Sacramental Whine

Welcome to episode 68. In this episode, I share the audio portion of a YouTube video I created on the Community of Saint George. Discussed is the origin of the Old Catholic Union and the Liberal Catholic Church, the Young Rite, and the founding of the Community of Saint George. I don't want this to seem like an infomercial for the Community of Saint George, but I think there is some good content that anyone interested in the Independent/United Sacramental Movement would enjoy. I have built upon the original content of the video and turned it into a paper that I wrote in a class within my Doctor of Ministry program I am currently enrolled in. So, before I get into the audio recording, I mentioned I'm going to share some additional content you cannot get from the video where I talk about ultramontanism and our rejection of this Roman Catholic ecclesiological movement.

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This podcast is hosted by David Oliver Kling and produced by The Community of Saint George (a Young Rite Jurisdiction).

Welcome to Episode 67! In this episode, I have guest host Father (and bishop-elect) David Jones who talks about what every priest should have or should at least be thinking about! Fr. David first appeared on this podcast in Episode 41: Radical Incarnation with David Jones.

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Items every priest should have!

Items every church should have!

This podcast is hosted by David Oliver Kling and produced by The Community of Saint George (The Young Rite).

Welcome to episode 66! In this episode, I have the honor of interviewing the Reverend Doctor Bruce Epperly.

A Theologian, pastor, spiritual guide, author, and recognized leader in lay and pastoral faith formation, Bruce Epperly serves as Pastor at South Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, Centerville, MA, and professor in the D.Min. program at Wesley Theological Seminary. He has served on the faculties and administrative and chaplaincy roles at Georgetown University, Claremont School of Theology, Wesley Theological Seminary, and Lancaster Theological Seminary. Prior to coming to Cape Cod to serve as pastor of South Congregational Church, he served as Director of Continuing Education and Professor of Practical Theology at Lancaster Theological Seminary.

An ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and United Church of Christ, Dr. Epperly has written or co-written over fifty books in the areas of theology, spirituality, ministerial excellence and spiritual formation, scripture, and healing and wholeness, including Faith in a Time of Pandemic; Become Fire: Guideposts for Interspiritual Pilgrims; The Mystic in You: Discovering a God-filled World; Finding God in Suffering: A Journey with Job; Process Theology: Embracing Adventure with God; and A Center in the Cyclone: Clergy Self-care for the 21st Century. Bruce and Kate Epperly's co-written Tending to the Holy: The Practice of the Presence of God in Ministry, was selected as the 2009 Book of the Year by the Academy of Parish Clergy. His most recent books include Prophetic Healing: Howard Thurman's Vision of Contemplative Activism and God Online: A Mystic's Guide to the Internet

Dr. Epperly speaks regularly throughout North America on subjects such as healing and wholeness, personal and congregational spiritual formation, process theology, ministerial spirituality and excellence, emerging Christianity, and contemporary movements in theology and spirituality. He has appeared on "Nightline," "ABC World News Tonight," and "PBS News Hour."

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Convergent Streams: The Premier ISM Magazine.

Book: Faith in a Time of Pandemic by Bruce Epperly.

This podcast is hosted by David Oliver Kling and produced by the Community of Saint George (The Young Rite).

Welcome to Episode 65! In this episode, I have the honor of interviewing The Reverend Steve Avino.

Steve is a sub-deacon within the Community of Saint George, a jurisdiction within the Young Rite (Youngriteusa.org). He is a graduate of North Central College with a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies and received a Masters in Religious Studies at Chicago Theological Seminary. He works as the Chief Operating Officer of the Parliament of the World's Religions and has dedicated his adult life to Interfaith work, including helping to organize the 2015 Parliament of the World's Religions in Salt Lake City and the 2018 Parliament of the World's Religions in Toronto.

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Convergent Streams: The Premier ISM Magazine.

This podcast is hosted by David Oliver Kling and produced by The Community of Saint George (The Young Rite).

Welcome to episode 64! In this episode, I have the honor of having Bishop David Strong back with us! He was the first interview on this podcast, back in episode 14, and he agreed to come back on – fifty episodes later! Can you believe it? We are on episode 64.

Bishop David Strong is the presiding bishop of the Apostolic Catholic Church in America, which is Sacramental, Sanctified, and committed to social justice.

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Convergent Streams: The Premier ISM Magazine.

This podcast is hosted by David Oliver Kling and produced by The Community of Saint George (The Young Rite).

Welcome to Episode 63! In this episode, I have the honor of interviewing the Reverend Doctor Trish Sullivan Vanni.

The Reverend Doctor Trish Sullivan Vanni Ph.D. is the pastoral director of Charis Ecumenical Catholic Community, the first Ecumenical Catholic Church in Minnesota where she serves as pastoral director. She is also an adjunct professor of theology at a local University. Trish has served as a consultant to parishes, dioceses and ministry professional associations in the areas of formation, vision casting, and mission development. An accomplished writer, she has written magazine articles and books published for the Catholic community. Trish received a Master of Divinity degree at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Roman Catholic ecclesiology and organizational leadership theory at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. She lives in Eden Prairie, Minnesota with her sculptor husband Peter, her mother, two of her three adult children and, with minimal harmony, a neurotic rescue dog and two senior citizen cats.

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Convergent Streams: The Premier ISM Magazine.

This podcast is hosted by David Oliver Kling and produced by The Community of Saint George (The Young Rite).

Welcome to episode 62! In this episode, I have the honor of interviewing Bishop Rob Lamoureux.

Bishop Rob Lamoureux was ordained to the priesthood in 2013, under the auspices of the Young Rite, and consecrated in 2015 while in the Apostolic Celtic Church, he returned to the Young Rite in 2019 and serves as the current Formation Director. Rob has had diverse training with various mentors, initiations, and formal education on Eastern and Western traditions. His work as a marriage and family therapist is his passion and where he spends a lot of his time. Rob sees his passion and work in therapy as his service and his mission and it has been ongoing since the 1990s, including working with the homeless, addicted and severe mental health issues in many forms, from housing to benefits, to jobs and placement. Once Rob was licensed, he specialized in interfaith/intercultural issues, families, couples, and relationships. Through the many years of studying with mentors and monastics, Rob found a deep love of esoteric and monastic traditions and founded a religious order called the Order of Mystics (OM), small esoteric tribal order forming under the Community of St. George/The Young Rite.

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Convergent Streams: The Premier ISM Magazine.

This podcast is hosted by David Oliver Kling and produced by The Community of Saint George (The Young Rite).

Welcome to Episode 61!

In this episode, I have the pleasure of welcoming back to the podcast Father Jerry Maynard. I interviewed Father Jerry in episode 55 and he wanted to return and I'm glad to have him! We talk a lot about Discipleship and related topics!

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Convergent Streams: The Premier ISM Magazine.

Book:

The Tao of Thomas Aquinas: Fierce Wisdom for Hard Times by Matthew Fox.

This podcast is hosted by David Oliver Kling and produced by The Community of Saint George (The Young Rite).

Welcome to episode 60, in this episode I have the honor of interviewing Father Shannon T.L. Kearns.

Father Shannon is a writer, speaker, and theologian. He is the co-founder of Queer Theology. He is also the founder of Uprising Theatre Company. He graduated from Union Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity and is an ordained priest in the Old Catholic Church. Fr. Shay is a sought-after speaker on queer theology, transgender issues, and the intersections of identity and faith. He's been published in Geez Magazine, Lavender Magazine, Believe Out Loud, and The Huffington Post, and featured in The Advocate and the Star Tribune. He is a Lambda Literary Fellow for 2019 and is part of the Finnovation Fellowship in 2019-2020.

Links:

Convergent Streams: The Premier ISM Magazine.

This podcast is hosted by David Oliver Kling and produced by The Community of Saint George (The Young Rite).

Welcome to Episode 59.

In this episode I have the honor of interviewing Bishop Rebecca Lee Pierce, she was recently consecrated a bishop within the Convergent Christian Communion at their recent General Assembly on February 16 of 2020. Bishop Rebecca has graduate degrees in nursing administration, health service administration, and health law. She has been a nurse, an educator, and an Air Force officer. She is retired from a long career in nursing but is starting her new vocation as a bishop.

Links:

Convergent Streams: The Premier ISM Magazine.

This podcast is hosted by David Oliver Kling and is produced by The Community of Saint George (The Young Rite).