The Light in Every Thing

Today we bring you Jonah Evan's second talk on Michael's work with humanity to create a universal Spirituality.  In his first talk, Jonah spoke of the work of following Michael in order to attain a higher sensing-knowing of Christ's "Deed of Life and Death on Golgotha".  To do this, he delineated between three aspects of the spiritual world: Beings, Impulses and Thoughts. ...

Today we share one of the talks from last week's webinar on Michael and the Call to a Universal Spirituality.  In this contemplation of Michael's working we focus on what it is Michael wants to bring us to heal the divisions that prevent us from being united across all divisions and differences: the Holy or Healing Spirit. What happens in a human heart that feels the Healing Spirit pouri...

In this episode, Jonah and Patrick continue their contemplation of the special message concerning the Archangel Michael's working in our time as expressed in the liturgy of this festival season.   They begin by seeking ways to imagine the 'realms of the angels' in which Michael is working.  This leads them to the mystery of what is known in the book of Revelation as the ” Key of Dav...

There is a power who is able to keep the forces of darkness in their place, a mighty messenger who works to connect the mind of humanity with the mind of God.  This being is known as 'Micha-el' in Christian and Hebrew tradition and Rudolf Steiner revealed through his spiritual research that this being has become the guiding spirit of our era .  In this episode, Jonah and Patrick begin a...

Jonah and Patrick take a next step in their meditation on the intersection of Politics and the Kingdom of God.  First, they lay down more foundational images and scriptural passages that can guide us in this direction, then they turn their attention to conspiracy theories, focusing in on the more recent example of QAnon.  As always, our focus are the key principles of spirit that Christ teaches us...

In this episode, Jonah and Patrick take up the divisive yet important topic: politics . To do this right will take a patient, deeper approach, so let's "sit down" and get into it. With an election in the U.S. coming, social tensions running extremely high and deep running conspiracies perceived in every direction, we felt it essential to risk taking up the question of a Christ-perme...

We pick up the conversation mid-stream from the fourth part of our series on love in which we take up a major trend in the psychology, self-help and new age worlds: the question of loving our selves.  The conversation moves from a meditation given by Richard Rohr through what Patrick refers to as the "Spiritual Cross" of love (loving God and loving neighbor) to the mystery of the death a...

In the fourth part of our series on love we take up a major trend in the psychology, self-help and new age worlds: the question of loving our selves.  Further stirred by a meditation from Richard Rohr and a mis-reading of the teachings of Jesus on love, Jonah and Patrick speak about how love can never be directed back upon itself; it always needs an Other . This topic was so rich we had a longer c...

In this episode, Jonah and Patrick take up the topic of romantic relationships, partnership and marriage.  Along the way they share two personal stories that changed everything for them. Our thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who composed the opening music, "On the Road" and the closing music, "Seeking Together".  You can find more of his music here .  Episode Notes and Resources - F...

Jonah and Patrick take up a heartfelt request from David Evans.  Here is part of what he wrote, "My request is that I would be very interested to hear you discuss The Great Love that Christ describes as coming from the Father. The deep ground of Love. It seems that all loving acts are first framed in this Great Love." To honor this request, Jonah and Patrick dive deep into one of the ref...

Inspired by one of our listeners, we are excited to announce a new series of episodes focused on the question of love. In this episode we take up the question of ‘sensuality’. In the large sense of the term, sensuality really points to all that we experience through our senses.  Jonah and Patrick seek, in conversation, what it means to live in and through our senses guided by love, and explore wha...

We are back and so glad to pick up the conversation again. In this episode, Jonah returns from his summer vacation to join Patrick for a conversation on sport.  In particular, basketball .  Sport takes up a massive portion of our current culture, particularly here in North America.  The amount of money, time, creativity and effort that is poured into the playing of games is truly astonishing and t...

In this episode, Jonah and Patrick take up the question of mercy.  After looking from many different angles at how our pain and suffering can become holy places of learning, growing and maturing - even blessing - it feels important to look to understand what comes into our lives that brings us rest, healing and life.  The conversation moves into how this is connected to the faith of Christ - his f...

What - and whom - do we trust?   Jonah and Patrick take up the question of faith in the time of a Pandemic and speak together about what it will take to truly and honestly recover a "life of faith" - or really, faith in life - and not end up again and again in experiences of fear and despair. (Please excuse the extra sounds - they are from the renter downstairs!) Our thanks to Elliott Ch...

Jonah and Patrick pick up the threads of the conversation on justice and lead them into the question of 'faith'.  What is 'Faith in Christ'? And why is this power of the human heart so essential in the story of Christianity?  Join us for the conversation. Resources for this episode include: - Paul's letter to the Phillipians, chapter 2 . - Michael J. Gorman and his work on...

In this episode we take up a question from one of our listeners: what does our awakened sense of conscience have to do with the mystery of John the Baptist (and the Festival of St. John's)? We dive into the mystery of John's name - God is Grace-Bestowing - and how the power of conscience opens us up to the gifts of grace. Our thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who composed the opening music, &...

When protesters hit the streets in response to the death of George Floyd and others, a familiar chant could be heard: "No Justice, No Peace!"  In order to take up this immense and important theme, Jonah and Patrick are led in their conversation to do a kind of 'genealogy' of injustice - where it comes from in us and how it came into the world at all - and how we can begin to th...

In this episode we delve into the mystery of the Festival of Pentecost from another, polar side to that of Part I: the Holy Spirit and the element of Will.  Flame, sacrifice and offering are the focus - and then our computer ran out of space and the recording ended without us knowing!   Enough of the core qualities of this aspect of the Holy Spirit and Pentecost is captured that we are sharing it...

On this Holy Festival day of Pentecost, Jonah and Patrick contemplate the nature of the Holy Spirit.  The event of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, stirs a deeper, thoroughgoing investigation of how the healing activity of the Holy Spirit is connected with being 'called to account'.    The conversation attempts to uncover how this experience of having our culpability...

What if a major part of healing our world had simply to do with how we look at it? Is it not the light of the world that is needed to illuminate the darkness of our minds, our lives and our world? In this first, introductory episode, we introduce the whole approach to our podcast and the way of seeing we cultivate here at the seminary, born of living conversation in the light of Christ. Jonah Evan...

It's Wednesday, the 40th day of Easter, the last day of this special Easter podcast and we spend it with Elliott Chamberlin, the composer of the original opening music of the podcast titled, "Seeking Together". Elliot and Patrick speak about the genesis of the different compositions, his artistic process and enter into the tender and amazing work of trying to compose music for the p...

It's Monday, May 18th, and we have the joy of welcoming Emma and Matthias who are currently priests in the congregation in Denver, Colorado.  They are also married (!) and share out of their work together serving Christ-Community. We hear about their experiences of a trip to New Mexico right in the middle of the 'lockdown' moment of the pandemic, including a first experience of cele...

It's Sunday, May 17th, and Jonah and Patrick take up a question from one of their listeners - how does evil stand in relationship to the I AM, the Self? This leads them back to the idea of the diamond and the processes that lead to it: from plant, to coal to diamond.  And to the 'medicine' that Christ provides to us 'for the way'.   Our thanks to Elliott Chamberlin for com...

It's Friday, May 15th.  Jonah and Patrick delve into the work of discerning the spirits: how can we learn to know the voice of Christ, the voice of Satan, the voice of the devil? We have just finished a week-long online public course by the Seminary in North America on the Beloved Community and our meditations there lead us to the images from the Book of Revelation, of 'Babylon' and...

It's Thursday, May 14th and Patrick and Jonah take up an important and difficult question given to us by one of our patrons: what about evil?   As usual, the conversation becomes a kind of experience of unveiling where, through speaking and listening to one another, deeper truths show themselves than we had ever come to before by ourselves.   We hope what you hear can shed some light on this...