The Light in Every Thing
by The Seminary of The Christian Community
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Deeper conversation on the mysteries of Christianity with Patrick Kennedy and Jonah Evans, directors of the Seminary of The Christian Community in North America.
In this podcast we engage the great questions of life and do this through a spiritual approach to Christianity made possible through contemplative inquiry and the science of the spirit known as Anthroposophy.
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- Receiving a New Mind from Christ - Episode 9 of "The Movement's Purpose" · 56 min · Season 9 Episode 7Not that many artists have depicted the scene of Jacob wrestling with the angel but what stands out among the handful of artworks is the intimacy: they depict two opposing forces…
- "Freedom, Love & the Path Between the Adversaries" - Ep. 8 in the series, "The Movement's Purpose" · 44 min · Season 7 Episode 8Parenting came to mind in listening to this episode, and Jonah brought it up as well. I too, have teenage daughters, and can testify that they keep me on the narrow path. There’s…
- "Are You There?" - Episode 7 in the series, "The Movement's Purpose" · 1 h 3 min · Season 7 Episode 7In this episode, Patrick and Jonah dive back into the question of the nature of divine presence in the world, and explore through various images the difference between creator…
- "Clear, Concrete and Humanly Deep" - Episode 6 in the series The Movement's Purpose · 1 h 14 min · Season 7 Episode 6This week, Jonah and Patrick return to Rudolf Steiner’s Michael-Christ Experience of the Human Being and explore the relationship between modern ways of knowing, faith, and…
- Seeking Ourselves - Episode 5 in the series, "The Movement's Purpose" · 1 h 3 min · Season 7 Episode 5Continuing their exploration of Rudolf Steiner’s The Michael–Christ Experience of the Human Being, Patrick and Jonah consider how God’s apparent withdrawal from nature makes room…
- The Mission of the Seminary - episode 4 in the series, "The Movement's Purpose" · 1 h 6 min · Season 7 Episode 4Director Emma Heirman joins her co-directors Jonah and Patrick for a conversation about vocation, priesthood, and the work of the Seminary. Together they reflect on what it means…
- The Sun-Power of Michael's Revelation - Episode 3 in the Series, "The Purpose of the Movement" · 54 min · Season 7 Episode 3Patrick and Jonah continue their exploration of Rudolf Steiner’s Michael Letters by asking what it means to live faithfully in a world that can feel emptied of divine presence…
- "What We Lift, He Fills" - Episode 2 in the series, The Purpose of the Movement · 58 min · Season 7 Episode 2What if the experience of God’s absence is not simply a failure of faith, but part of humanity’s development toward freedom? Patrick and Jonah continue their exploration of the…
- Into the Godless Place, ep. 1 in the series "The Movement's Purpose" · 1 h 7 min · Season 7 Episode 1Season Seven begins with a question of purpose: what distinctive task might belong to the Christian Community, and how can a person or movement recognize a particular calling…
- Re-Post: “Hell Fire and Christ Fire” - Episode 8 in the series, “Heaven and Hell” · 1 h 3 minIn this final summer repeat of the heaven and hell series, Patrick and Jonah bring the conversation to the mystery of baptism. If the Christian path does not protect us by…
- Re-Post: “The Presence of our Enemies” - Episode 7 in the series, “Heaven and Hell” · 1 h 6 minIn this summer repeat, Patrick and Jonah continue their series on heaven and hell by asking why Christian spirituality still speaks of enemies, adversaries, demons, and battle…
- Re-Post: “Hell after Death” - Episode 6 in the series, “Heaven and Hell” · 1 h 8 minIn this summer repeat, Patrick and Jonah continue their exploration of heaven and hell by asking what happens after death. If heaven is not simply a place we go forever, and hell…
- Re-Post: “The Hell of False Light” - Episode 5 in the series, “Heaven and Hell” · 1 h 2 minIn this summer repeat, Patrick and Jonah continue their exploration of heaven and hell by turning toward a surprising image: the false paradise. Beginning with Christ’s words to…
- Re-Post: “Dust, Demons and Golgotha as Cosmic Battleground” - Episode 4 in the series, “Heaven and Hell” · 59 minIn this summer repeat, Patrick and Jonah turn from the mystery of heaven toward the mystery of hell. Beginning again with Christ’s words in John 8, “I am the light of the world,”…
- Re-Post: “Magicians and the Three Heavens“ - Episode 3 in the series, “Heaven and Hell” · 1 h 11 minIn this summer repeat, Patrick and Jonah continue their conversation on heaven and hell by exploring the “three heavens”: the primal heaven from which we come and to which we…
- Re-Post: “Heavenly Forces” - Episode 2 in the series, “Heaven and Hell” · 1 h 3 minIn this summer repeat, Patrick and Jonah continue their conversation on the mysteries of heaven and hell by exploring what it means for Christ to be “the Lord of the heavenly…
- Re-Post “Heaven and Hell” - Episode 1 in the series, “Heaven and Hell” · 1 h 21 minThis (northern hemisphere) summer, we are reposting our September 2023 series on Heaven and Hell. In this opening episode, Patrick and Jonah explore what Christianity means by…
- Salvation & the Second Death, Part 2, episode 15 in the series 'Salvation' · 1 h 2 min · Episode 95In this final episode before the summer break, Patrick and Jonah return to the mystery of salvation and the “second death.” Together, they explore freedom, judgment, the…
- Salvation & the Second Death, Part 1, episode 14 in the series 'Salvation' · 1 h 4 min · Episode 94What is the “second death,” and why does the communion service speak of Christ’s body and blood as preserving the life of the soul? In this first part of the season’s closing…
- The Church, Cosmic Christianity & the Circle of Salvation, episode 13 in the series 'Salvation' · 1 h 4 min · Episode 93In this episode, Jonah and Patrick continue their exploration of the question of inclusion and exclusion. If Christ’s presence is universal, if he has entered into the life of…
- Confessing Christ, episode 12 in the series 'Salvation' · 1 h 3 min · Episode 92Is conscious confession of Christ necessary for salvation? Moving through the liturgy of the Christian Community, the Gospel image of the sheep and goats, the writings of Paul…
- The Christ Offering, episode 11 in the series 'Salvation' · 43 min · Episode 91This week, we begin a new movement in our exploration of salvation—turning from the Trinity Epistle toward the mystery of the Eucharist. What does it mean that true salvation is…
- Sight and Insight, Episode 10 in the series 'Salvation' · 1 h 2 min · Episode 90This week’s conversation brings the series on salvation to a close by turning toward a subtle but searching question: what does it mean to truly see? Moving through the threefold…
- Knowledge, Love, and Reincarnation, episode 9 in the series 'Salvation' · 1 h 3 min · Episode 89What does it really mean to be “saved”? In this episode, Jonah and Patrick continue their exploration of salvation—but move beyond familiar categories of heaven and hell into…
- The Conscious Self, Death, and Salvation, episode 8 in the series 'Salvation' · 1 h 6 min · Episode 88What if the central act of Christianity isn’t something to be fully understood—but something to be entered? On this Holy Thursday, Jonah and Patrick turn toward the mystery of…
- The 'Healing God' and the Fallen Mind, episode 7 in the series 'Salvation' · 58 min · Episode 88In this episode of The Light in Everything, Jonah and Patrick continue their exploration of salvation by turning to the third movement of the Trinity-season epistle, where the…
- Creation, Golgotha, and Participating in Salvation, episode 6 in the series 'Salvation' · 1 h 3 min · Episode 87What if salvation isn’t about escape, but about transformation? In this episode, Jonah and Patrick trace a thread from Genesis to Easter, exploring how the pattern of creation…
- The Creative Word Within Us, episode five in the series 'Salvation' · 1 h 8 min · Episode 86This week’s conversation continues the exploration of salvation by turning toward the creative activity at the heart of the Trinity. What does it mean to experience Christ not…
- Creating and Salvation, episode four in the series 'Salvation' · 1 h 13 min · Episode 85In this episode of the Salvation series, Jonah and Patrick turn to the second movement of the Trinity epistle and explore what it means to experience Christ not only as presence…
- Our Consciousness & Three Chapters of Salvation, episode 3 in the series 'Salvation' · 1 h 4 min · Episode 84In this third episode of the Salvation series, Jonah and Patrick explore what Patrick calls the three chapters of our salvation. Beginning again with the Trinity epistle’s…
- Yeshua, Humanity & Salvation, episode 2 in the series 'Salvation' · 1 h 5 min · Episode 83In this episode of the Salvation series, Patrick and Jonah continue exploring what the word actually means and why it still matters. Beginning with the liturgical movement from…
- Untangling the Term, the first episode in the series 'Salvation' · 1 h 8 min · Episode 82We begin a new series on salvation. It’s a word that can feel outdated, divisive, or misused. Yet beneath the discomfort, the human question remains: What saves us? What saves a…
- Dan Mistak, the fourth interview in our series of Roadside Conversations · 1 h 12 min · Episode 81In this Roadside Conversation, Jonah speaks with outreach and admissions coordinator for the Seminary of the Christian Community in North America Dan Mistak about a life shaped…
- Rev. Nora Minassian, the third interview in the series of Roadside Conversations · 1 h 10 min · Episode 80Jonah sits down with Rev. Nora Minassian (Sacramento) for a Roadside Conversation on spiritual biography: growing up Armenian Christian in Aleppo, questions that wouldn’t let go…
- Conner Habib, the second interview in the series of Roadside Conversations · 1 h 15 min · Episode 80This episode is part of Roadside Conversations—standalone conversations shared between regular episodes of The Light in Everything. Jonah is joined by Conner Habib and explores…
- Scientific Inspiration, UFOs, Near Death Experiences, and other Apocalypses - episode 17 in the series Facing Evil · 1 h 7 min · Episode 79In this episode, Patrick and Jonah conclude their Facing Evil series by exploring discernment, inspiration, and the challenge of recognizing true light in a time of false goods…
- Bypassing the Self - Pluribus, Automatic Goodness & Apocalypse, episode 16 in the series Facing Evil · 1 h 5 min · Episode 78In this episode, Patrick and Jonah begin the new year by returning to a central question of our time: how do we face evil without losing freedom, discernment, or love? Drawing on…
- The Secret of Jesus and the Angels–A Christmas Episode, episode 15 in the series Facing Evil · 1 h 5 min · Episode 77Patrick and Jonah continue their Facing Evil series by reflecting on Rudolf Steiner’s picture of Christ’s activity in our time and the work of the angels in human life. They…
- A.I. Soul Guidance and a Second Golgotha - episode 14 in the series Facing Evil · 1 h 7 min · Episode 76Patrick and Jonah continue their “Facing Evil” series by reflecting on the tension between automatic spirituality and a purely material, technical way of thinking. Drawing on…
- The Thief in the Night - the Second Coming and the Work of the Angels, episode 13 in the series Facing Evil · 1 h 5 min · Episode 75Patrick and Jonah continue their “Facing Evil” series, returning to Steiner’s Work of the Angels in Man’s Astral Body. They explore what happens when we sleep through the…
- Obscuring the Revelation: Lucifer, Ahriman, and False Idols - Episode 12 in the series Facing Evil · 1 h 3 min · Episode 74In 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…
- Seven Forms of Consciousness and Dying to See Christ - Episode 11 in the series Facing Evil · 1 h 18 min · Episode 73After 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…
- The Fourfold Human Being and the Inspiration of the Angels - Episode 10 in the series Facing Evil · 1 h 9 min · Episode 72In 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…
- The Hierarchies, Spiritual Science and the Bible - episode 9 in the series, Facing Evil · 56 min · Episode 71After 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…
- Discernment and Devotion: Keys for Facing Evil - episode 8 in the series, Facing Evil · 56 min · Episode 70Discernment 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…
- Antichrist - Episode 7 in the series "Facing Evil" · 1 h 4 min · Episode 69As 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…
- The Mortal Wound - Episode 6 in the series "Facing Evil" · 59 min · Episode 68Patrick 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…
- The Christed Ego in a Flood of Egotism - Episode 5 in the series "Facing Evil" · 1 h 2 min · Episode 67As 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…
- Michael, the Dragon, and the Hidden Self--Unveiling Our Spiritual Battle - Episode 4 in the series "Facing Evil" · 1 h 4 min · Episode 66What 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…
- The Dragon, the Beast, and the Harvest of God - Episode 3 in the series "Facing Evil" · 54 min · Episode 65What 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…
