Season 5 Drops October 15th!

Hi Friends,

Please pardon my somewhat quiet August. It seems the digital content creation demands do not easily line up with the creative flow. I’ve been a bit blank to be brutally honest with you. However, in this fallow season I’ve been finalizing what I believe to be our best podcast season yet, and it drops on October 15!

Just in time for the election, our first episode is with Scott Coley. His new book, Ministers of Propaganda, exposes the inner workings of the religious right’s propaganda machine—and how conservative Christians can’t seem to resist it. In episode two we sit down with psychologist and mythologist Dr. Sharon Blackie to discuss Celtic spirituality, ecofeminism, and the power of myth, storytelling, and folk traditions. From there we will further explore the spiritual and physical power of “rewilding” with Rachel Wheeler. Other episodes of note include a conversation with John Philip Newell, Mark Vernon, Scot McKnight, Bekah McNeel, Regina Cates, Liz Grant, and award-winning scientist Rupert Sheldrake! I can’t wait!

At some point in your faith seeking journey, it is time to move forward, to drop your weapons, and find a new spiritual path. I hope this season and these conversations will encourage you to keep moving forward in your search for a more expansive and transformative spiritual container. As my friend and spiritual guide Father Brendan E. Williams shared last time:

“The only way through this phenomenon in a lasting and sustainable way is to come to a place where you feel you’ve deconstructed all you can or need to, and then to move fully, with your whole heart and mind, into a productive rather than a deconstructive phase, in alignment with one tradition or another. It really doesn’t matter what it is, as long as it provides depth you can truly sink into, a comprehensive and sensible worldview you can inhabit and test experientially, and practical tools for living a meaningful, virtuous spiritual life. And of course it should be free of dominator ideology. There is a whole world of religious inquiry and experience out there to be explored. And, blessedly, most of it doesn’t look anything like the religiosity you’ve known in the past and have spent these last number of years nobly and intelligently deconstructing. After the fire, there must come a season of new growth.”

May this season be one of new growth, fresh spiritual experiences, and enough depth to keep you searching for more.

I look forward to walking this road with you.

Gary Alan Taylor