We sit down today with my good friend Thomas McConkie. Thomas has so much to offer us. Deeply grounded in Buddhism and meditation and an expert in explaining development and Thomas has a unique perspective on Jesus having chosen intentionally to live out his spiritual life in this moment in a fundamentalist sect of Christianity.… Read More »Mythical Jesus: 028: Thomas McConkie – Soul Changing Work

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Today we sit down with Geoff Fitch, one of the founders of Pacific Integral. Pacific Integral seeks to impact human development, leadership, and social change at the emergent edge of consciousness and action. Geoff and I sit down to talk about human development. What it means to leave a tribe, the fractures that make us… Read More »Mythical Jesus: 026: Geoff Fitch – Developmental Fracture

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In Episode 25 we explore Jesus’ use of parables and how using parables offers flexibility for the audience to learn based on their own stage of development.  We hit on the idea that Jesus interpretation is given to his apostles and closest disciples of which the author of these gospels was not present for.  That… Read More »Mythical Jesus: 025: Parables Spoken With Silence

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In this Episode of the Mythical Jesus Podcast we explore the affect we have on the world through both time and space.  By time and space we mean this.  How the actions or ripples we initiate have influence across time meaning now and into the future and how what happened in the past brought us… Read More »Mythical Jesus: 024: Seeds Scattered Across Time And Space

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Today We sit down with Bishop John Shelby Spong.  Jack is a retired American bishop of the Episcopal Church. From 1979 to 2000 he was Bishop of Newark (based in Newark, New Jersey). He is a liberal Christian theologian, religion commentator and author. He calls for a fundamental rethinking of Christian belief away from theism and… Read More »Christ Of Faith: 023: John Shelby Spong – Value Beyond Biblical Literalness

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Today we are in Mark 4: 21-25.  We often think when we have Truth on our side or more importantly when we have Wisdom on our side that putting such truth or wisdom out into the world, it will readily be accepted.  Truth be told, such is almost never the case.  Most people being in… Read More »Mythical Jesus: 022: Truth Takes Centuries

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Today we are in Mark 4: 1-8 which is the famous parable of the sower and the seed.  The Seed or the word (Christ within us) is cast about on various landscapes.  The path that is already and still constantly trodden, the ground full of thorny brush, the path covered with stones and rocks, and… Read More »Mythical Jesus: 021: The Sower and The Seed

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Today we are Mark chapter 3:20-34.  Jesus does something strange in these verses which is to seem to push back against his family and welcome in those who sit with him as family.   This event feels uncomfortable to us.  This feels anti-Jesus and yet there is a great lesson to be learned here.  That while… Read More »Mythical Jesus: 020: Those Who Sit With You

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This Episode is Audio from outside the Mythical Jesus Podcast.  This is a sermon from another faith on “Stages of Faith”. We revisit a series where we have taken audio where those of other faiths work to explain and teach the stages of faith.  Today is the South Edmonton Alliance. Here is a sermon given… Read More »Stages of Faith: South Edmonton Alliance

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