Best David Shumate Podcasts (2025)

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Gail Straub on Embracing Our Human Family 1:15:46

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"In radiant, lyrical prose, Gail Straub takes us on a voyage like no other, both into little-known places across the globe and, most memorably, the inner realms of the soul. …..this is a journey that no reader will forget and, I believe, all readers will, in their own way, hope to emulate." — Andrew Carroll Author and empowerment pioneer Gail Strau…

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Mark Longhurst on The Holy Ordinary 46:28

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Mark Longhurst is an author and contemplative guide who has spent years exploring the sacred dimensions of everyday life. In our conversation we talk about his book The Holy Ordinary: A Way to God, a beautiful invitation to discover the divine presence woven throughout our daily movements. Mark draws on his experiences as an activist, pastor, fathe…

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Blue Devil 360 - October 2025 34:05

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Haleh Liza Gafori Brings Water to the Thirsty 59:23

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Haleh Liza Gafori is a translator, performance artist, vocalist, and educator whose work bridges ancient Persian mysticism with contemporary spiritual longing. In our conversation we talk about her latest book Water, a luminous collection of new translations from the 13th-century Persian mystic Rumi, following her acclaimed debut Gold (you can find…

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Contemplative Parenting with Aizaiah G. Yong and Nereyda Yong 46:06

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"This book is just what the world needs right now. At a time when tensions are hot, divisions are growing, and uncertainty is the order of the day, Sacred Parenting is a call to reconnect with what matters most: our children, our families, ourselves, and our God. The authors offer gentle wisdom and contemplative practices as antidotes to the high-v…

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[Rebroadcast] Dr. Larry Ward on America's Racial Karma, the Fragrance of Wisdom, and Learning How To Suffer Less 46:16

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This is a repost of my conversation with Dr. Larry Ward. Dr. Ward passed away on August 19 at his home in Rhode Island. He was a Buddhist teacher, author, and co-founder of The Lotus Institute. He left behind a legacy of peace and advocacy for healing individual and collective trauma. I only ever interacted with Dr. Ward online, but his big soul, w…

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Amy Frykholm on Journey to the Wild Heart 1:00:17

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"You can trust Amy Frykholm as a modern-day amma who knows the terrain of the soul. Reading Journey to the Wild Heart is like going out to the desert for a word. It helps us slow down, let go, unknow in Silence, and embody Love.― — Carmen Acevedo Butcher, author of Practice of the Presence Amy Frykholm is a writer and journalist who makes her third…

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Todd Davis on Ditch Memory 1:10:00

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"To read a new and selected collection is to experience the evolution of a voice, in this case an essential voice in American poetry. To sit with the whole of these transportive, immersive poems is to awaken like a wild riparian corridor in spring. Wildflowers on the banks. Birdsong in the branches. The reader's heart is a bud: open. Beautiful work…

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Sr. Laura Swan, OSB on the Radical Wisdom of the Beguines 1:04:47

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"…Swan's book provides an accessible overview of beguine spirituality in the context of their own times…[it] does a good job of explaining both the beguines' spiritual practices and their continuing legacy." — Commonweal Sr. Laura Swan is a Benedictine sister, spiritual director, author, teacher, and archivist. In our conversation we talk about her…

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Patrick Boland on Contemplative Leadership 1:07:53

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Patrick Boland is an author, teacher, coach, and consultant. In our conversation we talk about his book The Contemplative Leader: Uncover the Power of Presence and Connection. Patrick is a whipsmart, strategic thinker with a contemplative heart and presence. Patrick's atypical approach to leadership brings a new vitality to leadership development. …

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Cynthia Bourgeault on Thomas Keating, Christian Nonduality, and Mystical Maps 1:07:42

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Rev. Dr. Cynthia Bourgeault is a mystic, teacher, writer, Episcopal priest. In our conversation we talk about her book Thomas Keating: The Making of a Modern Mystic. A book that should not have, but did, surprise me with its brilliance in understanding the route Thomast Keating took on (and off) wellworn mystical maps. And Cynthia has had an outsiz…

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Blue Devil 360 - Summer 2025 38:39

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The final edition of 2024-25 features a conversation with Nina King that highlights some of the memorable moments of Duke Athletics for the past year and looks ahead at the changing landscape of college sports. Plus, we have introductory comments from new Duke baseball head coach Corey Muscara, a renowned pitching coach who takes over a program tha…

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Intensification of Life (Season 6 Trailer) 4:36

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"Practice simply is one intensification of what is natural and around us all the time. Practice is to life as poetry is to spoken language. So as poetry is the practice of language, "practice" is the practice of life." - Gary Snyder SEASON 6 TRAILER contemplify.comBy Paul Swanson | Contemplative Shoveler

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Blue Devil 360 – Making Tracks 34:31

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While most Duke teams completed the 2024-25 campaign in their respective NCAA tournaments, we’re focusing this month on two programs still alive in postseason play. Sophomore men’s golfer Bryan Kim is in California May 23-26 competing as an individual in NCAA nationals, while track & field freshman sprinters Joseph Taylor and Braelyn Baker are taki…

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Blue Devil 360 – Pomp & Circumstance 35:55

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In the runup to Duke University’s 2025 commencement exercises on May 11, we visit with two inspirational soon-to-be Blue Devil graduates. Star defensive end and Durham native VJ Anthony completed his African and African American Studies degree requirements in only three-and-a-half years and is locked in on one final college football campaign in the…

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Blue Devil 360 - Final Four Special Edition 59:28

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As the Duke basketball program makes its 18th NCAA Final Four appearance, director of athletics Nina King underscores the visionary leadership displayed by head coach Jon Scheyer from the interview process through his first three seasons at the helm. One of Scheyer’s former Duke teammates and classmates, Brian Zoubek, reflects on the 15th anniversa…

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Blue Devil 360 - NCAA Champion 21:21

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It’s time to meet Duke’s newest NCAA champion. Simen Guttormsen, a graduate student from Norway, recently won the national title in the men’s pole vault at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field meet, following up a record-setting performance to claim gold at the ACC Championships a couple weeks prior. A two-time Norwegian national champ who competed at the…

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Blue Devil 360 - Director’s Chair 44:20

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Duke vice president and director of athletics Nina King makes her quarterly appearance with a candid conversation on several of the major issues facing all of intercollegiate athletics during these changing times. Also stopping by is a former member of her executive leadership team at Duke, Art Chase, who recently was named director of athletics at…

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Blue Devil 360 – Hit The Books 38:44

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If you have time for some midseason reading, this episode features a pair of interesting author interviews. Former director of athletics and university vice president Dr. Kevin White talks about his new book, “The Good Sport: Reflections On A Full Life In College Sports” which was just released in January 2025, while Duke alum John Feinstein (Class…

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Blue Devil 360 – The Warmup Show 40:26

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As Duke Football heads to Jacksonville to take on Ole Miss in the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl on Jan. 2, this edition of Blue Devil 360 is primed to set the stage with a conversation between Duke basketball coach Jon Scheyer and football coach Manny Diaz. Radio analyst Dave Harding, who served as one of the captains for the only Blue Devil squad (so far) …

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Peter Traben Haas on Prayer as a Practice of Centering, Abiding, & Radiating 1:04:42

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On this last episode of Season Five of Contemplify, we welcome Rev., Dr. Peter Traben Haas. Rev., Dr. Peter Traben Haas rises each morning watching the light shade from dark to dawn and the still silence births words. His aim as a pastor and writer is to deepen spiritual fecundity by exploring biblical wisdom, verse by verse. He is an ordained Teac…

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Backporch Advent Outpost with Hadewijch and the Mother of Love 5:41

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Backporch Advent Outpost with Hadewijch and the Mother of Love visit contemplify.comBy Paul Swanson | Contemplative Shoveler

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Blue Devil 360 – Happy Thanksgiving 49:23

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From the Thanksgiving weekend holiday we feature ACC defensive player of the year Cameron Roller of the Duke women’s soccer team, Cameron Indoor Stadium fan favorite Spencer Hubbard of the Duke men’s basketball team, and Duke women’s golf alum Leona Maguire, who will be inducted in the WGCA Hall of Fame in December. Our plays of the month come with…

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Katherine May on Enchantment, Building Community, Tasting Words, and a Drink of Lake Water 57:28

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"I love Katherine May's new book, Enchantment.… It's a beautiful offering of light, truth and charm in these strange, dark times." — Anne Lamott Katherine May is an internationally bestselling author and podcaster living in Whitstable, UK. Her most recent book, Enchantment became an instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller. Her internatio…

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Andrew Krivak on the Inheritance of Loss, Death as a Character, and Like the Appearance of Horses 1:11:18

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"Andrew Krivak is a novelist, poet, and memoirist whose work has been compared to William Faulkner's in its rich sense of place, to Wendell Berry's in its attentiveness to natural beauty, and to Cormac McCarthy's in its deep investigation of violence and myth. Yet all of Krivak's writing, and especially his fiction, presents a truly singular vision…

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Blue Devil 360 - October 2024 41:21

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After an action packed weekend that included prime-time football, a charity exhibition basketball game and induction ceremonies for the Duke Athletics Hall of Fame, we feature an array of interesting guests including long-time Hall of Famer Bobby Hurley and new Hall of Famer Becca Ward. New director of player development John Battle details his rol…

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Remembering Dr. Barbara Holmes (Replay of 2016 Conversation) 58:24

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"Dr. B was passionate about expanding our understanding of the Christian contemplative tradition, reminding us that contemplation isn't the sole domain of those who can retreat to quiet places. She understood, from her own life and from the traditions she carried forward, that contemplative practices must also arise in the midst of struggle, in the…

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Amy Leach on Becoming Salt of the Universe 54:01

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"I was recently giving a sermon and found myself spontaneously quoting from Amy Leach's singular and surprising new book. I expect many readers will find their own lives troubled (in the Biblical sense) and enlightened by her fresh perceptions. She has lived into a hard-earned and entirely credible wisdom, the best evidence for which is her irrepre…

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Ben Katt on Getting Quiet, Midlife, and the Power of Ritual (also, we chat about David Hasselhoff) 1:09:41

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Ben Katt has worked with On Being, as an ordained minister, an advanced meditation teacher, and author. His first book, The Way Home: Discovering the Hero's Journey to Wholeness at Midlife is a guidebook and memoir about the inner journey that calls us further in the midst of life's busyness. Ben is the founder of the WITHIN Prison Meditation Proje…

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Blue Devil 360 - September 2024 57:20

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Vice president and director of athletics Nina King makes her first quarterly appearance of 2024-25 to kick off the opening edition of Blue Devil 360 for this academic year. Guests include defensive tackle Kendy Charles, a grad transfer from Liberty who shares his interesting origin story; director of football nutrition Tori Brown, whose team handle…

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Jeffrey Martin on Thank God We Left the Garden, Letters, and Literature 1:22:53

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"[Jeffrey Martin writes] Songs that are stark in their simplicity, yet emotionally rich in a way that can catch your breath in your throat or leave your eyes suddenly damp." — Paste Jeffrey Martin is a musician with a number of albums under his belt. His latest, Thank God We Left the Garden, has been playing on repeat in my house since November of …

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Susan Murphy on Zen Koans for Facing the Climate Crisis, the vast meaning of Country, and Cooling Fires 55:23

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"A powerful and important plunge into the reality of the mind and climate." — Joan Halifax, author of Being with Dying and Standing at the Edge Susan Murphy is an Australian Zen teacher whose passionate feeling of kinship with the natural world began during her early childhood years living near the Great Barrier Reef and the Gondwanaland rainforest…

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Drew Jackson on Touch the Earth, Poetry as a Lifesaver, and the Importance of Lucille Clifton 1:12:12

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"In Touch the Earth, Drew Jackson's poetry offers a word-weary world a new language of engagement, disruption, and insight. As with all great poetry, the words are spare, but the literary images loom large, creating indelible impressions on the reader. Like echoes that reverberate long after the first sound, the poems stay with you, they dance with…

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Tracy Cochran on the Art of Presence, Mistakes as Practice, & the Grief of Awakening 1:03:42

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Tracy Cochran is a writer, meditation teacher, and editorial director of Parabola, an acclaimed quarterly magazine that draws on the world's cultural and wisdom traditions to explore the questions that all humans share. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Psychology Today, O Magazine, and New York Magazine to name a few. Her latest publ…

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Brian McLaren on Life After Doom, Patient Urgency, & Complexifying Hope 1:06:31

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Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, activist, and public theologian. A former college English teacher and pastor, he is a passionate advocate for "a new kind of Christianity" – just, generous, and working with people of all faiths for the common good. He is a core faculty member and Dean of Faculty for the Center for Action and Contemplation an…

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Cassidy Hall on Queering Contemplation, Letting Go of Thomas Merton, and Expanding Foundations 1:17:14

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Cassidy Hall 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 host of Contemplating Now and Queering Contemplation podcasts. Her latest book is Queering Contemplation, Finding Queerness in…

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Dr. Larry Ward on America's Racial Karma, the Fragrance of Wisdom, and Learning How To Suffer Less 44:31

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Dr. Larry Ward is a senior teacher in Buddhist Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village tradition, the author of the book America's Racial Karma, and co-author with his wife, Peggy, of Love's Garden: A Guide To Mindful Relationships. Dr. Ward brings forty years of international experience in organizational change and local community renewal to his…

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Blue Devil 360 - Summer 2024 56:27

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Our vacation edition begins with a compilation of Duke highlights from 2023-24 and features VP/AD Nina King’s in-depth review of the past year (note: heavy emphasis on spring sports as every Duke team competed in NCAA postseason play), along with her look ahead to next season and an overview of the rapidly changing college sports landscape. Then bu…

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David James Duncan on the Unintentional Menagerie of Sun House, Friendship, and the Beguines 1:46:49

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David James Duncan is the author of the classic novels The River Why and The Brothers K, the story collection River Teeth, the nonfiction collection and National Book Award finalist, My Story as Told by Water, the best-selling collection of "churchless sermons," God Laughs & Plays. And lest we forget his latest, and what some have called his magnum…

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Harmonizing In The Empty Fullness 2:07

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Season Five Trailer Contemplify.comBy Paul Swanson | Contemplative Shoveler

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Blue Devil 360 - Championship Saturday 44:20

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On Saturday May 11, the Duke softball team and the Duke women’s track & field team claimed impressive Atlantic Coast Conference championships to culminate three days of intense tournament competition. Take an inside look at the two titles through the eyes of standout senior catcher Kelly Torres and sophomore double gold medalist Lauren Tolbert as t…

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Turn the Morning into Forever 4:44

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A musing on time, eternality, and childerenBy Paul Swanson | Contemplative Shoveler

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Blue Devil 360 — Blue Devils of the Year 56:12

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This month we focus on two accomplished student-athletes — men’s lacrosse All-America faceoff specialist Jake Naso and women’s track standout heptathlete Brianna Smith. They have been selected as Duke’s male and female senior scholar-athletes of the year for 2023-24, and they are recipients of Weaver-James-Corrigan-Swofford ACC Postgraduate Scholar…

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Reduced to the Scale of Our Competence 4:55

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A musing on limitationsBy Paul Swanson | Contemplative Shoveler

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Eat the Wild Thing 5:48

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A musing on wild things and ingesting GodBy Paul Swanson | Contemplative Shoveler

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Blue Devil 360 - A Sacred Time 28:38

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As the sports world focuses on this week’s basketball Final Fours in Arizona and Cleveland, we connect with a Blue Devil for whom this time of year is sacred. Hall of Famer Grant Hill began attending the Final Four with his dad when he was a youngster, played in three Final Fours for Duke and has been on the national television broadcast team for t…

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Blue Devil 360 - February 2024 41:38

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In recognition of Black History Month, our leadoff guest is former Duke volleyball star and current associate head coach Kellie Catanach Johnson, who launched a Share The Mic campaign from the program’s Instagram account to help shine a light on HBCU volleyball. Also, we have one former and one current Duke baseball pitcher – 2020 alum Bryce Jarvis…

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Blue Devil 360 - January 2024 46:08

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Duke vice president and director of athletics Nina King makes her quarterly appearance on 360 with an overview of the university’s Centennial Celebration that begins this week, along with several other topics in looking back at 2023 and ahead to 2024. Also featured is Duke’s director of student-athlete development Dawn Kane to discuss a special tri…

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Lo-Fi & Hushed / 2023 Winter Solstice Session / To Know the Dark 32:45

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Each solstice and equinox Contemplify offers a public Lo-Fi & Hushed contemplative practice session for both free and supporting subscribers of the Non-Required Reading List. For those interested, go tell it on the mountain… The third week of Advent salted on joy. Not because of the circumstances, but despite them. The work remains to create the co…

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Listen to the Rice, the Rice Will Teach You Everything with Lucien Miller 37:32

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"Oshida's life and legacy is an experience of the spiritual senses knowing the mystical voice. Biblical in sources and Buddhist in form, reading this book took me as a reader to the great pause of silence." — Sister Meg Funk, OSB Lucien Miller received his PhD in comparative literature from Berkely and taught Comparative Literature and Chinese at t…