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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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- Yesterday1h 3m
Seeking Ourselves - Episode 5 in the series, "The Movement's Purpose"
Continuing their exploration of Rudolf Steiner’s The Michael–Christ Experience of the Human Being, Patrick and Jonah consider how God’s apparent withdrawal from nature makes room for human freedom. How can we rediscover the spiritual world without rejecting scientific knowledge? Jonah shares his journey from Zen Buddhism to a transformative encounter with Christ through the sacraments, exploring what it means to receive our true selves as a gift. Together, they reflect on spiritual striving, grace, and the intimate relationship with Christ that can transform how we encounter ourselves, one another, and the natural world.
- 1 weeks ago1h 6m
The Mission of the Seminary - episode 4 in the series, "The Movement's Purpose"
Director Emma Heirman joins her co-directors Jonah and Patrick for a conversation about vocation, priesthood, and the work of the Seminary. Together they reflect on what it means to accompany someone toward a particular calling while also carrying responsibility for discernment, preparation, and the possibility that a path may lead somewhere unexpected.The conversation moves through questions of freedom, worthiness, spiritual work, and the dignity of different vocations. What does it mean to offer oneself freely for a task without claiming it as one’s own? And how do we recognize calling without turning it into status?For more information, go to www.patreon.com/ccseminary
- 2 weeks ago53 min
The Sun-Power of Michael's Revelation - Episode 3 in the Series, "The Purpose of the Movement"
Patrick and Jonah continue their exploration of Rudolf Steiner’s Michael Letters by asking what it means to live faithfully in a world that can feel emptied of divine presence. Rather than retreating into nostalgia for an earlier spiritual consciousness, they consider whether the modern experience of separation, materialism, and individual freedom might itself have a role to play.What happens when we learn to see nature not only as matter or resource, but as something capable of bearing spiritual meaning again? The conversation turns toward Steiner’s images of light and warmth, the possibility of a renewed way of knowing, and the question of how the past might be brought into the present without simply returning to it.
- 3 weeks ago57 min
"What We Lift, He Fills" - Episode 2 in the series, The Purpose of the Movement
What if the experience of God’s absence is not simply a failure of faith, but part of humanity’s development toward freedom? Patrick and Jonah continue their exploration of the purpose of the movement for religious renewal through Rudolf Steiner’s description of a world that still bears the form of divine creation, even when divine presence is no longer immediately perceptible.From miracle stories and relics to prayer, morality, and worship, they ask what changes when spiritual life can no longer be passively received. If love, forgiveness, and faith are to remain alive in the world, what must we ourselves bring to the meeting?
- Aug 16, 20261h 3m
Re-Post: “Hell Fire and Christ Fire” - Episode 8 in the series, “Heaven and Hell”
In this final summer repeat of the heaven and hell series, Patrick and Jonah bring the conversation to the mystery of baptism. If the Christian path does not protect us by removing suffering, darkness, or adversarial forces from our lives, what kind of protection does it offer? They explore baptism as an immersion into the life of Christ: his suffering, death, resurrection, and fire of sacrificial love. Through Peter’s confession, the gates of Hades, the Beatitudes, and Christ’s own words abo...
- Aug 9, 20261h 6m
Re-Post: “The Presence of our Enemies” - Episode 7 in the series, “Heaven and Hell”
In this summer repeat, Patrick and Jonah continue their series on heaven and hell by asking why Christian spirituality still speaks of enemies, adversaries, demons, and battle. Wouldn’t it be better to move beyond all language of conflict and darkness? The conversation explores the danger of spiritual paths that seek bliss by escaping pain, evil, and the cross. Patrick and Jonah distinguish bliss from love, and ask what it means to follow Christ not out of the world, but into a deeper relatio...
- Aug 2, 20261h 8m
Re-Post: “Hell after Death” - Episode 6 in the series, “Heaven and Hell”
In this summer repeat, Patrick and Jonah continue their exploration of heaven and hell by asking what happens after death. If heaven is not simply a place we go forever, and hell is not merely a punishment imposed from outside, what is the soul’s journey through purification, truth, and love? The conversation begins with the question of whether life without love is already a kind of hell on earth. From there, Patrick and Jonah turn toward near-death experiences, the overwhelming reality of di...
- Jul 26, 20261h 2m
Re-Post: “The Hell of False Light” - Episode 5 in the series, “Heaven and Hell”
In this summer repeat, Patrick and Jonah continue their exploration of heaven and hell by turning toward a surprising image: the false paradise. Beginning with Christ’s words to the criminal on the cross, “Today you will be with me in paradise,” they ask what true paradise is, and how it differs from a pleasant, controlled, painless world that avoids the cross. The conversation explores the danger of a light that carries a lie within it: a vision of perfection without love, truth without comp...
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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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