The Inception Of Wonder

By Erik Freiburger

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 & rela... more

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September 12, 2021 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.
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48min
June 13, 2021 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:
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48min
May 30, 2021 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?
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12min
May 23, 2021 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.
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1h 7min
May 02, 2021 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.
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1h
April 04, 2021 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.
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33min
April 03, 2021 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.
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1h 8min
March 21, 2021 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?
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53min
March 15, 2021 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…
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28min
March 07, 2021 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.
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43min

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The podcast currently has 61 episodes available.