31 episodes
Saint Peter's Mixtape Saint Peter's Chelsea
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- Religion & Spirituality
Welcome to Saint Peter's Mixtape, the experimental podcast of St. Peter's Chelsea, a 190 year-old Episcopal Church on 20th Street in New York City committed to staying prayerful, hopeful and connected in this season. Our regular sermon podcast can be found under our church name. Here, we're mixing it up with guided prayers and meditations, interviews, storytelling, poetry and who knows where else we might go?
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The Story of My Body: Remember Your Baptism (Ian Trevethan)
Ian closed our Lenten series on the body with a tender and powerful story of growing up queer and in the closet as a young person. He shares about navigating shame, desire and anger, hiding his true self and the way he showed up in the world. Listen to his story about being “re-membered” by God, learning to inhabit his body more fully and joyfully, and the practice of remembering his baptism first thing in the morning.
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The Story of My Body: Mind+Heart+Body (Aaron Niequist)
In our continuing Lenten series on the body, "Jesus Re-Member Me," Aaron reflects on the moment in his childhood when his mind, emotions and body began to split apart and the journey of returning back to wholeness. Centering prayer was the spiritual practice that helped him reintegrate these different parts of himself and he invited us into a 7-minute centering prayer "sit" at the end which we encourage you to do at the end of his sharing.
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The Story of My Body: Taste and See - Finding My Senses (Kirstin Swanson)
As a continuing part of our Lent series on the body, Kirstin reflects on how size is equated with goodness, morality, and competence in our society, and the false and relentless “hope” of diet culture, inviting us to respond to God's invitation to delight and goodness in our bodies in the here and now.
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The Story of My Body: Beginning - Middle - End (Lisha Epperson)
As part of our Lent series on embodiment, "Jesus, Re-Member Me," Lisha shares her journey - "what happened to her" as she made her way from the dance world to motherhood - the limitations and failures of her body. Considering her story one of the "quiet ones" - those that hide a brokenness we can't easily see or discern.
She invites us to consider our own bodies hidden stories and invited us to, over the coming week, consider writing a love letter to our bodies.
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The Story of My Body: Running Into Being (Christine Lee)
This Lent, we are focusing our spiritual practice on the body with our midweek series "Jesus, Re-Member Me: Lent and the Body." Christine kicked off our series by sharing the story of her body as it intersected with race, gender and spirituality: growing up as the child of Korean immigrants and aspiring to the ideal of white American beauty, the separation of body and spirit in the church, learning to shrink inward and become invisible, and the journey of moving from weakness to power.
Practice: Spend some time journaling around these questions:
1. Think back to your childhood. Where did you experience original goodness in your body?
2. As you reflect back on your story, where have you experienced this dis-membering?
3. Where have you experienced this re-membering? Where would you hope to?
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Embodied Examen: Lord, Come and See
On the final night of Epiphany Evenings: Watch For the Light, Lisha led us in an embodied examen prayer based on John 11:1-44, the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. Where are the places in your life where you feel dead and that need to be brought back to life? Follow along with this examen and create space to sit with what is in the presence of God.
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