Signposts (Formerly Lessons From Dead Guys)

Mystic Mondays | The Humanity of God

Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less! In the fifth Mystic Monday episode we hear from the trinitarian theogian and Cappadocian Father Gregory of Nazianzus. The selection(s) for this episode comes from a his work ”Oration 45, for Easter.”Subscribe to the Signposts email list! Want to stay up to date on all Signposts and other projects I’m working on? Then click this link and come join me as we explore the wild paths together! Support the show!You can support the show via Patreon and for as little as $1 a month to get access to episodes before anyone else and the first dibs on any other content I create. Music provided by Alex Sugg, and songsforstory.comSupport the show

Mystic Mondays | That Out of Which Life Comes is That Into Which Life Goes

Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less! In the fourth Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Contemplative and Civil Rights Activist Howard Thurman. The selection for this episode comes from a his work “ Deep River: Reflections on the Religious Insight of Certain Negro Spirituals.” Subscribe to the Signposts email list! Want to stay up to date on all Signposts and other projects I’m working on? Then click this link and come join me as we explore the wild paths together! Support the show!You can support the show via Patreon and for as little as $1 a month to get access to episodes before anyone else and the first dibs on any other content I create. Music provided by Alex Sugg, and songsforstory.comSupport the show

Mystic Mondays | Laughter came from every brick

Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less! In the third Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Carmelite nun, reformer, and contemplative mystic Teresa of Avila. The selection for this episode comes from a very short poem she wrote that titled “Laughter came from every brick.”“The poems of St. Teresa always speak of God. They speak of Him as something as natural as the air one breathes. She does not tender fanciful arguments to prove that God exists. Her poems express to us the reality of God himself because she herself has found Him.”-Daniel LadinskySubscribe to the Signposts email list! Want to stay up to date on all Signposts and other projects I’m working on? Then click this link and come join me as we explore the wild paths together! Support the show!You can support the show via Patreon and for as little as $1 a month to get access to episodes before anyone else and the first dibs on any other content I create. Music provided by Alex Sugg, and songsforstory.comSupport the show

Mystic Mondays | What makes us think that God has gone away?

Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less! In the second Mystic Monday episode we hear from the father of Centering Prayer and Trappist Monk Thomas Keating. The selection for this episode comes from a very short meditation entitled The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation.Subscribe to the Signposts email list! Want to stay up to date on all Signposts and other projects I’m working on? Then click this link and come join me as we explore the wild paths together! Support the show!You can support the show via Patreon and for as little as $1 a month to get access to episodes before anyone else and the first dibs on any other content I create. Music provided by Alex Sugg, and songsforstory.comSupport the show

Wrestling with the Text (Fixed)

This past weekend I was privileged to be able to preach at the church where I am on staff. I thought it would be fun to share that sermon here on the podcast as a type of bonus/semi-unplanned episode. The texts I preached on were Genesis 32:22-31, 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5, and Luke 18:1-8. In this sermon, I talk about how parables as a mode of communication that demand action and how we can not simply just ignore the problematic and difficult passages that we encounter in the pages of the scriptures. Ps. The audio quality is not great because I had to record it on the iPad I was preaching from. Subscribe to the Signposts weekly email! Want to stay up to date on all Signposts and other projects I’m working on? Then click this link and come join me as we explore the wild paths together! Support the show!You can support the show via Patreon and for as little as $1 a month to get access to episodes before anyone else and the first dibs on any other content I create. Music provided by Alex Sugg, and songsforstory.comSupport the show