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Twelve Enough
Hosted by Jonathan Malone · EN
Faith and Culture in the Modern Age
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Kitchen Table Spirituality 63 / Twelve Enough 12.7
Jan 14, 202200:43:10Tap to summarize12eFinal Jonathan Malone and Charley Eastman Download The Final Episode!For more than 10 years Jonathan and Charley have been involved in the podcasting world in one way or another. Together, they started “Twelve Enough” which Jonathan continued for a number of years. And, two years ago they reunited to do “Kitchen Table Spirituality” to help with a sense of community through the COVID-19 Pandemic.There have been a number of wonderful and powerful moments and some great episodes, but it is time to bring this chapter of podcasting to a close. In large part it is because Jonathan is moving out of parish-based ministry into wilderness-based ministry. You can see more about this at his new website.We are so thankful to everyone for their support, their input, and their encouragement. This was a wonderful opportunity to question, to push, to celebrate, and to find God in new and different places. Keep an eye out for other podcasts from both Jonathan and Charley!Here is the poem/prayer that was read - When I Am Among the Treesby Mary OliverWhen I am among the trees,especially the willows and the honey locust,equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,they give off such hints of gladness.I would almost say that they save me, and daily.I am so distant from the hope of myself,in which I have goodness, and discernment,and never hurry through the world but walk slowly, and bow often.Around me the trees stir in their leavesand call out, “Stay awhile.'“The light flows from their branches.And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,“and you too have comeinto the world to do this, to go easy, to be filledwith light, and to shine.”Thank you all and God Bless!You can pre-order Jonathan’s book at Judson Press
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Kitchen Table Spirituality 63 - Pride and Juneteenth
Jun 17, 202100:37:01Tap to summarizeKTS63 Jonathan Malone and Charley Eastman Download A weekly devotional.For the last episode before summer, Jonathan and Charley discuss Pride Month and Juneteenth. Remember, if you are excluding people, then you are doing it wrong.We don’t have transcriptions of the prayers from this episode - sorry about that.
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Kitchen Table Spirituality 62
Jun 3, 202100:37:25Tap to summarizeKTS62 Jonathan Malone and Charley Eastman Download A weekly devotional with pastors Charley Eastman and Jonathan Malone.This week, Jonathan and Charley look at the pull to return to “normal” as things start to open up again.Here is the prayer that Charley read:the concluding prayer of St. Francis of Assisi, in his Letter to the Entire Order. He writes: “Almighty, eternal, just and merciful God, grant us in our wretchedness the grace to do for You alone what we know You want us to do and always to desire what pleases You. Thus, inwardly cleansed, enlightened, and inflamed by the fire of the Holy Spirit, may we be able to follow in the footsteps of Your beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and by your grace alone, may we make our way to You, Most High, who lives and rules in perfect Trinity and simple Unity…. For ever and ever. Amen.
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Kitchen Table Spirituality 61 - Thirst, Part 2
May 27, 202100:35:22Tap to summarizeKTS61 Jonathan Malone and Charley Eastman Download A weekly devotionalJonathan and Charley continue their look at Mary Oliver’s collection of poems: ThirstJonathan looked at the poem “Praying” and Charley the poem “Thirst”For a closing prayer, Jonathan read: CONTINUE by Maya AngelouInto a world which needed you My wish for you Is that you continueContinueTo be who and how you are To astonish a mean world With your acts of kindnessContinueTo allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heartContinueIn a society dark with cruelty To let the people hear the grandeur Of God in the peals of your laughterContinueTo let your eloquence Elevate the people to heights They had only imaginedContinueTo remind the people that Each is as good as the other And that no one is beneath Nor above youContinueTo remember your own young years And look with favor upon the lost And the least and the lonelyContinueTo put the mantel of your protection Around the bodies of The young and defenselessContinueTo take the hand of the despised And diseased and walk proudly with them In the high street Some might see you and Be encouraged to do likewiseContinueTo plant a public kiss of concern On the cheek of the sick And the aged and infirm And count that as a Natural action to be expectedContinueTo let gratitude be the pillow Upon which you kneel to Say your nightly prayer And let faith be the bridge You build to overcome evil And welcome goodContinueTo ignore no vision Which comes to enlarge your range And increase your spiritContinueTo dare to love deeply And risk everything For the good thingContinueTo float Happily in the sea of infinite substance Which set aside riches for you Before you had a nameContinueAnd by doing so You and your work Will be able to continue Eternally
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Kitchen Table Spirituality 60 - Thirst, Part 1
May 20, 202100:33:12Tap to summarizeKTS60 Jonathan Malone and Charley Eastman Download A weekly devotional with pastors Charley Eastman and Jonathan MaloneThis week Jonathan and Charley start to look at Thirst, a collection of poems by Mary Oliver.Jonathan started the conversation by reading and reflecting on the poem “Making the House Ready for the Lord.”Charley then offered the poem, “Mozart, for Example.”Next week, two more poems!The prayer that Charley offered was “Percy (Four)”I went to church.I walked on the beachand played with Percy.I answered the phoneand paid the bills.I did the laundry.I spoke her namea hundred times.I knelt in the darkand said some holy words.I went downstairs,I watered the flowers,I fed Percy.
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Kitchen Table Spirituality 59 - Grab Bag/Potpourri
May 13, 202100:42:03Tap to summarizeKTS59 Charley Eastman and Jonathan Malone Download A weekly devotional with Jonathan Malone and Charley Eastman. This week Jonathan and Charley reflect on four different headlines:Lutherans Elect Megan Rohrer First Transgender BishopHead of Federal Election Commission Calls Separation of Church and State a '“Fallacy” and 2020 a “Spiritual War”Immunizations and ReligionRomania: Orthodox Church Washes Its Hands of Baby’s Baptism DeathIt is amazing that they were able to stay focused and limited to just four headlines!Here is the prayer that Jonathan read:Blessing by Jan L. RichardsonMay God,who comes to usin the things of this world,bless your eyesand be in your seeing. May Christ,who looks upon youwith deepest love,bless your eyesand widen your gaze. May the Spirit,who perceives what isand what may yet be,bless your eyesand sharpen your vision. May the Sacred Threebless your eyesand cause you to see. ~ from In the Sanctuary of Women, copyright © Jan L. Richardson. Posted on the painted prayerbook.
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Kitchen Table Spirituality 58 - Lost Faith, 4
May 6, 202100:32:10Tap to summarizeKTS58 Charley Eastman and Jonathan Malone Download A weekly devotional. This is part 4 of Jonathan and Charley’s reflection to Bryan Walsh’s article America Is Losing Its Religion. This week, to close things out, Charley and Jonathan discuss the importance of spirituality.Here is the prayer that Charley read:I AM NOT AFRAID OF DEATH, by Julia EsquivelI am no longer afraid of deathI know wellIts dark and cold corridorsLeading to life.I am afraid rather of that lifeWhich does not come out of death,Which cramps our handsAnd slows our march.I am afraid of my fearAnd even more of the fear of others,Who do not know where they are going,Who continue clingingTo what they think is lifeWhich we know to be death!I live each day to kill death;I die each day to give birth to life,And in this death of death,I die a thousand timesAnd am reborn another thousandThrough that loveFrom my PeopleWhich nourishes hope!
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Kitchen Table Spirituality 57 - Lost Faith, 3
Apr 28, 202100:34:37Tap to summarizeKTS57 Charley Eastman and Jonathan Malone Download A weekly devotional This week Charley and Jonathan discuss the importance of morality Again, Jonathan and Charley are discussing the article Is America Losing Its Religion by Bryan WalshHere is the apology that Jonathan read:Last week I stated that in the 1950s it was very likely that the great and wonderful condiment mayonnaise would have been sold in cans. I even suggested that there may have been a time when, on the 5th of May, people would collect no less than five cans of mayonnaise and celebrate with said cans. I realize that I was wrong with such a statement. As much as I would have liked to believe it, mayonnaise was never sold in cans; such a suggestion denigrates the honorable and time-tested reputation of mayonnaise. I retract such a statement and sentiment and apologize to the mayonnaise industry and all of the mayonnaise related culinary delights that might have been offended or harmed by such a statement. These include but are not restricted to:Ham saladTuna saladEgg saladDevil eggsSpinach, artichoke dipGrilled cheese,Mayonnaise cakeRanch dressingTurkey saladPotato saladTomato pieLobster rollsCole slawDagwood sandwichesAnd … mayonnaise casserole Now lets enjoy some mayonnaise together…Here is the selection that Charley read for the prayers:From C.S.Lewis, A Grief Observed: “Once very near the end I said, ‘If you can—if it is allowed—come to me when I too am on my death bed.’ ‘Allowed!’ She said. ‘Heaven would have a job to hold me; and as for Hell, I’d break it into bits.’ She knew she was speaking a kind of mythological language, with even an element of comedy in it. There was a twinkle as well as a tear in her eye. But there was no myth and no joke about the will, deeper than any feeling, that flashed through her.”Here is what Jonathan read:Prayer – Lord, give us weak eyes for things which are of no account and clear eyes for all your truth.- Soren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855 From the cowardice that shrinks from new truths,From the laziness that is content with half-truth,From the arrogance that things it knows all truth,O God of truth, deliver us.- Kenyan Prayer maybe
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Kitchen Table Spirituality 56 - Lost Faith, 2
Apr 22, 202100:35:04Tap to summarizeKTS56 Jonathan Malone and Charley Eastman Download A Weekly DevotionalAgain, Charlie and Jonathan are considering the article by Bryan Walsh: American is Losing Its ReligionThis week they focus on the idea of social implications and community.Here is the prayer that Charlie Read:“A Prayer Against Anti-Asian Violence: For the Protection of (All) of our Elders” by Erina Kim-EubanksGod of our elders, Creator of sacred bodies,we are outraged and we are scared.We pray for the streets we inhabitto be exorcised of white supremacy and violence,for your shalom and togetherness to dwell-filling our Chinatowns and driveways withthe safety of home, the spirit of family.We pray for your protection upon our elders-that our popos and bà ngoại, lolos and Bpòo,halmonis and niam pog would all encounter spaceto live, move, and have being-knowing that they are not forgotten,their bodies are not expendable.We pray for protection upon them-for hands that have folded dumplings and braided our hairfeet that have walked on many different shoreseyes that have witnessed both atrocities and new birth,ears that have heard slurs in foreign tongues,backs that carried the generations,and hearts that are both resilient and fragilein a moment when their existence has become a target.And as we pray for their protection,guard us too from division and otheringthat places blame on “those people” -driving wedges between communities,mistaking criminalization for accountability,multiplying harm instead of healing it.Give us a vision of the world in which all our elders are honored,because we see each other’s families as our own.Amen.
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Kitchen Table Spirituality 55 - Lost Faith, 1
Apr 15, 202100:33:00Tap to summarizeKTS55 Jonathan Malone and Charley Eastman Download Part one of four! Is America losing its faith? This is the first part of four responding to the article by Bryan Walsh:Americans is Losing Its ReligionTake a read and join us.Here is the poem that Jonathan read:Emily Dickinson – “I died for Beauty – but was scarce.” I died for Beauty – but was scarceAdjusted in the TombWhen One who died for Truth was lainIn an adjoining Room –He questioned softly “Why I Failed”?“For Beauty”, I replied
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