LA-based musical artist Jessica Gerhardt shares how a mystical experience during contemplative prayer inspired her career writing faith-inspired music, art, and social justice work. She discusses with host Jean Kelly her spiritual journey, faith, and creative influences behind her full-length album, Alight by the Sea, including St. Ignatius, St. John of the Cross and St. Therese of Lisieux. Also discussed is how a life of creativity is an expression of our role of co-creators with God. She shares how meditation like audio divina helps us to take social action with "spiritual and emotional sobriety" that makes our involvement sustainable.
🎧 Audio guided audio divina meditation with Suspice by Jessica Gerhardt: https://www.readpraywrite.com/receive...
🎥 Video guided audio divina meditation with Suspice by Jessica Gerhardt: • Song of Soul's Surrender: Go Deep into the...
GUEST BIO
Jessica Gerhardt is a queer, Catholic LA-native singer-songwriter whose style ranges from intimate ukulele-driven folk to anthemic indie rock. Following after Fiona Apple and Alanis Morissette, Jessica writes in the tradition of fiery femme rock artists, but with a distinct spiritual bent, inspired by Sufjan Stevens and Audrey Assad.
Having grown up in a Catholic-Jewish mixed-faith family, Jessica was shaped by inclusive notions of religion. This bears out as she lays claim to her spiritual identity in her debut LP, Alight Beyond the Sea, which centers around Psalm 139 and God's presence in sorrow and joy, in darkness and light, and in seeking to live authentically.
In addition to composing all ten songs on the record, she hand-embroidered the cover art for each, making this album a work of art both visually and audibly. Jessica is also a sponsored Lanikai Ukuleles artist, co-founder of the arts collective Parnassus & Co, founder of the house-concert series Friday at The Fox Den, writes on occasion for National Catholic Reporter, sells her art via her Etsy shop Work of Human Hands, and is a high school theology teacher.
TOPICS DISCUSSED:
🎵 Audio divina as a spiritual practice
🎨Creativity as birthright of all made in the image of the Creator
🌀 How Christian contemplation connects to social action through discernment
👣 12-step recovery as model for the Church.
OTHER RESOURCES MENTIONED:
The Artist’s Way: https://www.amazon.com/Artists-Way-25...
12-Step Spirituality https://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/art...
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/bl....
Enneagram: https://cac.org/daily-meditations/the...
ABOUT HOST
JEAN P KELLY Jean P. Kelly, Ph. D., is a storyteller, seeker, and spiritual guide, host of the award-winning podcast about spiritual reading, Read. Pray. Write. at www.readpraywrite.com, and author of Less Helping Them, More Healing You: The Transcendent Gifts of an Ancient Spiritual Practice (ACTA 2024). She is a lay Benedictine of St. Meinrad Archabbey in Indiana and Emeritus Professor of Journalism at Otterbein University in Central Ohio.
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