On today’s podcast Darlene and Ted are joined by pastor, activist and author Melissa Florer-Bixler to explore her new book How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger & The Work of Peace. Melissa is the pastor of Raleigh Mennonite Church, and a graduate of Duke University and Princeton Theological Seminary. She spent times studying in...
On today’s episode of Define the Relationship Podcast, Ted and Darlene are joined by Erin Funk Wieler. Erin is responsible for giving direction to how we integrated children into the life of Seeds and how we are working to support parents in raising their children. Listen right to the end to get a short blooper...
It’s been a few months, but the podcast is back in business, and it seems like we are starting a new season of Defining our Relationship to the Bible, but also to issues and to how we are doing church at Seeds. This week join Dar and Ted as they go back and forth on...
Would a good God, set things up so that only some would go to heaven and many others would be lost to an eternal hell? And what about Beauty, Truth and Justice? Will anything ever change? Will the brokenness of our world ever be healed. This week Ted and Dar delve into the ultimate end...
Have you ever asked the question, “What’s the point of Christianity anyway? Can’t I just be a good person?” In today’s episode Darlene shares some reflections on how Plato and Simone Weil defined the “good” and how it connects to God and Jesus Christ. Enjoy.
So many good questions were asked this past Sunday at our Zoom Congregational Meeting, we decided to take some time to answer them in the form of a podcast. Again this will be a diversion from our regular podcast topics and if you are not a part of the Seeds Church community or the Altona...
This week on the Define the Relationship podcast we break away from our Reconstruction series, to update you on the Next20 process we initiated at Seeds to celebrate our 20th birthday. Covid19 has made so much of our life difficult to manage, and it has been no different with this visioning process. Despite that, we...
This week, we realize that there is more to say about Reconstructing our understanding of salvation. Buckle your seat belts as Ted gives us a quick tour of how Christians have understood the answer to the question, “How does Jesus Save?” For a more thorough understanding of these issues, we encourage you to pick up...
Are you saved? What does that even mean? Is it a gotcha question, or is it a gateway into an important conversation about how our relationship to Jesus and God, is about our need for some kind of rescue. Join Ted and Darlene as they try to unpack the fuller meaning of salvation and ask...
After a hiatus, Ted and Darlene are back into the move from Deconstruction to Reconstruction. So many places we could start God, salvation, sin, the environment, but today we begin with what it means to be the church. The pandemic has forced our faith community to rethink what it means to be the church when...
