A podcast on inculturation Christian liturgy, art, music and theology in Asia, especially Japan.
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In this conversation we found ourselves discussing Japan’s outsiders—the Burakumin, Yakuza and tattoos, and the like. The conversation was completely unscripted, unplanned, and free flowing, and oddly enough, one of our best ever. We hope you enjoy.
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15 May 2025
Narrating Japan's Christian Century
In this episode we interview author and speaker Walt Mussell, a mathematician by trade, but a historian of Japan by night. Walt focuses his talks on “Japan’s Christian century,” the hundred years or so between the 1540s to the 1640s when Christianity was legal and spreading in early Edo Japan. Walt also writes fiction based on this period.
Walt's books (https://waltmussell.com/)
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6 May 2025
Cosmic Renewal
In this episode Sean, Riki and I discuss our Easter 2025 experienes. Riki talks about her first time at an Eastern Orthodox Pascha (Easter) service, and I talk about my first experience of serving at the altar as an acolyte during Old Catholic Holy Week and Easter. Sean chimes in helpfully.
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29 Apr 2025
Jacob the X Master
In the session of the podcast, recorded on X Spaces, we spent time with Jacob, a college student who is running a highly successful X account dedicated to the Catholic history of East Asia. Jacob was a breath of fresh air and it was a pleasure spending time with somewho who is simply using the X platform to explore a topic that is meaningful to them, and precisely because of this has been able to reach and inform many others on X with the same interest. Join us in this serendiptious crossing of paths.
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9 Mar 2025
Downsizing with Danshari
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4 Mar 2025
The Return of Spirits
This is a long over due publication of an episode recorded back in the Autumn. It’s so rich in detail, that we are putting out there anyway! Hope you all find it interesting too.
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6 Mar 2024
10 | Crossing Paths: Exploring Catholic and Confucian thought with Fr James Dominic Rooney
Cleric Sean and Dr. Todd interview Fr. Dominic Rooney OP, on the interaction between Catholic and Confucian thought, both in the modern day and in Medieval China.
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24 Nov 2023
9 | The Igorot Spirit and the Gospel
After centuries of mission and colonisation, the Philippines remain overwhelmingly Roman Catholic, but up in the Mountain Province, the Igorot people remained pagan until just over a hundred years ago. That was when the Anglican missionaries came. Not wanting to evangelise on Rome’s turf, they limited their activity to those as yet unreached by the Gospel, and the Igorot people welcomed them.
What made the Igorots see the new missionaries differently? How was their own native spirituality treated by the missionaries? How does it continue to inform their Christian lives today?
These are just some of the questions addressed by our guest, Bishop Ray Frenzel Piluden, Anglican Bishop of Santiago and proud Igorot. Be sure to tune in to find out about Christian inculturation in perhaps a less familiar part of Asia - and to hear some Igorot gongs!
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9 Nov 2023
8 | Languages of Hospitality: The Tea Ceremony and the Mass
Dr. Todd, Fr. Tom and Cleric Sean interview Berek Smith, an Anglican priest in Japan, on the importance of the tea ceremony, understanding Japanese culture, and the hospitality of God.
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19 Oct 2023
7| The Japanese Theologian and The Suffering Servant
Cleric Sean, Dr. Todd and Fr. Plant interview Fr. Gavin Mcadam, a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas, on the topic of Japanese theologian Kazoh Kitamori.
Queen of the Sciences podcast link
https://www.queenofthesciences.com/e/japanese-theologian-kazoh-kitamori/ (https://www.queenofthesciences.com/e/japanese-theologian-kazoh-kitamori/)
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23 Sept 2023
6 | The Holy Mountain-Inculturation in action in south Japan
Cleric Sean, Dr. Todd and Fr. Plant interview Fr. Franco Sottocornola, a Xaverian Missionary priest and monk in Kumamoto Japan, who founded a center for religious dialogue in a Buddhist temple called the Shinmeizan (lit. true life mountain). He discusses the various inculturations done there throughout his life, and why they're still important today.
https://www.shinmeizan.com/en/ (https://www.shinmeizan.com/en/)
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27 Jul 2023
5 | Christianity in Taiwan and the Phillipines
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7 Jul 2023
4 | Persian Christians at the Chinese Court
Dr. Todd discusses his book "Persian Christians at the Chinese Court", and it's importance for us in the modern day.
https://www.amazon.com/Persian-Christians-Chinese-Court-Medieval-ebook/dp/B07P7T1N57/ref=sr_1_1?crid=SE1E1UB8YI2M&keywords=persian+christians+at+the+chinese+court&qid=1688694065&sprefix=persian+christians+at+the+chinese+court%2Caps%2C106&sr=8-1
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25 May 2023
3 | The OT and Shintoism-Godzilla’s Revenge
Dr. Todd leads a discussion with Fr. Tom and Cleric Sean on Hebrew cosmology, and its implications in a Japanese context.
The Lord of Spirits Podcast
https://open.spotify.com/show/7tI290Quis0qk4m3R39QCb?si=BrwFsrXmTzi5XvkarximZg (https://open.spotify.com/show/7tI290Quis0qk4m3R39QCb?si=BrwFsrXmTzi5XvkarximZg)
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30 Apr 2023
2 | What is Liturgical Asia?
Fr. Tom, Dr. Todd and Cleric Sean discuss the podcast, and the importance of the word "liturgy" as a bridge term within an asian context.
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30 Apr 2023
1 | Meet your hosts
Fr. Tom, Dr. Todd, and Cleric Sean introduce themselves, and explain how they came to have an interest in the topic of Christianity in Asia.
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