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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...
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Commoners Communion Podcast
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.
Episodes
20 of 46 episodesGoodness Has Some Bite (on the counter-cultural nature of godly goodness)
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...
Sacred Dialogue (on speaking like Christ in divisive times)
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...
Old Friends Carry These Things Together (on the long-game love of God).
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 (on the mystery of a God-infused life)
'My Ordinary Self' is a prayer and contemplation from my book 'Prayer Vol.02'. You can purchase it from commonerscommuni...
Q & R: What Does Your Creative Process Look Like?
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 (on the importance of staying rookie)
'Save Me From Professional Prayer' is a prayer and contemplation from my book 'Prayer Vol.02'. You can purchase it from...
Q & R: How Can We 'Know God'?
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 (on keeping time and place with God)
'Good Morning, Father' is a prayer and contemplation from my book 'Prayer Vol.02'. You can purchase it from commonerscom...
Q & R: How Can I Feel Closer To God When He Feels So Far Away?
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...
Numbness & Awakening (on the gradience of healing)
Healing, transformation and resurrection aren't always cut and dry transitions in life. Sometimes they're the process of a gradual...
Q & R: How Do I Find Clarity When I Feel Stuck And Uncertain?
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...
Tiny, God (on reclaiming the art of living a little life)
Our universe is full of the grand - supernova's, galaxies, mountain ranges and deep oceans - as well as the miniature - the atom, a gra...
You're Praying Before I am, God (on participating in divine dialogue)
Much of prayer isn't so much about instigation, as participation and response. __ 'You're Praying Before I Am, God' is a...
Concert To Cathedral (on creating sacred spaces in this turn of times)
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...
Father, Be My Ugly Prayer (and the deep groan of God)
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...
I'm Not Today What I'd Imagined, Thank God (and accepting our right now)
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...
The Narrow Way (and the celebration of spiritual crises)
What if the spiritual wilderness isn't a place of unfaithfulness, but maturity? An invitation toward a deeper friendship. A place beyon...
Shhh (and creating secret spaces)
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...
When Newness Isn't Easy (and failure as holy anticipation)
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...