The Profaned Ordained Podcast: Recent Episodes
Michael and Liz Simmons
This podcast is about belonging and about our humanity. It’s about throwing off the weight of religious scarcity and finding ourselves invited into the radical inclusion of Jesus. In this invitation we find that all is sacred.
Listen in as Liz and Michael discuss their relationships with dreams, and how these sleeping stories can be a portal for accessing the unconscious self. Perhaps you rarely dream, or you dream but forget about them as soon as you wake. It's important to start where you are. Carl Jung emphasized dream-work as a primary avenue for wholeness and integration, but this work begins with a very practical step - writing your dreams downs. Dreams are a way to connect no only to our personal unconscious, but to the divine. Are you a dream deliver? You will be after this episode!
The etymology of demon is rooted and connected to the word "divide." To live divided results in a variety of psychological and emotional symptoms - psychological splitting, complexes and dissociation, which can wreak havoc in our relationships to ourselves and others. Join Michael as he gives language and offers practical guidance for healing the divided self.
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Our collective isolation, polarization and loneliness disconnect us from one another and from our internal landscape. Spiritual practices have fallen stale or diminished to a level that cannot contain or sustain our needs. We need a way to relate to that which is strange within - the parts of us exiled, angry and apathetic. Tools such as Internal Family System (IFS) and Active Imagination can support us as we listen and ask questions of our most hidden parts.
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Carl Jung once wrote, “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” Many of us know the passage from Matthew 7:1-6 commanding the reader to "not judge" and "not see the plank in your neighbor's eye." But what we see in others may offer us a glimpse of what we've hidden and shadowed in ourselves. Our work is not to avoid our judgements, but to become aware of them. Join us as we explore an old passage, and investigate and integrate our shadow.
Is anyone going to church? What are we to do with a form that has both blessed and cursed us? No doubt, our current forms of church are dying and so there is temptation to toss the whole thing out. But what if we were able to remember the good, feel the pain of the bad and eulogize church? Perhaps our initiation extends even to our most foundational beliefs and assumptions. It may be that we need to mourn an old form of church so that we can fully enter into the possibility of transformation.
Perhaps Jesus is not our savior but our initiator. Join us as we make room for our shadowed questions, name our longing for transformation, and discuss the Archetype of Initiation.
In this episode we discuss octopus beaks, chocolate covered peanuts, and approaching life with a hermeneutic of the shadow, which gives us a mirror rather than a microscope for our lives.
If new life is to come, old forms must die. Join us as we discuss the formlessness of 2020 that invites us into transformation.
The bigness of racism can feel insurmountable and can paralyze and burn out real action. So we must tend the soil beneath our feet, the garden we’re already standing in. We must remember that antiracist work is the work of God, the gospel, but this is mostly new to the White church. So as we do the work let us be as a tree firmly planted yet feel the discomfort of being out on a limb.
Join us as we discuss white lament, how we “respond as Christians,” and how embodying our anger is a pathway to healing.
Join us for a lively discussion on collective shadow, racism, and surviving the eleventeenth week of quarantine.
Join us as we continue our discussion on Genesis, STIs, the original wound, and our connectedness as humans.
Join us in our Volkswagen as we discuss Genesis 2, how to be human, and what it means to heal.
Join us as we discuss Light and Darkness, composting, gender, tov me’od, and how it all began.
Join us as we discuss the invitation of leaning into discomfort and death during Holy Week.
Join us as we discuss the movement from sadness to joy and back again. And also whether Reese’s is possessive or plural - a grammatical dispute settled outside the lines of this recording.
Join us as we discuss the movement from anger to sadness, the difference between resuscitation and resurrection, and what it looks like to undergo before we overcome.
Join us in this episode as we reflect on what the hell is happening, why Lent is Giving Us Up for Lent, and what it means to lean into the paradox.
Fear is our alarm system. It alerts us to danger, it shows us what we value, and it can lead us into relationship. But we are often told we need to get rid of our fear in order to be faithful people. In this episode we explore the relationship between faith and fear.
What the heaven or hell is this? Michael and Liz introduce themselves, give a little 4-1-1 on the podcast, and only say one inappropriate thing (this time).