Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less! In this Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist, and scholar of comparative religion. Today’s selection comes from his work New Seeds of Contemplation. Buy me a Coffee! Like what I am doing and want to say thanks? Then feel free to BUY ME ...
Oct 27, 2020•2 min
Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less! In this Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ (1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French idealist philosopher and Jesuit Catholic priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of the Peking Man. He conceived the vitalist idea of the Omega Point (a maximum level of complexity and consciousness towards wh...
Oct 19, 2020•2 min
Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less! In this Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Maximus the Confessor, also known as Maximus the Theologian and Maximus of Constantinople (c. 580 – 13 August 662), was a Christianmonk, theologian, and scholar. Buy me a Coffee! Like what I am doing and want to say thanks? Then feel free to BUY ME A COFFEE (or 6)! Music provided by Alex Sugg / songsforstory.com...
Oct 12, 2020•2 min
Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less! In this Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Edward Burrough (1634–1663) was an early English Quaker leader and controversialist. He is regarded as one of the Valiant Sixty, who were early Quaker preachers and missionaries. Buy me a Coffee! Like what I am doing and want to say thanks? Then feel free to BUY ME A COFFEE (or 6)! Music provided by Alex Sugg / songsforstor...
Oct 05, 2020•2 min
Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less! In this Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Raimon Panikkar (1918–2010), was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and a proponent of Interfaith dialogue. As a scholar, he specialized in comparative religion. His work largely centers around their synthesis of Christian and Hindu theology. Buy me a Coffee! Like what I am doing and want to say thanks? Then feel free to BUY M...
Sep 28, 2020•2 min
Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less! In the tenth Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Saint Bonaventure (1221-1274), born Giovanni di Fidanza , was an Italian medieval Franciscan, scholastic theologian and philosopher. Buy me a Coffee! Like what I am doing and want to say thanks? Then feel free to BUY ME A COFFEE (or 6)! Music provided by Alex Sugg / songsforstory.com...
Sep 21, 2020•2 min
Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less! In the ninth Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Sister Thea Bowman (1937-1990) was a Roman Catholic religious sister, teacher, and scholar who made a major contribution to the ministry of the Catholic Church toward her fellow African Americans. She became an evangelist among her people, assisted in the production of an African American Catholic hymnal, and was a pop...
Sep 14, 2020•3 min
Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less! In the eight Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Wendell Berry, an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. The selections for this episode comes from a his poem Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front.. Buy me a Coffee! Like what I am doing and want to say thanks? Then feel free to BUY ME A COFFEE (or 6)! Music provi...
Sep 07, 2020•5 min
Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less! In the seventh Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Meister Eckhart (c. 1260 – c. 1328) who was a German theologian, philosopher and mystic. The selection for this episode comes from a his poem when I was the forest. Buy me a Coffee! Like what I am doing and want to say thanks? Then feel free to BUY ME A COFFEE (or 6)! Music provided by Alex Sugg / songsforstory.com...
Aug 31, 2020•3 min
Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less! In the sixth Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Middle Ages anchoress and mystic Julian of Norwich. The selection(s) for this episode comes from a her work Revelations of Divine Love. “The soul is preciously knitted to him in its making, by a knot so subtle and so mighty that it is oned into God. In this oneing, it is made endlessly holy. Furthermore, he wants us to...
Jan 27, 2020•4 min
Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less! In the fifth Mystic Monday episode we hear from the trinitarian theogian and Cappadocian Father Gregory of Nazianzus. The selection(s) for this episode comes from a his work ”Oration 45, for Easter.” Subscribe to the Signposts email list! Want to stay up to date on all Signposts and other projects I’m working on? Then click this link and come join me as we explore the w...
Jan 20, 2020•4 min
Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less! In the fourth Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Contemplative and Civil Rights Activist Howard Thurman. The selection for this episode comes from a his work “ Deep River: Reflections on the Religious Insight of Certain Negro Spirituals.” Subscribe to the Signposts email list! Want to stay up to date on all Signposts and other projects I’m working on? Then click thi...
Jan 13, 2020•5 min
Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less! In the third Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Carmelite nun, reformer, and contemplative mystic Teresa of Avila. The selection for this episode comes from a very short poem she wrote that titled “Laughter came from every brick.” “The poems of St. Teresa always speak of God. They speak of Him as something as natural as the air one breathes. She does not tender fanc...
Nov 04, 2019•4 min
Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less! In the second Mystic Monday episode we hear from the father of Centering Prayer and Trappist Monk Thomas Keating. The selection for this episode comes from a very short meditation entitled The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation. Subscribe to the Signposts email list! Want to stay up to date on all Signposts and other projects I’m working on? Then click th...
Oct 28, 2019•3 min
This past weekend I was privileged to be able to preach at the church where I am on staff. I thought it would be fun to share that sermon here on the podcast as a type of bonus/semi-unplanned episode. The texts I preached on were Genesis 32:22-31, 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5, and Luke 18:1-8. In this sermon, I talk about how parables as a mode of communication that demand action and how we can not simply just ignore the problematic and difficult passages that we encounter in the pages of the scriptures. ...
Oct 22, 2019•15 min
Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less! In this first mystic Monday episode we hear from one of my all-time favoire contemplative voices, Thomas Merton. The selection for this episode comes from the sixth chapter of his book New Seeds of Contemplation.
Oct 21, 2019•5 min
There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.” ―Abraham Joshua Heschel Subscribe to the Signposts email list! Want to stay up to date on all Signposts and other projects I’m working on? Then click this link and come join me as we explore the wild paths together! Support the show! You ca...
Oct 19, 2019•21 min
This past weekend I was privileged to be able to preach at all three services at the church I am employed at. I thought it would be fun to share that sermon here on the podcast as a type of bonus/semi-unplanned episode. The text I preached on was Luke 10:38-42 and Amos 8:1-12. In this sermon, I talk about how it is not merely enough to challenge individuals to make time in their lives for Sabbath/Contemplation but rather the church must be willing to push back against the systems that make those...
Jul 25, 2019•22 min
In this episode! In the first guest episode of the relaunch/rebrand, I sit down with my favorite ecclesiological firecracker and long time twitter friend Mason Mennenga (whose last name I can never seem to pronounce correctly.) In this episode, we talk about his project Religionless Church, theopoetics, and the deeply Pentecostal experiences that were the live performances of one of Mason's favorite hardcore bands, The Chariot. Where to find Mason! Twitter: @masonmennenga Website: masonmennenga....
Jul 07, 2019•58 min
Nothing that does not die will ever be resurrected. Subscribe to the Signposts weekly email! Want to stay up to date on all Signposts and other projects I’m working on? Then click this link and come join me as we explore the wild paths together! Support the show! You can support the show via Patreon and for as little as $1 a month to get access to episodes before anyone else and the first dibs on any other content I create. Music provided by Alex Sugg, and songsforstory.com...
Jul 05, 2019•21 min
Better late than never! This week we dive into the beauty that is the diversity of the proto-orthodox church and my assertion that any claims of “orthodoxy” that are not situated in an active desire for the flourishing of dynamic and diverse expressions of the faith betray the beauty of the earliest Christian communities. In this episode we journey with the second century heretics Marcion and Tatian to discover why fidelity to Jesus means that we modern Christians should be willing to recognize ...
Jan 25, 2019•34 min
The second episode of 2019 is here! This week I am joined by our first returning guest Dr. Thomas J. Oord to talk about his forthcoming book "God Can't." In this book Thomas has ambitiously proposed a solution to the greatest theological/philosophical question to in human existence... If God is good then, why does evil exist in the world? It was such a joy to have Tom back on the show and I can not recommend his latest book enough. In this episode we push back against the traditional metaphysics...
Jan 09, 2019•1 hr 7 min
We are finally back from the dead! This is a short episode to kick off the the 2019 year where I talk about the last year of radio silence, new projects, what the future of this whole project will look like and explore one of my all time favorite prayers from Thomas Merton on learning to trust God in the unknown! Subscribe to Signposts! Want to stay up to date on all thins Exile Liturgy and #LessonsFromDeadGuys? Then click this link and come join me as we explore the wild paths as we explore the...
Jan 01, 2019•21 min
I finally feel like we are getting this train back to moving! This week we dive head first into part one of a two-part episode on Saint John of the Cross and The Dark Night! In this episode we discuss the first Dark night known as the Dark Night of the Senses! Which is an experienced as a time in which we feel as if God has withdrawn from us. IN the Dark Night of the Senses we are invited into an even greater intimacy with the divine! Exile Liturgy https://ryancagle.com/exileliturgy/ Subscribe t...
May 30, 2018•39 min
We are back after an incredibly long and unexpected hiatus! Yesterday was Pentecost so what better time than now to get Pentecostal!? In this episode we are talking the bigness of God, believing for the impossible, and the problematic yet intriguing life of Smith Wigglesworth! Exile Liturgy https://ryancagle.com/exileliturgy/ Subscribe to Signposts! http://eepurl.com/bFY_qv Join Wild Paths https://www.facebook.com/groups/148864792410364/ Music provided by Alex Sugg, and songsforstory.com...
May 23, 2018•27 min
This is the one-year anniversary of the relaunch of the show! We are joined by Professor and Author Matthew Rothaus Moser as we learn about Dante, His exile from Florence, and his pilgrimage through the hell, and purgatory! What better way to kick off our Lenten series by exploring the spirituality of Ash Wednesday and the Lenten season through the lens of Dante's Divine Comedy!? SHOW NOTES Matthew Rothaus Moser https://twitter.com/M_Rothaus_Moser The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso...
Feb 14, 2018•1 hr 4 min
One last brief reflection on the season after The Epiphany and a ton of information on what to expect as we make our pilgrimage through the Lenten season toward the events of passion week. SHOW NOTES Hymns for Epiphany by St. Ephraim the Syrian http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3704.htm Exile Liturgy https://ryancagle.com/exileliturgy/ Subscribe to Signposts! http://eepurl.com/bFY_qv Join Wild Paths https://www.facebook.com/groups/148864792410364/ Music provided by Alex Sugg, and songsforstory.co...
Feb 07, 2018•13 min
In the final episode in our Epiphany mini-series we dive into the glory of the Transfiguration of Jesus on Mt. Tabor, butterflies, and becoming our true selves! This is the last episode in the series as we prepare for Ash Wednesday in a little over two weeks and the oncoming Lenten season! SHOW NOTES It Is Good Fo Us To Be here Sermon from St. Anastasius of Sinai https://www.crossroadsinitiative.com/media/articles/itisgoodforustobehere/ Exile Liturgy https://ryancagle.com/exileliturgy/ Subscribe...
Feb 01, 2018•25 min
After missing a week due to the snowocalypse of 2018 we are back for the third episode in our Epiphany season talking about the third manifestation of Christ! In this episode, we talk about Jesus' first miracle, new wine in old bottles, and the challenge to abandon a cracker and grape juice Christianity. SHOW NOTES New Wine in New Bottles Sermon from Martin Luther King Jr. http://okra.stanford.edu/transcription/document_images/Vol06Scans/17Oct1954NewWineinNewBottles.pdf Exile Liturgy https://rya...
Jan 24, 2018•27 min
The first Sunday after the feast of the Epiphany is the day we remember the baptism of Jesus and the importance of this great mystery. In this episode, I talk about how the baptism of Jesus is the beginning of the Jesus story, what we can learn from the Gregory of Nyssa about this special day in the life of the church, and why we so desperately need to remember our baptisms. SHOW NOTES On the Baptism of Christ by Gregory of Nyssa http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2910.htm Exile Liturgy https://ry...
Jan 10, 2018•31 min
