The Light in Every Thing

This week we invite you to listen to the first presentation from last June’s Seminary Open Course, “Becoming the Image of God.” Patrick Kennedy begins the theme with these stirring thoughts:

“From now…

We are back with a new Summer Replay! This week's episode is the first of our 'What is a Priest?' series from March, 2021. Every human being can develop priestly qualities and bring those qualities i…

This week’s Summer Replay is the first episode of our Heart of Religious Renewal series from March, 2022. We highly recommend listening to all seven episodes, but thought it might be interesting to r…

With the podcast in summer mode, we will be posting a variety of old and new offerings over the coming weeks. Given how the ‘Seven Heavens’ wove their way into last week’s final episode of the Christ…

Jonah and Patrick conclude the “Christian Shadow Work” series first by reviewing the territory covered in previous episodes. They go on to explore how the Eucharist service itself reveals the deepest…

In the sixth episode of our series, Jonah and Patrick explore the new role of purity in shadow work, transformed through the mystery of Golgotha. With Christ’s death, resurrection and revelation, God…

In this sixth episode of our series, Patrick and Jonah look at the question of how Christian shadow work is taken up in the worship service of The Christian Community, “The Consecration of The Human …

The fifth episode of our series looks more carefully at the deeply personal experience of true repentance, without the stain of condemnation and exaggerated guilt so common throughout Christian histo…

In this fourth episode of our series, the conversation goes deeper into what is asked of us when we take up a practice of working with our shadow nature in relation to Christ Jesus. Beginning with fi…

The third episode of our series looks again at the nature of shadow or sin as that in the human being which hinders Divine Reality from being revealed. Humanity is still working to reveal the image o…

In this second episode of our series, Patrick and Jonah describe some of qualities and dynamics of light and dark that cast ”shadows” in and outside our beings. In the physical world, a shadow change…

Our new series takes up the far reaching subject of working with our “shadow,” especially as it relates to the overarching question posed this year, “What divides us?” In this first episode, Jonah an…

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This week we have the pleasure of hearing Jonah and Patrick’s first person account of their recent visit to Scotland and Ireland! Their conversation includes ”shout outs” to po…

Patrick and Jonah conclude the ”Identity and Idolatry” series by looking at two contrasting pictures of fulfilled identity, the Wounded Lamb (Rev 5)  and the Wounded Beast (Rev 13). Human beings have…

In the latest episode of our “Identity and Idolatry” series, Patrick and Jonah look at the soul activity commonly referred to as worship and how it relates to identity formation. Worship can broadly …

In this sixth episode of our series, Jonah and Patrick explore the interplay between icons and idols, working together in the formation of identity. We, developing human beings, are free to choose wh…

In this episode, Jonah and Patrick contemplate Love's part in the mystery of identity and how this is revealed in Christ's path to the cross. The very human desire for love is with us from the beginn…

The fourth episode of our series on identity and idolatry leads further into Rudolf Steiner’s search for the eternal human self. Jonah and Patrick describe how Steiner searched intensively for many y…

The third episode of our series begins with the question of identity considered through the lens of cultural anthropology and postmodernism. These disciplines consider how human beings construct iden…

In this second episode of our series, Patrick and Jonah begin to look at the dynamic relationship that exists between who Christ Jesus is as a being - his identity - and the mystery around human iden…