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Shadow and Soul: Into the Labyrinth
Jun 5, 2026
1h 01m 19s
In a Locked Room with Six Big Ideas
Apr 9, 2026
38m 14s
Examen, AI and 3 Kinds of People
Jan 17, 2026
55m 49s
Risk Longing: On the First Day of Advent
Nov 30, 2025
35m 28s
Maybe you need a Blessing
Nov 25, 2025
53m 09s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/5/26 | ![]() Shadow and Soul: Into the Labyrinth | Here's an episode exploring the human shadow. I offer here an image of the psyche, a way to think about projection, and a myth that helps. Enjoy! | 1h 01m 19s | ||||||
| 4/9/26 | ![]() In a Locked Room with Six Big Ideas✨ | poetryEnneagram+3 | — | — | — | Robert BlyEnneagram+4 | — | 38m 14s | |
| 1/17/26 | ![]() Examen, AI and 3 Kinds of People | It's the time of year to do a like searching spiritual inventory, a Great Annual Examen. This requires discernment, a word that's not all that common anymore. I also want to talk a little about AI and about becoming the kind of person who joins the Cosmic Dance. Happy New Year. Enjoy! | 55m 49s | ||||||
| 11/30/25 | ![]() Risk Longing: On the First Day of Advent | A winter storm canceled church, so here's a sermon of sorts. Enjoy! | 35m 28s | ||||||
| 11/25/25 | ![]() Maybe you need a Blessing | Happy Thanksgiving! Here are a few thoughts on blessing, pilgrimage, monastic creativity, and the new dark age. Wishing you all many blessings. May the road rise to meet you. Enjoy! | 53m 09s | ||||||
| 10/13/25 | ![]() Shadow and the Prophetic Imagination | The ancient prophets were something like the first shadow detectors, and had the courage to externalize their vision of the world. What ever happened to such prophetic imagination? Are there any lessons we can metabolize from the prophets in our age of madness? What would it be like to stand between the way of power and the way of denial, a creative alternative to the tantalizing polls of scapegoating and blame? Enjoy! | 55m 51s | ||||||
| 9/17/25 | ![]() Covenant with Limit | I'm borrowing this phrase "covenant with limit" from Martin Shaw. Perhaps it's time to reconsider how freedom is actually found. In this episode, I discuss briefly Wendell Berry's poem Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front, the ancient art of fasting, and the imaginative possibility that we might want to make a covenant with limits before we go mad in the wrong direction. Enjoy! | 41m 13s | ||||||
| 8/11/25 | ![]() Nature, Nurture, Unanswered Ancestral Questions | What if we inherit not only biological material but existential and spiritual questions from our ancestors? What's ours to carry that's been handed to us? I've been wrestling with these questions for a while now, and some big changes in my life have brought them into new focus. I hope you hear and hint or guess for your own spiritual life. Enjoy! | 38m 04s | ||||||
| 6/23/25 | ![]() Letter to the Lost | "We have to know the darkness to be able to search for the light," according to Henri Nouwen. And he goes on to claim that we need lostness, in the search for meaning. With so much disorder, lostness, darkness, denial and confusion, I'd like to read most of a letter written by Nouwen that seems to address our age, people like you and me. I hope you'll hear something encouraging, no matter how wild and meandering your path. Enjoy! | 44m 58s | ||||||
| 4/30/25 | ![]() Hell is Endless Autobiography | In an age obsessed with "knowing oneself," how do we not get stuck in endless autobiography and self-absorption? At its best, a healthy spiritual and religious life helps free us from the cul-de-sac of narcissistic feedback. In the episode, we'll look at a story from Saint Antony, a paragraph from C.S. Lewis about hell, and I'll outline the four foundations of a spiritual life from the book Journey Into Emptiness by Robert Jingen Gunn (a book about Dogen, Merton and Jung). See below for the link I promised in the episode about the Cree mountains of human development. Enjoy! https://decolonialfutures.net/portfolio/fourmountains/#:~:text=Each%20mountain%20represents%20a%20stage,one%20mountain%20to%20the%20other. https://www.patreon.com/c/kentdobson | 1h 01m 21s | ||||||
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| 4/14/25 | ![]() The Christ Symbol: Part 7 - Authority and Resurrection | Here's the final episode of The Christ Symbol. This episode is about Authority and Resurrection (stage 6 and 7). What does real authority look like? What does it mean for a "grain of wheat to go into the ground and die?" What is the nature of real change? Hope you hear something from Jesus own transformed life, that may in fact trans-form your own. Enjoy! | 1h 36m 22s | ||||||
| 4/11/25 | ![]() The Christ Symbol: Part 6 - Wilderness and Mission | Here's the next episode in The Christ Symbol. This episode is about Wilderness and Mission (stage 4 and 5), the necessity of the desert and the nature of a soul-oriented mission in the life of Jesus, a life transformed. Hope you hear a hint or guess for your own spiritual growth. Enjoy! | 1h 23m 35s | ||||||
| 3/13/25 | ![]() The Christ Symbol: Part 5 - Transcendent Encounter | Here's the next episode in looking at Christ through a symbolic lens, a life transformed. This episode is about Transcendent Encounter (stage 3), those moments we could not have predicted, manufactured, controlled, or made up. Those moments when we know we are ushered into something larger. Hope you hear a hint or guess for your own spiritual growth. Enjoy! | 1h 17m 02s | ||||||
| 2/28/25 | ![]() The Christ Symbol: Part 4 - Calling | What's going on with our thumbs? Plus, the next episode in this series looking at the life of Christ through a symbolic lens, a life transformed. This episode is about calling, the first nudges of our sense of meaning and destiny. Hope you hear a hint or guess for your own spiritual growth. Enjoy! | 58m 13s | ||||||
| 2/12/25 | ![]() Metagelical? A Conversation with Paul Vanderklay | This is a long-format, unscripted, very personal conversation, with Paul Vanderklay. We talk a bit about our stories, what it's like to be a pastor, what's been happening in the changing landscape of Christianity, and what the future might hold. Check out Paul's YouTube channel for more content. Enjoy! | 1h 54m 04s | ||||||
| 2/6/25 | ![]() The Christ Symbol: Part 3 - Birth | This episode is part of my series, Wandering through the Bible, where I look again at these ancient stories through a symbolic lens. Beginning with a quote from Teilhard about the slow work of God, we then turn to the first stage of a life of Christ, a life transformed, the birth stories. Special thanks to my Patrons. Enjoy! | 1h 07m 51s | ||||||
| 1/19/25 | ![]() Wandering through the Bible: Christ Symbol Part 2 | In this episode, I describe the changes faces of Jesus over the centuries, and what I mean by the Symbolic Christ. I also explore in more detail what I call the three chords of listening to the Bible: story, context and symbol. This is part of a series called Wandering through the Bible, where I return to some of the most important stories and images from the Christian tradition. Hope you hear a hint or guess. Enjoy! | 38m 08s | ||||||
| 1/11/25 | ![]() Wandering through the Bible: Christ Symbol Part 1 | I'm starting a new series on the Bible, particularly through the lens of symbol. It feels like I've come back around again to the central stories and images of my tradition, but seeing and hearing new things. To begin with, I'll be releasing parts of my audio book (A Grain of Wheat), which had only been free for my Patrons. In this experimental audio book, I look at the stages of Christ's life, and the symbols that still feel potent. Clearly Jesus lived a life transformed, and left a few hints and guesses. No matter how you feel about the Bible, or what you might think, I hope you'll hear something meaningful and rich. Enjoy! | 51m 12s | ||||||
| 12/28/24 | ![]() Love: Romance, Self, Other, God | We use the word love for sports teams, friends, partners, food, and even God. What are we talking about? What is love? And how might we grow into more loving people? Here are a few hints and guesses about romance, love of self, love of the other, and the possibility of divine love. Inspiration for this podcast come from John O'Donohue's book Anam Cara, Robert Johnson's books He and She, and St Paul's letter to the Corinthians. Enjoy! | 1h 11m 28s | ||||||
| 12/11/24 | ![]() Deal with the Devil | There are many ancient stories about making a deal with the Devil. What happens when we no longer take these seriously? What is lost? What are we missing? I'd like to explore the consequences and opportunities in taking seriously what happens when we make a deal with the Devil through stories of the Handless Maiden, Faust, and the Temptation of Christ. Enjoy! | 1h 16m 29s | ||||||
| 11/2/24 | ![]() Green Flags (in a Red Flag World) with Quique Autrey | Here's a conversation with Quique Autrey, therapist, author and podcaster, about his new book Green Flags. What does it look like to become a person who's a little more like a "green flag" than a red flag? Where does one even start with "depth psychology?" Quique's highlights a number of accessible ways to turn the gaze inward, toward a healthier relationship with ourselves, which seems necessary in order to be a more generative presence in the world. You can find out more about Quique, and buy the book, at https://www.quiqueautrey.com/ Hope you here a hint or guess for your own path. | 1h 10m 48s | ||||||
| 10/21/24 | ![]() Age of Mistrust: A Sermon | The word sermon implies a threading together, and I'd like to thread together some lines from St Paul, T.S.Eliot, and Jung. I hope you'll find some encouragement and challenge from these voices, who in their own way, point beyond themselves to the transcendent, to God. I can't think of anything more important in our age of mistrust. | 51m 34s | ||||||
| 9/27/24 | ![]() Moving Again? | Here are few thoughts on feeling stuck, big storms gathering at the window, what it's like when our stories and imagination seem disconnected from the present, a few musings on intuition, the still small voice, the melody below the melody, being defeated, and less metaphorically, moving back to Michigan. The poems that I quote are from Rilke and Annie Lighthart. Enjoy! | 50m 02s | ||||||
| 8/20/24 | ![]() The Masculine and the (Wounded) Feeling Function | What's the difference between mood and feeling? Between emotions and values? How do we grow our capacities for relationship, for deep values, in other words, how do we access the "feeling function" (Jung)? This episode is an exploration of the feeling function, the common wounds associated with it, and some possibilities for developing a healthier "masculine" psyche. I pull mainly from Robert A. Johnson's book He: Understanding Masculine Psychology, but also a little from Jung, and from my own experience. Thanks for supporting this podcast. I hope you hear and hint, a guess, for your own life. Enjoy! | 1h 13m 14s | ||||||
| 6/26/24 | ![]() The Old Will Dream, the Young See Visions: Renewal of the Mystical | I'd like to explore the mystical, not as an expert, but a student. Lately I've been inspired by Evelyn Underhill's insights in her book, Mysticism: A Study in Nature and Development of Spiritual Conscious which I quote in this podcast. My sense is, that despite the darkness of the age we live in, something of the Absolute wishes to break in, to rearrange our consciousness. When this happens, the old dream and the young see visions. What might it look like for modern people, spiritual - religious - not-so-religious, to open up to the possibility of the transcendent, so that our present mode of consciousness, our small egoic frame, might grow? What if Reality is not what we thought? The mystics left us a few clues for how to listen and how to be. | 1h 00m 24s | ||||||
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4 placements across 4 markets.
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4 placements across 4 markets.
