The Sacred Everywhere Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

In a relational, evolving world, questions of war and justice cannot be answered by control and domination, but only through the lens of love, relationship, and what makes life possible. This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Dr. Sheri Kling discussing the question of whether there is ever really a just war from a process perspective. 

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This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Dr. Sheri Kling discussing archetypes and the patterns of our lives.

Read a condensed version in article form on Substack at https://sherikling.substack.com/p/the-patterns-of-our-lives.

The video is available on Substack .

This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Dr. Bruce Epperly, a process theologian and one of my professors at Claremont School of Theology. Bruce has spent over forty years in the varied vocations of seminary and university professor, university chaplain, congregational pastor, and seminary administrator. This is the first half of our conversation. The full episode is available to paid subscribers.

Bruce Epperly is the author of over sixty books in theology, spirituality, health and healing, scripture, politics, and ministerial excellence and wellbeing, including The Elephant is Running: Process and Open and Relational Theologies and Religious Pluralism; Process Theology: Embracing Adventure with God; Mystics in Action: Twelve Saints for Today; Prophetic Healing: Howard Thurman's Vision of Contemplative Activism; and Francis of Assisi: From Privilege to Activism. Follow his work at Patheos, https://www.patheos.com/blogs/livingaholyadventure/.

In this episode, we talk about one of his newest books, Whitehead and Jesus: An Adventure in Spiritual Transformation, available at https://www.amazon.com/Whitehead-Jesus-Adventure-Spiritual-Transformation/dp/1631999664/.

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You can watch the video of Pt. 1 on YouTube here.

This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Dr. Jerry Wright, a Jungian psychoanalyst, teacher, and writer based in Flat Rock, North Carolina. This is the first half of our conversation, which you can also watch on YouTube.

The full conversation video is available to paid subscribers of The Sacred Everywhere.

Jerry is an experienced conference and retreat leader, as well as a pilgrimage consultant. I met Jerry more than twenty years ago at a conference and have been privileged to be part of two pilgrimages with him, one to western Ireland and the other to the isle of Iona, Scotland.

His new book Welcoming Our Gods Back Home: The Wisdom of Psychological Mysticism was just published by Chiron and is part of a trilogy of books that includes Reimagining God and Religion: Essays for the Psychologically Minded and A Mystical Path Less Traveled: A Jungian Psychological Perspective.

Learn more about Jerry’s work at

https://www.jerryrwright.com/

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This week, I’ll be launching The Sacred Everywhere in podcast and video form. Listen to this introduction to find out what’s coming in this new offering.

Several years ago, when I was in an Eco-Process Theology course at Claremont School of Theology, I composed this hymn as a midterm creative project. It basically summarized our semester to date.

We were reading textbooks exploring ideas from process theology, ecofeminist theology, and the writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

I thought the ideas expressed were so inspiring that I wanted people to be able to sing this theology. I believe strongly that we will never change how we think about God, the world, and ourselves until we can sing about it.

Bad theology is written into so many church hymns, and if we keep singing that theology, the theology that is preached - even if radically different - will not move the needle.

The beginning of this hymn I imagine as a choral chant. And it tells the scientific story of the universe. The verses then express the kinds of insights that have been shared by mystics for centuries.

I’ll soon be breaking down each of these verses in posts and on YouTube.

We All Are Related

by Sheri D. Kling

(Choral chant)

Fiery brilliance, cooling gas, condensing gravity

Atoms forming stars and carbon-fueled diversity

Earth with sky and oceans, molecules then multiply

Stardust is the mater of the cosmos and all life.

(Congregational verses)

We all are related, woven as threads in earth’s tapestry

A kinship creation, depending on all in deep harmony.

Internally formed by each other, creative and free

We all are related, wholly and actively.

The world is becoming, the future of God is luring us there.

Grace within chaos, the pow’r of the new, holiness bare.

The Singer is singing the Song we are yearning to share.

The world is becoming, process is everywhere.

God is embodied, Word become flesh, in all that we see.

Deeply incarnate in every bird, in every tree.

In the heartbeat of billions of bodies just wanting to be.

God is embodied, soul of the world, breathing in me.

All things have value, all the way up and all the way down.

God is redeeming the lowliest stone and the glorious crown.

Christ is the pattern in every atom around.

All things have value, whispering Spirit Sound.

We need liberation from seeing our world as dead-matter machines

All creatures as neighbors, a healing embrace, so held we are free.

Entraining our rhythms to the heartbeat of Life consciously,

We all are related,

In a world that’s becoming,

Where God is embodied,

And all things have value,

We are liberated, affirming the world we see.

© 2011 Sheri D. Kling, Waking Woman Music

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This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Philip Shepherd,  someone whose work I’ve come to greatly appreciate. The full episode is available for paid subscribers to The Sacred Everywhere.

Both Philip and I question the dominant worldview of Western culture. Process thinkers have been doing the same as well for a very long time. What Philip calls “The Story” asserts that “humans stand as independent of nature as our skyscrapers do; that the head should be in charge of the body, just as a CEO is in charge of a corporation; that we can own trees, land, and animals; that self-mastery is the means to success; that what we feel as ‘the self’ lies within the boundary of the skin; that the pursuit of happiness is the primary goal of our lives; and that money buys security.”

What led him to question this story in the first place? That’s part of our conversation, as is the whole notion of wholeness and our immersion within it, and how Philip’s thinking intersects with the process thought of Alfred North Whitehead and my own work on the whole-making sacred.

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Philip Shepherd is recognized as a leader in the global embodiment movement. He created The Embodied Present Process™ (TEPP) in partnership with Allyson Woodrooffe, and as co-directors they provide practices and new perspectives on our culture to help people come home to the body’s deep presence and wisdom. They share the work of TEPP online, in one-on-one coaching sessions, and worldwide in workshops, retreats and Facilitators Trainings.

TEPP is also supported by Philip’s two books – Radical Wholeness and New Self, New World – which articulate the causes, perils and personal challenges of our culture’s disembodiment. Philip’s own journey to embodiment includes cycling alone as a teenager through Europe, the Middle East, Iran, India and Japan; studying classical Japanese Noh Theater; co-founding an interdisciplinary theatre company; writing two internationally produced plays and a television documentary; and playing lead roles on stages in London, New York, Chicago and Toronto. 

The TEPP website and online courses are found at EmbodiedPresent.com. Philip’s most recent book, Deep Fitness, was co-authored with Andrei Yakovenko and offers a revolutionary and highly effective approach to fitness. He is currently working on a new book, Remembering Ourselves: A Guide to Our Lost Intelligence.

This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Bob Hoss, someone I met many years ago due to our mutual interest in and study of dreams and using dream work for wholeness and healing. The full episode is available for paid subscribers to The Sacred Everywhere. You can watch the video of this first half on YouTube at https://youtu.be/538358uLzKU.

 Robert Hoss, MS is the former President and present Conference Director of the International Association for the Study of Dreams and director of the DreamScience Foundation for dream research grants. He is an APA member, a Haden Institute faculty instructor and on the board of the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare.

 His research specializes in content analysis and its relation to neuroscience and psychological theory. His training as well as his teaching activity is eclectic with a focus on Gestalt Therapy, Jungian theory and contemporary research.

 He is author/editor of: Dreams: Understanding Biology, Psychology & Culture (Greenwood); Dreams that Change Our Lives (Chiron); Dream to Freedom (EP Press); Dream Language (Innersource), He is also published in 11 professional and dream related books and 5 journals and has been featured in a PBS special, Readers Digest, Prevention, the Psychology Today blog and USA Today. He was awarded the IASD lifetime Achievement Award in 2021. You can learn more about Bob’s work at www.dreamscience.org

This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features series host, Dr. Sheri Kling. You can watch the video on YouTube at https://youtu.be/AKbyE02wHcM.

For more information on the Haden Institute and its spiritual direction and dream work certification programs, or its Summer Dream & Spirituality Conference, visit https://www.hadeninstitute.com/.

 To learn more about Parker J. Palmer and his work on Healing the Heart of Democracy, visit the Center for Courage & Renewal at https://couragerenewal.org/.

This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Ilia Delio, OSF, a Franciscan Sister of Washington, DC, and an American theologian specializing in the area of science and religion, with interests in evolution, physics, and neuroscience and the import of these for theology. Her most recent book is The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole (Orbis, 2025). This is Pt. 1 and may also be watched on YouTube at https://youtu.be/sOVSKWP5CF8. The full episode is available on Substack at https://open.substack.com/pub/sherikling/p/god-in-matter-evolution-and-ai?r=22d1zx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true.

Ilia currently holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University and is the author of twenty books, including "Care for Creation" (coauthored with Keith Warner and Pamela Woods), which won two Catholic Press Book Awards in 2009: first place for social concerns and second place in spirituality.

Her book The Emergent Christ won a third-place Catholic Press Book Award in 2011 for the area of Science and Religion. Her recent books include The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution, and the Power of Love (Orbis, 2013), which received the 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award and a third-place Catholic Press Association Award for Faith and Science. Ilia holds two honorary doctorates, one from St. Francis University in 2015, and one from Sacred Heart University in 2020.

Ilia also has a podcast called Hunger for Wholeness https://christogenesis.org/podcast/.

Learn more at the Center for Christogenesis. https://christogenesis.org/