This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/22/26, entitled The Sacred as a Language We Speak. In this episode, we talk about the nature of the human religious impulse, and how religion is a language that we speak and a set of practices that we keep that help us render the world as sacred to ourselves, and live in community like that is the case. Thanks for tuning in!

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/15/26, entitled The Sacred as Love, Beauty, and Peace. In this episode, we talk about the movement in our lives from living in love, to creating beauty in the world, to the emergence of peace as trusting in the efficacy of beauty -- and how, the sacred emerges when we choose to pay attention and walk this path. Thanks for tuning in!

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/08/26, entitled The Sacredness of Becoming. In this episode, we talk about how we innately know that life is sacred through our experience of flow -- of knowing the past, present, and future -- and, how peace arises not through us hitting the pause button on life, but by surrendering more fully to the cycle of creative transformation, whose name is Love. Thanks for tuning in!

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/01/26 with Barbra Valentine, entitled Sacred Stories That Shape Us. In this episode, Barbra guided us in an evening of reflection on the stories that have shaped our spiritual lives, and invited us into a shared exploration of the experiences, relationships, questions, and moments of wonder that have awakened us to the sacred mysteries of life. Thanks for tuning in!

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 06/24/26, entitled Seeing Through the Eyes of the Sacred. In this episode, we talk how to encounter the sacred in ourselves and others through learning to see ourselves as God sees us, and how, when we borrow God's eyes, we begin to see the beauty and dignity of everyone around us. Thanks for tuning in!

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 06/17/26, entitled The Sacredness of Community. In this episode, we talk about how community life is one way we experience the sacred, and how, when there is room for deep trust and belonging, we find something rare in our fragmented time -- the possibility of contemplative friendships. Thanks for tuning in!

This is a special episode in conversation with a member of our community, author and public theologian Damon Garcia on 06/16/26, entitled Why You Don't Need a Calling. In this episode, Damon and Tim chat about the scope of Damon's work, and what led him to write his forthcoming book: You Don't Need a Calling: An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto for a Life of Purpose. They also discuss the effects of late capitalism on human meaning, how grounding in dignity and creativity offer us a way out, and what we can learn from disentangling from the vicious cycles of self-improvement and commoditization. Thanks for tuning in!

Order Damon's latest book, You Don't Need a Calling, HERE!

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Damon Garcia is an author, speaker, content creator, and public theologian, trying to inspire radical imagination in people’s spirituality and politics. Inspired by liberation theology and anti-capitalist politics, Damon is passionate about developing a liberative spirituality for a disillusioned generation of spiritual misfits and radicals. He is the author of The God Who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus (Broadleaf Books, 2022) and You Don’t Need a Calling: An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto for a Life of Purpose (Broadleaf Books, 2026). He lives in Santa Maria, California.

Follow along with his work at www.damongarcia.com.

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 06/10/26, entitled Turning to the Sacred. In this episode, we begin our Summer series of conversations by asking "what" the sacred means, and, through the metaphor of landscape, we look at the invitation to attune to the sacred as gaining a deeper sense of a Beauty that holds the full spectrum of human life and emotion. Thanks for tuning in!