It's a scene from a movie...a young man gets into his car to run an errand and ends up on tribal land some 700 plus miles across two states, driving first on interstate, then state highway, then county road, then gravel road, and finally walking several miles to come upon a ceremonial building where an elder sits by the door. As he gets closer, the man looks up and says simply, "You're late." The young man then stays for three months studying shamanism with this elder.
This is just one of the many synchronicities my guest, Chaplain Thomas Stratman, experienced from early childhood through high school. We're talking spirituality on this episode, but not the out-of-body kind. This episode is about how spirituality and social activism can find a meeting point for service.
Chaplain Thomas is now a learned, wise elder himself, but his work has benefitted decades of the unhoused, incarcerated or hospitalized people along his path. Join us and prepare to have your perceptions challenged.