Way Collective Podcast

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 09/30/26, entitled Conscious Living in Late Capitalism. In this episode, we talk about what it means to be conscious of the economic relations that surround us, and how we can get to know the dynamics of a death economy vs. a life economy, and move toward a more conscious engagement with our consumption in late capitalism. Thanks fo...

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 09/18/26, entitled Responsive and Responsible Living. In this episode, we talk about how, although we cannot control everything that comes to us, we can participate in a loving response, transforming what we give back to the world. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 09/18/26, entitled Going Slow. In this episode, talk about the invitation from Bayo Akomolafe "In urgent times, we must slow down," and how, when we can bring a prolonged gaze of attention to our lives, others, and the needs of the world around us, it opens us up to a deepened presence. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 09/02/26, entitled Conscious Living. In this episode, we introduce our Fall conversation series, by talking about the movement from consciousness, to conscience, to consequence, to conscientiousness, inviting us to consider the ways that we are living un-consciously, and to move toward more conscientious living. Thanks for tuning in...

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 08/26/26, entitled Returning to the Sacred. In this episode, we finish our Summer series by talking about how turning to the sacred is really about a way of returning -- returning to our bodies, to one another, and to the world -- with the practice of sacramentalizing things, as we learn to see anew. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 08/19/26, entitled Finding a Sacred Ground. In this episode, we talk about how finding a sacred ground isn't always about creating stability, but is about creating roots that nourish us and make us more available to life, rather than less affected by it. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 08/12/26, entitled The Grace of Self-Compassion, with Tracy Johansson. In this episode, Tracy explores how giving ourselves the grace of self-compassion helps us foster resilience from the inside-out, allows us to meet ourselves with greater acceptance, and can deepen our sense of connection and belonging. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 08/05/26, entitled Peeking Under the Curtain, with John Figoski. In this episode, John shares stories from a recent chapter in his ongoing "God Quest" -- a deeply personal journey that has taken unexpected turns and open new ways of seeing himself, faith, and the nature of reality. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/29/26, entitled The Sacredness of the Both/And. In this episode, we talk about the how there is something sacred about holding paradox, about not dismissing difference and difficulties, but in learning to become the kinds of people who, grounded in love, can embrace the whole of life. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/22/26, entitled The Sacred as a Language We Speak. In this episode, we talk about the nature of the human religious impulse, and how religion is a language that we speak and a set of practices that we keep that help us render the world as sacred to ourselves, and live in community like that is the case. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/15/26, entitled The Sacred as Love, Beauty, and Peace. In this episode, we talk about the movement in our lives from living in love, to creating beauty in the world, to the emergence of peace as trusting in the efficacy of beauty -- and how, the sacred emerges when we choose to pay attention and walk this path. Thanks for tuning...

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/08/26, entitled The Sacredness of Becoming. In this episode, we talk about how we innately know that life is sacred through our experience of flow -- of knowing the past, present, and future -- and, how peace arises not through us hitting the pause button on life, but by surrendering more fully to the cycle of creative transforma...

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/01/26 with Barbra Valentine, entitled Sacred Stories That Shape Us. In this episode, Barbra guided us in an evening of reflection on the stories that have shaped our spiritual lives, and invited us into a shared exploration of the experiences, relationships, questions, and moments of wonder that have awakened us to the sacred mys...

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 06/24/26, entitled Seeing Through the Eyes of the Sacred. In this episode, we talk how to encounter the sacred in ourselves and others through learning to see ourselves as God sees us, and how, when we borrow God's eyes, we begin to see the beauty and dignity of everyone around us. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 06/17/26, entitled The Sacredness of Community. In this episode, we talk about how community life is one way we experience the sacred, and how, when there is room for deep trust and belonging, we find something rare in our fragmented time -- the possibility of contemplative friendships. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is a special episode in conversation with a member of our community, author and public theologian Damon Garcia on 06/16/26, entitled Why You Don't Need a Calling. In this episode, Damon and Tim chat about the scope of Damon's work, and what led him to write his forthcoming book: You Don't Need a Calling: An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto for a Life of Purpose. They also discuss the effects of late...

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 06/10/26, entitled Turning to the Sacred. In this episode, we begin our Summer series of conversations by asking "what" the sacred means, and, through the metaphor of landscape, we look at the invitation to attune to the sacred as gaining a deeper sense of a Beauty that holds the full spectrum of human life and emotion. Thanks for t...

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 05/20/26, entitled Mystery and the Path of Unknowing. In this episode, we wrap up our series on mystery by talking about how mystery is a way of seeing the world, and how the path of unknowing is always available to us, inviting us into a kin-dom presence where we can be grounded in peace in an impatient world. Thanks for tuning in!...

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 05/20/26, entitled The Mystery of the Present Moment. In this episode, we talk about the mystery of the present moment as an invitation to recognize that there is something precious going on in every moment of our experience, and to have "eyes to see" means that we can sense the infinite in the finite passingness of things. Thanks f...

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 05/13/26, entitled Finding Mystery in Ourselves and Others. In this episode, we talk about what it looks like to encounter the mystery of a person beyond our experiences of them, and how upholding that we are always more than our past and present situations invites us into an unfolding compassion for ourselves and one another. Thank...

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 04/29/26, entitled Relating From Mystery. In this episode, we talk about what it looks like to relate to the world from this sense of mystery and curiosity -- to disrupt our future storytelling and worrying with a sense of unknowing that always invites us back to the present moment to tend gently to what is going on within us and ar...

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 04/22/26, entitled The Big Mystery. In this episode, we talk about the big, cosmic mystery within which all of our human dramas are taking place, gaining inspiration from the recent DESI 3D map of the cosmos, we remember that something incomprehensible, grandiose, and mysterious is taking place here -- and we each have a part in it....

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 04/16/26, entitled Circling the Mystery. In this episode, we introduce this series on mystery by reflecting on how mystery is an orienting device, rather than a navigating one, and how there are areas in our lives where we need clarity, but there is also always an invitation to let the mystery hold all that we do. Thanks for tuning...

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 04/08/26, entitled What is Progressive Christianity? with Jim Burklo. In this episode, we welcome pastor and author Jim Burklo, who shared thoughts from his recent book, Water in the Desert, on the core convictions of a progressive Christianity that is centered on love and a common table where all are welcome. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is a special episode that is an our 2026 Easter Meditation, entitled, A Radiant Theosis: Catching a Flash of the True Self on Resurrection Sunday. In this episode, we talk about the Easter story from Matthew 28, and read it as a metaphor for catching a glimpse of the True Self, connecting that theme with our Lenten series and our Good Friday meditation. Christ is risen, and thanks for tuning...