Join your hosts Kim and Nia, as well as our first-time guest, Latoya (@jamaicangirlreads) as we discuss a heavy yet somewhat therapeutic read. Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli is definitely not an easy story. And we highly encourage you to adhere to any and all trigger warnings prior to listening to this episode. Following along Eve's grief journey…

Join your hosts Kim and Nia as we share our first side chat of the year! We talk about how 2023 has treated us so far! And share all things personal, professional, and of course book and podcast related. Hint: We are still focused on living better and thriving! (our words for the year) As always remember to follow us on our socials and our website …

You can listen and watch the content from this retreat at wccmplus.orgBy Laurence Freeman

Join your hosts Kim and Nia as we discuss our latest read from one of our favorite authors, Better Than Fiction by Alexa Martin. Drew Young inherited her Gran's bookstore the Book Nook. But there's one problem, she's not much of a reader. However, in the hopes of maintaining her Gran's legacy, she continues to run the store. Which includes hosting …

Back-to-back episodes? That's right! Join your hosts Kim and Nia as we discuss all the things about The Neighbor Favor. Lily and Nick are neighbors and quickly become friends. But what Lily doesn't know, is that Nick happens to be her favorite author N.K. Strickland, who she'd been emailing with for six months until he ghosted her. And yet somehow,…

Join your hosts Kim and Nia as we share all of our thoughts on Restore Me by J.L. Seegars. Our main characters, Dominic and Sloane have a fraught relationship— if one can even call it that— with each other. So when they end up having to work together, it's no surprise that they butt heads. But will these enemies become lovers? Will Sloane find love…

You can listen and watch the full series on WCCM+ at wccmplus.orgBy Laurence Freeman

Join your hosts, Kim and Nia, as we discuss the next book in the Nena Knight series, They Come at Knight by Yasmin Angoe. This time last year, we kicked off the season with the first book, Her Name is Knight, and loved it. Now we're back in Nena's world, where her family and the Tribe face an even greater threat. Someone intends to destroy the Trib…

We are kicking off season 4 with a bang! Join your hosts, Kim and Nia. As well as, our forever co-hosts Toya (@thereadingchemist) and Laura (@crofteereader) as we discuss the next book in the Legendborn cycle, Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn! We break down all five parts of the story and share all of our thoughts on Bree and her journey, the Legendborn …

You can listen and watch the full series by subscribing to WCCM+ at wccmplus.orgBy Laurence Freeman

If you’ve enjoyed listening to this podcast, You can watch the full Speaker Series on wccm+ at wccmplus.orgBy Sarah Bachelard

Happy New Year! We are so excited for a new year and brand new season! Be on the lookout for our book choices, guests to the show and more. Buddy Read Podcast officially kicks off season 4 in February! Don't forget to follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter. And check out our website. Also, subscribe to our newsletter, Our Corner, w…

Can you believe we're at the end of another year and for us, another season? Join your hosts Kim and Nia as we share our thoughts on some of the books that we intended to discuss and review on the show this year but didn't get a chance to. As well as how the year has treated us, how our reading has changed this year and a bit of insight on what to …

Join your hosts, Kim and Nia, for our last review of the year and season! This week, we're discussing A Very Merry Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams. Special thanks to Berkley Romance and Penguin Random House Audio for the final physical and audiobook copy. We follow along immigration attorney, Gretchen Winthrope and Country Singer, Colton Wheeler's jour…

If you're interested in exploring the topic of how meditation can heal trauma, we recommend the course Meditation - A Healing Response to Trauma here Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.By Laurence Freeman, Tim Kelly

Join your hosts Kim and Nia as we discuss The Blood Trials by N.E. Davenport! This Sci-Fi/Fantasy may just be our favorite book on the show this year. We follow Ikenna Amari, reeling after the unexpected death of her grandfather, Verne Amari. When she discovers that his passing may have been a murder, she enlists in the trials to become a Praetoria…

Your co-hosts Kim & Nia are so excited to welcome in the new season. We're ready to say bye-bye to sweltering temperatures and hello to sweaters and hats, really all the layers. Well at least as much as we can since we live in Georgia lol. Check out some of our fave fall traditions, items, and what we're hopeful for this year. As always remember to…

Your hosts, Kim & Nia are so excited to be back from our summer break! And for this episode, we're discussing On Rotation by Shirlene Obuobi! In this story, we follow Angie Appiah, a Ghanaian-American med student in Chicago whose going through a serious quarter-life crisis. After a day from hell, she finds herself at one of the local festivals, whe…

Herman is the key speaker of the John Main Seminar 2022, The Challenge OF Democracy: The Challenge TO Democracy, from 14 to 20 November.By Herman Van Rompuy

Can you believe we're halfway through the season and year already?! Join your hosts Kim and Nia as we share what to expect for the rest of the season! Mini-spoiler alert: we're launching our newsletter!! Expect our first newsletter to hit your inboxes, this Sunday, August 14th. Subscribe now so you don't miss out on all the fun. As always remember …

Join your hosts Kim and Nia as we share our thoughts on our latest contemporary romance read, Fake It Till You Bake It by Jamie Wesley. This story tackles learning disabilities, entrepreneurship, the realities of adulthood, and of course baking! Jada's career path hasn't been linear. And her recent stunt on a reality tv show has made her enemy #1 n…

Join your co-hosts, Kim and Nia as we chat with you about our year so far, what we've read both for the show and personally, and what book we'll be discussing this month! Remember to follow us on Instagram and check out our website for all of our latest updates!

Join your co-hosts Kim and Nia as we chat about code-switching as Black & Caribbean women. We bring you in on our first experiences, life in college, and how code-switching is a part of our arsenal for survival as adults. As always, follow us on Instagram and check out our website, for all of our latest updates!…

Join your hosts Kim and Nia as we dive into our April Contemporary Romance choice! Savvy Sheldon is a plus-size underwriter who decides to enact a revenge body scheme after Jason, her boyfriend of six years, dumps her. But with the help of her amazing friend group, that revenge scheme transcends into a plan that prioritizes her mental, emotional, a…

Welcome to our new segment, SIDE CHATS! Where your co-hosts Kim and Nia share our musings on pop culture, lifestyle and so much more. Here's where you'll get our unfiltered non-bookish insights and thoughts. For our first chat, inspired by our latest read, Four Aunties & A Wedding by Jesse Q. Sutanto, we're talking destination weddings! Would we ha…

Join your hosts Kim and Nia as we chat and mostly laugh about our latest read! We had such a fun time last year reading Dial A for Aunties and expected nothing less from Sutanto with Four Aunties & A Wedding. Meddy, Nathan, and the Aunts are back. This time, Meddy's the bride! She and Nathan are having a destination wedding in Oxford, England. Cue …

Join your hosts Nia and Kim as we review How to Survive a Modern-Day Fairy Tale by Elle Cruz. We had an...interesting journey while reading this contemporary romance. Self-proclaimed plain jane and bookworm, Claire Ventura embarks on a whirlwind romance with CEO and tech billionaire, Nate Noruta. But was their romance an epic tale of rags to riches…

Martin Laird OSA works regularly with the World Community for Christian Meditation. To learn more visit wccm.orgBy Martin Laird

Join your co-hosts Kim and Nia and our special guest, Mary our sister, best friend, and former podcast host, (@livinsansouci) as we discuss Mom Jeans & Other Mistakes by Alexa Martin. Jude and Lauren are best friends and roommates (sound familiar? lol) And they share their beautiful townhouse with Lauren's five-year-old daughter Adelaide. Their jou…

It's a new year and new season over here at Buddy Read Podcast! And your co-hosts Kim and Nia are so excited to kick off the year with this action-packed Mystery/Thriller. Buckle up because Her Name is Knight took us on one heck of a journey. It kept us on our toes, and at the edge of our seats. But we also had to press pause or put the book down f…

This audio is part of talks 1 and 2 of a series of Meditatio Talks that were held in 2015. Podcast image from Jpeter2, from PixabayBy Rowan Williams

In this podcast, you’ll listen to the first talk of the retreat The Tightrope of Moderation which was held during Bonnevaux 2020 Lent Retreat by Laurence Freeman & Giovanni Felicioni. The first talk's titled Getting Ready for the Mysteries.By Laurence Freeman, Giovanni Felicioni

You can watch all previous episodes by Kim hereBy Kim Nataraja

You can learn more and register for Contemplating Earth course by Jim Green on wccm.org hereBy Jim Green

For more outreach initiatives on the topic of climate, please visit the Outreach Nature & Environment page on wccm.orgBy Liz Watson

This is an audio extract from module 1 Now/Apocalypse as part of the online course 'Contemplating Earth' by Jim Green This course has a particular scope and intention. We want to focus on a fundamental aspect of the human response to this stark uncovering of our current endangered situation. Because the challenge now facing us is so total – so imme…

This talk was part of a Meditatio talk held in London in 2017.By Marco Schorlemmer

If you're interested in listening to the full seminar, you can explore the course 'Hope for the Future' on the wccm.org websiteBy Laurence Freeman, Rowan Williams

Your co-hosts Kim and Nia are FINALLY back after an unexpected hiatus with a review of A Lot Like Adiós by Alexis Daria. Around this time last year, we discussed the first book in the series, You Had Me at Hola, and had a fun time! Now we're following one of the other Primas of Power, Michelle Amato as she navigates working for her former best frie…

Listen to Pascale Callec, the French National coordinator, she’s been part of WCCM for 10 years. She works in public services management and facilitating the expression of the common good is her deepest motivation. She’s committed to the ecological transition alongside her husband. This talk was part of the short talks from the online John Main Sem…

This talk was recorded during the pre-retreat of the 2018 John Main Seminar with the theme Experience and Meaning. This resource is free for all Supporting Members or can be purchased as an individual offering. More here: https://wccm.org/offerings/experience-and-meaning/By Laurence Freeman

To see all resources from past Advent retreats, please visit the WCCM.org website hereBy WCCM

In this podcast, Father Laurence Freeman speaks about meditation in the monastic tradition. The word tradition is a dynamic word: it means 'transmission', it's a process in which we are constantly receiving, adapting and passing on -the very nature of the Gospel, a transmission of a living word.Laurence then continues on talking of John Main as a c…

Learn more about the next John Main Seminar on this page here on wccm.orgBy WCCM

To access the full content from the retreat, please visit the online Course Health, Healing, WholenessBy Laurence Freeman

If you've enjoyed watching this video, you can become a Supporting Member and get access to the full course here: https://wccm.org/offerings/silence/By Laurence Freeman

This is part of the Monte Oliveto 2018 retreat - Being alone together - which you can access on the wccm.org website here Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.By laurence freeman

Join your hosts, Kim and Nia as we review Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto. This Mystery Thriller, Rom-Com definitely caught us by surprise. And we may still be suffering from whiplash because of the books (sort of unrealistic) twists! As always remember to follow us on Instagram for all of our latest updates!…

Get access to the full Milestones course here on the wccm.org website Soundtrack: Aourourou by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.By Laurence Freeman

Join your co-hosts Kim and Nia as we discuss this emotional, foodie-filled, steamy romance! Simmer Down by Sarah Smith gave all of the enemies-to-lover tension we wanted and a personal emotional rollercoaster we didn't expect to have. Nikki and Callum definitely took us on one heck of a journey! As always remember to follow us on Instagram for all …