Today we sit down with Margaret Placentra Johnston, author of Faith Beyond Belief, as well as her newest book Overcoming Spiritual Myopia.   We talk about the spiritual journey hitting on concepts like leaving binary thinking and ethnocentricity, developing an inner authority, and the battle between belonging and authenticity.

I sit down with a dear friend, Elise Brown, to discuss her deconstruction of the unhealthy spiritual system she was raised in seemingly letting go of Jesus.  As she embarks on the Human Journey and get curious about science, Buddhism, Witchcraft, as well as other spiritual and secular systems, she keeps feeling the invitation of… Read More »Mythical Jesus Podcast: 037: Elise Brown – Refinding Jesus for the First Time

Today we dive into Mark 9 and discuss Jesus announcing that some who are alive will not taste death.   And we talk about how Jesus and his peers contemporary in time are always seeing demonic possessions rather than scientifically and medically explained health disorders like epilepsy and mental illness.  We end discussing how in order… Read More »Mythical Jesus Podcast: 036: Mark 9 – Be Last and Serve Others

Mark 7 Today we address Jesus Teaching that what goes into a man does not defile him but rather what comes out of a man.  That what goes in goes into his stomach but what comes out comes from his heart.

Today we are in Mark 6:45-52 and exploring the first instance in the scriptural timeline where Jesus walks on water.  The main take away is to reinforce one of the points of the previous episode , which is that the Christ narrative seems to utilize Christ as symbolic of “the way” or leaning into awaken-ness… Read More »Mythical Jesus: 034: Walking on Water

Today we are in Mark 6:30-44 and the feeding of the 5000 with 5 loaves and 2 fishes.  We discuss the balance between self care and serving others and how even Jesus was being pushed and pulled in his navigation of such.  We then discuss the feeding of the 5000 as a symbolic of the… Read More »Mythical Jesus: 033: Five Loaves & Two Fishes

Today we are in Mark 6:14-29 dealing with the beheading of John the Baptist.  In this episode we deal with the inability to pin down Herod as a good or bad man, our flaw as humans to over-promise, and also speak briefly about the criterion of embarrassment as a scholarly tool to pin down a… Read More »Mythical Jesus: 032: Baptist Head on a Platter

Ego needs to create nice clean boxes for everything to fit in.  It ties itself to forms to identify you and all around you.  Today we discuss that and use Mark 6:7-13 to discuss this.  We also borrow a section from Oprah Winfrey’s podcast SuperSoul Conversations where she sits with Eckhart Tolle to discuss his… Read More »Mythical Jesus: 031: Ego and the Formless

Jesus teaches that a prophet in his own hometown is without honor in Mark 6:1-6.  What the Christ is really saying is that those who know us most intimately before we awakened will struggle to hear the wisdom that comes from us once we awaken.   The ego is always looking to make sense of the… Read More »Mythical Jesus: 030: Back To Our Hometowns Mark 6:1-6

Jesus in Mark 5:21-43 is faced with having to choose between rushing off to help the daughter of Jairus or stopping to interact with the woman whose issue of bleeding had just been healed by touching the garment of the Christ.  We in our minds prioritize these events but the Christ seems to recognize that… Read More »Mythical Jesus: 029: Empathy For Another’s Experience Mark 5:21-43

We sit down today with my good friend Thomas McConkie. Thomas has so much to offer us. Deeply grounded in Buddhism and meditation and an expert in explaining development and Thomas has a unique perspective on Jesus having chosen intentionally to live out his spiritual life in this moment in a fundamentalist sect of Christianity.… Read More »Mythical Jesus: 028: Thomas McConkie – Soul Changing Work

Please consider Donating today to support this work and to help this podcast sustain long into the future.  Simply go to ChristOfFaith.org and click donate today.  Please consider.  Thank You!! Today we discuss the idea of the phrase faith crisis.  What it allows your religious tribe to do and how it may not be helpful… Read More »Mythical Jesus: 027: Faith Crisis and Other Bad Words

Today we sit down with Geoff Fitch, one of the founders of Pacific Integral. Pacific Integral seeks to impact human development, leadership, and social change at the emergent edge of consciousness and action. Geoff and I sit down to talk about human development. What it means to leave a tribe, the fractures that make us… Read More »Mythical Jesus: 026: Geoff Fitch – Developmental Fracture

In Episode 25 we explore Jesus’ use of parables and how using parables offers flexibility for the audience to learn based on their own stage of development.  We hit on the idea that Jesus interpretation is given to his apostles and closest disciples of which the author of these gospels was not present for.  That… Read More »Mythical Jesus: 025: Parables Spoken With Silence

In this Episode of the Mythical Jesus Podcast we explore the affect we have on the world through both time and space.  By time and space we mean this.  How the actions or ripples we initiate have influence across time meaning now and into the future and how what happened in the past brought us… Read More »Mythical Jesus: 024: Seeds Scattered Across Time And Space

Today We sit down with Bishop John Shelby Spong.  Jack is a retired American bishop of the Episcopal Church. From 1979 to 2000 he was Bishop of Newark (based in Newark, New Jersey). He is a liberal Christian theologian, religion commentator and author. He calls for a fundamental rethinking of Christian belief away from theism and… Read More »Christ Of Faith: 023: John Shelby Spong – Value Beyond Biblical Literalness

Today we are in Mark 4: 21-25.  We often think when we have Truth on our side or more importantly when we have Wisdom on our side that putting such truth or wisdom out into the world, it will readily be accepted.  Truth be told, such is almost never the case.  Most people being in… Read More »Mythical Jesus: 022: Truth Takes Centuries

Today we are in Mark 4: 1-8 which is the famous parable of the sower and the seed.  The Seed or the word (Christ within us) is cast about on various landscapes.  The path that is already and still constantly trodden, the ground full of thorny brush, the path covered with stones and rocks, and… Read More »Mythical Jesus: 021: The Sower and The Seed

Today we are Mark chapter 3:20-34.  Jesus does something strange in these verses which is to seem to push back against his family and welcome in those who sit with him as family.   This event feels uncomfortable to us.  This feels anti-Jesus and yet there is a great lesson to be learned here.  That while… Read More »Mythical Jesus: 020: Those Who Sit With You

This Episode is Audio from outside the Mythical Jesus Podcast.  This is a sermon from another faith on “Stages of Faith”. We revisit a series where we have taken audio where those of other faiths work to explain and teach the stages of faith.  Today is the South Edmonton Alliance. Here is a sermon given… Read More »Stages of Faith: South Edmonton Alliance