music, Imagination, and Spiritual Formation
How does imagination shape not only our art but our spiritual formation? And what does it mean to hold space for play, growth, and even disappointment...
S15 E09: Ecstatic States and The Artistic Impulse P2
In this concluding segment of our Artist Roundtable, Stephen Roach, Corey Frey, and Donna Matthews continue their conversation on ecstatic experiences...
S15 E08: Ecstatic States and The Artistic Impulse P1
In this Artist Roundtable, Stephen Roach, Corey Frey, and Donna Matthews explore the concept of flow states, ecstatic experiences, and their intersect...
S15 E07: Recasting The Familiar with Faith Bryant
Overfamiliarization can blind us from recognizing the beauty and power of certain truths. When we think we have heard the story before or believe we a...
S15 E06: Sacred Impressions with Visual Artist Elizabeth Bowman
Elizabeth Bowman is a self-taught impressionist painter based in Charlotte, NC. Her work is steeped in imaginative renderings of biblical stories and...
S15E05: A Resonance Across The Ages with Barbara Hannigan
Barbara Hannigan is a world-renowned conductor, soprano, and performer whose work pushes the boundaries of classical and contemporary music. Known for...
S15 E04: Imitate The Ocean: A Dream, A Poem & An Encouragement with Stephen Roach
In this episode, Stephen Roach explores creative flow as a generative, life-giving way of being. He highlights the need for trust in the process and t...
S15E03: The Discipline of Inspiration
I would imagine most of us think of inspiration as a sudden flash of insight that hits us out of nowhere and compels us create. It’s not something we...
S15E02 | The Faraway Nearby with Leah Song of Rising Appalachia
Leah Song is a storyteller, song-catcher, musician, poet, and community builder. She’s best known as the front-woman of the beloved band Rising Appala...
S15E01: Tuning The Room with Stephen Roach
Flow begins with attentiveness. In this episode, Stephen Roach shares how tuning the room became a creative and spiritual practice.
Welcome to S...
Finding Flow | An Introduction to Season 15
Have you experienced those moments when the grind gives way to an effortless grace? When a poem or painting tells you what it wants to become, or when...
BC25 | Risk Art vs. Shock Art
In this final conversation of our BC25 introductions, Stephen Roach, Corey Frey, and Dr. Marie Teilhard discuss the complexities of art that challenge...
BC25 Presenter | Amanda Cook
Amanda Cook is a writer/musician/lover of books whose music explores the intersections of faith/doubt, love/loss, hope/despair, and fun/notfun.
...
BC25 Theme | The Integrating Center of All Things with John Eldredge
What role does contemplative prayer have in healing the fractures of our modern culture and those of our own fragmented lives? And how can our spiritu...
BC Presenter | Kendra Adachi | The Art of Compassionate Time Management
Kendra Adachi is the New York Times bestselling author of The Lazy Genius Way, The Lazy Genius Kitchen, and The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like A Lazy Gen...
BC25 Presenter | John Mark McMillan | Technology, AI Jesus and Meaning Making
"Technology does a really good job of floating us past all of these inconvenient blessings." - John Mark McMillan
Today on the show, singer-son...
Makers and Mystics | Live In Boulder, Colorado
This episode offers a preview of the types of panels we'll be hosting at The Breath and The Clay 2025. It includes a live conversation with Grammy Awa...
BC25 Presenter | Theopoetics and Comic Book Mythology with de'Angelo DIA
In this series of conversations, Makers and Mystics will highlight several of the presenters and themes for the BC25 creative arts gathering, March 21...
S14 Reclaiming Wonder Finale with Stephen Roach
In the season 14 finale of Makers and Mystics, Stephen Roach reflects on the theme of reclaiming wonder. Drawing from personal stories, spiritual insi...
S14 E22: Etiquette of The Wild with Martin Shaw
Myths and storytelling have been a part of human culture since ancient times. From the oral traditions of indigenous peoples to the epic tales of gods...
S14 E21: An Unexpected Doorway with Mirabai Starr
The new year is a time of reflecting, looking back over the lengths I’ve come, evaluating what has transpired in my life and in my inner life, and the...
S14 E20: Beauty Is Oxygen with Wesley Vander Lugt
Wesley Vander Lugt is a pastor, theologian, writer, and arts advocate. He teaches theology and directs the Leighton Ford Center for Theology, the Arts...
The Breath and The Clay 2025!!
The Breath and The Clay is returning to Winston Salem, NC!! Join us March 21-23rd, 2025, for our annual creative arts gathering!
This event will...
S14 E19: A Long Curiosity with Rob Bell
Rob Bell is the New York Times Best-Selling author of fourteen books and plays, which have been translated into 25 languages. His visual art can be se...
S14 E18: Awakening Wonder In An Anxious Age with author Katherine May
Katherine May is an internationally renowned writer, podcaster and speaker whose work touches on nature, spirituality, slow living and neurodivergence...
S14 E17: Heavy Hope with Film Director Thomas Torrey
The question of when it is time to let go of a dream haunts most creatives at one time or another. Living out our sense of fidelity to a creative visi...
S14 E16: The Gift of The Elders with Petra Bagust
Makers and Mystics has teamed up with New Zealand's Sunday Sanctuary Podcast for a special collaborative episode.
For the November 10th episode...
S14 E15: Contours of Enchantment with Cheryl Bridges Johns
For many people, and perhaps even for some of our listeners, the Bible elicits a very different response from one person to another. For some, it is a...
S14 E14: Catharsis with Lacey Sturm
Lacey Sturm is a Grammy-nominated queen of hard rock who secured a place in rock history as the first solo woman to top the Billboard Hard Rock Albums...
S14 E13: Van Gogh Has A Broken Heart with Russ Ramsey
Russ Ramsey is an author and pastor with a passion for uniting art and faith. He has been in vocational ministry for more than twenty years and curren...
S14 E12: Sitting With The Muse featuring Nick Leng
Nick Leng is a Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter and producer known for his abstract blend of electronica, classical piano an...
S14 E11 LIVE: Embodied Faith and The Art of Edward Knippers
Edward Knippers is a visual artist whose large-scale body of work spans 50 years of practice and explores various genres, including figurative, expres...
S14 E10: Dreamscapes with visual artist Chalom
Melbourne-based visual artist and electronic musician Mike Lane creates under the name Chalom, a name spoken to him in a dream. His practice consists...
S14 E09: The Poetic Eye with Stephen Roach
In this episode, podcast host Stephen Roach takes listeners on a journey into the world of ecstatic poetry. Drawing from the wisdom of Trappist Monk,...