Way Collective Podcast

This is a special episode where Tim got to sit down at the beginning of Advent with author, theologian, and historian Diana Butler Bass, entitled A Beautiful Conversation. In this wide ranging episode, Tim and Diana discuss the liturgical calendar and the cycle of sacred stories that compose a larger narrative of love, hospitality, mercy, justice, and gratitude, and how we are invited into a different relationship with time in the midst of our busy calendars. Diana also reads her essay from the book, "Blue Christmas." You won't want to miss it. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 11/19/25, entitled God is Beauty. In this episode, we explored how the metaphysical and the metaphorical registers of our God-talk dissolve into Beauty, and how perhaps it is the most apropos language to use to talk about God on our evolving spiritual journeys. This was the final and summative conversation in our series, Processing God. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 11/12/25, entitled When God Disappears as an Object. In this episode, we explored how, in contemplative prayer, God disappears as an other, and reappears as the sacred subjectivity of our very lives, leading us toward a more non-dual way of being and understanding, as we put on the mind of Christ. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 11/05/25, entitled A Life's Adventure Into Kriya Yoga with Lucy O'Brien. In this episode, Lucy O'Brien tells her story of life adventures that helped her break down cultural barriers, and how she found her way to the ancient practice of Kriya Yoga meditation as a way to focus, heal and grow. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 10/22/25, entitled Silence is the Voice of God. In this episode, we explored how process metaphysics encourages a certain contemplative posture of us -- one that invites us to tune in to the silent voice of God, and the graceful flow of our lives drawing us more deeply toward beauty and peace. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 10/15/25, entitled Ancient Wisdom & Science: Consciousness, Connection, & Compassion. In this episode, we explored how the felt sense of awareness is something that flows through all of life, and how neuroscience is expanding our understanding that we are hard-wired for kindness, connection, and compassion. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 10/08/25, entitled Processing God and Science, Metaphysically Speaking. In this episode, we explored how we can speak of God in ways that are consonant with science by exploring a process (event-based) ontology of the cosmos, and what a world of feeling and experiencing entities opens up for us in terms of a speculative cosmology and theology. Thanks for tuning in! 
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This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 09/24/25, entitled Process Theology and God's Uncontrolling Love. In this episode, we explored an introduction to process theology's alternative conception of God's power, about what God can and can't do, and how a non coercive God can be a gift for your growing spiritual journey. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 09/17/25, entitled Processing Our God-Talk. In this episode, we explored the nuances of how we talk about God, the apophatic and cataphatic traditions, theopoetics, and how metaphor and metaphysic interweave as we explore the divine. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 09/10/25, entitled An Introduction to Processing God. In this episode, Tim shares about how his questions of God shifted through his cancer experience, the two different registers people speak in when talking about God, and how we are invited to widen our horizons and cross thresholds in our lives toward more loving versions of God. Thanks for tuning in!