Six Ways From Sunday

Six Ways From Sunday

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Six Ways From Sunday episodes

  • I wanna know what LOVE is!
    Hope, Peace, Joy, and this week, Love. The fourth Sunday of Advent explores how we feel and express love, an emotion and force that can't be explained or defined but must be experienced, lived and shared in order to be understood. After this week we'll be taking a break from the podcast for the holidays and starting up again fresh for the New Year with another great season.  Merry Christmas!
    39 min
  • Where's the Joy this Christmas?
    It's the 3rd Sunday of Advent. We've been exploring Hope and Peace the last couple weeks, and now it's time to talk about Joy. Just like Peace is so much more than "the absence of conflict or violence", Joy too has so much depth and meaning to explore. Maybe by understanding true "JOY", we can find a bit more of it this Christmas season.
    32 min
  • PEACE - Creating a Sacred Moment
    "Peace is what's inside you that allows something creative and life-giving to happen." Sometimes, to get to that place of creating a sacred moment that lets Peace in, some hard work, conflict and difficult conversation, is required. This 2nd Sunday of Advent, Ben and Rev. Robin King explore what Peace really means and how we can bring it into the world around us.
    32 min
  • Christmas is Coming: Hope-Fully
    The first Sunday of Advent is this week, hopefully. Yes, hopefully, as in "it definitely is happening and we're so excited!". Is that how we're approaching Christmas this year? Is that how we bring Hope to others all through the year, and into our own times of joy or pain or uncertainty? Knowing that things will be ok, when nothing feels ok, is incredibly hard. This week we're talking about what it means to have faith in the face of hopelessness, and to share hope where it's needed most.
    32 min
  • Christ The King - What does that look like?
    He's not the "King" they were expecting, and the image that we have of Jesus even today is likely very different from his actual physical appearance. Our depictions of Jesus say a lot more about us than they do about him, and that's worth exploring as we come to the end of the church's calendar year before moving into the season of Advent.
    35 min
  • Does Size Matter?
    We are wired to seek validation, we love to feel significant and we seek recognition and attention in order to trust that our work and our lives matter. So how do we measure value, impact or success? Jesus reminds us that even the enormous stones of the temple will become rubble, just like our bodies - strong and beautiful in youth, will one day whither and break down. Time is precious, so we want it to count, we want to live big and have a big impact. Let's talk about whether size matters.
    34 min
  • Let's talk politics for a minute
    Our culture talks a lot about separating "Church" and "State". But we also have elected officials who frequently make claims to be doing God's work, and then lead us in a direction that looks anything but Christlike. Let's rewind 2,000 years. Jesus was a political activist. He also encouraged us to be discerning. Not only about what we support, vote for or donate money to, but also about what we believe. This week, we're talking politics.
    35 min
  • Why we created Halloween (oh, and "the Devil")
    All Hallows Eve, Trick-Or-Treating, and "the Devil". What are they, and why did we make them up? I know what you're thinking, "is this seriously a podcast of a Minister talking about Satan not being, real?". Well, yes. Yes it is. And we talk about lots of other fascinating stuff, too.
    34 min
  • Noah's Ark Pt 2 - Robin develops a midrash
    We all know the story from Sunday school, but what really happened inside the Ark? Why didn't the animals devour each other? Rev. Robin King explores a midrash (a story about a story) that goes deeper into the decks of Noah's Ark and offers some truth and wisdom for humanity, today.
    42 min
  • Is this the church Jesus wanted us to build?
    Jesus told his disciples (and us) that "I have come to serve, not to be served". So what does Jesus think of the church structures (physical and institutional) that we've built in His name over the last 2,018 years? Like the Noah's Ark story, the life and death of Jesus marked a new beginning. Maybe it's time to look at how we went from that fresh clean slate to where we are today.
    28 min

About Six Ways From Sunday

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Six Ways From Sunday is a podcast for open minded seekers and curious hearts. With a new episode every second Friday, we share personal stories of human spirituality and dive deep into the unanswerable questions that face us all. Guests over the last 6 years have included artists, activists, mental health specialists, Indigenous elders, grief and loss experts, ministers, therapists, LGBTQ2S+ leaders, a regenerative rancher and an entrepreneur who has summited Mount Everest. Welcome to this inquisitive and inclusive space where all ideas and beliefs centred in love are free to be shared and questioned.