For this episode Christopher and Riley were pleased to welcome artist, architect, husband, father, and scripture junkie, Bob Sonntag, to discuss the power of ritual in family and community spiritual practice, language, art, space, and song. Bob has spent considerable time studying ritual in sacred texts and his art reflects this focus on transformation through participatory remembrance. He has also integrated ritual into his family dynamics to connect individuals through generations. They discuss connecting with the “heavenly and timeless” eternal through participating in and contemplating cosmic ritual.
Christopher and Riley talk about the esoteric (inner) and exoteric (outer) experience of religion and finding a balance between the two. On the one...
In this episode, Riley and Christopher explore the promise to peacemakers in the Beatitude, “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the...
Mack Stirling on René Girard’s mimetic theory