The Woodlands: A Place for Exploring the Spiritual Life

The Woodlands: A Place for Exploring the Spiritual Life

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The Woodlands: A Place for Exploring the Spiritual Life episodes

  • When Jesus Shows Up

    This podcast is the sermon I preached for Easter Sunday at The University of the South’s All Saints’ Chapel. The text for that day was John 20:1-18. It features Mary Magdalene’s encounter with the risen Jesus. I took the liberty of drawing on elements from the remainder of that chapter: Jesus’ appearance to the Apostles and then later his encounter with Thomas.



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    14 min
  • Being True to Yourself Part 2

    This week’s episode is part two of a two-part discussion of the sources of our sense of self and what it means to be true to yourself. It’s the fourth in a series of talks based A Full-Hearted Life that I gave at the Clergy Conference of the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa. Part One dropped last week.



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    29 min
  • Being True to Yourself Part 1

    This week’s episode is part one of a two-part discussion of the sources of our sense of self and what it means to be true to yourself. It’s the fourth in a series of talks based A Full-Hearted Life that I gave at the Clergy Conference of the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa. Part Two (and the final episode in the series) drops next week.



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    22 min
  • Finding Meaning

    This week’s episode examines the sources of meaning in our life. It’s the third in a series of talks based A Full-Hearted Life that I gave at the Clergy Conference of the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa.



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    36 min
  • Choosing to Believe in God?

    This week’s episode examines the existential reasons for believing in God. It’s the second in a series of talks based A Full-Hearted Life that I gave at the Clergy Conference of the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa.



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    38 min
  • The Challenge of our Secular Age

    This week’s episode examines the existential challenges of this secular age. It’s the first in a series of talks based on A Full-Hearted Life that I gave for the Clergy Conference of the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa.



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    28 min
  • Spirituality and Mental Health

    Our guest this week is Rob Hirschfeld, Bishop of New Hampshire and author of With Sighs too Deep for Words: Grace and Depression.



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    54 min
  • Remember That You Are Dust

    This Ash Wednesday Reflection is free for all listeners. In it we discuss what our mortality teaches us about the source of meaning in life.



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    10 min
  • Faith and Mystical Experience

    If there are going to be Christians in the future, they’re going to be mystics.—Karl Rahner

    This episode is free for everyone.



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    15 min
  • A Life-Giving Awareness

    Etty Hillesum found hope even in the midst of the Holocaust. Listen to her story.



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    11 min

About The Woodlands: A Place for Exploring the Spiritual Life

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The Woodlands helps you see grace at work in the everyday, navigate life’s challenges with courage, deepen your relationship with God, and live with love, hope, and purpose in this complex world.…