The Sacred Everywhere Podcast

What if the Bible actually offers us a narrative pointing to universal God identity and transformation? What if the work of Jesus was never about establishing a new religion? This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Doug King discussing the biblical narrative in light of the spiral dynamics model of the evolution of worldviews. Doug King began his religious life in a very conservative denomination and deeply studied the Hebrew and Christian texts, later finding that systems like spiral dynamics offered a transformative lens through which to look at the texts. Doug and his wife, Denée, live in Dacula, GA. He has a background in business and worked with his father, author, scholar and speaker Max King, to form Presence International, a growing network that engages emergent, integral, and interspiritual organizations and idea leaders. You can find his work at these links:Website: https://www.presence.tv/Podcast: https://www.presence.tv/podcastDid this resonate with you? Download Dr. Sheri’s FREE guide, “Awakening to the Sacred,” here: http://subscribepage.io/jaCwFD * * * * * * ***NOTE: All videos, podcasts, services and products are for education, spiritual growth, and entertainment purposes only and are not intended to replace the work of medical, legal, or psychological professionals. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sherikling.substack.com/subscribe

This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Dr. Sheri Kling discussing archetypes and the patterns of our lives.Read a condensed version in article form on Substack at https://sherikling.substack.com/p/the-patterns-of-our-lives.The video is available on Substack . This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sherikling.substack.com/subscribe

This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Bob Hoss, someone I met many years ago due to our mutual interest in and study of dreams and using dream work for wholeness and healing. The full episode is available for paid subscribers to The Sacred Everywhere. You can watch the video of this first half on YouTube at https://youtu.be/538358uLzKU. Robert Hoss, MS is the former President and present Conference Director of the International Association for the Study of Dreams and director of the DreamScience Foundation for dream research grants. He is an APA member, a Haden Institute faculty instructor and on the board of the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare. His research specializes in content analysis and its relation to neuroscience and psychological theory. His training as well as his teaching activity is eclectic with a focus on Gestalt Therapy, Jungian theory and contemporary research. He is author/editor of: Dreams: Understanding Biology, Psychology & Culture (Greenwood); Dreams that Change Our Lives (Chiron); Dream to Freedom (EP Press); Dream Language (Innersource), He is also published in 11 professional and dream related books and 5 journals and has been featured in a PBS special, Readers Digest, Prevention, the Psychology Today blog and USA Today. He was awarded the IASD lifetime Achievement Award in 2021. You can learn more about Bob’s work at www.dreamscience.org This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sherikling.substack.com/subscribe

This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Ilia Delio, OSF, a Franciscan Sister of Washington, DC, and an American theologian specializing in the area of science and religion, with interests in evolution, physics, and neuroscience and the import of these for theology. Her most recent book is The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole (Orbis, 2025). This is Pt. 1 and may also be watched on YouTube at https://youtu.be/sOVSKWP5CF8. The full episode is available on Substack at https://open.substack.com/pub/sherikling/p/god-in-matter-evolution-and-ai?r=22d1zx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true. Ilia currently holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University and is the author of twenty books, including "Care for Creation" (coauthored with Keith Warner and Pamela Woods), which won two Catholic Press Book Awards in 2009: first place for social concerns and second place in spirituality.Her book The Emergent Christ won a third-place Catholic Press Book Award in 2011 for the area of Science and Religion. Her recent books include The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution, and the Power of Love (Orbis, 2013), which received the 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award and a third-place Catholic Press Association Award for Faith and Science. Ilia holds two honorary doctorates, one from St. Francis University in 2015, and one from Sacred Heart University in 2020.Ilia also has a podcast called Hunger for Wholeness https://christogenesis.org/podcast/.Learn more at the Center for Christogenesis. https://christogenesis.org/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sherikling.substack.com/subscribe

This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Swami Padmanabha, an Argentinian-born and Catholic-raised Hindu monk who writes and teaches all over the world. This is the first half of our conversation which can also be heard on YouTube at https://youtu.be/OZOPUhbKOwg. The full conversation is available to paid subscribers on Substack at https://sherikling.substack.com/p/evolution-in-divine-love-with-swami.At an early age, Swami Padmanabha delved deeply into the theology of diverse mystical traditions. After taking up Gaudiya Vaishnavism in 1999 at the age of 19, he has dedicated himself to an extensive study of the Gaudiya scriptures under the guidance of his various mentors. Fluent in English and Spanish, Swami has written hundreds of articles in both languages, with his first two books published in English and in the process of being translated to other languages.For the past twenty years, he has traveled around the world and lectured in universities, ashrams, and yoga studios. All of his numerous talks and seminars are available online for free at swamipadmanabha.com. As a leader of spiritual retreats and communities, he inspires both practitioners and visitors with his penetrating teachings and personal example.He is the author of Inherent or Inherited? Bhakti in the Jiva according to Gaudiya Vedanta, Radical Personalism: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion and, most recently, Evolution in Divine Love: The Eternal Becoming of God, Soul, and Matter.https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Personalism-Manifesto-Proactive-Devotion/dp/B0C6BWMHB2/https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Divine-Love-Eternal-Becoming/dp/0996915605/Find him online at https://swamipadmanabha.com/.Learn about Swami’s podcast, The Free Radical Podcast, at https://swamipadmanabha.com/free-radical-podcast/ or on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@swamipadmanabha* * * * *MY STORY: My name is Dr. Sheri Kling, and I’m interested in helping you discover a whole-making Sacred in your own sacred life. I’ve spent my life walking the journey I teach. It’s been a path shaped by deep questions, hard-won insights, and moments of grace that awakened me to new, life-giving images of the sacred. These shifts didn’t just change my thinking—they gave me the strength to face profound adversity and the joy of finally feeling at home in my own life and body. Whether you’re seeking personal healing, professional clarity, or a more meaningful spiritual path, I offer grounded, heart-centered tools to help you thrive—and to remind you that wholeness is not just possible, it’s your birthright. You can learn more about my work at https://sherikling.com/ You can also follow me on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SheriDKlingInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/sherikling/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherikling/X: https://x.com/sherikling **NOTE: All videos, podcasts, services and products are for education, spiritual growth, and entertainment purposes only and are not intended to replace the work of medical, legal, or psychological professionals. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sherikling.substack.com/subscribe

This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Josh Patterson, a theologian and podcaster who hosts the show (Re)Thinking Faith, a space to talk about life’s biggest questions. This is the first half of our conversation which can also be heard on YouTube at https://youtu.be/ZOWIsds5muQ. The full conversation is available to paid subscribers on Substack at https://open.substack.com/pub/sherikling/p/radical-theology-freedom-and-love?r=22d1zx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=trueA former evangelical youth pastor, Josh was thrown into a journey of self-discovery and faith deconstruction that led him to embrace open theism, process theology, and radical theology. He is also an ordained minister with the Curian network, a staff member of Theology Beer Camp, and is editing a new volume on process thought and radical theology.Learn more about Josh at his website: https://www.joshuagpatterson.com/Listen to Josh’s podcast at (Re)Thinking Faith. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rethinking-faith/id1438696524 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sherikling.substack.com/subscribe

This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Dr. Jerry Wright, a Jungian psychoanalyst, teacher, and writer based in Flat Rock, North Carolina. This is the first half of our conversation, which you can also watch on YouTube.The full conversation video is available to paid subscribers of The Sacred Everywhere.Jerry is an experienced conference and retreat leader, as well as a pilgrimage consultant. I met Jerry more than twenty years ago at a conference and have been privileged to be part of two pilgrimages with him, one to western Ireland and the other to the isle of Iona, Scotland.His new book Welcoming Our Gods Back Home: The Wisdom of Psychological Mysticism was just published by Chiron and is part of a trilogy of books that includes Reimagining God and Religion: Essays for the Psychologically Minded and A Mystical Path Less Traveled: A Jungian Psychological Perspective.Learn more about Jerry’s work at https://www.jerryrwright.com/.**NOTE: All videos, podcasts, services and products are for education, spiritual growth, and entertainment purposes only and are not intended to replace the work of medical, legal, or psychological professionals. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sherikling.substack.com/subscribe

Several years ago, when I was in an Eco-Process Theology course at Claremont School of Theology, I composed this hymn as a midterm creative project. It basically summarized our semester to date.We were reading textbooks exploring ideas from process theology, ecofeminist theology, and the writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. I thought the ideas expressed were so inspiring that I wanted people to be able to sing this theology. I believe strongly that we will never change how we think about God, the world, and ourselves until we can sing about it.Bad theology is written into so many church hymns, and if we keep singing that theology, the theology that is preached - even if radically different - will not move the needle.The beginning of this hymn I imagine as a choral chant. And it tells the scientific story of the universe. The verses then express the kinds of insights that have been shared by mystics for centuries.I’ll soon be breaking down each of these verses in posts and on YouTube.We All Are Relatedby Sheri D. Kling(Choral chant)Fiery brilliance, cooling gas, condensing gravityAtoms forming stars and carbon-fueled diversityEarth with sky and oceans, molecules then multiplyStardust is the mater of the cosmos and all life.(Congregational verses)We all are related, woven as threads in earth’s tapestryA kinship creation, depending on all in deep harmony.Internally formed by each other, creative and freeWe all are related, wholly and actively.The world is becoming, the future of God is luring us there.Grace within chaos, the pow’r of the new, holiness bare.The Singer is singing the Song we are yearning to share.The world is becoming, process is everywhere.God is embodied, Word become flesh, in all that we see.Deeply incarnate in every bird, in every tree.In the heartbeat of billions of bodies just wanting to be.God is embodied, soul of the world, breathing in me.All things have value, all the way up and all the way down.God is redeeming the lowliest stone and the glorious crown.Christ is the pattern in every atom around.All things have value, whispering Spirit Sound.We need liberation from seeing our world as dead-matter machinesAll creatures as neighbors, a healing embrace, so held we are free.Entraining our rhythms to the heartbeat of Life consciously,We all are related,In a world that’s becoming,Where God is embodied,And all things have value,We are liberated, affirming the world we see.© 2011 Sheri D. Kling, Waking Woman MusicThe Sacred Everywhere is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thanks for reading The Sacred Everywhere! This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sherikling.substack.com/subscribe