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Our podcast is at the heart of The Collective Table. Naturally, you can listen to our podcast in your favorite podcast app, or below. Additionally, you can read show notes and find connected materials below.

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Episode 8: Earth Day

I wrote this song, Don’t Destroy, Create!, for Earth Day 2020 and also for my son. Last year was a rough one for Ezra and myself, considering all the normal duties and pressures of a parent child relationship but then also adding the extra stress from the unknown of the pandemic…

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Episode 7: Easter Music

This song was written as a hope to come. It is actually about preparing to change. The truth is in the verse. It’s a desire to be transformed. Looking at the stuff that has been accumulating in my life, my grave, and realizing it’s time to empty the tomb…

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Episode 6: Holy Week Music

As lent nears its end, I have really been focused on gratitude and its relationship to humility…

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Episode 5: Music

This week’s song is about finding hope and strength in the times of wilderness. As we are in the Lenten season, we are in a constant state of selflessness and wandering and we are even confronting death and the limited time we have on this earth…

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Episode 4: Music

I wrote this with the idea of impermanence in mind. One of the most powerful things about Ash Wednesday is that we are confronting the finitude of our time on earth and that can be overwhelming…

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Episode 3: Music

This song is about trying to listen to God and be still in the midst of the constant noise. Whether that noise is coming from inside of me or from the outside…

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Episode 2: Music

We Will Rise Up (Prepare the Way of Love) is Mystic Mercy's latest song. It speaks to hope in times of trouble. It reminds us that no matter what is surrounding us that we will not drown because Love will always make a way.

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Episode 1: Music

Check out Mystic Mercy's newest original song called "Reveal to Me". This original song beautifully and relevantly depicts a God who shows up with us, wherever we are.