It is nearly Christmas and time to take up the question: What is the birth we are anticipating, the one that is coming? Where is it that the divine, creative Word of God is newly speaking? Where is ‘burgeoning life’ - as Jonah Evans calls it in this episode - seeking to incarnate anew?
In this last episode before Christmas, Jonah and Patrick take up these questions by exploring the special elements that appear in the sacred act of worship during Advent time in The Christian Community.
(scene along the 'fairy stream' in Spring Valley, NY, where the ordination students will be begin in January)
Themes that are touched on in this episode include:
In many ways these themes and this event of Christmas touches the very core of our mission here at the seminary. We would be a schooling that serves to work like a kind of 'birth center' for its students. A place where the different teachers and fellow students serve as 'doulas' for each other on the path and where the nearly daily entrance into the sacred space of the chapel becomes an experience of being inside the 'womb of becoming' where the new human being is forming, gestating and stirring to life.
We hope and pray that this Christmas Word as New Advent might be heard in your souls this Christmas time.
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