Way Collective Podcast

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 01/14/26, entitled To Be Loved is To Be Changed. In this episode, we explore how faithfulness to our tradition is to let it flow, and how change isn't so much about new year optimization as it is about allowing ourselves to be refined by the ever-widening horizon of Love. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 01/07/26, entitled How Life Transitions Shape Us, with Tracy Johansson. In this episode, Tracy shares from her own personal narrative and experience how the transitions in life are actually invitations to deepen presence and lovingkindness with ourselves and others. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Christmas Eve Candlelight gathering on 12/24/25, entitled Carrying the Light of Love. In this episode, we explored how what is true of Jesus in the Christmas story is also true of all of us -- that we are each born of Love, and invited to carry love into a complex world with unique challenges in our time. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 12/17/25, entitled Joy as Things Set Right (Advent III). In this episode, we explored how Advent joy invites us into a new imagination where our world it set right, and how joy is what catalyzes our work for justice, bringing or inner and outer worlds into harmony. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 12/10/25, entitled Peace in Our Longings (Advent II). In this episode, we explored how the season of Advent is a season of learning to make peace with our longings, and how a making a contemplative spaciousness for our longings for a more just world can fuel our actions rather than our despair. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is a special episode where Tim got to sit down at the beginning of Advent with author, theologian, and historian Diana Butler Bass, entitled A Beautiful Conversation. In this wide ranging episode, Tim and Diana discuss the liturgical calendar and the cycle of sacred stories that compose a larger narrative of love, hospitality, mercy, justice, and gratitude, and how we are invited into a diffe...

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 11/19/25, entitled God is Beauty. In this episode, we explored how the metaphysical and the metaphorical registers of our God-talk dissolve into Beauty, and how perhaps it is the most apropos language to use to talk about God on our evolving spiritual journeys. This was the final and summative conversation in our series, Processing...

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 11/12/25, entitled When God Disappears as an Object. In this episode, we explored how, in contemplative prayer, God disappears as an other, and reappears as the sacred subjectivity of our very lives, leading us toward a more non-dual way of being and understanding, as we put on the mind of Christ. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 11/05/25, entitled A Life's Adventure Into Kriya Yoga with Lucy O'Brien. In this episode, Lucy O'Brien tells her story of life adventures that helped her break down cultural barriers, and how she found her way to the ancient practice of Kriya Yoga meditation as a way to focus, heal and grow. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 10/22/25, entitled Silence is the Voice of God. In this episode, we explored how process metaphysics encourages a certain contemplative posture of us -- one that invites us to tune in to the silent voice of God, and the graceful flow of our lives drawing us more deeply toward beauty and peace. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 10/15/25, entitled Ancient Wisdom & Science: Consciousness, Connection, & Compassion. In this episode, we explored how the felt sense of awareness is something that flows through all of life, and how neuroscience is expanding our understanding that we are hard-wired for kindness, connection, and compassion. Thanks for tuning...

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 10/08/25, entitled Processing God and Science, Metaphysically Speaking. In this episode, we explored how we can speak of God in ways that are consonant with science by exploring a process (event-based) ontology of the cosmos, and what a world of feeling and experiencing entities opens up for us in terms of a speculative cosmology an...

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 09/24/25, entitled Process Theology and God's Uncontrolling Love. In this episode, we explored an introduction to process theology's alternative conception of God's power, about what God can and can't do, and how a non coercive God can be a gift for your growing spiritual journey. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 09/17/25, entitled Processing Our God-Talk. In this episode, we explored the nuances of how we talk about God, the apophatic and cataphatic traditions, theopoetics, and how metaphor and metaphysic interweave as we explore the divine. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 09/10/25, entitled An Introduction to Processing God. In this episode, Tim shares about how his questions of God shifted through his cancer experience, the two different registers people speak in when talking about God, and how we are invited to widen our horizons and cross thresholds in our lives toward more loving versions of God....

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 08/27/25, entitled Jesus as a Jewish Mystic. In this episode, Tim shares about how seeing Jesus as a mystic in his own Jewish tradition opens up an entirely different understanding of Christian spirituality rooted in inherent belovedness and oneness with God. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 08/20/25, entitled On the Beginningless and Endless Rest of God. In this episode, Tim shares about how rest isn't something we accrue like vacation, but rather a sustaining reality at the center of our becoming lives, and how even our wounds can be held from this unwounded place of rest. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 08/13/25, entitled Mindfulness as a Contemplative Practice. In this episode, Tracy explores mindfulness both as a modern research backed-way to reduce stress, and a timeless contemplative practice. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 08/06/25, entitled Finding Friends by Defining Enemies. In this episode, Damon Garcia explores the importance of understanding the difference between loving the enemies we make and those who are oppressing us, and much more! Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/30/25, entitled On Nonduality and Nonviolence. In this episode, we talk about how nonduality and nonviolence are a summary of the contemplative life, and how, when we can live into these postures in the small moments of our lives, they begin to transform everything around us. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/23/25, entitled Being Neighbors in an Isolating Time. In this episode, we use the research from Kurt Gray's recent book Outraged, to talk about the nature of our outrage culture and our divisions, and how we can overcome them and bridge with those with whom we differ. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/16/25, entitled A Moral Response for Our Time. In this episode, we talk about recent ICE activity, and frame a moral response from within the contemplative Christian tradition that upholds love as the highest law. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/09/25 in our series: Cracking the Code: How to Stay Human in the Age of AI. In this episode, we talk about how the spiritual journey invites us more fully into our humanity, and how the story of Jacob wrestling with God teaches us that our wrestling, wounding and surrender are blessed. Also, we are still including 3 questions at...

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/02/25 in our series: Cracking the Code: How to Stay Human in the Age of AI. In this episode, we talk about bracing ourselves for these technological changes, AIs impact on the environment and future job markets, and continue to reflect on our humanity in the age of AI. Also, we are still including 3 questions at the end of the po...

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 06/25/25 in our series: Cracking the Code: How to Stay Human in the Age of AI. In this episode, we talk about what makes us human in contrast to artificial intelligence, and how creativity and mystery can keep us grounded as AI continues to evolve. Also, we are still including 3 questions at the end of the podcast for contemplation...