The Inception Of Wonder

The Inception Of Wonder

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The Inception Of Wonder episodes

  • Ep. #60 ~ Pt. 2 Life In Community W/ Dr. Jenn Rombeek Burnett
    It has been way too long since I’ve been on the airwaves & in the
    podsphere! I’m finally able to get the second part of Dr. Jenn Rombeek
    Burnet’s & my conversation from a few months ago out to you!
    Friends, I must tell you that thee last few months have been extremely hard
    for me. Please have a listen to this episode as I share why & what to
    expect in the coming months.
    48 min
  • Ep. #59 ~ Pt. 1 Life In Community W/ Dr. Jenn Rombeek Burnett
    I met Jenn a little over a year ago during a cross Canada Zoom gathering of
    Christian leaders who were taking part in the New Leaf Network’s monthly
    Learning Centre. Since that time, Always smiling & with an infectious
    laugh, she brings a real down to earth joy to our gatherings. She also
    reveals some truly ingenious truths as to what it means to build & become a
    community.
    A few weeks ago she shared with us 3 P’s & an S to which hold her community
    in rhythm. They are:
    48 min
  • Ep. #58 ~ Am I Religious? Spiritual? Maybe... Both?
    Today’s episode is a short devotion where Erik share’s a blog post he wrote
    from 2011 titled ‘Am I Religious? Spiritual? Maybe... Both?’ (Seen Here).
    Share it, comment, & let it sit in your imagination while asking the same
    question… Are you religious? Spiritual? Or maybe… both?
    12 min
  • Ep. #57 ~ Pt. 2 Living In God's Country W/ Ron & Monelle Fraser
    Benga’s Grassy Mountain Coal Project has confronted my wife and I with
    great challenges in our lives. We were forced out of our property on the
    southern slopes Grassy Mountain four years ago, shortly after we discovered
    that Benga had included our property as part of the mine pit proper in
    their proposal to mine coal. This was done without our permission or
    knowledge. We have now reestablished on the Eastern slopes of the
    Livingston Range. As your constituent, I am writing to declare my profound
    dissatisfaction with your government’s decision to remove previous
    protections that restricted open pit coal mining in these crown of the
    continent areas, including the sensitive headwaters of the watershed. Tens
    of thousands of Albertans downstream depend on this water.
    1 hr 7 min
  • Ep. #56 ~ Pt. 1 Living In God's Country W/ Ron & Monelle Fraser
    oday I am excited to have my friends Ron & Monelle Fraser on the podcast!
    I’ve known them for about 20 years now since I started my theology studies
    back at Alberta Bible College in 2001. Ron was the President of Alberta
    Bible College at that time & would teach several of the courses I would
    take over the next four years. I always deeply appreciated his heart for
    God, the incredible wisdom & knowledge he would share, & his always being
    available to sit down after class with me & talk that little bit more about
    theology & the bottomless well of never ending questions that I seemed to
    always to have.
    They both have since retired now & live in southern Alberta on a horse farm
    in the shadows of the Crowsnest Pass. Bonnie & I had the opportunity to
    visit them out there a few years ago & as they both share in our
    conversation today, this is a great place to be in during a pandemic &
    having to to be in isolation. To give you a bit of a picture, the photo I
    used for this episode’s show notes & resources on theinceptionofwonder.com
    is shot on their property looking east at the mountain slopes footsteps
    from there back porch.
    1 hr
  • Ep. #55 ~ The Never Ending Story: The Eschaton W/ Rabbi Mark Glickman
    It is Easter… Resurrection Sunday & for some of us that means the rituals
    of Easter Bunny cards, chocolate filled colourful baskets, & the
    traditional Easter egg hunt with Grandpa & Grandma watching either in
    person or via Zoom. While for others it means an early morning rise to
    dress & prepare before going to or watching on screen the Sunday morning
    church service followed by the preparations of Easter Sunday dinner & the
    giving of thanks for Jesus’s resurrection from the dead. Of course, there
    could always be a mix of all those rituals & traditions together, too.
    For me, I arose early in bed & started the day by reading the resurrection
    accounts in each of the four gospels. It is intriguing to see the distinct
    differences in how even the first witnesses to Jesus’ resurrection remember
    the events perhaps in different perspectives.
    33 min
  • Easter Special ~ Holy Saturday: 'Silence' W/ Jason Tripp
    Today’s conversation is a Special Easter episode. Jason Tripp has joined
    the show again as Erik & him share insights into the Martin Scorsese film
    ‘Silence’. It begins with a short reflection into Holy Saturday & a short
    prayer followed by Jason’s & Erik’s dialogue.
    May this bring some inspiration to you as you look to Resurrection Sunday
    tomorrow.
    1 hr 8 min
  • Ep. #54 ~ The Never Ending Story: Atonement & Redemption W/ Rabbi Mark Glickman
    “The sign of the cross has become an image of fear for many Jews who
    remember how often it has been associated with their persecution and
    suffering. There are Jewish and Christian thinkers who maintain that the
    only real solution to this problem is a root-and-branch excision of
    atonement theology from Christianity itself. James Carroll puts it in
    typically unequivocal terms: "The cross must be reimagined, and
    deemphasized, as a Christian symbol." Belief in the atonement stands
    indicted for linking Christian salvation with demonization of Jews.”
    That was a quote from Mark Heim’s book ‘Saved From Sacrifice’ that I shared
    this past week & it started a firestorm in group discussion. Is the cross a
    relevant symbol for Christian faith today? What really matters about the
    cross in human atonement & salvation?
    53 min
  • Ep. #53 ~ The Never Ending Story: The Fall W/ Rabbi Mark Glickman
    It doesn’t take very long for any rational human being to look at our world
    & realize something is really really wrong. “Human beings [themselves
    alone], are by nature ravenous creatures; a famished craving haunts every
    one of us. We were created for utter happiness, joy, and life. But ever
    since we lost Eden, we have never known a day of total fullness; we are
    never filled in any lasting way. People are like cut flowers—we appear to
    be well, but we are severed from the vine. We are desperate, lustful
    creatures. We look to a marriage (or the hope of marriage), a child, our
    work, food, sex, alcohol, adventure, the next dinner out, the new
    car—anything to touch the ache inside us. We are ravenous beings.” Or at
    least, that is how the author John Eldridge has described us.
    But this is not just a human issue or struggle with sin in & of itself.
    This is a universal condition that has affected everything in & outside of
    creation. Perhaps not a common reflection but, I find myself contemplating
    the entrance of Lucifer into creation in the form…
    28 min
  • Ep. #52 ~ The Never Ending Story: Creation W/ Rabbi Mark Glickman
    There is a common understanding amidst those who study biblical texts that
    a four part narrative reveals itself within the flow of the story —
    Creation, the Fall, Redemption/Atonement, & the Eschaton. James Olthuis
    suggests that it is not so much a linear path way to the telling of the
    Devine story, but rather a spiral of converging forces revealing the never
    ending rhythms to, “God’s suffering love [as] the energizing surge of the
    cosmos, not in distance from, but as the cosmos’s intimate, indwelling,
    generative and regenerative dynamic.” In essence, the story of all that
    exists & its relationship with the Devine is never ending while the four
    themes play out in, around, & with one another.
    These ideas were already playing out in my head when I joined Rabbi Mark
    Glickman & father Adrien Martens in a conversation about the Fall. Mark
    Glickman dropped a bombshell upon me with how the Jewish community viewed
    the Fall & it sparked the idea to explore together the Jewish & Christian
    perspectives of these four themes.
    43 min

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This is a podcast that explores the stories of places & people as they encounter wonder & awe in life & community. The hope is that together we might overcome perceived personal &…