The Light in Every Thing

It's Wednesday, May 13th and we are delighted to share with you some of the art the Kennedy children have been creating this Easter.  This includes two songs and the following images. The first image is created by Gwendolyn and captures the whole mystery of Easter: Selecting an old, dried-out piece of wood, she placed these radiant sun blossoms from the dandelion plant in such a way that you...

This lecture was held in 1905 in Berlin by Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Anthroposophy.  He was then working within the Theosophical Society and brings forth extraordinary ideas, for the time, on the deep, concrete, practical and spiritual elements of building up the 'Beloved Community', a community founded on an 'all-bracing human love that transcends race, gender, profession, [or...

A letter from a listener: “Hi Jonah and Patrick, It took me three days to listen to this episode, this I am behind the flow. But between my listening times, I was in my garden for many hours, and I kept pondering the image of Christ as the gardener. What would this look like for myself as the gardener? What could I change in my gesture and activity as the gardener in my place on the earth to creat...

Good afternoon, dear Friends! It’s Monday, May 11th and we are blessed to have Julia Polter, priest in Boston and Chaplain at Brigham and Women’s hospital with us. (The audio doesn’t seem to be working- please try the video: Find the video at this link .  The password is 4v#jYg&h. Julia and Patrick speak about her path into the chaplaincy work, her work now teaching divinity students there fro...

Happy Mother’s Day to all our friends in Canada and the U.S.  It’s Sunday, May 10th, and Jonah & Patrick dive into the amazing passage in John 16 (verses 20-22) that leads us to a completely transformed understand of pain, grief and suffering.  Mother Earth and the Easter tomb come in once again and we hear about the One who ”makes all things new” (Revelation 21:5). We look forward to hearing...

It's Friday, May 8, and Jonah and Patrick dip deep into the powerful question: How do you know you are seeing and knowing Jesus Christ? Come along with us one more time. Special thanks to Elliot Chamberlin who composed the opening music, "Seeking Together", and to Nathaniel and Abigail for the song, "By the Mark" at the end of the episode. Thanks not least to our seminary...

It's Thursday, May 7, and the theme, once again, is this extraordinary word in the Easter liturgy of The Christian Community that speaks about the grave of the soul being transformed into an altar through the power of Easter.  Jonah takes us into another aspect of this transformation as it can happen in a single moment in a single human soul through work of prayer.  This leads the conversatio...

It's Wednesday, May 6 and the gospel reading for the week in the liturgy of the Christian Community is John 15:1-27.  This is the moment when Christ Jesus imparts the great mystery purpose of his coming to earth: to establish a new bloodline. The podcast today speaks about this in connection with the word, "I am the Vine, you are the branches" (John 15:5).  The images below can be c...

On May 4th we spoke with Siobhan Porter, priest in the Christian Community in Stourbridge, England (this is a repost as the audio was lost somehow). We hear about how she has become a kind of 'delivery' priest to the children and elderly in her congregation and how she is trying to do more than just send songs and sermons over the internet but to practice sending her inner sensing out in...

It's Tuesday, May 5th and Jonah and Patrick take another step into the new experience of Easter, an experience uniquely connected to our time.  If it is Meaning that is Risen to us in Christ, who or what had killed it?  What is its grave and how does it begin to resurrect in us? Jonah asks Patrick to share his understanding of the words from the prayer inserted in the communion service of The...

It’s Sunday, May 3, and Jonah and Patrick go further into the mystery of what it means for us and the world to recognize the Risen Christ.  They take up the strikingly new Easter revelation in the liturgy of the Christian Community: ”Christ is Risen to you as the Meaning of the Earth.”  What does this mean?  Why are we hearing about it now, in our time?  This ends up taking us into the dark place...

It's Friday, May 1st and Jonah and Patrick pick up with the question they left off with: what difference does it make whether someone recognizes Jesus Christ or not? This leads them, surprisingly, to the secret power that can stream from one heart to another that we call 'faith' and to the power Christ poured into the world on the Cross that is called in the Eucharist service of The...

It's Thursday, April 30th, and we are on the road again. Patrick begins by connecting the conversation to the spiritual reality behind the tradition of the Easter-Egg hunt. Then Jonah opens up the conversation wondering about how this great trial we are all in, this Pandemic, is a part of the trials we are to be given that allow us to come closer to the true source of our being.  He and Patri...

It's April 29th and we are turning to the gospel reading for the week: John 10:1-16.  Patrick explores the phrase and imagination used by John to describe the nature of Jesus that is traditionally translated as "The Good Shepherd" (verse 11).  This can, however, also very much be translated as, "The Beautiful Shepherd."   In this sense, the Risen Jesus Christ can be unders...

It's Tuesday, April 28 and Jonah and Patrick take a new angle on the new substance that is born into the world through what we call Easter.  They make their way to the idea of Christ's 'Kingdom', a new, 'fifth kingdom' that comes into being in our every day life through moral decisions and actions.  The whole conversation organically culminates in the image of the &ap...

It's Monday, April 27th, but it's already Tuesday in Australia! Today, we have a conversation with Rev. Lisa Devine from the congregation in Sydney, Australia.  Lisa and Patrick explore the spiritual distance that has been revealed through the Pandemic and the powerful challenges of truly, and very literally, 'loving your neighbors'.  And the whole conversation turns towards wh...

It is Sunday, April 26 and Jonah and Patrick open up one of the deeper chapters in the book of the Christian Mysteries: what is it that is truly new about Christ's Resurrection? What came into being that was not yet a part of the universe we live in? The conversation ranges from the physics of matter to the experiences of our daughters' love to the new substance that comes into being - t...

It's Friday, April 24th and Jonah begins with a new phrase that people are sharing as a parting blessing/greeting: "Stay safe."  What does it mean to be truly safe?  Is life 'safe'? What is the Christ-centered approach to this question?  Join us for this important conversation and make sure to share your thoughts and questions in the comments. Special thanks to Elliot Cham...

It's Thursday, April 23rd, 2020 and today Jonah and Patrick explore the unique quality of the experiences of the Risen Christ.  People could see Jesus with eyes before Easter Sunday.  After Easter, according to the gospel, his own disciples often did not recognize him.  What kind of sight must we develop to see and experience the One who walks with us on the way to Emmaus? To answer this ques...

Dear Friends and Patrons, We are so delighted to share with you two beautiful pieces of music today. The first is an opening composition by Elliot Chamberlin created just for our podcast! The second is a beautiful rendition of The Lord of the Dance, performed by a seminary student, Erica Maclennan.  Both pieces welcome us into a deepened sense for the One who 'bears and orders' the very...

This sculpture is one of the purest expressions of the mystery of offering we have seen - it captures the receptivity involved as well as the activity of giving.  The photo - and sculpture - comes to us from Anna Silber, one of our Seminary students and listeners - thank you, Anna! On this third day of Pentecost we offer a 're-issue' of Episode 8 from the 'Emmaus' series as it...

Today: a special conversation with Luis Gonzales, priest in the congregation in Sacramento, California. We talk about what Luis’ friends and loved ones in Italy and Spain have been experiencing during the pandemic, dive into the depths of how Easter can take place in each human soul and what Mary Magdalene can teach us at this time. Many thanks to Luis for taking time with us! You can find out mor...

Warm greetings to all of you on this second Sunday of Easter.  Today, Jonah and Patrick take up something, in the time of the world pandemic, that is appearing in a whole new light and magnitude: the mystery of touch. The Gospel reading for today describes the first appearance to the disciples and to Thomas (see below) and great attention is drawn to the wounds of the Risen One and Thomas' lo...

We hope this post finds you all filled with something of the joy and breath of Easter in the midst of this extraordinary moment of time, this spring time pandemic. With all the attempts at connecting online, one thing became clear to me this week: you can not sing together over Zoom, or Skype, or FaceTime or anything else.  You have to be together.  And so, in a very strange way, it has been a dif...

It's Friday, April 17th, and we are exploring: what is the Easter experience of the 'full heart'? We bring in the 'Lord of the Dance', the activity of prayer and further unfold the secret gift of Easter as what 'heals' the human self through a relationship with the the one who 'has his being in love'. Special thanks, once again, to Jeana for the mixdown...