We're diving deep into the journey of faith, identity, and spirituality—exploring what it means to reconcile childhood beliefs with the realities of adult life, and how we can release old ideas of God for a better, more inclusive world. Let's find ways to work together with our many images of God and Humanity to save our world.
Shards - A Spiritual Journey in Pieces
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We're diving deep into the journey of faith, identity, and spirituality—exploring what it means to reconcile childhood beliefs with the realities of adult life, and how we can release old ideas of God for a better, more inclusive world. Let's find ways to work together with our many images of God and Humanity to save our world.
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3/30/2025
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April 29, 2025
Shards - The Knock We Keep Ignoring
<p>Sometimes, the invitation to change doesn’t come softly — it comes through discomfort, resistance, even anger. In this episode, David shares the story of his early work with GLIDE, facing raw reactions from those unready for dialogue, and what those moments revealed about the deeper work of transformation.Reflecting on today’s cultural fractures — from DEI to gender identity to political polarization — David weaves personal experience with ancient wisdom from the Gospels of Thomas and Mary, asking:What if real change isn’t something we perform outwardly, but something we embody inwardly?What if the Kingdom we seek is not beyond us, but within us?This is a meditation on wholeness, sacred disruption, and the door we've been searching for all along — the knock we keep ignoring.</p><p>Plus: a closing blessing drawn from the forgotten words of early Christian mystics, and reflection questions to carry into your week.</p>
April 25, 2025
Shards - Whole Enough (Bonus Meditation)
<p>In this special offering from Shards, I invite you into a meditation called Whole Enough — a quiet remembering that even in our brokenness, even in our becoming, we are already enough.This meditation is a space to breathe, to soften, and to rest in the truth that healing doesn't demand perfection.It only asks for presence.<br>Come as you are.</p>
April 24, 2025
Shards - When He Met She In Me
<p>In this episode, David explores the sacred duality of masculine and feminine energies—within himself, within his faith story, and within the collective soul of our nation. He reflects on childhood messages about gender, the power and protection offered by the women who raised him, and the masculine ideals that were weaponized in both home and church.</p><p>Through a profound moment at retreat, David shares how he stopped searching for the abandoned boy inside him and instead met the man he had become—the kind, grounded, steady presence who could now hold both strength and softness.</p><p>This episode offers not just a personal reckoning, but a cultural one—tracing how our distorted worship of a judgmental, male-coded God has shaped politics, leadership, and societal imbalance. David gently invites us back toward wholeness: not by shouting down the mountain, but by planting the feminine within.</p><p>The episode closes with a meditation on nurturing change from the inside out—how the unseen becomes the seen, and how a new world begins with a single seed.</p>
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