Raised Catholic Kerry Campbell
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- Religion & Spirituality
A place for Catholics and others on the margins of church to feel heard and to find God in their everyday.
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Bearing Witness to the Present Moment
This week I'll tell the story of sitting by the water for a short while just witnessing the world, and learning that I want to do more of that.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow.
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:
1. Video: 12-day Rhododendron blooming time-lapse
2. IG live: artist Scott Erickson on who's in charge of surprise
3. Substack: Letters from Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
4. Song: I Got You Babe, by Sonny & Cher
5. Raised Catholic Podcast/transcript: Contemplative Summer Week Three: Contemplating Nature (check out the whole series wherever you get your podcasts
6. Journal question:
Stop in a given moment and ask yourself: what do I see, what do I hear, what do I smell, what do I taste, what can I touch that point me toward God - what can I know about Him and His nature based on what I am experiencing?
7. Poem by Mary Oliver:
Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
8. Book: Devotions - The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver -
Women in the Church
This week we take a look at recent news developments that reflect and may inform the role of women in the Catholic Church moving forward, along with a range of reaction.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow.
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:
1. Article: Despite pope's clear 'no' on CBS, promotors of women deacons hold out hope, from National Catholic Reporter
2. Article: Pastoral pope shines through in CBS News' interview, from National Catholic Reporter
3. Article: Pope Francis says 'no' to women deacons in '60 Minutes' interview, from America Magazine
4. Transcription of O'Donnell's interview with Pope Francis
5. Org: Women's Ordination Conference
6. Org: Voice of the Faithful
7. Org: Catholic Women Preach
8. Essay: Pentecost from kerrycampbell.org 3/2020
9. Podcast/transcript: Raised Catholic ep. 77: Pentecost Takeaways
10. Podcast/transcript: Raised Catholic ep. 125: Pentecost - The Amazing Movement of God -
With and a Little Ahead
This week, I'll tell several stories of when I was with and a little ahead or a little behind others on the road, along with a profound experience I had at age 20 when I learned that 'with and a little ahead' is how God walks with us, too. I pray this episode is a blessing to you.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow.
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:
1. Scripture: Moses hands the baton to Joshua - Deuteronomy 31
2. Lyric Video: The Detour, by Sarah Kroger
3. Song: The Voyage, by Amanda Cook
4. Place: Weston Priory in Weston, Vermont - chapel, retreat accommodations labyrinth and the woods I describe in this episode
5. Scripture: Road to Emmaus story from the Book of Luke
6. Art/Instagram Caption: Journey through the heart of God by Scott Erickson -
The Spiritual Practice of Mothering - Repost
As we celebrate all of the wonderful people who mother in any way, I'm bringing you an older episode this week. It's number 72: The Spiritual Practice of Mothering, and I pray it's a blessing to you. Thanks for keeping the world spinning!
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow.
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:
1. Song: A Mother Never Rests, by Lori McKenna
2. Scriptural references to God as mother, from womensordination.org
3. Song: Mary, by Patty Griffin
4. Writer Laura Fanucci, writing @thismessygrace and on her blog, Mothering Spirit: Everyday Parenting as Spiritual Practice
5. Raised Catholic episode: Mother Mary
6. Podcast: Abiding Together, part 1 of a 4-part series on spiritual motherhood
7. Song: Ave Maria by Franz Biebl, performed by Chanticleer
8. Memoir: Looking for Mary (The Blessed Mother and Me), by Beverly Donofrio
9. Memoir: Glitter and Glue, by Kelly Corrigan
10. Children's Book: What is God Like?, by Rachel Held Evans and Matthew Paul Turner
11. Podcast: Kelly Corrigan Wonders with guest Dr. Ariel Trost on Intentional, Self Aware Parenting
12: IG follow: Pamela Henkleman: Coach for Midlife Moms -
Divine Connection
This week we're exploring our connection to God and to each other as divinely ordained and planned by God who loves us. I pray this episode is a blessing to you.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow.
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:
1. Raised Catholic ep. 127: The Great Tapestry of God (transcript with link to episode)
2. Song: We Are Many Parts, by Marty Haugen
3. Song: Vine and Branches, by Trevor Thomson
4. Book: Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life, by Beth Moore
5. Book: Growing Slow, by Jennifer Dukes Lee
6. Video: Twining Motion of Vines
7. Video: Time Elapsed Climbing Vines (a metaphor if ever I saw one) -
What We Will Become
This week we're reflecting on a field of as-yet unopened tulip blossoms as a metaphor for the things we've planted but which have not yet unfolded, (even ourselves). I pray this episode is a blessing to you.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow.
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:
1. Song: Garden, by Matt Maher
2. Song: You Have Me, by Gungor
3. Song: The Earth is Yours, by Gungor
4. Song: Only Good Will Grow, by Matt Maher
5. Song: Grow as we Go, by Ben Platt and Sara Bariellas