Ranked #1

Mennonites, Memory, and Marking Time
My friend Kerry was born in a conservative Mennonite community in rural Manitoba. As she grew up, that community gradual... Read more
12 Oct 2017
•
37mins
Ranked #2

An Old/New New Year’s
In salutation of 2019, Nicole examines the (surprisingly complicated) historical origins of the January 1st New Year. Th... Read more
5 Jan 2019
•
10mins
Ranked #3

My First Death
Just as death entered the world through one man (Adam, according to Romans 5), so death typically enters our personal ex... Read more
6 Sep 2018
•
19mins
Ranked #4

A Modern Woman in an Ancient Calendar: A Chat with Angela Doll Carlson
oday, I'm talking with friend and author Angela Doll Carlson about living the liturgical year. From logistics and practi... Read more
20 Nov 2016
•
34mins
Ranked #5

Three Strategies for a Happy New Year
Speaking of time—the new year is upon us! It's a season when lots of people are thinking of goals and self-improvement. ... Read more
5 Jan 2017
•
31mins
Ranked #6

“Desiring the Kingdom” in Lent
Nicole talks about one of the books she's reading this Lent, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Form... Read more
19 Mar 2018
•
19mins
Ranked #7

“Making” Time with Fr. Robert Holet
Today I’m with Fr. Robert Holet, host of the podcast “First Fruits of Christian Living.” We’re talking about our volitio... Read more
14 Sep 2017
•
53mins
Ranked #8

A Time for Illness, with Elissa Bjeletich
When my friend Elissa’s daughter was still a baby, she had to undergo a risky liver transplant. Elissa and I think back ... Read more
21 Sep 2017
•
33mins
Ranked #9

Evening and Morning
Nicole reflects on recent #TemporalTuesdays posts that revolve around the liturgical mystery of the first day of creatio... Read more
6 Jun 2018
•
12mins
Ranked #10

Time in Transit
Public transportation is my temporal kryptonite--it brings out my impatience and inability to cope with the time I “lose... Read more
29 Sep 2017
•
19mins
Ranked #11

Looking Back on Lent: Lessons at the Gym
Nicole reflects on how the askesis of Great Lent strengthens the tiny, barely perceptible muscles of faith more often th... Read more
23 Apr 2017
•
7mins
Ranked #12

Shame, Despondency, and a New Year
Does the new year bring up feelings of shame and apathy? Do all those perky new year's resolutions people annoy you? Or ... Read more
11 Jan 2018
•
21mins
Ranked #13

“Death is Coming!” Introducing Season 4 of Time Eternal
Meet some of the guests (and questions) that will feature in Season 4 of Time Eternal. Philip Roth once wrote that "in e... Read more
21 Aug 2018
•
11mins
Ranked #14

“Humility and Patience to Thy Servant”: Time and Despondency in Lent (Weeks 1 and 2)
This Lent, I'm walking through my book, Time and Despondency, in tandem with the free Lenten study guide available throu... Read more
22 Feb 2018
•
15mins
Ranked #15

Fr. Tay’s Story
While doing his chaplaincy training, an Anglican priest friend of mine was once called to the deathbed of a pre-term bab... Read more
25 Oct 2018
•
14mins
Ranked #16

Facing Death Through Catechism
The call to remember death is a constant in ascetical theology. But how exactly does one put this virtue into practice? ... Read more
27 Sep 2018
•
20mins
Ranked #17

Who Is Time?
Here we explore the possibility that God isn't "eternal." How can that be? Tune in to find out!
4 Feb 2016
•
21mins
Ranked #18

Sites of Eternity: The New Time Eternal Podcast
In this new, relaunched version of Time Eternal, I walk the meditation trail at Antiochian Village and consider what it ... Read more
7 Sep 2017
•
19mins
Ranked #19

Time and Despondency Part II: Escape from the Present
The present moment is a gift from God. But too often, we flee from this "gift of the now" through our mental ideations o... Read more
16 Mar 2016
•
16mins
Ranked #20

Time and Despondency Part I: The Most Temporal of Passions
In the first episode of a five-part Lenten series on despondency, we learn what despondency is (and what it isn't), and ... Read more
2 Mar 2016
•
20mins