I hoped you all enjoyed my last night Substack Live stream. If you missed it, you can see the entire show on my page today. It was great to have nearly 1000 people there, leaning into the theme of the concert, What We New Is Here.
You can listen to my 30 minutes of songs poetery and commentary.
Now onto this Post-
Room at the Table: Kitchen Conversations With Carrie Newcomer & Author Philip Gulley
Welcome to Room At the Table: Kitchen Conversations — A series of conversations with poets, authors, musicians, spiritual thinkers and folks from all walks of life — about their work, about what sustains them, inspires them, what helps them stay grounded in challenging times. This first episode is with beloved Author Parker J. Palmer. Upcoming episodes will include Poet, Jack Ridl; Author and Theologian, Philip Gulley; Musician and Director of The Hundreth Hill Artist Retreat, Krista Detor and more!
NOTE About Supporting Subscriber & Public Release of Room At The Table Episodes
This new series will first be available to Supporting Subscribers who are generously helping to make this creative endeavor possible. Episodes will be made available to all subscribers sometime within the next month. As usual, Gift & Group Subscriptions are always 20% off.
Now Onto To The Show
Philip Gulley is a Quaker pastor, writer, and speaker from Danville, Indiana. Gulley has written 22 books, including the Harmony series recounting life in the eccentric Quaker community of Harmony, Indiana and the best-selling Porch Talk essay series. Gulley’s memoir, I Love You, Miss Huddleston: And Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana Childhood, was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. In addition, Gulley, with co-author James Mulholland, shared their progressive spirituality in the books If Grace Is True and If God Is Love, followed by Gulley’s books If the Church Were Christian and The Evolution of Faith. In Living the Quaker Way: Timeless Wisdom For a Better Life Today, Gulley offers the opportunity to participate in a world where the values of the Quaker way bring equity, peace, healing, and hope. Living the Quaker Way invites readers to encounter the defining commitments of the Religious Society of Friends–simplicity, peace, integrity, community and equality, and shows how those ideals can be incorporated in personal and public life to bring renewal and eliminate the clutter that is keeping us from deeper spirituality. In his most recently published work of non-fiction, Unlearning God: How Unbelieving Helped Me Believe, Gulley’s latest fictional series continues the exploits of Sam Gardner, first introduced in the Harmony series. The new Hope series includes A Place Called Hope, A Lesson in Hope, and A Gathering in Hope, his most recent fictional release. You can also read Gulley’s essays in every issue of Indianapolis Monthly and The Saturday Evening Post.
And NOW Philip Gulley writes a really important Substack offering called Plain Speech - which I highly recommend to everyone joining us here at the table—it’s smart, prophetic, meaningful with health dollops of good humor. Philip and I have have also collaborated doing special events of music and spoken word over years.
I loved this conversation with Philip as we explored his works, progressive theology, spiritual activism, and his writings on the Quaker Testimonies of Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community and Equality. Pull up a chair and join Philip Gulley and I at the table.
We had a little techniccal glitiches ij this interview….and so we did some sutble cleaning up, beautidu wha Philip had to say wa sso lovin and so so relativat.
Question
How does the Quaker idea of Integrity that we speak of in this episode land with you? How does Philip Gulley’s reflections on speaking living with integrity, as well as calling the White House switchboard every day?
Media About Philip Gulley
Here’s a link to see more videos and writings by Philip Gulley.
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