Dec 31, 2019
Welcome to Spei Lumina — Light’s of Hope podcast.
The year 2020 is unfolding at our doorstep in the next day, hours, and depending on when you listen to this podcast it may have already unfolded. I am not one for New Years resolutions. I hate the guilt and frustration that arises within myself when I make “new...
Dec 30, 2019
In our last episode we began the Advent season with a look at the Nag Hammadi text titled “The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth” which probably dates to the 2nd and 3rd century and appears to be some form of an initiation rite into a visionary journey.
I thought as we wind down the year 2019 and prepare for the...
Dec 2, 2019
This episode is being recorded on the 1st Sunday of Advent. Advent is a season of anticipation, hope and light. It is one of my favorite seasons of the liturgical calendar as it comes into place just as the days are getting noticeably shorter and the nights are getting noticeably longer. Just as the autumn warmth of...
Nov 19, 2019
We’ve heard a lot about quid pro quo in the news cycles these days. All this talk about the funding to the Ukraine allegedly being tied up and not released unless the Ukraine leader investigated the Bidens helped me to realize just how often we fall into the same pattern with our prayer life to God. Our prayers...
Oct 7, 2019
From the Amazon rainforest wildfires to the September 20th international youth climate change strike from school, to Greta Thunberg’s Sept. 23 speech at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit, to the breaking news of Italy’s Mont Blanc Glacier’s immanent collapse, the global climate crisis has been front and center in...