Speak The Unspoken

By: Glass Canvas
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  • Speak the Unspoken is a conversation between Church leaders about what it means to reach people with the gospel in a post-Christendom age. In a time where people are looking to the world, themselves, and technology to find happiness, we have to find a new way of communicating the gospel than we have before. Each episode will unpack a philosophy of the new model we are seeing emerge in the Church and address topics like doubt, the digital age, loneliness, and more. With added insight from ministry leaders around the world, Glass Canvas will help parishes, dioceses, and ministries unlock their ministry potential.
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  • Episode 13: 013: Living in apostolic mode with Monsignor Shea (LIVE at SEEK 2023)

    Episode 13: 013: Living in apostolic mode with Monsignor Shea (LIVE at SEEK 2023)
    Mar 22 2023
    In this episode, we sit down with our friend Monsignor Shea from University of Mary. We talk about stepping into an apostolic age, the age of Fatherhood, warnings of longing for utopia, and what the saints of our age will look like. We recorded this episode in the Spoke Street Booth at SEEK 2023. Important Things 11:04 - We’ve come out of Christendom and into aposotlic mode but it is now about bringing back to the Church to which they feel like they have tasted and not liked. 13:36 - We’re stepping into the age of God as Father, where many people are in need of healing as sons and daughters. 14:56 - Attachement theory is about relationship which ultimatly impacts our relationship with God. The ultimate design of our hearts is to firmly attach to God as Father. 18:06 - The Church often operates in an orphan spirit that has left us hopeless about culture and the life of the Church. But we need to shift away from being fascinated by utopias or believing that resilience or pain squanders our hope. 25:45 - In every age, the Church comes against culture but there are always saints who rise up among it. 32:30 - The accuser reeks havoc on society with three main lies: the lie of shame, the lie of presumption, and the lie of self reliance. Shame says, you are not enough. Presumption says, what you do today doesn’t matter. And self reliance says, you are all alone. 39:20 - It’s anti-Christian to be nostalgic for “better days”. We are made for a purpose right now, in this time in history. Lists & Resources From Christendom to Apostolic Mission: https://www.amazon.ca/Christendom-Apostolic-Mission-Pastoral-Strategies-ebook/dp/B08B4SM488 Prime Matters: https://primematters.com/ Spoke Street: https://spokestreet.com/ SEEK: https://seek.focus.org/ Shownotes In this episode, we sit down with our friend Monsignor Shea from University of Mary. We talk about stepping into an apostolic age, the age of Fatherhood, warnings of longing for utopia, and what the saints of our age will look like. We recorded this episode in the Spoke Street Booth at SEEK 2023. Quotes 12:17 - “What’s different about the age in which we find ourselves in now is it’s not just about converting pagans; it’s about bringing back people who have believed they heard the gospel and convincing them that they should see it again for the first time, and that’s a very different task” - Monsignor “The ultimate design of our hearts is to firmly attach to God as Father.” - Jason Jensen “In every age this happens and in every age how does God answer? He raises up saints to be his warriors to fight for him within the church. And then the church builds up the immunity for the good of the Church and the good of the culture.” - Monsignor Shea “The saints canonized in the next 50 years, are the ones who got infected by the disease of the culture and then they allowed Christ to transform them personally, and it’s the collective doing of saints becoming saints that are those antibodies.” - Jason “The accuser reeks havoc on the hearts of men and women with these questions of shame, presumption, and self relance. And the answer to that is of course to reject them. And say no, I am enough and God has given me everything I need to fulfill my purpose in this life, what He has placed me here to do… He hasn’t given my mission to anyone else.” - Monsignor Shea “The dark times are when Christians are really meant to shine. Christiantiy is a religion for a broken world.” - Monsignor Shea
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    44 mins
  • 012: Meeting felt needs we don’t understand with Anna Cater

    012: Meeting felt needs we don’t understand with Anna Cater
    Oct 29 2021
    How do we meaningly engage conversation around topics that are highly charged in our culture? Join our conversation with Anna Carter, the founder of Eden Invitation, a community for Catholics that promotes the fullness of personal identity beyond the LGBTQ paradigm. We talk about acceptance, relationship, and finding common ground under compassionate orthodoxy. ### QUOTES “One of the most critical things that is so simple yet so often overlooked, is the primacy of relationship with Christ in all these situations.” - Anna What does the human heart need above sexual fulfillment: love, belonging, acceptance. That doesn't mean accepting the entirety of the person. I feel acceptance and people don't accept every sin I commit. We do have bigger paradigms to operate under but all of a sudden our paradigm within this context just shrinks, and we think, I have nothing.” - Jason “If I love someone well, they stay. And I think that's the secret sauce of Jesus. It’s the woman at the well, Zacheus, the leper—all these people realize, this man is loving me.” - Jason Part of [this] comes down to the individual accompaniment. Asking people, how is your prayer? What is the question behind their question? What’s going on in other aspects of his life and the full context of his life?” - Anna “What would it look like if we suffered with those that are gender minorities? What are your pain points in the church? What are the expectations on your life? What’s hard? What is the suffering and how can I be in it with you?” - Anna “It’s easy to put a wall up when someone experiences passion in a way that we don’t understand. When in reality, there are scorching passions inside all of us. Am I willing to be in tune with my own? Am I willing to be in tune with the way I cry out and to look at you from that gaze of understanding?” - Anna “You can’t take someone into their story further than what you’re willing to go into yourself.” - Jason *### The Important Things: * 7:40 - It’s not just always about giving someone the right tools, it's the relationship that keeps us walking with the Lord. We have to let go and guide someone towards a deeper relationship. 10:21 - A lot of it comes down to the individual accompaniment and asking the questions behind their questions. What is their context? What other aspects are going on in their life? 12:15 - “I think we are guilty of the same thing we accuse the LBGTQ community of doing. Which is identifying by sexuality…. All of a sudden, everything we know about ministry gets tossed out the window. Everything we know about human development and human formation and spiritual formation, all of a sudden it drops out of our backpack and we don’t know what to do. Which is sort of identifying them by it. It’s saying, because you’re this, I don’t have ways to help you.” 14:00 - The principle is being confident in your life in Jesus in order to offer it to others. The second is giving people what they need from a human level: belonging, love, acceptance. 26:15 - What do we do when we don’t know how to engage meaningfully? You have to consider: the internal reality of the hearer, your own intention, and how culture has infused words with different meanings. But what matters most of all is the heart. What is the intention behind the language and conversation? 48:08 - Compassionate orthodoxy: It can be empathy and understanding. But it can also be suffering with—to love, and be called to charity. What are their pains in culture and the Church? We can find common ground in the human experience of being in the wilderness. Lists & Resources https://www.edeninvitation.com/ https://www.instagram.com/edeninvitation/ https://www.facebook.com/edeninvitation/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmgNJUWwpyki1JlCP2Rbg
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • 011: Fighting shame culture with Tim Glemkowski

    011: Fighting shame culture with Tim Glemkowski
    Oct 15 2021
    In a culture where identity is defined by the approval of peers and culture rather than authority, what is that doing to our souls? We talk with Tim Glemkowski, Director of Strategy at the Archdiocese of Denver as well as a speaker and author, about addressing shame with identity by better understanding we are fathered by God and the implications of that on how we share the Gospel. We talk about a way of life and how we get to freedom here and now. The Important Things: 3:00 - We’re moving from a guilt-based culture to a shame-based culture. When we sin and feel that disconnect in ourselves, we feel like something is wrong with us instead of there is something that we need to rid ourselves of. 5:45 - To understand our culture, we have to understand shame. We have to understand sin has an objective impact on us, no matter whether we understand that it is sin or not. 8:00 - Our point of approval and definition of identity has shifted. We don’t need approval to be happy but believe we can do it on our own. We’re casting off these institutions and authority figures and yet, we still feel unsettled because the human heart is always made for God. 10:56 - When we don’t submit to an authority or believe in a divine order, we’re left with chaos. We’re looking around looking for answers rather than looking up. When we define our happiness and purpose, and it’s not fulfilling, there is then something wrong with me 13:12 - How does this shift the way we talk about the Kerygma? Shame culture still has a beautiful, hopeful answer in the Gospel. Shame culture requires us to go deeper than just confession of sin but understanding that we had a relationship with a perfect father that was broken. The message becomes more about who you are to Christ rather than purely the sin. 16:14 - the principles are timeless but the conversation speaks more to what they are experiencing. Even the original disciples talked about sin in a modern convention to relate to the people they were speaking to. 18:00 - In sin, we become captive and it breaks us down. And we’re not even aware of it. The cross is him coming back for us. This is how he fights for his children. The message is you matter more than your shame, more than you can even imagine. And the Catholic notion of response changes me in my nature and core, not just that my sin gets wiped away. 22:30 - We’re a generation so broken by fathers but we need the fatherhood to be healed. Living under his authority and freedom from being a child. 23:05 - Who is the central character of this story? A father who comes looking for his children. Jesus’s life is revealing the Father. 27:07 - When we talk about freedom, we talk about not having to whiteknuckle our faith and not sinning. There’s a way to live with God where you aren’t just efforting the whole things. There is freedom when you live in the radical confidence of the father’s love for you. 31:30 - How do we live this out as brothers and sisters in Christ? There used to be orders that led this but now is the age of the laity and it requires a radical new form of holiness, in community, that leads to mission. 51:14 - We have to rewire our mindset of why we’re doing what we’re doing. We have to think differently to then implement best practices. 55 - Finding the balance between letting the spirit lead and having program structure. How can we think through the different variables? SHOW NOTES We talk about how we communicate the gospel in a world that is moving from guilt culture to shame culture. We address Fatherhood, living in complete confidence that we are loved, and how we allow others in our life to experience that. The principles of the gospel are always the same, but now we need to look at it through the eyes of those who haven’t experienced it yet. What are they experiencing? What are they searching for that Jesus can satisfy? We have to fight shame culture with identity which means understanding who we are as children of God. Part of communicating the gospel is living a way of life that exemplifies the power, transformation, and unity of being in the family of God. QUOTES “We need a way of talking about sin that actually responds to a shame vs. guilt culture.” - Tim “When we recognize, I’m still super empty and doing all this and trying to live really well is not satisfying me; if we’re the arbiter of that, we’re also responsible for that too so then I am wrong, there must be something wrong with me.” - Tim “We’ve been taken from our father’s house and what he’s doing when he is hanging on the cross is him getting his world back.” - Tim It’s not just, my sin gets wiped away but to my very core, loved in my unloveliness, I actually become something lovable.” - Tim “We’re a culture that is so let down by our fathers that we want to reject the authority of the Father, thinking that’s the source of the problem but it’s broken fathers. We need that fatherhood. ...
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    1 hr and 3 mins
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