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It was a deep joy for many of us to welcome Peter Mayer to our live gathering in Minnesota. This episode includes an interview of Peter to get to know him a little and quickly go a little deeper. It also includes his song, "Holy Now."
Leddy Hammock Lyrics from “Holy Now” by Peter Mayer: “When I was in Sunday school, we would learn about the time Moses split the sea in two and Jesus made the water wine . . . .” “I remember feeling sad, miracles don't happen still, and now I can't keep track, ‘cause ev'rything's a miracle . . . .” “When holy water was rare at best, it barely wet my fingertips. Now, I have to hold my breath, like I'm swimmin' in a sea of it. . . .” “This mornin' outside I stood. I saw a little red wing bird, shining like a burning bush and singing like a scripture verse. It made me want to bow my head. I remember when church let out. How things have changed since then. Everything is holy now.”
yesterday, i got on my bike. i went to the art show and i saw some art. i called my sister. i ate some cookies. we went to the other art show and saw more art. we went to the other other art show and saw even more art. i went to get a burrito and onion rings. i went to another place to eat it. we played cards. i biked home. i watched an episode of an old super hero television show. i went to sleep. i woke up. i made breakfast. i ate breakfast. i took a shower. i went to the farmar. we picked up donations. i went to the post office. i mailed some shirts. i went home. i made lunch. i worked on this radio show. here it is.DOWNLOAD/STREAM RECORDING00:00 (intro by omar)00:20 Garbage Dreams “Backlash” Demonstrations03:15 Holy Now “Dream” Sorry I messed up06:48 Skirts “accident” abcdefg sides08:57 VARSITY “Taken By Surprise” The Basement Takes (2015-2016)11:53 Mal Devisa “In My Neighborhood” kiid15:13 Ings “Chex Mix” lullaby rock17:45 little star “all the time” humiliation (august-november demos)21:03 Ice Cream “Peanut Butter” FED UP24:12 Nothings “Physicality” Too Much27:09 Body Lens “Fixing” Body Lens30:02 Lazy Legs “Clotheater” Moth Mother32:21 Cat Princess “Too Soon” Forbidden Items35:59 Instant Bin “Entropy” There’s Something Poisonous in the Water38:30 Lost Film “It’s Fine” Zero Summer41:52 Cesar Ruiz “Sacred” Selected Anthem Works Vol.145:08 Brunch “I’m Uncomfortable” The Golden Age48:28 Baby Jessica “Grieving” Cry51:32 Yung KP “Art School” Baker EP53:56 Candy “Familiar” Everything In Motion56:29 Family Video “Cloud Dancers” Forever Changes Overnight59:50 RILLA “Jupider” RILLA62:19 Separate Spines “Different Clouds” Cut Up The Rainbow64:45 Fran “So Surreal” A Private Picture67:19 Nylex “Century of Faking” Plastic for People69:19 Salad Boys “This Issue” This Issue b/w Onwards And Downwards
In this episode, Rev Karla discusses 5 practical and simple ways to reclaim your spirituality, heal your religious trauma, and to know what it truly means to be on the spiritual-but-not-religious path. You can read more on this topic from Rev Karla in this week's blog post and watch the uncut version of this episode on her YouTube channel, Spirituality Matters. Additional resources for this episode include: 'Holy Now' by Peter Mayer, Holy Now lyrics, Hunter-Gatherers and the Origins of Religion, The 8 Oldest Religions in the World, Why the Worlds Religions are Dying a Slow Death
Dec. 4, 2022Talk Title: Don't Leave Yourself OutAs you make your plans for the month ahead, make plans for self-care as well. It's a great way to bless others.Speaker: Kathianne Lewis, DDDecember Theme: A Season of Magic, Mystery, and MiraclesKathianne Lewis, CSL Spiritual Director shares these thoughts during the Holiday Season:“One of my favorite songs that many of us enjoy during our Sunday services is, Everything is Holy Now.I need to remember that when the demands of Holiday activities start to heat up right after Thanksgiving (or before). I can get lost in to-do lists, the need to get gifts for family and friends and the desire to connect with those I love. It's a lot to pack into an already busy schedule of work, animal care and time with my husband. If I go through December with my hair-on-fire, I might miss the Magic of Good Will to my fellow humans, the Mystery of Sacred Oil that lasted longer than expected, or the Miracle of Divine Incarnation. My prayer is that CSL is not only a place of Celebration for all who visit or tune in, but also a place of respite and renewal.I invite you to join us as we focus on Magic, Mystery, and Miracles.”
Fr. Mark Mary gives us some practical advice on how to be Holy NOW! Website: www.romeboys.org
Presence in this Moment, Holy Now, Mindfulness, Genuineness. Ministry of Lightness & Joy. Awareness of Nature, Friends, & Family. The Question as Quest-i-on, the "Quest I On" - Laurence Boldt. Buddhism, Thich Nhat Hanh, Conditions for Happiness. Direct Experience of Sacredness. (Music: Courtesy of Adrian Von Ziegler, “Your Dying Heart.” )
Peter Fitch wonders about the meaning of the old phrase, “the beauty of holiness.” Different people give their ideas about what it might mean in light of their experiences in life. Peter then imagines it through the eyes of Martin Buber. What if it had more to do with appreciating the beauty of each thing we are observing and each person we talk with, than it does with the religious baggage it’s acquired over the years? This service began with an instrumental by Jon Balcarrass, then a video of Matisyahu's song, "One Day." After the talk, we listened to a recording by Dean Clark of Peter Mayer's song, "Everything is Holy Now." Then we watched a video collage of beautiful images as we listened to Jackson Browne's song, "Alive in the World." On video and podcast, the morning talk starts at the 14:30 mark. The post Holy Beauty appeared first on St. Croix Church.
"Holy Now" by Peter Mayerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai_ICmpP4Jo
Taking a look at the Easter Sunday Service, Rev. Mike and Malayna somehow also squeeze in ventriloquism and dummies, Joseph Campbell and Thou Art That, myth and symbolism of the transcendent, pagan elements like eggs and bunnies, the world's first author - a Sumerian high priestess worshipping Inanna, from being heartbroken to broken open, 12-step truisms. all the characters in the Passion Story, the Stations of the Cross for an alter boy name Michael, psychotic teachers, Albert King blues song, clarifying our intentions for affirmations, Rev. Mike sings "I Wanna Know What Love Is", Rachel Wiesz as Hypatia in the movie Agora, obsessing over celestial bodies and alignment of lunar and solar calendars, The Great Courses, sailing at night under a full moon, wandering stars and incorrect assumptions, ghosts and the paranormal, levitation and its practical application, Buddha's teachings paraphrased, planting beans, Power of 8 Prayer for Rev.Mike and his mom, love of trees and planting a forest, if trees could talk and sentience, the covid virus, bats and living in harmony with nature, mutations and change, guppies and mosquitoes, etymology of God and getting hung up on words, the algorithm, the goddesses Ostara and Eostre, Rosie the Riveter revisited - front line medical worker art from New Orleans by Terrance Osborne, what remains and endures, Gibson guitars, why "Everything is Holy Now" get him watery-eyed, and let's play "stump the Rev."
Recorded live Sunday, April 7th, 2019 , Everything is Holy Now, by the Reverend Florence Caplow Janet Barrett, Worship Associate Matthew Gladden, Piano & Keyboard; Laura Robinson, Soloist Click to play this service recording, or subscribe to our podcasts in the iTunes store to download new episodes automatically to your computer or smartphone. See the Podcast Guide for more help.
Rev. Dr. Roger L. Ray is the pastor of Community Christian Church of Springfield (Missouri). He holds masters and doctoral degrees in divinity from Vanderbilt University as well as a bachelors in philosophy from Murray State University. He was a 2004 Merriell Fellow at Harvard Divinity School. Dr. Ray writes a religion and ethics column for the Springfield News-Leader. He is also the author of Christian Wisdom for Today: Three Classic Stages of Spirituality, as well as various journal and magazine columns. Dr. Rays' sermons have been published in several professional journals and popular collections, and are currently available to a growing audience by way of audio podcast and the church's youtube channel. Theme song "Holy Now" courtesy of Peter Mayer.
John Haught is a leading Roman Catholic evolutionary theologian and Senior Fellow in Science and Religion at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University. His passion is systematic theology informed by science, cosmology, ecology, and evolution. He’s the author of Making Sense of Evolution; Christianity and Science: Toward a Theology of Nature; and a dozen other important books in the field. Professor Haught has inspired an entire generation of Christian leaders who fully embrace a deep-time, deeply ecological worldview. This conversation, sparked by two of Dowd's Huffington Post blog entries, "New Theists: Knowers, Not Believers" and "God: Personification ≠ Person," clarifies why more than one approach to Evolutionary Christianity is both legitimate and important. Here, John and Michael discuss naturalism, supernaturalism, and what John calls "a third way" between the two, inspired by the work of renowned 20th century theologian Paul Tillich. Theme song "Holy Now" courtesy of Peter Mayer.
Peter Mayer's latest CD is filled with the classic, powerful, "jaw-dropping" songwriting and musicianship that he is known for in songs like "Holy Now" and "God Is A River." Heaven Below is classic Peter with superbly crafted songs of unity, social action, love and life, filled with amazing detail and visual impact that will stay in your memory long after the music has stopped.
Michael Morwood began making waves in Catholic circles in the late 1990s with the publication of his book, Tomorrow’s Catholic. Catholic laity who had been struggling with ancient scriptural views of redemption found Morewood’s modern and scientifically informed perspective salvific. Unfortunately, the Catholic hierarchy deemed that perspective heretical. The book was banned and Father Morwood was silenced in 1998. Soon thereafter he ended his 29 years in the priesthood. Since then, Michael Morwood has become one of the most valued expositors of a naturalistic and evolutionary form of Christianity—for Catholics and beyond. See also his 2004 book, Praying a New Story. Theme song "Holy Now" courtesy of Peter Mayer.
Ian Lawton is executive minister of C3Exchange: An Inclusive Spiritual Community, in Spring Lake, Michigan. Michael Dowd engaged Ian in conversation just two weeks before the scheduled removal of the 65-foot cross of this former affiliate of the Reformed Church of America. (Soon after, Ian was interviewed on Fox News about the controversy.) Independent since 1997, the congregation called Ian in 2004. Many more changes ensued, leading to the removal of the cross and a new identity in 2010. The former Christ Community Church is now C3 Exchange, and it is in the vanguard of liberal/evolutionary religious reform in America. According to his church profile, though trained at a conservative Anglican seminary in his native Australia, "Ian was always more interested in connecting with the people who don't go to church: the homeless people, the broken people, the creative people, the liberated people, the recovering people, the inquiring people, the family people, those who put their humanity before their ideology." A local news report on the cross removal quotes Ian as saying, "We honor the cross, but the cross is just one symbol of our community." The news article explains, "Lawton gave a sermon March 21 likening using the cross as a symbol of Christ's life to using a bullet to remember Martin Luther King Jr." A community-wide meeting generated an outpouring of support for the way C3 is evolving. The C3 website offers an archive of all sermons online in audio or video format, and is accessible in podcast form as an RSS feed. Note: If you google "Ian Lawton," the primary choices (including Wikipedia) pertain to an unrelated Ian Lawton who researches and writes books on spirituality, reincarnation, and past lives. That Ian is not our colleague Ian Lawton. Theme song "Holy Now" courtesy of Peter Mayer.
Bruce Sanguin serves Canadian Memorial United Church of Canada in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he leads his congregation in a progressive form of Christianity in their mission of "exploring the Christian tradition through an evolutionary model." Rev. Sanguin meshes his evolutionary perspective with Integral Spirituality (following Ken Wilber) and with Spiral Dynamics (following Don Beck). His three books are: Summoning the Whirlwind: Unconventional Sermons for a Relevant Christian Faith (2006); Darwin, Divinity, and the Dance of the Cosmos: An Ecological Christianity (2007) and; The Emerging Church: A Model for Change and a Map for Renewal (2008). He is the coauthor of a curriculum, "Experiencing Ecological Christianity" (2008). Theme song "Holy Now" courtesy of Peter Mayer.
John Shelby Spong is one of the best known and most highly regarded leaders in the movement within Christianity to evolve faith in step with modern times and humanity's collective intelligence. During his tenure as Episcopal Bishop of Newark, John Shelby Spong (known to friends as "Jack") was regarded as a fearless advocate for church reform -- a hero to some, a heretic to others. Spong, who retired from professional ministry in 2000, was the first to ordain an openly gay priest, and he called for Christians worldwide to leave behind premodern religion in favor of a liberal, progressive, ever-evolving faith. Spong's best-selling books include Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism • Why Christianity Must Change or Die • A New Christianity For a New World • The Sins of Scripture • and Jesus for the Nonreligious. He also has a personal website. Theme song "Holy Now" courtesy of Peter Mayer.