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Hosted by writer and folk-psalmist Strahan, the Commoners Communion podcast is a conversational look at Christian spirituality through the lens of beauty, mystery and revelation.

I've released a new book! Beholding: Deepening Our Experience of God is an invitation to a God-soaked life of seeing and being seen by...

To close Season 3 of the CC Podcast I want to share with you a written homily I shared with a local church earlier this month. It's abo...

Thank you for listening to the Commoners Communion Podcast! If you would like to support what I'm doing you can find a link to donate t...

This Friday I'll be releasing the first article in a series called 'A More Christlike Apocalypse' (explanation in the intro o...

'My Ordinary Self' is a prayer and contemplation from my book 'Prayer Vol.02'. You can purchase it from commonerscommuni...

Welcome to Q & R - a weekly spot where I respond your questions about life, spirituality, prayer, art or whatever else is on your mind. Emai...

'Save Me From Professional Prayer' is a prayer and contemplation from my book 'Prayer Vol.02'. You can purchase it from...

Welcome to Q & R - a weekly spot where I respond your questions about life, spirituality, prayer, art or whatever else is on your mind. Emai...

'Good Morning, Father' is a prayer and contemplation from my book 'Prayer Vol.02'. You can purchase it from commonerscom...

Welcome to Q & R - a weekly spot where I respond your questions about life, spirituality, prayer, art or whatever else is on your mind. Emai...

Healing, transformation and resurrection aren't always cut and dry transitions in life. Sometimes they're the process of a gradual...

Welcome to Q & R - a weekly spot where I respond your questions about life, spirituality, prayer, art or whatever else is on your mind. Emai...

Our universe is full of the grand - supernova's, galaxies, mountain ranges and deep oceans - as well as the miniature - the atom, a gra...

Much of prayer isn't so much about instigation, as participation and response. __ 'You're Praying Before I Am, God' is a...

The model of Sunday gatherings many of us experience is really recent for the church. Could it be time to correct some of the pendulum swing...

Not every prayer is meant to be beautiful. Not every prayer is even meant to be spoken. Father, Be My Ugly Prayer is a prayer and contemplat...

Becoming isn't only about growing in God-likeness but about celebrating who we already are, today. I'm Not Today What I'd Ima...

What if the spiritual wilderness isn't a place of unfaithfulness, but maturity? An invitation toward a deeper friendship. A place beyon...

The beauty of silence is that it makes us the passive recipient in our communion together with God, opening floor for Him to start the conve...

There is often a distance between how we imagine God doing a thing, and how he really does it. If we're open to looking for it, we may...

This past few weeks have been heartbreaking, angering, shocking and confronting. To honour the wider conversation going on at the moment we...

This past few weeks have been heartbreaking, angering, shocking and confronting. To honour the wider conversation going on at the moment we...

This past few weeks have been heartbreaking, angering, shocking and confronting. To honour the wider conversation going on at the moment we...

This past few weeks have been heartbreaking, angering, shocking and confronting. To honour the wider conversation going on at the moment we...

This past few weeks have been heartbreaking, angering, shocking and confronting. To honour the wider conversation going on at the moment we...

Maybe we can't truly love like God does - with an achy, gritty and unrelenting love - until we arrive at the end of ourselves; where, o...

In moments when things are difficult and hopeless, remembrance is a way of disempowering suffering - of subverting it. Remembering is prophe...

There is a mystery and a romance to how God hides from us. But when it comes to the veil between us and God, between the Father of the heave...

God longs for a divine closeness with you that you’ve not yet discovered. A closeness beyond the questions of circumstance. A closeness beyo...

God is continually dethroning the 'little g' god of our life. Blowing apart and expanding it to reveal himself, the read God, beyo...

Hosted by writer and folk-psalmist Strahan, the Commoners Communion podcast is a conversational look at Christian spirituality through the l...

Before the wheat of any harvest can be used for sharing and baking it must be threshed.

Before the wheat of any harvest can be used for sharing and baking it must be threshed.

The next stage in our journey is the harvesting of the seed we have sown and watched over. The initial promise has bloomed and it’s time to...

The second stage of our journey is about protecting and growing that which God has sown in us.

The first step in the process of God sowing his seed in our lives is His providing the nourishment that brings us the promise. We receive.

To finish off this first season we'll be embarking on a five-week devotional journey through Isaiah 55. Each week there will be questio...

Practicing newness isn't just a nice idea, it's the gritty foundation of our entire Christian spirituality.The music in this podca...

Following on from our last episode, this week I'm looking at the concept of exile - spiritual, physical, emotional, societal - and how...

In a daring move of unprecedented nervousness, I'm taking Commoners Communion on the road! I'm hoping to invite more people to joi...

I'm doing something a little different in this episode. I sat down last week to record an entirely different episode and couldn't...

God is not an idea, a political persuasion or a theology we can knit tight. He is a Person who transforms knowledge into revelation through...

It can sometimes be hard starting a new year. What do we do with unmet promises from the year before? How do we hope for flourishing in time...

We don't often celebrate the beauty of not-knowing in our walk with God, but if he truly is Spirit, truly the God of all existence, the...

In this episode, Strahan discusses how beauty can be lost and found in the pilgrimage of our faith and why beauty should be central to our w...

In this episode, Strahan begins the conversation on how understanding ourselves as the poetry of God can breathe beauty and life into our wa...