The Light in Every Thing

In this week’s episode of The Light in Everything , Patrick and Jonah continue exploring Rudolf Steiner’s lecture The Work of the Angels in Man’s Astral Body by turning to a central spiritual question: What happens when the guidance meant for human beings is met by resistance—both within us and around us? They revisit the three core impulses the angels weave into humanity:  • a deepening sense of...

After weeks exploring Revelation’s cosmic images, Patrick and Jonah turn to something far more intimate and immediate: the mystery of sleep and wakefulness. Drawing on Rudolf Steiner’s research in spiritual science, they explore what actually happens when the human being enters and exits the body each day, and how these daily rhythms reveal deeper layers of consciousness. They outline seven distin...

In this episode, Patrick and Jonah continue their exploration of Rudolf Steiner’s lecture What the Angels Do in Our Astral Body . They trace how the human being becomes a meeting point between higher and lower worlds, and how the angels are quietly weaving three impulses into our inner life: a deepening compassion for others, a growing recognition of the divine image in every human being, and the...

After weeks immersed in Revelation’s visions of dragons, beasts, and the woman clothed with the sun, Patrick and Jonah turn to another revelation—the angelic world. Drawing on Rudolf Steiner’s The Work of the Angels in Man’s Astral Body , they explore a living hierarchy of beings—angels, archangels, archai, and the Elohim—each shaping humanity’s unfolding in its own way. This conversation moves fr...

Discernment alone isn’t enough. The sword must find its counter-movement in worship.  In this conversation, Patrick and Jonah explore Revelation 12’s great battle—Michael’s sword casting down the dragon, and the Lamb whose gentleness completes the victory. They linger on how clarity without reverence can harden into pride, and how only devotion to the Lamb protects the soul from the very forces it...

As billionaire Peter Thiel takes his Antichrist lecture tour around the world, Patrick and Jonah return to Scripture to ask what John actually meant by “Antichrist.” Drawing from Revelation, the letters of John, and Vladimir Soloviev’s haunting story The Antichrist , they explore how this archetype appears whenever the self refuses to bow, refuses to be wounded, refuses to love through sacrifice....

Patrick and Jonah turn to Revelation 13 and the image of the beast from the sea—a being wounded unto death, yet healed. What kind of resurrection is that? Together they explore how domination, power, and self-preservation tempt the human self to “heal” without changing. In contrast, the Lamb bears a mortal wound that pours itself out for the life of the world. This episode asks: what does real tra...

As the flood from the dragon’s mouth pours across the world, Patrick and Jonah explore how the Book of Revelation describes the protection of those who remain faithful: the blood of the Lamb, the word of their testimony, and a love stronger than self-preservation. Together they reflect on what these mean for our time—the torrent of egotism, the culture of self, and the call to keep the heart open...

What is God ripening in humanity? In this episode, Patrick and Jonah return to the harvest image and turn to Revelation 12: the woman clothed with the sun, the great red dragon, and Michael’s battle in heaven. They reflect on how the drama continues on earth with the woman’s offspring—those who keep God’s commandments and bear the testimony of Jesus—and what it means for each of us to live between...

What is God cultivating in humanity? Why does the field of the world hold both wheat and weeds, saints and beasts, until the end of time? In this episode, Patrick and Jonah explore the imagery of the harvest in Luke’s Gospel and the Book of Revelation. They reflect on the dragon and the beasts who rise against the offspring of the woman, and on the Lamb who ultimately conquers through sacrificial...

Between Beasts and Angels In this episode, Patrick and Jonah continue their new series on the mystery of evil, turning to Mark’s image of Christ in the wilderness—“with the wild beasts and the angels.” What does it mean for the human being to stand in this balance, and how might Christ reveal a way that is neither despair nor false light, but freedom and love? For full show notes and ongoing refle...

In this first episode, Patrick and Jonah open the larger theme of the series: the confrontation with evil. They observe how this reality marks our contemporary age with particular force. They then turn to their own life experiences. Patrick asks Jonah to describe the first moment he truly knew he was encountering something he would call evil. Jonah recalls a core spiritual experience in which a sn...

Join Seminary Director Rev. Patrick Kennedy in conversation with two seminary students as they share their journeys toward the priesthood. Sean traces his path from Baltimore to a Biodynamic farm in the Finger Lakes, and Marc reflects on his travels across Canada and the US, finding his place as a French Canadien. Together, they open up about the call they have heard, the sacraments that have shap...

As the summer winds down, we are busy at the seminary preparing for new students. We are also quite excited by plans for expanding what we do with the Patreon. Before the new content arrives to you, we are reposting these two episodes from the early years of the podcast. We selected these episodes to align with the announcement that the audit option for the Distance Learning Program is now open. I...

As the summer winds down, we are busy at the seminary preparing for new students. We are also quite excited by plans for expanding what we do with the Patreon. Before the new content arrives to you, we are reposting these two episodes from the early years of the podcast. We selected these episodes to align with the announcement that the audit option for the Distance Learning Program is now open. I...

In this final conversation of the Christian Shadow Work series, Jonah and Patrick first pause to look back—gathering the threads of what has been opened in the earlier episodes. From there, the focus turns toward the heart of transformation in following Christ: the Eucharist. Here, in Christ’s life freely given—body and blood—we meet the highest image of what it means to be human: the overcoming o...

Re-post: In the seventh episode of our series, Jonah and Patrick explore the new role of purity in shadow work, transformed through what took place on Golgotha, the place where Christ’s Mystery is revealed. With Christ’s death, resurrection and revelation, God is now with us in this world. The old pre-Christian paths of purification are no longer appropriate. Our shadows belong to us and call for...

When we speak of spiritual transformation, we often imagine a straightforward process that’s similar to the way we work with the world of things and objects around us: if something is broken or imperfect all we need to do is fix it. We remove, correct or even eliminate the problem on the way to the goal. In this next conversation, Patrick and Jonah recall how authentic Christ-centered transformati...

In this re-posted episode from our shadow series, Patrick and Jonah have an intimate and reflective conversation where they work to reclaim the true meaning of ‘repentance,’ or ‘metanoia’—a change of heart and mind that arises not through fear, but through the courage to face our shadows with compassion. They are inspired by the words that are spoken in the time of St. John from the altar in the r...

What if the shadow we cast isn't something to eliminate but part of the medicine for what ails the soul?  In this conversation from our series, “Christian Shadow Work,” Patrick and Jonah further explore how Christ relates to our darkness. This involves nothing like condemnation but rather a creative and radical process of integration that leads towards healing. Drawing from the biblical image...

In this third installment from our “Christian Shadow Work” series, the conversation reveals a striking contradiction between Christian history—famous for its condemning practices—and Christ's actual relationship with human darkness. Rather than simply erasing or punishing sin, Christ demonstrates a radical integration of human brokenness into the transformative process. Like an alchemist turn...

In this episode’s exploration of shadow work in Christianity, Patrick and Jonah venture into territory many ”on the way” find challenging: how to face our flaws, weaknesses, and darkness without falling into either denial or self-condemnation. The conversation begins with a vital distinction between healthy shadow work that leads to authentic humility and the unhealthy wallowing in self-criticism...

Dear Patrons, Today, June 24, 2025 is the festival day dedicated throughout the world-wide Christian Community to the person of John the Baptist: St. John’s Day. He stood at the banks of the Jordan as “a voice crying out in the loneliness”—a voice calling people to reorient their lives toward the spirit; a voice summoning each heart to radical truthfulness as preparation for the coming grace of Go...

What if Christ’s Second Coming is not a distant, future event but is already underway—perceptible now through what the liturgy of the Christian Community calls “the eyes of the soul”? This radical perspective challenges both traditional Christian expectations and modern spiritual assumptions. Jonah and Patrick explore the depths of the Ascension mystery, especially in its connection to the riddle...

What if baptism isn't just an ancient ritual but a transformative medicine for the wounded human soul? This conversation explores the profound mysteries hidden in Christ's Great Commission to "baptize all nations in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit." The traditional words of baptism have become formulaic for many modern ears. But when we penetrate beyond the formula...