The Light in Every Thing
Deeper conversation on the mysteries of Christianity with Patrick Kennedy and Jonah Evans, directors of the Seminary of The Christian Community in North America.
In this podcast we engage the great questions of life and do this through a spiritual approach to Christianity made possible through contemplative inquiry and the science of the spirit known as Anthroposophy.
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Episodes
311 episodes
Re-Post: “Hell Fire and Christ Fire” - Episode 8 in the series, “Heaven and Hell”
In this final summer repeat of the heaven and hell series, Patrick and Jonah bring the conversation to the mystery of baptism. If the Christian path does not protect us by removing suffering, darkness, or adversarial forces from our lives, what...
Re-Post: “The Presence of our Enemies” - Episode 7 in the series, “Heaven and Hell”
In this summer repeat, Patrick and Jonah continue their series on heaven and hell by asking why Christian spirituality still speaks of enemies, adversaries, demons, and battle. Wouldn’t it be better to move beyond all language of conflict and d...
Re-Post: “Hell after Death” - Episode 6 in the series, “Heaven and Hell”
In this summer repeat, Patrick and Jonah continue their exploration of heaven and hell by asking what happens after death. If heaven is not simply a place we go forever, and hell is not merely a punishment imposed from outside, what is the soul...
Re-Post: “The Hell of False Light” - Episode 5 in the series, “Heaven and Hell”
In this summer repeat, Patrick and Jonah continue their exploration of heaven and hell by turning toward a surprising image: the false paradise. Beginning with Christ’s words to the criminal on the cross, “Today you will be with me in paradise,...
Re-Post: “Dust, Demons and Golgotha as Cosmic Battleground” - Episode 4 in the series, “Heaven and Hell”
In this summer repeat, Patrick and Jonah turn from the mystery of heaven toward the mystery of hell. Beginning again with Christ’s words in John 8, “I am the light of the world,” they ask what this light means in relation to darkness, death, an...
Re-Post: “Magicians and the Three Heavens“ - Episode 3 in the series, “Heaven and Hell”
In this summer repeat, Patrick and Jonah continue their conversation on heaven and hell by exploring the “three heavens”: the primal heaven from which we come and to which we return in sleep and death, the hidden kingdom of heaven now present o...
Re-Post: “Heavenly Forces” - Episode 2 in the series, “Heaven and Hell”
In this summer repeat, Patrick and Jonah continue their conversation on the mysteries of heaven and hell by exploring what it means for Christ to be “the Lord of the heavenly forces upon earth.” Beginning with John 8:12 and the image of Christ ...
Re-Post “Heaven and Hell” - Episode 1 in the series, “Heaven and Hell”
This (northern hemisphere) summer, we are reposting our September 2023 series on Heaven and Hell.In this opening episode, Patrick and Jonah explore what Christianity means by heaven, hell, earth, sky, and the “heavenly forces.” They ask ...
Salvation & the Second Death, Part 2, episode 15 in the series 'Salvation'
In this final episode before the summer break, Patrick and Jonah return to the mystery of salvation and the “second death.” Together, they explore freedom, judgment, the resurrection body, the soul as bride, Christ as bridegroom, and the danger...
Salvation & the Second Death, Part 1, episode 14 in the series 'Salvation'
What is the “second death,” and why does the communion service speak of Christ’s body and blood as preserving the life of the soul? In this first part of the season’s closing conversation, Jonah and Patrick explore the soul’s entanglement with ...
The Church, Cosmic Christianity & the Circle of Salvation, episode 13 in the series 'Salvation'
In this episode, Jonah and Patrick continue their exploration of the question of inclusion and exclusion. If Christ’s presence is universal, if he has entered into the life of all humanity, what does it mean for each person to recognize him fre...
Confessing Christ, episode 12 in the series 'Salvation'
Is conscious confession of Christ necessary for salvation? Moving through the liturgy of the Christian Community, the Gospel image of the sheep and goats, the writings of Paul, and Christ’s own descriptions of lordship and service, the conversa...
The Christ Offering, episode 11 in the series 'Salvation'
This week, we begin a new movement in our exploration of salvation—turning from the Trinity Epistle toward the mystery of the Eucharist. What does it mean that true salvation is connected not to self-preservation, but to self-offering? Drawing ...
Sight and Insight, Episode 10 in the series 'Salvation'
This week’s conversation brings the series on salvation to a close by turning toward a subtle but searching question: what does it mean to truly see?Moving through the threefold path of Father, Son, and Spirit, Jonah and Patrick...
Knowledge, Love, and Reincarnation, episode 9 in the series 'Salvation'
What does it really mean to be “saved”? In this episode, Jonah and Patrick continue their exploration of salvation—but move beyond familiar categories of heaven and hell into something far more immediate and challenging: the transformation of t...
The Conscious Self, Death, and Salvation, episode 8 in the series 'Salvation'
What if the central act of Christianity isn’t something to be fully understood—but something to be entered?On this Holy Thursday, Jonah and Patrick turn toward the mystery of the Last Supper: a meal that has shaped centuries of faith, ye...
The 'Healing God' and the Fallen Mind, episode 7 in the series 'Salvation'
In this episode of The Light in Everything, Jonah and Patrick continue their exploration of salvation by turning to the third movement of the Trinity-season epistle, where the Holy Spirit is named in a striking way as the Healing Go...
Creation, Golgotha, and Participating in Salvation, episode 6 in the series 'Salvation'
What if salvation isn’t about escape, but about transformation? In this episode, Jonah and Patrick trace a thread from Genesis to Easter, exploring how the pattern of creation itself—light entering darkness and bringing forth something new—may ...
The Creative Word Within Us, episode five in the series 'Salvation'
This week’s conversation continues the exploration of salvation by turning toward the creative activity at the heart of the Trinity. What does it mean to experience Christ not only as Savior, but as the living Word actively creating within us?<...
Creating and Salvation, episode four in the series 'Salvation'
In this episode of the Salvation series, Jonah and Patrick turn to the second movement of the Trinity epistle and explore what it means to experience Christ not only as presence, but as creative activity. If the first panel spoke ...
Our Consciousness & Three Chapters of Salvation, episode 3 in the series 'Salvation'
In this third episode of the Salvation series, Jonah and Patrick explore what Patrick calls the three chapters of our salvation. Beginning again with the Trinity epistle’s surprising starting point—conscious of our humanity—they ask ho...
Yeshua, Humanity & Salvation, episode 2 in the series 'Salvation'
In this episode of the Salvation series, Patrick and Jonah continue exploring what the word actually means and why it still matters.Beginning with the liturgical movement from Advent to Epiphany, they enter the Trinity Epistle and reflec...
Untangling the Term, the first episode in the series 'Salvation'
We begin a new series on salvation.It’s a word that can feel outdated, divisive, or misused. Yet beneath the discomfort, the human question remains: What saves us? What saves a culture? What saves us from ourselves?In thi...
Dan Mistak, the fourth interview in our series of Roadside Conversations
In this Roadside Conversation, Jonah speaks with outreach and admissions coordinator for the Seminary of the Christian Community in North America Dan Mistak about a life shaped by faith, rupture, and responsibility.Dan reflects on growi...
Rev. Nora Minassian, the third interview in the series of Roadside Conversations
Jonah sits down with Rev. Nora Minassian (Sacramento) for a Roadside Conversation on spiritual biography: growing up Armenian Christian in Aleppo, questions that wouldn’t let go, faith shaken in university, and the surprising ways anthroposophy...
