The Light in Every Thing

8.18.21 The Path of Discipleship - 4:    In this episode, Patrick Kennedy and Jonah Evans explore the next steps along the path of discipleship as revealed in our fourth gospel reading of the series: Luke 9: 1 - 17. We hear how Christ gathers his disciples, empowers them, and instructs them as to their mission and sends them out into the world. What is the mission of a disciple? How are they equip...

8.4.21 The Path of Discipleship - 2:    In this episode, Patrick Kennedy and Jonah Evans continue their conversation on discipleship by exploring the second gospel reading in the series: Matthew 7:1-14. Here, Christ offers his followers a sequence of rich images in these verses that culminate in the narrow gate, with its promise of Life on the other side. *** Our thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who c...

8.11.21 The Path of Discipleship - 3:    In this episode, Jonah Evans and Patrick Kennedy continue their discussion of discipleship by exploring the third gospel reading in the series: Luke 15: 1 - 32.   Through the parables of the Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin and the Prodigal Son, Jesus reveals to his disciples the dynamic loving effort the divine world is making to find every human soul that has lo...

7.28.21 The Path of Discipleship - I:    In this first episode of a new series on discipleship, Patrick Kennedy and Jonah Evans dive into the first of ten gospel readings that will guide the series: Mark 8:27-9:1.  In this passage Jesus confronts his disciples with his own description of his mission and destiny and the core instruction to his students (disciples): “anyone who would follow me must...

9.92021 - After seeking to deepen and express the idea of a truly Christian priesthood, Jonah and Patrick now turn their attention to that which all true “shepherds of souls” are called to build and cultivate: community . Why would we ever want to join be a part of a community? What is the nature of Christ-Community, what is unique about it? What does it mean that this community, in the course of...

6.2.2021 - In this final episode on the question, What is a Priest? , Patrick and Jonah turn their attention away from the consecrated priesthood and towards the "Priesthood of all Believers." They take up the idea that everyone who comes into contact with Christ is in the process of consecration , is in the process of changing and transforming into his likeness.  We are so grateful that...

May 14-16, 2021 This past weekend eight individuals stepped forward to be consecrated into the priesthood. It was a powerful, spiritually potent and beautiful event, blessed by some of the most glorious Ascension-in-nature experiences.  During that weekend Jonah and I took the opportunity to sit down with fellow priest, Julia Polter, and have a conversation. Jonah asked Julia about how she experie...

4.21.2021 - In this fifth episode on the question, “What is a Priest?”,  the conversation deepens the element of creativity, of creation, in priestly work and, especially, what is generated through the creative, priestly activity of Jesus Christ.  The focus this time for Patrick and Jonah is on the image of Priest as Creator.  It is no longer enough, we come to understand in this episode, to just...

4.14.2021 - This week we pick up the thread of the last three episodes, "What is a Priest?" We describe today the lineage of offering, from the story of Cain and Abel, with the image of them as "creator" and "shepherd," all the way through to Jesus and beyond. But first, we delve into the question, "What is different in the work of a Priest after Christ and what...

4.1.2021 - In this episode of The Light in Every Thing, Jonah and Patrick continue to unpack their question, "What is a Priest?"  Two central elements have now emerged in the conversations: the activities of offering and of blessing . In this episode Patrick and Jonah deepen this picture by asking about each of these ‘gifts’, exploring the ways in which a priest works between the two wor...

3.24.21 - In this episode, Patrick and Jonah enter further into the question, "What is a Priest?" What has the activity of a priest been in the ancient, pre-Christian world? How did Christ renew the priesthood in Jesus? And what is the future of this priestly work?  Two fundamental ideas build the core focus for this conversation: the work of consecrating and the activity of offering at...

In this first episode of a new series, Patrick and Jonah enter into a new theme: What is a priest?  Following their conversation last week about the story of Jonah and the whale as a sign of the Spirit, they turn this week to explore the idea of a "Priesthood of all believers," and look at how every human being can be a sign of the spirit and have a quality of priesthood in their work. H...

At the start of this Passiontide (Lent) season, 2021, Jonah and Patrick finish their series exploring the nature of the trinity in light of the revelations in the liturgical language of the Eucharist service in the movement for religious renewal [website link]. In Passiontide we hear a diagnosis of what is afflicting humanity: we have lost the spirit, the place of our hearts has become empty.  Thi...

In this episode of The Light in Every Thing, Patrick and Jonah consider the Mystery of Co-Creation between humanity and the Divinity in the person of the “Son”. In the special text of the Trinity liturgy in The Christian Community, the Son is revealed as the one who creates, as the Creator-Word.  The world around us is full of the evidence of the deeds of this creative One, but the liturgy goes on...

In this episode, Jonah and Patrick get into the question of creativity and the second member of the Trinity: the mysteries of God, the Son.  This leads them into a sometimes tension-filled conversation as they walk along the razor's edge that explores the origins of evil in the universe.  Has God created evil?  Has Christ created the terrible things happening to people? How can we understand...

Mother and child, by Marc Chagall 1956 In this highly anticipated episode of The Light in Every Thing , Patrick and Jonah ask the question, "Where is Mary in our movement?" Picking up from last week's discussion of the Father God, we are led to questions about the Mother, and where she is in our liturgy, our community, and our hearts. Patrick shares a story of a poignant interaction...

In this episode of The Light in Every Thing, we take our first look at the mystery of the triune God: God the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. In The Christian Community, we turn our attention to this mystery in the Act of Consecration between festival seasons during a special time that has come to be called trinity season. As we enter right now the trinity season between the Epiphany festival and...

Patrick and Jonah pick up from last week to explore the power and mystery of how the Act of Consecration can keep us connected - in a positive way - to our sin, both as individuals and as an entire community. They discuss the ideas of Sun Karma and Moon Karma in Esoteric Christianity; how they differ and what they each can teach us. They then bring us into a contemplation of community karma - who...

In this episode, we pick up where we left off last week with the topic of sin, and the connection between sin and "the healing medicine." What is Sin? What is the purpose of sin? How do we live with our own sins, let them work on us, and transform ourselves for the better through and because of them? Patrick and Jonah take up many paradoxical layers inherent in these questions. They cont...

In this episode, Jonah and Patrick pick up on last week's theme of Looking Forward into 2021 by contemplating the image of the "Star of Grace" in the midst of the Epiphany season. They begin by looking at the Epiphany Liturgy, and discuss the birth of Epiphany "Season" within The Christian Community. They explore the imagery of Son and Sun, as well as "true light&quot...

In this Episode, Jonah and Patrick reflect on the extraordinary year that was 2020, and look forward into 2021.  What did 2020 ask of you?  What did it give you? The God of the Door, of Gateways and Transitions, was named Janus in the Roman tradition.  He was a God of Beginnings and is depicted (see the above sculpture) as looking backward with one face and forward with another.  This practice of...

It is nearly Christmas and time to take up the question: What is the birth we are anticipating, the one that is coming ? Where is it that the divine, creative Word of God is newly speaking? Where is ‘burgeoning life’ - as Jonah Evans calls it in this episode - seeking to incarnate anew? In this last episode before Christmas, Jonah and Patrick take up these questions by exploring the special elemen...

The season of Advent - the expectant preparation for the birth of the Word on Earth at Christmas - has begun.   The powerful gospel reading for Advent is not of the Annunciation to Mary but an apocalyptic image taken from the gospel according to Luke (chapter 21:25-36), where we hear: "then they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with power and great glory." Why doesn't it...

Jonah and Patrick continue their conversation on the renewal of prayer in this episode.  They share the doorways they opened in their own life with prayer and touch into the significance of being able to pray in this time of skyrocketing gun-sales .   Our thanks to Elliott Chamberlin, who composed the opening music, "On the Road" and the closing music, "Seeking Together".  You...

Taking up the request to converse about what it is that can help us find the strength, peace and forces of trust in life that we need in this profound time, Jonah and Patrick turn their attention to the practice of prayer.  In particular, they turn to the practice of connecting, through prayer, to those who have died.  It is a longer conversation that touches the depths of the history and experien...