Way Collective Podcast

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/01/26 with Barbra Valentine, entitled Sacred Stories That Shape Us. In this episode, Barbra guided us in an evening of reflection on the stories that have shaped our spiritual lives, and invited us into a shared exploration of the experiences, relationships, questions, and moments of wonder that have awakened us to the sacred mysteries of life. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 06/24/26, entitled Seeing Through the Eyes of the Sacred. In this episode, we talk how to encounter the sacred in ourselves and others through learning to see ourselves as God sees us, and how, when we borrow God's eyes, we begin to see the beauty and dignity of everyone around us. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 06/17/26, entitled The Sacredness of Community. In this episode, we talk about how community life is one way we experience the sacred, and how, when there is room for deep trust and belonging, we find something rare in our fragmented time -- the possibility of contemplative friendships. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is a special episode in conversation with a member of our community, author and public theologian Damon Garcia on 06/16/26, entitled Why You Don't Need a Calling. In this episode, Damon and Tim chat about the scope of Damon's work, and what led him to write his forthcoming book: You Don't Need a Calling: An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto for a Life of Purpose. They also discuss the effects of late capitalism on human meaning, how grounding in dignity and creativity offer us a way out, and what we can learn from disentangling from the vicious cycles of self-improvement and commoditization. Thanks for tuning in! 
Order Damon's latest book, You Don't Need a Calling, HERE!
Grab ticket's to Damon's book release event with Way Collective on 06/22, HERE!
Damon Garcia is an author, speaker, content creator, and public theologian, trying to inspire radical imagination in people’s spirituality and politics. Inspired by liberation theology and anti-capitalist politics, Damon is passionate about developing a liberative spirituality for a disillusioned generation of spiritual misfits and radicals. He is the author of The God Who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus (Broadleaf Books, 2022) and You Don’t Need a Calling: An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto for a Life of Purpose (Broadleaf Books, 2026). He lives in Santa Maria, California.
Follow along with his work at www.damongarcia.com.

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 06/10/26, entitled Turning to the Sacred. In this episode, we begin our Summer series of conversations by asking "what" the sacred means, and, through the metaphor of landscape, we look at the invitation to attune to the sacred as gaining a deeper sense of a Beauty that holds the full spectrum of human life and emotion. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 05/20/26, entitled Mystery and the Path of Unknowing. In this episode, we wrap up our series on mystery by talking about how mystery is a way of seeing the world, and how the path of unknowing is always available to us, inviting us into a kin-dom presence where we can be grounded in peace in an impatient world. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 05/20/26, entitled The Mystery of the Present Moment. In this episode, we talk about the mystery of the present moment as an invitation to recognize that there is something precious going on in every moment of our experience, and to have "eyes to see" means that we can sense the infinite in the finite passingness of things. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 05/13/26, entitled Finding Mystery in Ourselves and Others. In this episode, we talk about what it looks like to encounter the mystery of a person beyond our experiences of them, and how upholding that we are always more than our past and present situations invites us into an unfolding compassion for ourselves and one another. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 04/29/26, entitled Relating From Mystery. In this episode, we talk about what it looks like to relate to the world from this sense of mystery and curiosity -- to disrupt our future storytelling and worrying with a sense of unknowing that always invites us back to the present moment to tend gently to what is going on within us and around us. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 04/22/26, entitled The Big Mystery. In this episode, we talk about the big, cosmic mystery within which all of our human dramas are taking place, gaining inspiration from the recent DESI 3D map of the cosmos, we remember that something incomprehensible, grandiose, and mysterious is taking place here -- and we each have a part in it. Thanks for tuning in!