The Light in Every Thing

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

  1. 1D AGO

    Creation, Golgotha, and Participating in Salvation, episode 6 in the series 'Salvation'

    What 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 itself—light entering darkness and bringing forth something new—may also be the pattern of healing. Through reflections on Christ’s life, death, and the mystery of the Eucharist, salvation begins to feel less like a distant idea and more like a living, creative process that meets us in our brokenness and transforms it from within. But this opens a deeper question: if something is being given, what is asked of us in return? Moving between grace and participation, the conversation invites us to see even our struggles and fatigue as part of an ongoing rhythm of renewal—night and morning, again and again, where something new is always trying to be born. 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."

    1h 3m
  2. The Creative Word Within Us, episode five in the series 'Salvation'

    MAR 22

    The Creative Word Within Us, episode five in the series 'Salvation'

    This 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 only as Savior, but as the living Word actively creating within us? What if we shifted from thinking about salvation as rescue from something, to recognizing it as participation in an ongoing act of creation? If the divine Word is at work in all that we create, what does that reveal about our humanity, our purpose, and our relationship to God? Rather than beginning with sin or brokenness, this episode opens a different doorway: one that invites us to encounter the creative Spirit already at work in our lives--and to ask what it means to become conscious of it. 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."

    1h 8m
  3. Creating and Salvation, episode four in the series 'Salvation'

    MAR 15

    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. 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."

    1h 14m
  4. Our Consciousness & Three Chapters of Salvation, episode 3 in the series 'Salvation'

    MAR 8

    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? 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."

    1h 4m
  5. Yeshua, Humanity & Salvation, episode 2 in the series 'Salvation'

    MAR 1

    Yeshua, Humanity & Salvation, episode 2 in the series 'Salvation'

    In 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 Advent to Epiphany, they enter the Trinity Epistle and reflect on the “Son of Man” as more than an individual figure. Salvation emerges as a rescue not only from false light and unworthy craving, but from egotism and isolation — the structural loneliness of the self. Through Genesis, John’s Gospel, and Second Temple traditions, they consider the possibility that salvation is not primarily about exclusion or escape, but about being gathered into a shared humanity and becoming “sons of light.” 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."

    1h 6m
  6. Untangling the Term, the first episode in the series 'Salvation'

    FEB 22

    Untangling the Term, the first episode in the series 'Salvation'

    We 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 culture? What saves us from ourselves? In this opening episode, Patrick and Jonah revisit salvation through the movement of the liturgical year and through lived experience. They explore the difference between true Light and false light, the danger of coercive religion, and the possibility that the image of God already lives within the human being. Through scripture, biography, and contemporary reflections on technology and AI, the conversation suggests that salvation has not disappeared — it has migrated. The longing for rescue persists, even if the language has changed. This episode sets the stage for the series to come. 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."

    1h 8m
  7. Dan Mistak, the fourth interview in our series of Roadside Conversations

    FEB 15

    Dan Mistak, the fourth interview in our series of Roadside Conversations

    In 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 by faith, rupture, and responsibility. Dan reflects on growing up in a rigid religious environment, losing inherited certainties, and moving through science, philosophy, law, and policy work without settling into easy answers. The conversation explores how wounds can harden into ideology or soften into care, what it means to act justly inside broken systems, and how faith can remain alive without becoming a weapon or an identity badge. This episode is unscripted and personal. It’s not about having the right language, but about staying honest, staying open, and learning how to live without building defenses that turn inward or outward. Part of the ongoing Roadside Conversations series.Support the show 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."

    1h 12m
  8. Rev. Nora Minassian, the third interview in the series of Roadside Conversations

    FEB 8

    Rev. Nora Minassian, the third interview in the series of Roadside Conversations

    Jonah 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, faith shaken in university, and the surprising ways anthroposophy reopened the Christian question. They talk about freedom, suffering, prayer, and what it means to “become” rather than simply “be” a priest. Nora closes with what’s lighting her up right now: Paul’s letters, Damascus, and how Christ may be encountered in a new way in our time. 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."

    1h 11m
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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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    The Seminary of The Christian Community
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    294
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