podcast 12 > spiritual direction

Thoughts on spiritual direction, what it is, isn't, should and possibly shouldn't be. Taking leads from a small book by Thomas Merton called Spiritual Direction and Meditation.

• spiritual direction
• relational direction
• spiritual direction degrees?
• pastoral leadership and spiritual direction
• spiritual direction and community
• monastic communities and direction
  

talkin' about liturgy

Finally, another podcast - don't I say this every time? So, here we go, Passion Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week, and I had and made the time and expended the energy to put this thing together. I think, if I keep doing this regularly, I'd like to get a new microphone, a nice one, that's made for this kind of thing. Too much hissin' goin' on here.

So, the topic for this podcast is Liturgy - what it is, how it works, why it's important, etc.

• passion sunday
• liturgy
• ancient catholic faith
• organic church
• no structural form is not good
• liturgy as skeleton of the community
• liturgy wars
• easter vigil announcement
  

still podcasting > emerging church talk

It's amazing. I've put up another podcast after all this time. I guess things have been busy or something. Anyway, here you go. In this episode...

• Return to podcasting
• thanks to Michael Spencer
• Christmas Party
• My dog Angus
• Some talk about the emerging church and where it's going
  

interview with a broken girl

A special edition of the podcast tonight - an interview with my daughter Meaghan, who recently broke her arm pretty badly in a horse-riding accident.

Includes:
- Meaghan telling the story of falling off the horse.
- My part of the story - Dad gets phone call.
- Silliness.
- Angels and gratefulness.

nouwen > in the name of Jesus > 2

Installment 2 from Henri Nouwen's In The Name of Jesus; Reflections on Christian Leadership. It took me a couple of weeks but I finally got around to it. This time reflections from highlights in the chapter entitled, The Discipline: Contemplative Prayer.

subjects: recording outside; conor's ballgame; relevance; christian mysticism; moralism vs. mysticism; union with God; holistic spirituality.

nouwen > in the name of Jesus > 1

I thought it might be cool to do a series of short podcasts with commentary (plus rabbit trails) from the Henri Nouwen book I'm reading at the moment.

book: In The Name of Jesus; Reflections on Christian Leadership, by Henri J.M. Nouwen

subjects: weather, screen door, relevance in christian ministry, church, leadership, definitions, etc.

on being post protestant & spiritual disciplines > a discussion > part 3

Finally, here is part 3 of my discussion with Kyle about various, yet connected topics. This was, as I said before, long podcast so I chopped it up into 3 pieces. This is the final installment. I think it's a good one. This discussion includes the following:

• Continued discussion of catholicity, why it is important to be a catholic Christian.
• The concept of being post-protestant.
• We love Benedict XVI.
• Roman Catholic connections.
• Spiritual disciplines, their importance, how they do and do not work.
• On living to "please God."
• General silliness.