In the fourth episode of our series, Jonah asks Patrick to unfold one perspective of the nature of "hell." Beginning with imagery from scripture of "the pit" and "Gehenna," he turns to the "realm of dust," or the place that is most "distant" from God. This leads to the cosmic question: "who is the ruler of the earth?" The conversation then reveals what happened on the mount known as "Golgotha" as a cosmic battle between the demonic powers, "the prince of this world" and Christ. Human beings, finding themselves in the middle of this battle, can experience how it is also a battle for their very souls.

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In the third episode of our ”Heaven and Hell” series, Jonah and Patrick continue to explore the reality of heavenly forces on earth. How do we experience these moral forces or powers on earth and how do we participate in and with them? Human beings themselves have the possibility of shining with heavenly forces. Only here on earth can we become the stars God is hoping for: conscious, free individuals who have learned to embody sacrificial love. In doing so, with Christ having prepared the Way, both earth and heaven will be transformed.

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We begin the second episode of our series "Heaven and Hell" looking up at the "skies." In the ancient understanding, and still in many languages, the word for "sky" and the "heavens" were one and the same. For modern consciousness, particularly in English, the heavens are no longer in the skies. Where is heaven for us? In the renewed form of the Christian Creed in the movement for religious renewal, we speak of Christ as "the Lord of the heavenly forces upon earth.” Patrick and Jonah lead us through how these powers of the skies have come to earth and reside as potentials within human beings, how we are meant to shine out into the world, like the stars above, individually and in relationship with others, and how this shining light and warmth - now wisdom and love - are forces bestowed upon us from their true, divine source.

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Thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who composed our theme music, “Seeking Together."

Welcome to Season 4 of The Light in Every Thing! In this first episode of our new series “Heaven and Hell,“ Jonah and Patrick begin a process of re-christening our consciousness so that we can gain a true and living picture of what Christian tradition has called “heaven and hell.” What are the realities that these older terms refer to? And what do these realities of heaven and hell have to do with human evolution, with Christ‘s working on earth, and with our lived human experience today?

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Thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who composed our theme music, “Seeking Together."

Please enjoy this brief message from Jonah and Patrick fresh from their most recent travels and the opening of the Seminary this week to on-site students! Patrick and Jonah have promised to get into the “big” topics this year: heaven and hell, the nature of the Spirit, the nature of the human spirit, and many other challenging questions.

We hope you share their excitement for the coming year! The first episode of Season 4 of The Light in Every Thing will post next week.

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Thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who composed our theme music, “Seeking Together."

Dear Patreon Community,

Today is our final sharing from the seminary Open Course “Becoming the Image of God” held last June in Toronto. Both Patrick and Jonah share the stage for a final exploration of this very important theme of human becoming.

Season 4 of The Light in Every Thing is coming soon!

This presentation is typical of the bonus content available to our Patreon community. Please consider becoming a patron! Our entry level Patreon tier remains $36 USD per year. All donations support the Seminary of The Christian Community of North America in providing a full priests training funded by gift money from around the world.

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The Light in Every Thing is a podcast of The Seminary of The Christian Community in North America. Learn more about the Seminary and its offerings at our website. This podcast is supported by our growing Patreon community. To learn more, go to www.patreon.com/ccseminary.

Thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who composed our theme music, “Seeking Together."

We are wrapping up the summer by releasing Days 4 and 5 of last June’s Seminary Open Course “Becoming the Image of God” in the same week! We hope you enjoyed this opportunity to listen in on a seminary course and experience the lively exchange that characterizes student life led by Jonah and Patrick.

Very soon, they will return to begin Season 4 of The Light in Every Thing!

This presentation is typical of the bonus content available to our Patreon community. Please consider becoming a patron! Our entry level Patreon tier remains $36 USD per year. All donations support the Seminary of The Christian Community of North America in providing a full priests training funded by gift money from around the world.

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Thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who composed our theme music, “Seeking Together."

This week you are invited into Day 3 of the seminary Open Course ”Becoming the Image of God.” Jonah Evans takes the next step in our exploration together of the mystery of what it means to be shaped into the image and likeness of God. Jonah turns our attention to the Holy Spirit—the spirit that shapes us, the spirit that is molding us into a new human. What is this Holy Spirit and how do we cultivate our relationship to it?

We hope you enjoy this Open Course offering. Next week we will be sharing our final two presentations. And very soon, the long awaited beginning to Season 4 of The Light in Every Thing!

This presentation is typical of the bonus content available to our Patreon community. We are offering special access this summer to those who stream the podcast via other platforms. Please consider becoming a patron! Our entry level Patreon tier remains $36 USD per year. All donations support the Seminary of The Christian Community of North America in providing a full priests training funded by gift monies.

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The Light in Every Thing is a podcast of The Seminary of The Christian Community in North America. Learn more about the Seminary and its offerings at our website. This podcast is supported by our growing Patreon community. To learn more, go to www.patreon.com/ccseminary.

Thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who composed our theme music, “Seeking Together."

The Open Course presentations continue this week with Day 2 of “Becoming the Image of God.” Patrick Kennedy develops the theme further by looking at Peter’s denials of Christ Jesus in John 21: 15-16 , and how through those denials Peter’s love for Christ is transformed to the point of being willing to die in His name. How is it that Christ’s life is revealed through death? How is it that Christ’s life is revealed through our loving sacrifice?

Thank you for bearing with the less than perfect audio. We felt the content was worth the extra challenge! Once again you are ’in the room’ with the directors, distance learning students and Open Course participants. We hope you enjoy!

This presentation is typical of the bonus content available to our Patreon community. We are offering special access this summer to those who stream the podcast via other platforms. Please consider becoming a patron! Our entry level Patreon tier remains $36 USD per year. All donations support the Seminary of The Christian Community of North America in providing a full priests training funded by gift monies.

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The Light in Every Thing is a podcast of The Seminary of The Christian Community in North America. Learn more about the Seminary and its offerings at our website. This podcast is supported by our growing Patreon community. To learn more, go to www.patreon.com/ccseminary.

Thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who composed our theme music, “Seeking Together."

This week we invite you to listen to the first presentation from last June’s Seminary Open Course, “Becoming the Image of God.” Patrick Kennedy begins the theme with these stirring thoughts:

“From now on, you could say, the whole work of God with humanity is how will human beings be re-created, have an experience of being newly created, so that in our humanity we are revealing the divinity? That is actually the whole hope of the entire purpose of the earth from the perspective of Christianity.”

We hope you enjoy this opportunity to be ‘in the room’ with the directors, distance learning students, and Open Course participants. Over these last weeks of summer we will be sharing all five presentations as preparation for a new season of The Light in Every Thing.

This presentation is typical of the bonus content available to our Patreon community. We are offering special access this summer to those who stream the podcast via other platforms. Please consider becoming a patron! Our entry level Patreon tier remains $36 USD per year. All donations support the Seminary of The Christian Community of North America in providing a full priests training funded by gift monies.

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The Light in Every Thing is a podcast of The Seminary of The Christian Community in North America. Learn more about the Seminary and its offerings at our website. This podcast is supported by our growing Patreon community. To learn more, go to www.patreon.com/ccseminary.

Thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who composed our theme music, “Seeking Together."