Resurrection Parish: Recent Episodes
Bishop Kevin Donlon
This week in the first week of Advent we consider why discovering real hope is vital not just to the meaning of the season but the meaning of our lives.
This week we consider the challenge of living in pain and find the promise of healing in difficult days.
The Podcast which went off air at the end of 2020 is now back but for a weekly edition where the Prefect of the Anglican Union considers themes of life and faith in a post-Christian world. The edition for today considers our being pilgrims and giving thanks today.
Twentieth Sunday in TrinitytideExodus 33:12-23Psalm 991 Thessalonians 1:1-10Matthew 22:15- 22
There was a time when we knew what constituted nobility. Here is an opportunity to rediscover its virtues.
In a world where character traits are a variable, perhaps there is stability in nobility
Some Families are known for athletics. Some for philanthropy. Meet a family known for sanctity.
What are we supposed to be doing during the 12 days of Christmas> Didn't somebody make that up? Here is an opportunity to find out.
Some thoughts on one man who did change the course of his life and in turn others as well.
In a jaded world, we often think no one is innocent but there are individuals past and present who are and they need an advocate.
Since the beginning of time love was revealed. Today is another opportunity to show it.
Gabriel comes to Mary and shows the world there is something different about her but something we can all have.
Very often we think a statement or an incident can define a person. Don't limit what God can do!
Names have power. Today we consider the power Emmanuel's name could have in our life and identity
We all have time on our hands that when idle gets us thinking. Are we thinking about the big questions?
It is amazing how a young girl's story in terrible times thousands of years ago still captures the minds and hearts of many.
All of us need a break. Need some consideration. Sometimes when things are going well we forget that.
Today we meet a person who amidst difficult times is assured that great things lie ahead
Being ready for this season has many elements to it. Are we ready for what the Lord is asking?
Today we consider who Jolly Ole Saint Nicholas really was and why it is important to know.
We all want to be happy but where are we looking to find it is the question for today's podcast.
On this second week of Advent, the idea of peace is considered as an intrinsic element to the Advent Christmas Journey
Being a Missionary doesn't require going across the globe. It might just require going across the street.
Due to the podcaster's illness with lack of an audible voice, the reading this week is provided by Ryan from Naturalyspeaking.com, a text to speech website.
The Old Testament Lessons of Advent remind us that we do have to make a turn towards God and that requires a refinement we cannot do on our own.
For those of us who struggle with the changes and chances of life and are frustrated by the hard knocks life sometimes renders, we receive confidence from the words of Mary offered to us in her response to the Angel Gabriel as found in St. Luke’s Gospel
When desiring purpose meaning and direction, who or what do you seek? The best course is already laid out if we are looking.
A plumb line allows one to get a sense how circumstances are measuring up.. What is your standard for measuring up this Advent 2021
In this season of Advent we seek Peace On Earth however, we should consider that it is a peace that could pass us by not just one that passes all understanding.
Christians in the Middle East are threatened as never before let us not lose sight of them this Advent.
On this Friday in Advent, + Kevin Donlon asks us to consider the work of Christian Leaders in India as a source of inspiration this Advent Season
impatience often leads us to unwise decisions that have long-term consequences. Advent is an opportunity to change that pathway if we can make the change in direction.
On this first day of December and Day 3 of Advent, we consider the importance of finding a place on the journey to know our beginning and our ending.
Some reflection on who the Home of Golf is named after St. Andrew and what the deeper meaning is for people today.
Today we consider the message of Cyber Monday in light of the message of Scripture for Advent Monday
Launch of a New Series on the Advent Journey as we consider faith and culture in this time of year
This week + Kevin consider the question of persecution and faith in the modern world that we live in.
This Week +Kevin considers people who truly live pure lives and how they offer us a witness to do the same.
This week +Donlon considers the challenges of being merciful in a world that at times seems to lack an understanding of the idea.
+Kevion Dpnlon considers the 3rd Beatitude and wonders how to be meek. Perhaps you are wondering too.
This week +Kevin consider the problem of pain and grieving in our efforts to find meaning in life .
+Donlon ponders the question of what is it that we leave behind in this life individually, corporately, and spiritually?
This week +donlon considers part 2 of last week's conversation about the role of tradition and being at home with God.
This Week +KFD begins a second volume of podcasts exmaining values in a world of change.
This week we have a special edition with a an excerpt of the drama enttiled Homeland. It is the narrative story of Christians in India under persecution . It is profoundly moving.
This week +Donlon challanges us to consder the importance of ideas vs the dangers of ideaology in our Christian journey as citizens
This Week + Donlon considers what do we need as to be as Christians to fill in the gaps of a hurting world and fulfill the Mission.
This week +Donlon considers the metaphor of baseball for the Christian Life and the call for heroes to win the game, ...namely faith in Christ Jesus.
This Week +Donlon considers the need for Mercy in a world that seems to be losing the basic human sensibilities.
This Week +Kevin Donlon considers how we are faced with postponement as a norm on the COVID world and that perhaps we may wish to examine who and what we put on hold
This Week + Donlon consider the question of the nature of freedom, liberation and independence in God's time.
This week Donlon considers the inter-relationship of Disagreement, Disrespect and Destruction and the Christian response when faced with such conditions
This week Donlon explore the idea of Pilgrimage and the realization that we are all on one. How do we navigate our way forward?
This week Donlon considers the power of passion and how it can build up or tear down the world,
This week Donlon considers what tools we use to make our way through a journey whether we are graduating HS or passing into glory, they seem to be the same.
Fr. Donlon considers the question of Discernment. How do we make wise and good decisions in days that are very trying and struggling.
Life and time we think we measure with our daytimers, calendars, and watches. This is our living chronology but we exist also outside this idea of time. These are the moments where the grace of God becomes enfleshed, evident, and profoundly transformative not to our daily routine per se but to the essence of who we are. How do we balance and integrate the essence of the time and moments of our lives is the question Fr. Donlon considers today.
In this episode Donlon considers the fact that everyone of us leaves an imprint on others whether we plan to or not. Everything we say or fail to say, everything we do or fail to do leaves a legacy. What shall it be and how shall we go about it? Today 5 principles are offered to consider for the path forward..
This Week Donlon ponders the quest to wait upon the Lord as a matter of trusting. Trusting is the pathway to grace and hope. Amidst the changes and chances it is increasingly challenge to make that commitment to trust without a clear pathway.
Donlon considers the challenge of living with the mystery of life with its losses because for some of us those hurts stay with us longer than the blessings do. But the frustrations of the human journey also some with the the deep and abiding joys blessings we receive. Both are part of the mysterium tremendum in a broken world, so how do we live with that waiting upon the Lord.
This week Donlon reflects on the timing of Easter and the Pandemic as a time for we in the church to change from simply “being Christians” to a dynamic “living as Christ.”
The Journey of Life is a Journey of the Soul winch is a journey of prayer. How do we find the pathway is the question behind today's reflections.
Father Donlon considers how God has been found by people in history even in the most adverse circumstances.