Good friends Marci Madary & Laura Lewis-Barr bring differing perspectives to the Sunday readings of the liturgical calendar. Each week Marci shares her mystical Christian insights & infectious laughter with Laura, who ponders what Carl Jung & Joseph Campbell might say about these scriptures. Unscripted & lively, Laura & Marci offer as many questions as answers as to how Depth Psychology & Christianity might come together.
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Our question is: what is a memory of seeing the splendor, the glory of God?
Laura talks about the term Jung used for this – the “numinous” which comes from numinosum – Rudolf Otto’s term (in his Idea of the Holy) for the inexpressible, mysterious, terrifying, directly experienced and pertaining only to the divinity.
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Ep 44 - 2nd Sunday of Advent - John the Baptist!
Season 2 · Episode 44
Thursday, December 4, 2025 • Duration 46:38
2nd Sunday of Advent - John the Baptist!
Our question: What events in my life have helped separate the wheat and the chaff within me.
The Hebrew word for "fear" in "fear of the Lord," such as in Isaiah, is typically 𝑦𝑖𝑟𝑎ℎ (יִרְאָה), which translates to a sense of reverence, awe, and profound respect, rather than terror.
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Laura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club.
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Ep 34 - 26th Sunday in TKOHIN- September 28, 2025
Season 34 · Episode 34
Friday, September 26, 2025 • Duration 39:53
Our question today (based on the readings). "What are my attitudes toward wealth?'
We talk about the work of sociologist Brene Brown and the film, MountainHead. We explore the juicy story of Lazarus and the rich man, and much more!
Laura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club.
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Ep 31 - 23rd Sunday in TKOHIN, September 7, 2025
Season 1 · Episode 31
Friday, September 5, 2025 • Duration 39:29
23rd Sunday in the Kingdom of Heaven is Now time. Lots of laughter as we tackle some very tough readings.
We ask ourselves (and you) this question: "What tempts me in my daily life? What is hard for me to renounce or let go of?"
"If it is true that the ability to be puzzled is the beginningof wisdom, then this truth is a sad commentary on the wisdom of modern man. Whatever the merits of our high degree of literary and universal education, wehave lost the gift for being puzzled."
----Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm
We mention this quote from Thomas Merton: “My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always, though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”
Laura was searching for this this part of Rumi's poem, The Great Wagon.
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there."
22nd Sunday in The Kingdom of Heaven is Now Time. We explore the Hebrew word for humility.
Excerpts quoted from this site. “How am I using the Divine gifts that have been given to me? Am I reaching my own potential for greatness?”
This sentiment is powerfully encapsulated in the Hebrew word for humility, anavah. While the English word humility originates from the Latin, humilis, meaning meekness or lowliness, anavah stems from the word anu, meaning “to respond.”
Also found this lovely quote related to this concept. “Every person should have two pockets. In one pocket should be a piece of paper saying: ‘I am but dust and ashes.’ When one is feeling too proud, reach into this pocket and take out this paper and read it. In the other pocket should be a piece of paper saying: ‘For my sake was the world created.’ When one is feeling disheartened and lowly, reach into this pocket and take this paper out and read it. We are each the joining of two worlds. We are fashioned from clay, but our spirit is the breath of Adonai.”
(Tales of The Hasidim Later Masters, Martin Buber, p.249-50)
Marci uses the word theophonies -
a visible manifestation to humankind of God or a god."the great theophany of Sinai"
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Laura is starting a new product - practicing symbolic thinking using fairy tale stop motion films in a Monthly Film Club.
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