The Light in Every Thing

The sixth episode of our series focuses on the question of the experience of hell after death. Is there something that correlates at all to the "fire and brimstone" pictures of hell we are familiar with? Patrick and Jonah beautifully describe the transition a soul makes from the sense world we experience within a physical body to the spiritual world, which we experience with our soul and...

The fifth episode of our series explores another expression of hell—this time hell masquerading as paradise. The being called Lucifer, meaning light bearer, rebels against God and is cast out of heaven in a great battle with Michael and his angels. Now lord of the “hell forces” on earth, Lucifer tempts humanity with false images of paradise—half truths that fall short because they are without suff...

Due to circumstances beyond their control, Patrick and Jonah were unable to meet for their regular podcast conversation. Instead, we‘d like to bring your attention this week to an “oldie but goodie” that fits perfectly into our current Heaven and Hell series (October, 2023). Here is the original introduction: 9.8.21 The Path of Discipleship - 7:    In this seventh episode of our series we hear of...

In the fourth episode of our series, Jonah asks Patrick to unfold one perspective of the nature of "hell." Beginning with imagery from scripture of "the pit" and "Gehenna," he turns to the "realm of dust," or the place that is most "distant" from God. This leads to the cosmic question: "who is the ruler of the earth?" The conversation the...

In the third episode of our ”Heaven and Hell” series, Jonah and Patrick continue to explore the reality of heavenly forces on earth. How do we experience these moral forces or powers on earth and how do we participate in and with them? Human beings themselves have the possibility of shining with heavenly forces. Only here on earth can we become the stars God is hoping for: conscious, free individu...

Welcome to Season 4 of The Light in Every Thing ! In this first episode of our new series “Heaven and Hell,“ Jonah and Patrick begin a process of re-christening our consciousness so that we can gain a true and living picture of what Christian tradition has called “heaven and hell.” What are the realities that these older terms refer to? And what do these realities of heaven and hell have to do wit...

We begin the second episode of our series "Heaven and Hell" looking up at the "skies." In the ancient understanding, and still in many languages, the word for "sky" and the "heavens" were one and the same. For modern consciousness, particularly in English, the heavens are no longer in the skies. Where is heaven for us? In the renewed form of the Christian Cr...

Please enjoy this brief message from Jonah and Patrick fresh from their most recent travels and the opening of the Seminary this week to on-site students! Patrick and Jonah have promised to get into the “big” topics this year: heaven and hell, the nature of the Spirit, the nature of the human spirit, and many other challenging questions. We hope you share their excitement for the coming year! The...

Dear Patreon Community, Today is our final sharing from the seminary Open Course “Becoming the Image of God” held last June in Toronto. Both Patrick and Jonah share the stage for a final exploration of this very important theme of human becoming. Season 4 of The Light in Every Thing is coming soon! This presentation is typical of the bonus content available to our Patreon community. Please conside...

We are wrapping up the summer by releasing Days 4 and 5 of last June’s Seminary Open Course “Becoming the Image of God” in the same week! We hope you enjoyed this opportunity to listen in on a seminary course and experience the lively exchange that characterizes student life led by Jonah and Patrick. Very soon, they will return to begin Season 4 of The Light in Every Thing! This presentation is ty...

This week you are invited into Day 3 of the seminary Open Course ”Becoming the Image of God.” Jonah Evans takes the next step in our exploration together of the mystery of what it means to be shaped into the image and likeness of God. Jonah turns our attention to the Holy Spirit—the spirit that shapes us, the spirit that is molding us into a new human. What is this Holy Spirit and how do we cultiv...

The Open Course presentations continue this week with Day 2 of “Becoming the Image of God.” Patrick Kennedy develops the theme further by looking at Peter’s denials of Christ Jesus in John 21: 15-16 , and how through those denials Peter’s love for Christ is transformed to the point of being willing to die in His name. How is it that Christ’s life is revealed through death? How is it that Christ’s...

This week we invite you to listen to the first presentation from last June’s Seminary Open Course, “Becoming the Image of God.” Patrick Kennedy begins the theme with these stirring thoughts: “From now on, you could say, the whole work of God with humanity is how will human beings be re-created, have an experience of being newly created, so that in our humanity we are revealing the divinity? That i...

We are back with a new Summer Replay! This week's episode is the first of our 'What is a Priest?' series from March, 2021. Every human being can develop priestly qualities and bring those qualities into the world in small ways each day. We hope you enjoy taking another listen to this episode or discovering it for the first time! The whole series can be easily accessed from the semin...

This week’s Summer Replay is the first episode of our Heart of Religious Renewal series from March, 2022. We highly recommend listening to all seven episodes, but thought it might be interesting to reconsider the subject of prayer, particularly in light of our recent focus on Christian shadow work. Prayer is invaluable as we wrestle with perceiving ourselves accurately, bearing the pain and suffer...

With the podcast in summer mode, we will be posting a variety of old and new offerings over the coming weeks. Given how the ‘Seven Heavens’ wove their way into last week’s final episode of the Christian Shadow Work series, we thought it appropriate to present the talk Patrick Kennedy gave in Tampa, Florida earlier this year. Truth be told, this was shared in March with all our patrons on the Patre...

Jonah and Patrick conclude the “Christian Shadow Work” series first by reviewing the territory covered in previous episodes. They go on to explore how the Eucharist service itself reveals the deepest transformative processes available to the human soul today. With Christ’s life and death on earth, we are shown the highest fulfillment of the human being—one who has overcome egotism all the way down...

In the sixth episode of our series, Jonah and Patrick explore the new role of purity in shadow work, transformed through the mystery of Golgotha. With Christ’s death, resurrection and revelation, God is now with us in this world. The old ways of purification are no longer appropriate. Our shadows belong to us and call for integration. There is a new path to a new kind of purity that unlocks the po...

In this sixth episode of our series, Patrick and Jonah look at the question of how Christian shadow work is taken up in the worship service of The Christian Community, “The Consecration of The Human Being.” Ask us a question here! Support the show The Light in Every Thing is a podcast of The Seminary of The Christian Community in North America. Learn more about the Seminary and its offerings at ou...

The fifth episode of our series looks more carefully at the deeply personal experience of true repentance, without the stain of condemnation and exaggerated guilt so common throughout Christian history. Repentance, a change of heart and mind that leads one into a transformed way of life (though not without temptation), is an ongoing dynamic for life in and with Christ. Only we can recognize the tr...

In this fourth episode of our series, the conversation goes deeper into what is asked of us when we take up a practice of working with our shadow nature in relation to Christ Jesus. Beginning with finding the strength to look at the limits of our capacity to love and culminating in our turning to someone greater than ourselves for assistance—activities which can unfold and be circled back to over...

The third episode of our series looks again at the nature of shadow or sin as that in the human being which hinders Divine Reality from being revealed. Humanity is still working to reveal the image of God in which we have been made. We can understand our shadows then as opportunities to grow and mature—parts of ourselves that need to be acknowledged, understood for what they are, and transformed o...

In this second episode of our series, Patrick and Jonah describe some of qualities and dynamics of light and dark that cast ”shadows” in and outside our beings. In the physical world, a shadow changes according to the quality of the light. Can we find the Light that simply yet powerfully reveals what is objectively so in our beings—without condemnation, yet fills us with the desire to be better, t...

Our new series takes up the far reaching subject of working with our “shadow,” especially as it relates to the overarching question posed this year, “What divides us?” In this first episode, Jonah and Patrick begin to lay down some of the core elements of working with the shadows we cast in the light of Christ. How do we as individuals relate to the shadow we cast into this world? Can we perceive...

Dear Patreon Community, This week we have the pleasure of hearing Jonah and Patrick’s first person account of their recent visit to Scotland and Ireland! Their conversation includes ”shout outs” to podcast listeners and esteemed colleagues, humorous anecdotes of local color and thoughtful reflections on how this trip has changed them and reaffirmed their work. We hope you enjoy their ‘tales from t...