Ranked #1
Mennonites, Memory, and Marking Time
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
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37mins
Ranked #2
An Old/New New Year’s
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
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10mins
Ranked #3
My First Death
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
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19mins
Ranked #4
A Modern Woman in an Ancient Calendar: A Chat with Angela Doll Carlson
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
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34mins
Ranked #5
Three Strategies for a Happy New Year
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
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31mins
Ranked #6
“Desiring the Kingdom” in Lent
“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
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19mins
Ranked #7
“Making” Time with Fr. Robert Holet
“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
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53mins
Ranked #8
A Time for Illness, with Elissa Bjeletich
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
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33mins
Ranked #9
Evening and Morning
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
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12mins
Ranked #10
Time in Transit
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
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19mins
Ranked #11
Looking Back on Lent: Lessons at the Gym
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
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7mins
Ranked #12
Shame, Despondency, and a New Year
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
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21mins
Ranked #13
“Death is Coming!” Introducing Season 4 of Time Eternal
“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
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11mins
Ranked #14
“Humility and Patience to Thy Servant”: Time and Despondency in Lent (Weeks 1 and 2)
“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
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15mins
Ranked #15
Fr. Tay’s Story
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
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14mins
Ranked #16
Facing Death Through Catechism
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
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20mins
Ranked #17
Who Is Time?
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
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21mins
Ranked #18
Sites of Eternity: The New Time Eternal Podcast
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
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19mins
Ranked #19
Time and Despondency Part II: Escape from the Present
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
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16mins
Ranked #20
Time and Despondency Part I: The Most Temporal of Passions
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
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20mins