26 épisodes
Theology:21CE Thomas Ziegert
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- Religion et spiritualité
Would you like to hear things you’ve thought about but thought no one else could support? Have a safe place to talk about God or to question God? …to share your divergent understanding about God? ...to hear new stories about God? This podcast and its accompanying Blog are the places you can do that. Give it a try. What’s the worst that can happen? (ok, I can think of several things.) I’m a recently retired (from the United Methodist Church) gay pastor living in Southern California. My experience is that when I have encountered that which is sacred, I have awakened, which also means I’m asleep a lot. I have found that when I live out my theology in my daily life that life works out for me. I’ll share my awake moments and what I’m discovering. Living awake assures us that every experience is a gift to be cherished, the painful ones as much as the pleasurable ones. My blog site is searching-for-god.com
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Exploring the Power of Holistic Healing with Reverend Dr. Beth Cooper
Are you ready to journey through a healing sanctuary? In this first of three interviews by Reverend Tom Ziegert, Reverend Dr. Beth Cooper, a Christian elder and holistic health practitioner, takes us along her personal path of physical and mental healing. With an array of techniques from massage to tuina, acupressure to somatic experience, she has woven a remarkable tapestry of healing at the Bhakti Fest. At one point, our host, Tom grappled with depression, and through the guidance of his ch...
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Embracing Our Responsibility: Animal Welfare and the Spirit of Stewardship with Beth Cooper
Have you ever considered the profound responsibility we hold towards the animal kingdom? It's a question that carries weighty moral implications, and together with Reverend Dr. Beth Cooper, an animal advocate and health specialist, we tackle this very subject. Our conversation navigates the delicate terrain of animal trauma, the stark realities of euthanasia, and the deep-seated call for stewardship that transcends our human-centered world. Dr. Cooper's expertise sheds light on the behaviors ...
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Night Watch for New Year's Eve / New Year's Day Observance
This episode of Theology:21ce brings the Night Watch Observance to you. It is a New Year’s Eve version of John Wesley’s Covenant Service. The heart of this service is the Covenant Prayer. It requires persons to commit themselves to God. This covenant is serious and assumes adequate preparation for and a continual response to the covenant. You can participate in the responses by opening the transcript at www.searching-for-god.com or at www.theology21ce.com. I hope this episode serves as an ins...
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All Dogs Go To Heaven
In this episode Reverend Gilbert Stones, pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church in Los Osos, California, talks about both animals and humans being souls, the dilemma of accepting this understanding, and how humans then have to reevaluate our primacy among the creatures of the Earth.
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The Beginning of the End of Liberalism - First Shot by Christian Nationalism
Hegel's Dialectic offers the diagram of how the end will come. Thesis - Antithesis - Synthesis. The old Age of Liberalism battles its antithesis, Christian Nationalism. Both will be the diametrics that form the synthesis of a new age.
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When the World Ended
In this episode I discuss the misapprehension that the world will end in some "Rapture" or Armageddon described in the Book of Revelation. The world already ended. We live in a new world brought about by the dissolution of the Old Covenant (contract) and the signing by God and enacting of a New Covenant (contract) with all humanity. Here in this episode are my thoughts on the matter. Your thoughts are welcome too. I apologize for any resemblance my wording presents as insulting to practi...