The Living Lightly Podcast: Recent Episodes
The Living Lightly Podcast
The Define the Relationship Podcast is back for a third season of conversation with Ted and Darlene. This week we go a little further into our Reconstructing Church series with a conversation on being an Open Church. In the podcast Darlene and Ted refer to his past Sunday’s Worship Service and a TedxTalk on Polarities....
The Define the Relationship Podcast is back for a third season of conversation with Ted and Darlene. This week we go a little further into our Reconstructing Church series with a conversation on being a Open
Please join us this Sunday June 19th at 10:00 am for an update on The Community Exchange. There will be childcare for this Sunday from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm. Kids will participate in a short activity at the start of the service at 10:00 am and then volunteer supervisors will take them to the...
This week’s podcast, will hopefully serve to prepare you for our upcoming Worship Service and Congregational Meeting on February 13 @ 10:45am and provide a fuller background on our history surrounding LGBTQ+ inclusion at Seeds. Our regular hosts Darlene and Ted our joined by special guest t Joan Funk, who served on the Seeds Leadership...
On today’s podcast Darlene and Ted are joined by pastor, activist and author Melissa Florer-Bixler to explore her new book How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger & The Work of Peace. Melissa is the pastor of Raleigh Mennonite Church, and a graduate of Duke University and Princeton Theological Seminary. She spent times studying in...
On today’s episode of Define the Relationship Podcast, Ted and Darlene are joined by Erin Funk Wieler. Erin is responsible for giving direction to how we integrated children into the life of Seeds and how we are working to support parents in raising their children. Listen right to the end to get a short blooper...
It’s been a few months, but the podcast is back in business, and it seems like we are starting a new season of Defining our Relationship to the Bible, but also to issues and to how we are doing church at Seeds. This week join Dar and Ted as they go back and forth on...
Would a good God, set things up so that only some would go to heaven and many others would be lost to an eternal hell? And what about Beauty, Truth and Justice? Will anything ever change? Will the brokenness of our world ever be healed. This week Ted and Dar delve into the ultimate end...
Have you ever asked the question, “What’s the point of Christianity anyway? Can’t I just be a good person?” In today’s episode Darlene shares some reflections on how Plato and Simone Weil defined the “good” and how it connects to God and Jesus Christ. Enjoy.
So many good questions were asked this past Sunday at our Zoom Congregational Meeting, we decided to take some time to answer them in the form of a podcast. Again this will be a diversion from our regular podcast topics and if you are not a part of the Seeds Church community or the Altona...
This week on the Define the Relationship podcast we break away from our Reconstruction series, to update you on the Next20 process we initiated at Seeds to celebrate our 20th birthday. Covid19 has made so much of our life difficult to manage, and it has been no different with this visioning process. Despite that, we...
This week, we realize that there is more to say about Reconstructing our understanding of salvation. Buckle your seat belts as Ted gives us a quick tour of how Christians have understood the answer to the question, “How does Jesus Save?” For a more thorough understanding of these issues, we encourage you to pick up...
Are you saved? What does that even mean? Is it a gotcha question, or is it a gateway into an important conversation about how our relationship to Jesus and God, is about our need for some kind of rescue. Join Ted and Darlene as they try to unpack the fuller meaning of salvation and ask...
After a hiatus, Ted and Darlene are back into the move from Deconstruction to Reconstruction. So many places we could start God, salvation, sin, the environment, but today we begin with what it means to be the church. The pandemic has forced our faith community to rethink what it means to be the church when...
It’s Pete Enns week on the podcast. Join us for an in depth conversation on how we can approach the Bible in a more helpful and authentic way. In biblical fashion, we spent quite a bit of time discussing genealogies and trying to locate Pete as a long-lost Mennonite and nearly had the conversation derailed...
This week we are doing something a little different, although it is something we have been thinking about doing for a long time. Many of us remember the Zuniga Ambriz family of Maria, Miguel, Miguel Jr., Francisco and Esperanza. Just over 2 years ago, this family was forced to leave Canada while their immigration situation...
This week we get the journey of reconstruction going by spending some time on preliminary preparations. What are the tools and resources we want to bring on this journey? Ted and Dar recently walked a long journey on the Way of St. James. This is what they packed for that journey.
Today, we begin a multi part series on the process of moving from Deconstruction to Reconstruction in our Faith. How is deconstruction actually a creative process? How do we move forward or beyond our deconstruction mode? We are really hoping that you will take the time to interact with our question. What are your Top...
Its been exactly 8 months since we began the Define the Relationship podcast and today we release the 20th episode. If you are into statistics, that means we have released an episode approximately once every 10 days. In today’s episode we continue our reflections on 2020, as Ted gives his perspective on 2020 and learnings...
A New Year, but we aren’t done talking about the last one. Join Ted and Darlene over the next two weeks as they share some personal reflections on where we have been and difference it makes for our faith relationship. Enjoy.
In today’s episode of Define the Relationship podcast, we have a special guest Jason Byassee, who teaches preaching and biblical interpretation at the Vancouver School of Theology. Jason has recently written a book called Suprised by Jesus Again: Reading the Bible in Communion with the Saints, which is an invitation for Jesus followers to revisit...
Our corporate and cell group gatherings are on pause as we contend with a provincial Code Red designation, but we continue our series on What’s so Real about Jesus? – Lover. Join Darlene and Ted as they discuss, the reality of Jesus the lover.
We continue our deeper dive into who Jesus is and how his reality impacts us and our faith.
Its been a while since we last recorded a podcast. We have finished up our conversation with Pete Enns’ book How the Bible Actually Works and we are patiently waiting for the opportunity to interview Pete Enns. (Yes, its going to happen but not until late November.) Moving forward, we are going to switch our...
“Christians today, living when and where we are, have no choice but to be intentional in following the Bible and the entire history of Christianity in accepting the sacred responsibility to ask how we can talk about God in a way that is both connected to the tradition and meaningful for today. It is most...
“As one of my seminary professors said, “Reading the New Testament is like reading someone else’s mail.” That might be the most valuable thing I ever learned in seminary. And now I pass it on to you, at a far lower cost.” Enns, Peter. How the Bible Actually Works (p. 254) On today’s episode we...
We are back continuing our deep dive into the book How The Bible Actually Works by Pete Enns. Dive in.
“The early followers of Jesus, though they too engaged the tradition creatively, did so for a very different reason—not because of God’s apparent abandonment, but because of God’s unexpected, counterintuitive presence, namely, in Jesus of Nazareth, a crucified Messiah.” Enns, Peter. How the Bible Actually Works This week we are back to Chapters 10 and...
“And so we are back to our paradox: to maintain any tradition, you need to hold on to some aspects of the past while at the same time thinking creatively about how the past and the present can meet—reimagining the faith, as I’ve been putting it. The perennial wisdom question is, “What remains and what...
It’s been awhile since a Living Lightly podcast has dropped, but as we reach the middle of the summer season, you can enjoy this conversation between Jennifer Halteman Schrock and our hosts Connie Heppner Mueller and Ted Enns-Dyck. Jennifer Schrock straddles two half-time roles. At Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College, and as...
We respect these sacred texts best not by taking them as the final word on what God is like, but by accepting them as recording for us genuine experiences of God for the Israelites and trying to understand why they would describe God as they do. God met the ancient Israelites on their terms, in...
And so, as a person of faith who studies the Bible for a living and who also lives (as I mentioned) in the here and now, I have come to terms somewhat with this dilemma of matching the God of the Bible with my faith: The God I read about in the Bible is not...
The Bible is relentless in modeling for us wisdom—reading the moment, never detached from the sacred tradition but never simply repeating it, because God is always present and on the move. And so we can never just read the Bible without also pondering it, with creativity and imagination, just like the biblical authors, in order...
If the understanding the Bible isn’t enough, today’s episode gets into mathematic formula’s of all things. If understanding the Bible requires a focus on wisdom, rather than clear timeless answers, how do we move towards this wisdom thinking. Ted and Darlene wrestle with the tension of taking the Bible seriously without setting it to the...
Already for biblical writers, keeping the laws meant reengaging them when needed. And again, the genius of the laws is their ambiguity, not their clarity, for their ambiguity is the very thing that allows them to gain new life with each passing year, ensuring that past and present forever remain connected and in dialogue. Peter...
“Wisdom is about being trained to be ready for the little and hidden things, the unscripted day-to-day moments that sneak up on us, like dealing with a fool, struggling with wealth, or disciplining a child…the same wisdom that was with God when God “ordered” creation (Gen. 1) is available to us as we seek to...
How does an ancient, distant and odd book work for people who look to it today for spiritual guidance? Join Ted and Darlene as they discuss Peter Enns’ book How the Bible Actually Works. Today we discuss chapter 1 – The Bible’s True Purpose and how pondering 3 words, ancient, ambiguous and diverse, can open...
Time for a Bible “DTR”. A what? It’s time to “Define The Relationship”. What is the role of the Bible in your life and faith? Are you deconstructing? Reconstructing? On a bit of a break? Or is it a passionate love affair? More than likely it’s a little bit complicated. Join Ted and Darlene as...
You are in for a treat this week as Kenton Lobe joins our Living Lightly hosts Connie Heppner Mueller and Ted Enns-Dyck. Kenton is the rare person who combines the rigour of deep intellectual thinking on food and justice, with the practical experience of literally getting his hands dirty in the process of growing food....
This week we sit down with our own Tai Linklater. Despite her young age, Tai is active and engaged in making our community a better place to be. Join co-host Connie Heppner Mueller and Ted Enns-Dyck as the have a conversation about her passion for the gift of this universe we get to live in....
On today’s episode we delve into an emerging church movement known as “forest church”. Our Conversation partner is Wendy Janzen who along with being a pastor at St. Jacobs Mennonite Church in St. Jacobs, Ontario, leads the Burning Bush Forest Church a monthly ecumenical church community that meets in nature on a monthly basis. Wendy...
Today’s conversation is with the Living Lightly Podcast co-host Connie Heppner Mueller. Connie is a local high school teacher in the area of Human Ecology, a tireless advocate for sustainable community practices in her role as chair of ACAN – Altona Community Action Network and a lover of God’s creation. We explore Connie’s story of...
Today’s conversation is with Terry Mierau, who is know as the professional opera singer turned organic farmer. Join hosts Connie Heppner Mueller and Darlene Enns-Dyck as they talk about Terry’s journey to live lightly in relation to God’s creation and our planet. All podcasts can be found at seedschurch.ca Terry and Monique can be found...