Begin Again Podcast

The word "metanoia", which is often translated as "repent" is better understood as "change your mind." So, let's chat through the life of Peter, and chat through what it means to constantly be "chang...

17 Dec 202132min

On the 53rd anniversary of Thomas Merton's death, let's chat through contemplation, deep seeing, activism, false religion vs true religion, and learning to look at the world the same way that God migh...

10 Dec 202137min

On this episode we have one of my own personal pastoral and theological heroes, Brian Zahnd. He is the founding pastor of Word of Life Church in St. Joseph, Missouri and recently launched his most re...

4 Dec 202143min

Let's look at the feeding of the 5,000 in the Gospel of Matthew... from two perspectives: The Miraculous and the Materialist. Whether you consider yourself religious or not, I think you will be able ...

7 Juli 202128min

Over the years I have had a number of conversations that stop short as a result of starting to sound too "Eastern" in my understanding of spirituality. So, reflecting on that experience, I thought it...

7 Juni 202123min

The other day, I was working on a word document about 10 Commitments of a growth mindset. It takes conscious thought to keep growing, it doesn't happen accidentally, but it can be accelerated by bein...

25 Maj 202134min

- Borne out of some discussions I recently had over the Dark Night of the Soul, a recent Facebook post, and more, let's chat about the "Turf War" that need not exist between spirituality and therapy/p...

14 Maj 202126min

I came across the work of Julius Spradley of Contemplative Icons on social media. Iconography is an art form of depicting different saints and church figures, that is rooted in being theologically ac...

7 Maj 202142min