Would you like to hear things you’ve thought about but thought no one else could support? Have a safe place to talk about God or to question God? …to share your divergent understanding about God? ...to hear new stories about God? This podcast and its accompanying Blog are the places you can do that. Give it a try. What’s the worst that can happen? (ok, I can think of several things.) I’m a recently retired (from the United Methodist Church) gay pastor living in Southern California. My experi ...
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Embracing Our Responsibility: Animal Welfare and the Spirit of Stewardship with Beth Cooper
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Have you ever considered the profound responsibility we hold towards the animal kingdom? It's a question that carries weighty moral implications, and together with Reverend Dr. Beth Cooper, an animal advocate and health specialist, we tackle this very subject. Our conversation navigates the delicate terrain of animal trauma, the stark realities of …
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Exploring the Power of Holistic Healing with Reverend Dr. Beth Cooper
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Are you ready to journey through a healing sanctuary? In this first of three interviews by Reverend Tom Ziegert, Reverend Dr. Beth Cooper, a Christian elder and holistic health practitioner, takes us along her personal path of physical and mental healing. With an array of techniques from massage to tuina, acupressure to somatic experience, she has …
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This episode explores the current "relative truth" politic and its connection to Christian faith.By Thomas Ziegert
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Night Watch for New Year's Eve / New Year's Day Observance
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This episode of Theology:21ce brings the Night Watch Observance to you. It is a New Year’s Eve version of John Wesley’s Covenant Service. The heart of this service is the Covenant Prayer. It requires persons to commit themselves to God. This covenant is serious and assumes adequate preparation for and a continual response to the covenant. You can p…
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In this episode I talk about why investing is an activity of faithfulness.By Thomas Ziegert
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In this episode I talk about the history and future of God and our evolving understanding of our relationship of God.By Thomas Ziegert
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In this episode I talk about celebrating Thanksgiving in honor of God's abundance and grace in a way suitable to the COVID-19 pandemic.By Thomas Ziegert
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In this episode, I talk with my guest, Rev. Lynn Munson-Francis about the Kingdom of God and what it means in our lives.By Thomas Ziegert / Rev. Lynn Munson-Francis
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In this fourth episode of my third season, I talk about the importance of being true to ourselves, living authentically, and embracing who God made us to be.By Thomas Ziegert
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In this episode I discuss the misapprehension that the world will end in some "Rapture" or Armageddon described in the Book of Revelation. The world already ended. We live in a new world brought about by the dissolution of the Old Covenant (contract) and the signing by God and enacting of a New Covenant (contract) with all humanity. Here in this ep…
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The Beginning of the End of Liberalism - First Shot by Christian Nationalism
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Hegel's Dialectic offers the diagram of how the end will come. Thesis - Antithesis - Synthesis. The old Age of Liberalism battles its antithesis, Christian Nationalism. Both will be the diametrics that form the synthesis of a new age.By Thomas Ziegert
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In this episode Reverend Gilbert Stones, pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church in Los Osos, California, talks about both animals and humans being souls, the dilemma of accepting this understanding, and how humans then have to reevaluate our primacy among the creatures of the Earth.By Rev. Thomas Ziegert / Rev. Gilbert Stones
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This episode honors National Domestic Violence Awareness month with guest, Alicia Diane Rhoden, who discusses with us her experiences as a victim of domestic violence, her journey to extricate herself from victimization by her husband and church and her transformation from victim to advocate for those who suffer through what she did.…
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Sin & Evil - Maybe What They Told You Was Wrong
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Originally the Bible was written in Greek. It was then translated into Hebrew for the Old Testament and into Latin for the New Testament. The Greek used was actually an international Greek different than Classical Greek. I call this vendor Greek like vendor English, a close replica of the original language but without the nuances and complexities o…
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For some, solitude is akin to loneliness. This podcast discusses the elements necessary to find comfort in solitude and overcome bouts of loneliness. Reference is made to Georges Moustaki's song, "Ma Solitude." The hear the song go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9-OzSzCDWoBy Thomas Ziegert
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This episode attempts to lay down principles upon which we can develop our ethic of sexuality and sexual encounters.By Thomas Ziegert
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This revised episode discusses steps involved in forgiveness as a process, or path. I recognize that forgiveness can be a singular or series of events. But, I suggest that it can be a process for the bigger crimes against one another. Those steps are: Release, Repent, Repay, Reconcile and Rejoice.By Thomas Ziegert
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This episode uses the reference from Romans chapter 12 verses 9 thru 21 to talk about blessing our persecutors.By Thomas Ziegert
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But, Jesus Did Say Something About Queers!
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This episode talks a little about the Bible as sacred stories, a little about sex outside of marriage, and some more about Eunuch as an ancient colloquialism for gay or lesbian, the importance of our stories, and that all good eunuchs go to Heaven.By Thomas Ziegert
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Places I've Come Across God, Episode 3 - Cimarron, NM 1998
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There are times where all we need is a little encouragement from God. It is my experience that God gives such encouragement. God gives us signs, sometimes. It is for us to recognize them, come to grips with them and interpret them. This episode is a story about just that.By Thomas Ziegert
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If you listened to my first podcast in my series, “Places I’ve Come Across God,” you will know why I have had a certain wariness about the way the Bible is used and who it’s used for and against. You will not be surprised then, that I take exception that it is called the “Word of God.” In this podcast, I will give an account about why it should not…
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Places I've Come Across God Episode 2 - Los Angeles, California 1992
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This is a story about love, illness, death and life after death, and God’s presence in the midst of it all.By Thomas Ziegert
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Places I've Come Across God Episode 1 - Albuquerque 1996
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I remember a small quilted wall hanging a friend made for me “Fear Not Tomorrow God Is Already There.” I grew up believing God was everywhere. Then I began to question that tenet. Then I found out it is true. This is the first in a series of my encounters with God. Some encounters are conspicuous, others are more obscure. This one was conspicuous.…
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