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What's Commoners Communion Podcast about?

Hosted by writer and folk-psalmist Strahan, the Commoners Communion podcast is a conversational look at Christian spirituality through the lens of beauty, mystery and revelation.

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Commoners Communion Podcast episodes:

03.01.2023
Beholding Prayer | Window of The Soul
I've released a new book! Beholding: Deepening Our Experience of God is an invitation to a God-soaked life of seeing and being seen by God. It tells my story, the story of consumerism in our times, and invites the reader...
10.12.2021
Goodness Has Some Bite (on the counter-cultural nature of godly goodness)
To close Season 3 of the CC Podcast I want to share with you a written homily I shared with a local church earlier this month. It's about the spiritual fruit of goodness, and how we reclaim goodness in...
09.20.2021
Sacred Dialogue (on speaking like Christ in divisive times)
Thank you for listening to the Commoners Communion Podcast!If you would like to support what I'm doing you can find a link to donate to my work at commonerscommunion.com/contact (just scroll down to the donate button). All gifts are deeply...
09.13.2021
Old Friends Carry These Things Together (on the long-game love of God).
This Friday I'll be releasing the first article in a series called 'A More Christlike Apocalypse' (explanation in the intro of this episode) to my email subscribers only. If you'd like to come along on the journey with me over...
09.06.2021
My Ordinary Self (on the mystery of a God-infused life)
'My Ordinary Self' is a prayer and contemplation from my book 'Prayer Vol.02'. You can purchase it from commonerscommunion.com.And if you like the music from this episode you'll find it on our first EP 'LAUDS' under Commoners Communion & Jonathan...
09.02.2021
Q & R: What Does Your Creative Process Look Like?
Welcome to Q & R - a weekly spot where I respond your questions about life, spirituality, prayer, art or whatever else is on your mind. Email [email protected] with the subject line 'Podcast Q & R' to ask your...
08.30.2021
Save Me From Professional Prayer (on the importance of staying rookie)
'Save Me From Professional Prayer' is a prayer and contemplation from my book 'Prayer Vol.02'. You can purchase it from commonerscommunion.com.And if you like the music from this episode you'll find it on our first EP 'LAUDS' under Commoners Communion...
08.26.2021
Q & R: How Can We 'Know God'?
Welcome to Q & R - a weekly spot where I respond your questions about life, spirituality, prayer, art or whatever else is on your mind. Email [email protected] with the subject line 'Podcast Q & R' to ask your...
08.23.2021
Good Morning, Father (on keeping time and place with God)
'Good Morning, Father' is a prayer and contemplation from my book 'Prayer Vol.02'. You can purchase it from commonerscommunion.com.And if you like the music from this episode you'll find it on our first EP 'LAUDS' under Commoners Communion & Jonathan...
08.19.2021
Q & R: How Can I Feel Closer To God When He Feels So Far Away?
Welcome to Q & R - a weekly spot where I respond your questions about life, spirituality, prayer, art or whatever else is on your mind. Email [email protected] with the subject line 'Podcast Q & R' to ask your...
08.16.2021
Numbness & Awakening (on the gradience of healing)
Healing, transformation and resurrection aren't always cut and dry transitions in life. Sometimes they're the process of a gradual awakening of God within the death of our present moments.'From Numbness To Awakening' is a prayer and contemplation from my book...
08.12.2021
Q & R: How Do I Find Clarity When I Feel Stuck And Uncertain?
Welcome to Q & R - a weekly spot where I respond your questions about life, spirituality, prayer, art or whatever else is on your mind. Email [email protected] with the subject line 'Podcast Q & R' to ask your...
08.09.2021
Tiny, God (on reclaiming the art of living a little life)
Our universe is full of the grand - supernova's, galaxies, mountain ranges and deep oceans - as well as the miniature - the atom, a grain of sand, a drop of water, a minute of time. In the same way,...
08.02.2021
You're Praying Before I am, God (on participating in divine dialogue)
Much of prayer isn't so much about instigation, as participation and response.__'You're Praying Before I Am, God' is a prayer and contemplation from Prayer Vol.02. You can purchase it from commonerscommunion.com.And if you like the music from this episode you'll...
07.25.2021
Concert To Cathedral (on creating sacred spaces in this turn of times)
The model of Sunday gatherings many of us experience is really recent for the church. Could it be time to correct some of the pendulum swinging that the industrial revolution and entertainment culture have created in our communities? And if...
07.26.2020
Father, Be My Ugly Prayer (and the deep groan of God)
Not every prayer is meant to be beautiful. Not every prayer is even meant to be spoken.Father, Be My Ugly Prayer is a prayer and contemplation from Prayer Vol.01. You can find the book and more details about Commoners Communion...
07.12.2020
I'm Not Today What I'd Imagined, Thank God (and accepting our right now)
Becoming isn't only about growing in God-likeness but about celebrating who we already are, today.I'm Not Today What I'd Imagined, Thank God is a prayer and contemplation from Prayer Vol.01. You can find the book and more details about Commoners...
07.05.2020
The Narrow Way (and the celebration of spiritual crises)
What if the spiritual wilderness isn't a place of unfaithfulness, but maturity? An invitation toward a deeper friendship. A place beyond our usual ways of seeing and knowing, where God livesThe Narrow Way is a prayer and contemplation from Prayer...
06.28.2020
Shhh (and creating secret spaces)
The beauty of silence is that it makes us the passive recipient in our communion together with God, opening floor for Him to start the conversation.Shhh is a prayer and contemplation from Prayer Vol.01. You can find the book and...
06.21.2020
When Newness Isn't Easy (and failure as holy anticipation)
There is often a distance between how we imagine God doing a thing, and how he really does it. If we're open to looking for it, we may just discover that we're already walking in the newness we've been praying...
06.11.2020
Praying Through This Moment: Thinning Out Noise, Staying With God
This past few weeks have been heartbreaking, angering, shocking and confronting. To honour the wider conversation going on at the moment we wanted to briefly hit pause on the planned programming for Season Two to bring you a weeks worth...
06.10.2020
Praying Through This Moment: The Wounding of Love
This past few weeks have been heartbreaking, angering, shocking and confronting. To honour the wider conversation going on at the moment we wanted to briefly hit pause on the planned programming for Season Two to bring you a weeks worth...
06.09.2020
Praying Through This Moment: When We Don't Know What To Say
This past few weeks have been heartbreaking, angering, shocking and confronting. To honour the wider conversation going on at the moment we wanted to briefly hit pause on the planned programming for Season Two to bring you a weeks worth...
06.08.2020
Praying Through This Moment: Sitting With God, Sitting With Others
This past few weeks have been heartbreaking, angering, shocking and confronting. To honour the wider conversation going on at the moment we wanted to briefly hit pause on the planned programming for Season Two to bring you a weeks worth...
06.07.2020
Praying Through This Moment: From Numbness To Awakening
This past few weeks have been heartbreaking, angering, shocking and confronting. To honour the wider conversation going on at the moment we wanted to briefly hit pause on the planned programming for Season Two to bring you a weeks worth...
05.31.2020
Let Love Ache (and on coming to the end of ourselves)
Maybe we can't truly love like God does - with an achy, gritty and unrelenting love - until we arrive at the end of ourselves; where, out of gas we finally admit we must be conduits that pay forward, rather...
05.24.2020
Remembrance Is Anxieties Antidote (and the practice of subverting suffering)
In moments when things are difficult and hopeless, remembrance is a way of disempowering suffering - of subverting it. Remembering is prophetic, it's present-shaping, and it transforms how we lean into our tomorrow. Remembrance Is Anxieties Antidote is a prayer...
05.17.2020
Not Far (and the playful mystery of God)
There is a mystery and a romance to how God hides from us. But when it comes to the veil between us and God, between the Father of the heavens and my soul, it's generally a veil that I myself...
05.10.2020
Communion Has Always Been Your Priority (and finally moving beyond shame)
God longs for a divine closeness with you that you’ve not yet discovered.A closeness beyond the questions of circumstance.A closeness beyond the confusion of knowledge and understanding.A closeness beyond the woundedness and hurt that you carry.A closeness beyond what you...
05.03.2020
For The Beginning of Adventures (and the art of continual rediscovery)
God is continually dethroning the 'little g' god of our life. Blowing apart and expanding it to reveal himself, the read God, beyond.Faith could be seen as a journey in the continual rediscovery of God. A never ending adventure of...
04.26.2020
Kia ora, and welcome to Season 2!
06.03.2018
Practicing Newness Devotional: Giving Away
Before the wheat of any harvest can be used for sharing and baking it must be threshed.
05.27.2018
Practicing Newness Devotional: Persevering
Before the wheat of any harvest can be used for sharing and baking it must be threshed.
05.21.2018
Practicing Newness Devotional: Removing
The next stage in our journey is the harvesting of the seed we have sown and watched over. The initial promise has bloomed and it’s time to remove what’s fully grown and make new space for the movements of God...
05.14.2018
Practicing Newness Devotional: Watching Over
The second stage of our journey is about protecting and growing that which God has sown in us.
05.14.2018
Practicing Newness Devotional: Receiving
The first step in the process of God sowing his seed in our lives is His providing the nourishment that brings us the promise. We receive.
04.29.2018
Practicing Newness - Season One Devotional
To finish off this first season we'll be embarking on a five-week devotional journey through Isaiah 55. Each week there will be questions to wrestle with, devotionals to meditate on and prayers to prompt you into your own space with...
04.10.2018
Episode 9: Practicing Newness
Practicing newness isn't just a nice idea, it's the gritty foundation of our entire Christian spirituality.The music in this podcast is kindly provided by Rhys Machell from his meditative album 'In Glass'. Click here to hear more.
03.27.2018
Episode 8: Exile
Following on from our last episode, this week I'm looking at the concept of exile - spiritual, physical, emotional, societal - and how we both flourish in the wilderness and find our way back into the city afterwards. Exile can...
03.20.2018
Announcing The 'Prose To Poetry' Tour!
In a daring move of unprecedented nervousness, I'm taking Commoners Communion on the road!I'm hoping to invite more people to join us in these conversations and to connect face to face with all of you who have been listening, writing...
03.13.2018
Episode 7: Poor In Spirit
I'm doing something a little different in this episode. I sat down last week to record an entirely different episode and couldn't deny the leading to go off script a little and share what I was feeling the Spirit saying...
02.20.2018
Episode 6: Hongi
Intimacy with God is not an option in our spiritual walk, it's the entire point. We were kissed by God in the beginning and restored to wholeness by a kiss by Christ. In a culture starved for intimacy, we're invited...
02.20.2018
Episode 5: Revelation
God is not an idea, a political persuasion or a theology we can knit tight. He is a Person who transforms knowledge into revelation through the process of spending time with him. In today's information age we need more than...
01.23.2018
Episode 4: New
It can sometimes be hard starting a new year. What do we do with unmet promises from the year before? How do we hope for flourishing in times of transition or tension? Just as there are times and seasons in...
12.19.2017
Episode 3: Mystery
We don't often celebrate the beauty of not-knowing in our walk with God, but if he truly is Spirit, truly the God of all existence, then embracing mystery is foundational to our walking with him. God is not always interested...
12.12.2017
Episode 2: Beauty
In this episode, Strahan discusses how beauty can be lost and found in the pilgrimage of our faith and why beauty should be central to our walk with God. The music in this podcast is kindly provided by Rhys Machell...
12.01.2017
Episode 1: Poetry
In this episode, Strahan begins the conversation on how understanding ourselves as the poetry of God can breathe beauty and life into our walk with God. The music in this podcast is kindly provided by Rhys Machell from his meditative...

What's Commoners Communion Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Commoners Communion Podcast episodes:

Beholding Prayer | Window of The Soul

Goodness Has Some Bite (on the counter-cultural nature of godly goodness)

Sacred Dialogue (on speaking like Christ in divisive times)

Old Friends Carry These Things Together (on the long-game love of God).

My Ordinary Self (on the mystery of a God-infused life)

Q & R: What Does Your Creative Process Look Like?

Save Me From Professional Prayer (on the importance of staying rookie)

Q & R: How Can We 'Know God'?

Good Morning, Father (on keeping time and place with God)

Q & R: How Can I Feel Closer To God When He Feels So Far Away?

Numbness & Awakening (on the gradience of healing)

Q & R: How Do I Find Clarity When I Feel Stuck And Uncertain?

Tiny, God (on reclaiming the art of living a little life)

You're Praying Before I am, God (on participating in divine dialogue)

Concert To Cathedral (on creating sacred spaces in this turn of times)

Father, Be My Ugly Prayer (and the deep groan of God)

I'm Not Today What I'd Imagined, Thank God (and accepting our right now)

The Narrow Way (and the celebration of spiritual crises)

Shhh (and creating secret spaces)

When Newness Isn't Easy (and failure as holy anticipation)

Praying Through This Moment: Thinning Out Noise, Staying With God

Praying Through This Moment: The Wounding of Love

Praying Through This Moment: When We Don't Know What To Say

Praying Through This Moment: Sitting With God, Sitting With Others

Praying Through This Moment: From Numbness To Awakening

Let Love Ache (and on coming to the end of ourselves)

Remembrance Is Anxieties Antidote (and the practice of subverting suffering)

Not Far (and the playful mystery of God)

Communion Has Always Been Your Priority (and finally moving beyond shame)

For The Beginning of Adventures (and the art of continual rediscovery)

Kia ora, and welcome to Season 2!

Practicing Newness Devotional: Giving Away

Practicing Newness Devotional: Persevering

Practicing Newness Devotional: Removing

Practicing Newness Devotional: Watching Over

Practicing Newness Devotional: Receiving

Practicing Newness - Season One Devotional

Episode 9: Practicing Newness

Episode 8: Exile

Announcing The 'Prose To Poetry' Tour!

Episode 7: Poor In Spirit

Episode 6: Hongi

Episode 5: Revelation

Episode 4: New

Episode 3: Mystery

Episode 2: Beauty

Episode 1: Poetry