Dear Padre

Dear Padre

Religion EN ↓ 688 episodes

When I was an Army chaplain, my soldiers asked me all kinds of wild questions. They also called me “Padre.”

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Dear Padre

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www.saintjoans.org

Latest episode

Nov 1, 2026

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Episodes

The Knight of Faith Must Sometimes Wear the Clown Suit 12.08.2019

The Knight of Faith Must Sometimes Wear the Clown Suit

How Do I Pray? Exploring Luke’s Shorter Lord’s Prayer 28.07.2019

Luke’s Lord’s Prayer is stripped down, light, and ready for battle.

Joan of Arc: Her Early Life With Saints and Angels 24.06.2019

Joan of Arc: Her Early Life With Saints and Angels

How Should Artists Memorialize the Trump Presidency? Elisabet Ney and General Johnston 05.06.2019

How Should Artists Memorialize the Trump Presidency? Elisabet Ney and General Johnston

Post traumatic God Episode 13: I Treat the Beat Like a Reverend 05.06.2019

Post traumatic God Episode 13: I Treat the Beat Like a Reverend

Post-Traumatic God EPISODE 12: God is the Ground of Being 13.05.2019

God does not exist. He is being itself beyond essence and existence—Paul Tillich

Post-Traumatic God Episode 11: The New Being 06.05.2019

The one thing people always say when they find out I’m divorced, circumcision, nazism, hippies at the folk fest, Roman soldiers’ sacrament, and hula hoops

Post-Traumatic God Episode 10: The Courage to Be 29.04.2019

Tillich’s concept of the Courage to Be can help us as we contemplate the abyss of non-being. We also discuss my eating disorder, process thought, and Barth vs. Tillich on atonement.

Post-Traumatic God Episode 9: Post-Traumatic Easter 22.04.2019

The wound is where the light enters you- Rumi

Post-Traumatic God Episode 8: Paul Tillich and the Trials of Homecoming 17.04.2019

Tillich and C. S. Lewis sexual relationships are examined as a sign of post-traumatic chaos

Post-Traumatic God Episode 7: Paul Tillich and the Shattering Effects of War 10.04.2019

As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.—Tim O’Brien in The Things They Carried

Post-Traumatic God Episode 6: The Reformers and the Shattering Effects of War 01.04.2019

Post-Traumatic God Episode 6: The Reformers and the Shattering Effects of War

Post-Traumatic God Episode 5: Early Church Fathers and the Shattering Effects of War 19.03.2019

Homicide in war is not reckoned by our fathers as homicide...Perhaps, however, it is well to counsel that those whose hands are not clean only abstain from communion for three years. —St. Basil the Great

Post-Traumatic God Episode 4: The New Testament 11.03.2019

Then Pilate wondered if he was already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead for some time. Mark 15:44

Post-Traumatic God Episode 3: Shattering in the Hebrew Bible 07.03.2019

“Hell rages around us. It’s unimaginable” Paul Tillich in WWI

Post-Traumatic God Episode 2: The God Who Disappears 25.02.2019

The courage to be is found in the god who appears when God disappears in the anxiety of doubt and fear — Paul Tillich. Find Matt Williams on iTunes music or www.retiredarmychaplain.com

“Love Your Enemies” a sermon preached at Christ Church Cedar Park, TX. Luke 6:27 is the text. 24.02.2019

“Love Your Enemies” a sermon preached at Christ Church Cedar Park, TX. Luke 6:27 is the text.

Post Traumatic God Episode 1: To Hell and Back 16.02.2019

I can’t remember being young in my life—Audie Murphy

Don’t be afraid of their faces. Sermon at St. Paul’s Pflugerville 03.02.2019

A wonderful morning preaching and listening at St. Paul’s #Pflugerville with the Rev. Janne Osborne!

My last sermon at St. Mark’s, Austin. “Inchworms and Grasshoppers” 10.12.2018

My last sermon at St. Mark’s, Austin. “Inchworms and Grasshoppers”

“All Will Be Thrown Down” a Sermon preached at St. Mark’s Austin 18.11.2018

“All Will Be Thrown Down” a Sermon preached at St. Mark’s Austin

A Brute That Cannot Sing: a Sermon for Remembrance Day Evensong 12.11.2018

A Brute That Cannot Sing: a Sermon for Remembrance Day Evensong

“Hatching, Matching, and Dispatching on All Saints Day” 04.11.2018

“Hatching, Matching, and Dispatching on All Saints Day”

You don’t know what you’re asking 22.10.2018
“Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” 07.10.2018

A sermon preached in October at St. Mark’s, Austin.

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