Sunday Song and Rumination Radio Show

In this podcast, I touch again, on how we are in a time of fragmentation and division, but on how I am beginning to make peace with that. Making peace with something in our culture is often read as resignation.

This is my first Sunday Song and Rumination since springtime, and it shares a bit about what has been coming up for me. The nature of this talk runs the risk of rejection, but my hope is that because I've let it steep for a long time, and at times in silence, (letting go, allowing, letting go, allowing, returning), that it will at least be received as sincere, hopeful, and maybe even some much-needed fresh air.

My new album Liturgy will be out Nov 1st for all Patreon members, and Nov 28th for all non members. 

Today I came in from gardening to do my Sunday Song Radio show and still had dirt on my hands. 

An apt image for what I attempt to speak about this week in terms of my complicity in being part of the story of colonization.  How in light of the precious 215 children showing us more of the truth about Canada's history of genocide (which is ongoing).  

This week, without failing to hold accountable the people responsible for these specific heinous crimes, I point out the difference between the average person who is religiously Catholic, and how in fact, if we are settler immigrants, tied to any institution, land title, or inheritance, we are politically Catholic because of the doctrine of discovery. 

I also attempt to consider even deeper, the idea of how Jesus was standing in indigenous sovereignty when he performed his food miracles (if not ALL of his miracles).  To support indigenous sovereignty and to decolonize (unharness) our creative power, is a very Christic thing to do.   I saw that colonizer Jesus/historical Jesus meme floating around... and am definitely inclined toward the historical one, but I'm also complicit with the colonizer one.

A great hope that I have, is that many of you will continue to be patient with me, as you all know what it is like to do deep work. To sit in unknowing as you intuit that there is a constellation asking for you to put your ear to the thrum of the ground, staying open so the alignment can happen, and you can receive understanding.

Today's Sunday Song includes my song Fear Not (Adamah - of the Earth).

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In this episode, Alana recommends the book Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, as well as speaks into her process of letting it mirror her. 

Pointing out that often those at the center, or in the dominant caste, are led through healing journeys that can be hyper individualized, and the resiliency needed for collective healing, and decentering, can be hard to find, or to build.

She also references Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah's book Unsettling Truths - The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery, as well as Resmaa Manekem's book My Grandmother's Hands, and The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk.

The album Alana mentions, Sanctuary - Exploring the Healing Path, can be found on streaming platforms or at her gift economy store.

This week was taken up with writing an essay for an upcoming publication in April. The essay is called The Language of Praise: how we sing is how we see.

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This week I describe a method of praise that I've been developing in the last couple of years. Despite all evidence to the contrary, we are in a post-individual era, and that is another reason why people are leaving worship spaces that don't encounter the Whole inside of their expressions and rituals.

Further to last week's talk on the temptations and visions that Jesus had in the desert, Alana imagines how he got to the path he walked in his ministry. A radical abundance in the face of Roman occupation and scarcity.  Like he lived from the ground of his being, all the way down. 

Like... economics...  companies...  communities.

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In this episode, Alana does a talk about the creative process as a metaphor for the spiritual process. She parallels Jesus in the desert with the struggle to trust one's inner voice.

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