Pod in the Wild

For the month of September we're going to PLAY! Each Sunday we'll do a playful activity together in place of our normal message. This week we were led in Frisbee and Fun by Marcia. Our poem was Playgrounds by Laurence Alma-Tadema

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If you want to see all the ways you can be involved with Church in the Wild from afar check out our ⁠⁠Digital Offerings⁠⁠ page! Including our ⁠⁠Fall Book Club⁠⁠ starting Sept. 12th. We'll be reading This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley.

You can also listen to the music that accompanied this series on our ⁠⁠Spotify playlist⁠⁠.

For the month of September we're going to PLAY! Each Sunday we'll do a playful activity together in place of our normal message. This week we were led in the art of Tie-Dying by Terri Weathers. Wisdom from Bob Ross.⁠

Thanks for listening! If you want to hear more, make a donation to support the continuation of this podcast at ⁠churchinthewild.org/support⁠.

If you want to see all the ways you can be involved with Church in the Wild from afar check out our ⁠Digital Offerings⁠ page! Including our ⁠Fall Book Club⁠ starting Sept. 12th. We'll be reading This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley.

You can also listen to the music that accompanied this series on our ⁠Spotify playlist⁠.

For the month of September we're going to PLAY! Each Sunday we'll do a playful activity together in place of our normal message. This week we'll be led in Dance Church by Danielle! Poem: ⁠This Tenderness by Mark Nepo⁠

Thanks for listening! If you want to hear more, make a donation to support the continuation of this podcast at ⁠churchinthewild.org/support⁠.

If you want to see all the ways you can be involved with Church in the Wild from afar check out our ⁠Digital Offerings⁠ page! Including our ⁠Fall Book Club⁠ starting Sept. 12th. We'll be reading This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley.

You can also listen to the music that accompanied this series on our ⁠Spotify playlist⁠.

It's the final week of our August series, Stop Being Nice (Be Kind!) This week we unpack the phrase "Play Nice." We hear the poem: First They Came by Martin Niemöller, and wisdom from Howard Zinn’s You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train.

Thanks for listening! If you want to hear more, make a donation to support the continuation of this podcast at churchinthewild.org/support.

If you want to see all the ways you can be involved with Church in the Wild from afar check out our Digital Offerings page! Including our Fall Book Club starting Sept. 12th. We'll be reading This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley.

You can also listen to the music that accompanied this series on our Spotify playlist.

For August our series is Stop Being Nice (Be Kind!) This week we unpack the phrase "Nice Girl/Guy." We hear Proverbs 31:10-31 and wisdom from saint bell hooks.

Thanks for listening! If you want to hear more, make a donation to support the continuation of this podcast at churchinthewild.org/support.

If you want to see all the ways you can be involved with Church in the Wild from afar check out our ⁠Digital Offerings⁠ page! Including our ⁠Fall Book Club⁠ starting Sept. 12th. We'll be reading This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley.

You can also listen to the music that accompanied this series on our ⁠Spotify playlist⁠.

For August our series is Stop Being Nice (Be Kind!) This week we unpack the phrase "Nice & Easy." We hear the poem Do It Anyway, attributed to Mother Teresa, and wisdom from The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien.

Thanks for listening! If you want to hear more, make a donation to support the continuation of this podcast at churchinthewild.org/support.

If you want to see all the ways you can be involved with Church in the Wild from afar check out our ⁠Digital Offerings⁠ page! Including our ⁠Fall Book Club⁠ starting Sept. 12th. We'll be reading This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley.

You can also listen to the music that accompanied this series on our ⁠Spotify playlist⁠.

For August our series is Stop Being Nice (Be Kind!) This week we unpack the phrase "That looks nice." We hear the poem: The Wild by Wendell Berry, and wisdom from Henry David Thoreau's 1862 deathbed essay, Walking.

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If you want to see all the ways you can be involved with Church in the Wild from afar check out our ⁠Digital Offerings⁠ page! Including our ⁠Fall Book Club⁠ starting Sept. 12th. We'll be reading This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley.

You can also listen to the music that accompanied this series on our ⁠Spotify playlist⁠.

This week we wrap up our month-long theme on Elemental God! We explore the 5th Element: Ether, Spirit, Love. We hear Rumi's Masnavi and wisdom from Richard Rohr & the Christian scriptures 1 Corinthians 13:1-3.

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Thanks for listening! If you want to hear more, make a donation to support the continuation of this podcast at churchinthewild.org/support.

For the month of July our theme is Elemental God! This Sunday we look at the element of Earth. We hear Octavia Butler's poem Parable of the Sower and wisdom from Christian scriptures, Matthew 13:1-9; 18-23.

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We hear the poem Spell Of The Air by Elizabeth Jennings and wisdom from Suquamish Chief Seattle and Genesis 2:7.

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Our theme for July 2023 is Elemental God! Valerie gets us started with the element of fire! We also hear the poem: Sadhguru, on the element of Fire, and wisdom from the Prayer Vigil for the Earth in which Tom Dostou teaches about the seven fires prophecy of the Anishinabe people.

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We also hear the poem I Would Be True by Howard Arnold Walter and wisdom from Rod Serling.

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Celebrations continue for the month of June. This week we're celebrating Juneteenth! And we'll be adding another saint to our canon! We hear the poem: Faith and Fury by Amanda Gorman and wisdom from Tricia Hersey, Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

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Celebrations continue for the month of June and this week we're celebrating PRIDE Sunday! We hear the poem Footnote to Howl by Allen Ginsberg,
wisdom from the Christian scriptures Acts 10:28 (First Nations Version), and saint queer icon RuPaul!

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We hear the poem: Messenger by Mary Oliver and wisdom from "The Proper Occupations of Old Age" by Helen M. Luke.

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oem: The Layers by Stanley Kunitz and wisdom from the Christian scriptures Romans 8:35&38-39 from the First Nations Version.

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For Week 6 of our series on The Eight Master Lessons of Nature by Gary Ferguson, we focus on the theme: We Live on a Planet with Energy Beyond Measure, Yet Life Doesn't Waste a Drop. We hear the poem: Wild Geese by Mary Oliver and wisdom from Tao Te Ching (Dao De Jing) by Lao Tzu, Ch 77.

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We hear the poem: I Ask Percy How I Should Live My Life by Mary Oliver and wisdom from the Hebrew scriptures Job 12:7-10.

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Week 4 of our series on The Eight Master Lessons of Nature by Gary Ferguson focuses on chapter 4: Healing the Planet and Ourselves Means Recovering the Feminine. We hear the poem: She by Chelan HarkinWisdom and wisdom from the Hebrew scriptures, Proverbs 8.

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Week 3 of our new series on The Eight Master Lessons of Nature by Gary Ferguson focuses on chapter 3: The More Kinds of Life in the Forest, the stronger That Life Becomes. We hear the poem: On Another Panel About Climate, They Ask Me to Sell the Future and All I've Got Is A Love Poem by Ayisha Siddiqa, by Ayisha Siddiqa, and wisdom from Luther Standing Bear.

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Week 2 of our new series on The Eight Master Lessons of Nature by Gary Ferguson focuses on chapter 2: Life on Earth Thrives Thanks to a Vast Garden of Connection! We'll hear the poem/prayer We who are alive today by Jan Phillips and Wisdom from Thích Nhất Hạnh.

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We are back at our holy ground and kicking off a new series on the book The Eight Master Lessons of Nature by Gary Ferguson. This week we're on chapter one: Mystery! We'll hear the poem The World I Live In by Mary Oliver and Wisdom from the story of Jesus in the Christian tradition Mark 16:1-8.

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This Sunday we finish our Earth to Table series with Food & Ritual. We'll hear the poem Welcoming Passover Prayer by Rabbi Shapiro and Wisdom from the story of Jesus, Christian scriptures Luke 22:14-20.

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This Sunday we continue our Earth to Table series with a look at Food and Justice. We'll hear the poem Canned Food Drive by Kathleen Lynch and Wisdom from Food Justice greats, Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez. We're also excited to have Julia from Binghamton Food Rescue join us.

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This Sunday we continue our Earth to Table series focused on the sacredness of food. We discuss Food in the Wild with Pastor Corey! We'll hear the poem It Was Early by Mary Oliver and Wisdom from Potawatomi Indigenous ecologist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer.

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This Sunday, Food Justice Advocate & CitW board member, Kate Miller-Corcoran lead us in a conversation on food as medicine! We hear the poem Onions by William Matthews and Wisdom from author Michael Pollan.

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This Sunday we continue our Earth to Table series focused on the sacredness of food. This week we're thinking about Food & The Ancestors. We'll hear the poem Divorced Fathers and Pizza Crusts by Mark Halliday and Wisdom from Dutch scientist Louise Fresco.

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This Sunday we begin our next series, Earth to Table, focused on the sacredness of food. We start off with Food & Place. We'll hear the poem Where I'm From by Corey and Wisdom from Barbara Kingsolver’s book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. 

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This Sunday, we hear from Bible Translation Consultant, Angela Brodie! Angela is currently working with translation teams in the Middle East and will be sharing with us about the Mystery of Language and why/how we translate Scripture. We hear the poem Mysteries, Yes by Mary Oliver and Wisdom from the Christian scriptures, John 1:1-14.

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This Sunday, we hear from United Methodist pastor & leader of Deep Green Journey, Rev. Beth Jones! Beth shares about the stillness we find in nature this time of year. We hear the poem Go Deeper by Chris McCombs and Wisdom from the Hebrew scriptures, Psalm 46.

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This Sunday, we'll hear from Church in the Wild board member and meditation leader, Valerie! Valerie will share Candlemas/Imbolc and various midwinter celebrations. We'll hear an excerpt from Albert Camus' essay, Return to Tipasa, about his return to Algeria after WW2. We'll also hear a meditation from Jenna Zadaka for the Jewish celebration of Tu B'Shvat.

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This Sunday, we'll be hearing from Rev. Mia Baumgartner, manager of spiritual care & well-being at the University of Washington medical center and certified teacher for Compassion Cultivation training. Mia will be sharing about the science behind Loving-Kindness Meditation. We'll hear the poem The Sacred Dance For Life by Hafiz, Wisdom from Jon Kabat-Zinn, pioneer of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, and an original song from Katherine entitled Chameleons!

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This Sunday, we hear from Rev. Brian Lothridge, a United Methodist deacon, and director of communication and development for YWCA Bradford, on the God-sized dream of turning our weapons into gardening tools and planting the seeds of peace. We hear the poem Compassion from WingMakers and Wisdom from the Hebrew scriptures Isaiah 2:1-5. 

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This Sunday, Rev. Aho, chaplain and author of In Deep Waters: Spiritual Care for Young People in a Climate Crisis will be joining us from California to talk about rest! We'll hear the poem The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry and Wisdom from the Hebrew scriptures 1 Kings 19:3-8.

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We conclude our series by spiritually embracing darkness. We'll heard the poem A Winter Solstice Prayer by Edward Hays and Wisdom from Dutch priest & theologian, Henri Nouwen.

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This Sunday we worked on emotionally embracing darkness. We heard the poem When I Opened My Heart by Chelan Harkin and again Wisdom from Barbara Brown Taylor’s book, Learning to Walk in the Dark.

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We're physically embracing darkness this Sunday. We hear the poem To Know the Dark by Wendell Berry and Wisdom from Barbara Brown Taylor’s book, Learning to Walk in the Dark.
And here's the great TedTalk Corey referenced a few times: https://youtu.be/F55wBS2kNNQ

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As we move toward the winter solstice and end of the year we'll spend the next month Embracing Darkness is worship. To get started we'll work on how we can mentally embrace darkness. We'll hear the poem The Night by Rilke and Wisdom from That Word Black by Langston Hughes.

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We're wrapping up our Bumper Sticker Beliefs series this Sunday with a look at the God Bless America bumper sticker. We'll hear the poem Grand Canyon of Light by Ani DiFranco and Wisdom from Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

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Bumper Sticker Beliefs continues this week with the popular Jesus fish and Darwin fish bumper stickers. We'll hear the poem Let's Stop Calling It God by Chelan Harkin and Wisdom from the story of Jesus told by John (18:33-38).

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Bumper Sticker Beliefs continues this week with the popular Coexist bumper sticker. We heard the poem Do Not Leave Your Cares At the Door by Norman V. Naylor and Wisdom from Martin Luther King Jr.

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Our new worship theme for the next month is Bumper Sticker Beliefs! We'll be taking a look at 4 different popular bumper stickers starting this week with "My other car is a broom" in honor of Samhein/Halloween! We'll hear a Samhein blessing from From Rev. Brightrose Aradia and Wisdom from The Charge of the Goddess.

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We'll be wrapping up #Hopetober with some poetic rabbinic wisdom and Wisdom from Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Letter To A Young Activist During Troubled Times: Do Not Lose Heart, We were Made for These Times.

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#Hopetober continues as we work on cultivating hope in the climate crisis. We'll hear the poem Don't Hesitate by Mary Oliver and Wisdom from Katherine Hayhoe's book Saving Us: A Climate Scientists Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World.

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#Hopetober continues as we work on cultivating hope in the climate crisis. We'll hear the poem Global Warming by George Bilgere and Wisdom from General James Stockdale.

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#Hopetober is here! For the next four weeks we'll be dialing up the hope and specifically working on having hope in the climate crisis. We hear a poem from Octavia Butler's The Sower and Wisdom from Terry Pratchett's book Hogfather.

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We're wrapping up our Mental Health Matters series this Sunday with a look at how Nature can help us heal. To inspire we have the poem I Go Among Trees by Wendell Berry and Wisdom from conversation architect, David Baum.

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