Raised Catholic Kerry Campbell
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- Religion & Spirituality
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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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Be Still
This week I'm reading a Mary Oliver poem that I hope will give you a good frame for prayer and awe in this holy season in which everything is miraculously blooming through no effort of our own.
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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. "Praying," by Mary Oliver:
It doesn't have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just
pay attention, then patch
a few words together and don't try
to make them elaborate, this isn't
a contest but the doorway
into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak. -
My Ministry Garden
This week I'm using an overgrown area of my yard as a metaphor for when faith and ministry life need tending, pruning, and uprooting. I pray it's a blessing for 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
6. Video: Unshakable Moxie ep. 2 - Uncovering Resilient Faith with Lina AbuJamra, M.D. -
Faith is Not a Room
Happy Easter! This week we're using the metaphor of our life as a house, and where faith fits into that house will inform how we live out our Easter lives.
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:
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What If (repost episode 70)
Today I'm offering an older episode from April of 2022, number 70. I pray it's a blessing to you, happy Easter!
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What if the Resurrection did not happen? How would that change our thoughts and the way we live, culture, or the world? Let's use this as a frame for gratitude for the gifts that Easter does bring us.
f 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. Easter Sunday Musings, from author Diana Butler Bass
2. Kids' video: An Easter Carol (VeggieTales)
3. "Hope's Song", from An Easter Carol
4. Song: Ubi Caritas, by Durufle, performed by Kings College Choir
5. Song: Hallelujah Is Our Song, by Sarah Hart
6. Song: Christ is Risen, by Matt Maher
7. Journal Prompts:
What do I believe about the death and resurrection of Jesus? How has that belief changed over time?
How do those events change how I live today, or how the history of the world has progressed over time?
8. Take a Walk: notice the blooming flowers in the ground and on trees, take pictures, examine them. How is Creation speaking to you about how God works?
9. Children's Book: The Three Trees, by Angela Elwell Hunt
10. The Resurrection of Jesus, by the Bible Project -
Lessons from Lazarus
I'm taking five takeaways from the story of Lazarus into my experience of Holy Week, and I hope you'll take them along with you, too.
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: Palm Sunday Mass 2024 at St. Cecilia Boston - a great foundation for your Holy Week
2. Video: The first half of the Gospel of John including the story of Lazarus, from The Bible Project
3. Video: The second half of the Gospel of John, from The Bible Project
4. Lyric Video: You Came - Lazarus, from Amanda Cook
5. Song: Rise Up, from CAIN -
The Spiritual Practice of Awe
This week we're considering the spiritual practice of awe, and how moments of awe can point us to what is good, true and beautiful, to the very nature of God.
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. The "rainbow" IG reel I talked about in today's episode
2. Video: Frozen on Broadway Elsa quick-change complilation
3. Song: Spring, from The Four Seasons, Vivaldi (Beethoven's Wig edition)
4. Butter: Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter (salted)
5. Documentary trailer: American Symphony
6. Song: Beethoven's 5th symphony, 2nd movement (you'll find the rainbow in the last two minutes)
7. Book: New Seeds of Contemplation, by Thomas Merton
Correction: The Merton quote I read should say, "and the bass and trout hiding in the deep pools of the river are canonized by their beauty" I mistakenly said, 'the water'. Thanks for your understanding.
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Thank you Kerry , It is so calming to listen to you I look forward to your Podcasts When I walk or at night or when I need to find a little peace Your walk with your adorable pup was beautiful Thank you for sharing GodBless❤️
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