The Light in Every Thing

The Seminary of The Christian Community

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. You can support our work and gain access to more unique content if you visit our Patreon: www.patreon.com/ccseminary

  1. Knowledge, Love, and Reincarnation, episode 9 in the series 'Salvation'

    3 DAYS AGO

    Knowledge, Love, and Reincarnation, episode 9 in the series 'Salvation'

    What 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 something far more immediate and challenging: the transformation of the human self. They ask whether salvation is less about belief alone and more about what we become. How is the self—so bound up with consciousness, memory, and the body—meant to endure beyond death? And what role do love, action, and relationship play in shaping that future? Drawing on Scripture and lived experience, they wrestle with questions of justice, grace, and the mystery of knowing Christ—not just in name, but in reality. The conversation also turns toward a deeper question: how do we come to truly know what is true? If love itself becomes a way of seeing, then salvation may not be something imposed from outside, but something that unfolds as our capacity to perceive is transformed. What might it mean to recognize Christ—not only in doctrine, but in one another, and in the very fabric of life? 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 our website. This podcast is supported by our growing Patreon community. To learn more, go to www.patreon.com/ccseminary. Thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who composed our theme music, “Seeking Together."

    1hr 4min
  2. The Conscious Self, Death, and Salvation, episode 8 in the series 'Salvation'

    12 APR

    The Conscious Self, Death, and Salvation, episode 8 in the series 'Salvation'

    What 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 Last Supper: a meal that has shaped centuries of faith, yet remains strangely beyond explanation. As bread is broken and wine is shared, the question emerges—does understanding this mystery actually matter? Or is something deeper already at work within us, recognizing its truth before we can name it? This conversation explores a different kind of knowing—one that doesn’t possess truth, but participates in it. Along the way, they wrestle with a provocative tension: if goodness, love, and even Christ-like action can appear in those who don’t consciously believe, what role does awareness, recognition, or faith really play? Moving from the table to the nature of the human self, the episode opens into a deeper question of salvation itself. What happens to our consciousness, our memory, our sense of “I” when the body fades? And could this mysterious meal be more than symbolic—something like a medicine, quietly reshaping what it means to be human? 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 our website. This podcast is supported by our growing Patreon community. To learn more, go to www.patreon.com/ccseminary. Thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who composed our theme music, “Seeking Together."

    1hr 6min
  3. The 'Healing God' and the Fallen Mind, episode 7 in the series 'Salvation'

    5 APR

    The 'Healing God' and the Fallen Mind, episode 7 in the series 'Salvation'

    In 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 Holy Spirit is named in a striking way as the Healing God. What begins to emerge is a shift: from describing what God and Christ have already accomplished, to asking what still needs to happen within us. The conversation centers on the phrase “grasping the spirit through our humanity,” opening a question that feels especially relevant today—why does healing now seem to be connected to the life of the mind? Through images of light and darkness, creation, and even the experience of solving a riddle, Jonah and Patrick explore what it might mean for thinking itself to become a kind of spiritual activity. Rather than something to escape, the mind is approached as a place that can reach, receive, and perhaps even pray. This episode opens a path into a deeper question: what would it mean not just to think, but to be healed in our thinking? 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 our website. This podcast is supported by our growing Patreon community. To learn more, go to www.patreon.com/ccseminary. Thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who composed our theme music, “Seeking Together."

    58 min
  4. Creating and Salvation, episode four in the series 'Salvation'

    15 MAR

    Creating and Salvation, episode four in the series 'Salvation'

    In 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, but as creative activity. If the first panel spoke of being and substance, this one speaks again and again of creating. What might it mean that our very essence and life are described as participating in a living, generative work? The conversation traces how salvation can be experienced through different doorways. For some, the path begins through the recognition of sin and the need to be rescued. For others, it begins through beauty, calling, and the awakening of a fuller humanity. Rather than forcing one approach, the text opens a different possibility: that salvation may first appear as the discovery of what our humanity is truly meant for. From there the discussion turns to creativity itself. If human beings are capable of creating, what keeps that creativity from collapsing into self-assertion or pride? The epistle suggests a striking answer: our creative capacity is never self-generated but participates in a deeper creating already at work within us. The question that remains is what Christ-like creativity actually looks like—and what becomes of the things we make when they arise from somewhere else. 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 our website. This podcast is supported by our growing Patreon community. To learn more, go to www.patreon.com/ccseminary. Thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who composed our theme music, “Seeking Together."

    1hr 14min
  5. Our Consciousness & Three Chapters of Salvation, episode 3 in the series 'Salvation'

    8 MAR

    Our Consciousness & Three Chapters of Salvation, episode 3 in the series 'Salvation'

    In 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 surprising starting point—conscious of our humanity—they ask how salvation unfolds not only in the history of Christ, but in the awakening of human consciousness itself. The conversation traces a threefold movement: first the recognition that our being and substance already rest in the Father; then the experiential meeting with Christ in our humanity, where isolation begins to give way to belonging; and finally the work of the Holy Spirit, through which what was accomplished in Christ becomes something we can consciously participate in. Along the way they reflect on Paul’s conversion, the temptation to define belonging through opposing sides, and the difference between a salvation that is merely received and one that must be lived into. If something decisive has already been accomplished in Christ, the question remains: how does that redemption become real in us? 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 our website. This podcast is supported by our growing Patreon community. To learn more, go to www.patreon.com/ccseminary. Thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who composed our theme music, “Seeking Together."

    1hr 4min

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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. You can support our work and gain access to more unique content if you visit our Patreon: www.patreon.com/ccseminary

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