Hope & Heresy: Life on the Religious Left

"God is beyond the realm of opposites."

As our season-long exploration of aspects of the divine approaches its end, Rev. Peggy and Rev. Sarah spend time today discussing the complicated, cyclical, always-in-process relationship between humans and the divine. Beginning with a discussion of human gender binaries and how they have been projected onto the divine through time, this episode explores how humans see themselves in God -- and, perhaps, vice-versa.

This episode references a few external concepts and resources you might be interested to explore:

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Rev. Peggy recommends the audiobook!): https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass
Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead: https://bookshop.org/books/process-and-reality
In Face of Mystery by Gordon Kaufman: https://bookshop.org/books/in-face-of-mystery-a-constructive-theology
In The Beginning...Creativity by Gordon Kaufman https://bookshop.org/books/in-the-beginning-paper/
The Apocryphon of John (Gnostic Gospel): http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl_sbj.htm

This episode is also available on YouTube at youtube.com/c/ccnyuu. We truly appreciate your time spent listening and watching. If you would like to support our work, please consider subscribing, rating, leaving a review or comment, or writing back to us at podcast@ccny.org.

Show Notes

"God is beyond the realm of opposites."

As our season-long exploration of aspects of the divine approaches its end, Rev. Peggy and Rev. Sarah spend time today discussing the complicated, cyclical, always-in-process relationship between humans and the divine. Beginning with a discussion of human gender binaries and how they have been projected onto the divine through time, this episode explores how humans see themselves in God -- and, perhaps, vice-versa. 

This episode references a few external concepts and resources you might be interested to explore:

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Rev. Peggy recommends the audiobook!): https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass
Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead: https://bookshop.org/books/process-and-reality
In Face of Mystery by Gordon Kaufman: https://bookshop.org/books/in-face-of-mystery-a-constructive-theology
In The Beginning...Creativity by Gordon Kaufman https://bookshop.org/books/in-the-beginning-paper/
The Apocryphon of John (Gnostic Gospel): http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl_sbj.htm 

This episode is also available on YouTube at youtube.com/c/ccnyuu. We truly appreciate your time spent listening and watching. If you would like to support our work, please consider subscribing, rating, leaving a review or comment, or writing back to us at podcast@ccny.org. 

What is Hope & Heresy: Life on the Religious Left?

Hope & Heresy: Life on the Religious Left is a podcast for everyday people who want to live meaningfully without letting arbitrary doctrine or oppressive religious practice prevent them from asking big questions about our complicated world. Hosts Reverend Peggy Clarke and Reverend Sarah Lenzi discuss a series of contemporary issues, using history and theology as their guides. The initial episodes of Hope & Heresy were recorded on-site at Community Church of New York, a Unitarian-Universalist congregation in Murray Hill, Manhattan.

Hosted by Reverend Peggy Clarke (Community Church of New York) and Reverend Sarah Lenzi (The Unitarian Society of Ridgewood, NJ)
Produced by Starling Carter
Original music by Graham Clarke
Logo design by Carol E. Wolf