This podcast marks the transition between the weeks spent on The Prodigal Son and launching into the Gospel of John. Both of us have an arms length relationship with John, but are embracing the opportunity to see it through new eyes. Our premise is that John is a misused, oft abused gospel. It is frequently marked “the most evangelical of the gospels,” but one of our thoughts is that it may be one of the most radical gospels. Looking at all of John as a single, long, parable, rather than a collection of parables, we can learn to see it through the eyes of metaphor with nondual mind. It can be a book about individuation and personal transformation.

It can be really difficult and even painful to deconstruct beliefs and thought patterns, and I truly believe that the first moment the light shines in the darkness is the most painful. it is the moment of transition…but the day always lightens. There is an opportunity to ask how or if we want to grow in our concepts of the Sacred, in our limiting beliefs about Jesus, and even ourselves.

We are journeying together. There will be deaths of old patterns and there will be life where new ones are born. All of this we hope to fit in the context of today’s divided, hurting world in a way that offers possibilities for hope and healing. let us become boundary crossers: traverse the spaces between mind and spirit, self and other, sacred and profane.

A reminder of the two books we are primarily pulling from if you want to read along:

Mystical Christianity, by John A. Sanford & The Fourth Gospel, by John Shelby Spong.

Thanks for joining us! “See” you soon.