Those who wait to deserve will never be worthy. The goalposts always move, because the system was built to keep moving them. Charlie and Brian walk into Yesod, the Sephiroth of foundation, and find the rhythm beneath every real community: gracious giving, gracious receiving, and the covenant that holds when contract fails. Stories from Berkeley, from the inflatable frog in Portland, from the dry aquifers of the Bible Belt, and from the strange company of holy rascals who refuse to wait for permission to live.
Some people pray to a God they no longer believe in because they have not yet found language for the God they do. Creation’s Paths: A Creation Spirituality Primer is that language, grown from twenty years of walking the Four Paths.
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0:00 We Forgot That We Belong to One Another
1:53 Druid Priest of Bridget, Sous-Chef to the Dagda
3:34 Try Pulling Yourself Up by Your Bootstraps
6:09 Edison Had Four Hundred Engineers
9:04 Which Word Would You Erase from English?
11:05 The Whole Phrase We Forgot
13:16 The Church That Laid Hands on Us (Via Positiva)
19:27 Habit, Not Malice (Via Negativa)
29:04 Thirty-Six Hidden Ones Hold the World (Via Creativa)
32:53 You Were Robbing Them of Giving
38:04 Meritocracy Was a Dystopian Satire (Via Transformativa)
41:24 Charity Is Not Covenant
42:51 How Rage Hurts the Cause It Loves
44:59 Everyone Was Welcome There
46:22 Those Who Wait to Deserve Will Never Be Worthy
47:31 A Prayer to Saint Zacchaeus
