Deeper conversation on the mysteries of Christianity with Patrick Kennedy and Jonah Evans, directors of the Seminary of The Christian Community in North America.
In this podcast we engage the great questions of life and do this through a spiritual approach to Christianity made possible through contemplative inquiry and the science of the spirit known as Anthroposophy.
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The third episode in our series delves further into the dual nature of the human self or ego. Jonah and Patrick consider the dynamics between oneself and an Other; the landscape of human desire. the …
This second episode in our series takes us further into the mystery of human selfhood and its longing to be in relationship to the living Truth. Using the pictures of the beggar and the crowned king,…
As the first of four sections to this entire season of the Light in Every Thing, this series explores a core moral challenge that has emerged with increasing strength recently: How do we find communi…
In this short preview, you will hear Patrick and Jonah describe the overarching theme for this year’s podcast. Coming to our selves means separating from everyone else. The self is a "two edged swor…
For our summer series, we are reposting this episode from our ‘Path of Discipleship’ series. It explores in depth one of the signposts of path of discipleship. Here is how it was introduced last year…
As a part of our summer series: Here is another look at a fascinating conversation between Lisa Romero and Rev. Jonah Evans. Lisa describes how who we are in the world today is setting the stage for …
This podcast conversation is with Laurens Hornemann, from Dortmund, Germany. This content was originally shared only with our patrons on Patreon and is a good example of the kind of extra content th…
In this last episode of our series on Christian mission work, we explore what it means that “all authority in heaven and on earth” was given to the risen Christ (Matthew 28: 18 - 20). What does this …
This episode’s conversation further develops our understanding of the “Great Commission” found in Matthew 28: 16-20. Before any instructions were given to the disciples as to their mission in the wor…
For some people, the idea of the Christian missionary calls up images of a heroic life fully given to a higher cause. For others, it calls up a legacy of spiritual trespass, abuse of power and physic…
Why is exile necessary? What is God hoping we will gain in the desert? In this conversation, Jonah and Patrick reveal how our egotism generates the exile experience. But there are great gifts to be f…
This episode is an audio recording of one of the presentations from our Beloved Community in Exile seminary open course earlier this week. This talk, offered by Patrick Kennedy, touches on where huma…
Christ’s prayer for humanity is that they be consecrated. Once the people of God were consecrated by the blood of ritual sacrifices. He shows a new path to Consecration: He consecrates himself for ou…
How do we find true protection in this world? In the third episode of our series on John 17, we learn that this protection is at the heart of Christ’s prayer for us. He prays for us to become a unif…
The opening lines of John 17 contain an essence of the mysteries of Christianity - Christ’s relationship to humanity and to God - flowing to us from this intimate prayer to the Father, the night befo…
With this episode we open up a new series that will explore what it means to be united with Christ and to live “in this world”. To do this, we will be working with one single text: the so-called ‘Hi…
As those who seek union with Christ, we turn towards Him, we grow towards Him, so He can gift us with His resurrection forces. This episode explores what it means to open ourselves to these forces of…
Christ gifts us our true humanity when we allow three things to become alive in us: the mystery of His suffering and death, the mystery of His resurrection, and the mystery of His manifesting or reve…
In prayer we reach out and up to a being greater than ourselves - for many different reasons. But, as you’ll hear in this conversation, “the heart of Christian prayer is union with Christ.” If unitin…
In this episode, we delve deeper into how essential it is for the renewal of our religious life to include thinking in our life of prayer. This is a prayer life that can enable us to approach the div…