Episodes 10
Avg. Duration 29m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.9 (18)
Since Oct 2021
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Every 2 Weeks
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Serial
Consistency
74%
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c3westmichigan.org

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About This Podcast

Listen to one of our many guest speakers on the stage at C3 West Michigan's Inclusive Spiritual Community.

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Summer of Sound – Week 1: Good Vibrations

Jun 07, 2026 33m

Brad Ruggles explores how our musical tastes begin forming early in childhood, then keep changing through relationships, culture, memory, and experience.

The Call of Ritual by Ruth Zwald

May 24, 2026 28m

How do we begin to listen and to respond when our soul is trying to tell us that ritual would be helpful?  How can we listen to our longings, and then find ways to express and respond to those…

Thresholds – Rituals for Moving Through by Brad Ruggles

May 17, 2026 27m

We explore how rituals can help us mark life’s thresholds, whether they come as beginnings, endings, fresh starts, difficult goodbyes, or strange in-between seasons. Threshold rituals give our big…

Small Sacred Things by Brad Ruggles

May 10, 2026 30m

We explore how small, repeatable practices can become containers for growth, healing, and attention. Drawing from traditional wisdom, modern science, and reflections on ritual in the African Dagara…

Why Ritual Matters presented by Brad Ruggles

May 03, 2026 29m

In this opening week of our series, The Ritual Life, we explore why human beings have always turned to rhythm, repetition, gesture, song, silence, and shared practices to create connection and make…

Laughing Our Way Awake presented by Brad Ruggles

Apr 26, 2026 33m

This week, we’ll explore what happens when that way of seeing begins to soften how we move through life. Humor, laughter, and exuberant joy are not distractions from reality. They can be ways of…

Beauty in Broken Things presented by Brad Ruggles

Apr 12, 2026 31m

We spend a lot of energy trying to smooth the edges, hide the cracks, and present the polished version of ourselves. This week, we’ll explore the quiet power of things that bear the marks of time,…

Beauty as Subjectively Objective presented by Michael DeWilde

Apr 05, 2026 36m

Why it is Ordinarily Extraordinary You might think that the experience of beauty in and of itself would be enough - that to appreciate it, to revel in it, to be grateful for it, would suffice. But…

Hidden in Plain Sight presented by Brad Ruggles

Mar 29, 2026 22m

Beauty is not in short supply, but our attention often is. We spend so much of life skimming past the familiar that the everyday starts to look, well, ordinary. Same street. Same dishes. Same inbox.…

How Belief Becomes Behavior presented by Brad Ruggles

Mar 15, 2026 28m

This week, we explore how beliefs become behaviors and how our daily patterns reveal what we love, fear, and value most. We look at the difference between beliefs and values, and how they shape one…

Heart Knowledge presented by Ruth Zwald

Mar 08, 2026 27m

Long Time C3 guest speaker Ruth Zwald continues our new series The Architecture of Belief with her talk on, "Heart Knowledge."

How Beliefs Form presented by Brad Ruggles

Mar 01, 2026 26m

Brad kicks off our new series The Architecture of Belief with his talk, “How Beliefs Form.”

Setting presented by Brad Ruggles

Feb 22, 2026 29m

This week’s wrap-up talk is about the part we usually skip over: creating an environment that makes quiet practices sustainable. Silence, simplicity, and sabbath are beautiful ideas but they require…

Sabbath presented by Brad Ruggles

Feb 15, 2026 30m

This week’s installment in our Quiet Practices for Loud Times series asks us to rethink our relationship with rest, not just as something we do to recover from working, but as essential preparation…

Simplicity presented by Brad Ruggles

Feb 08, 2026 30m

Week 2 of Quiet Practices for Loud Times is all about Simplicity. Modern life runs on more: more options, more inputs, more tabs open (in your browser and your brain).

Silence presented by Brad Ruggles

Feb 01, 2026 29m

This week we’re stepping into a new series at C3 called Quiet Practices for Loud Times and Brad Ruggles leads us off with his talk, "Silence."

Rifting Apart: How Loss Can Lead to Renewal and Healing presented by Cait West

Jan 25, 2026 25m

Cait West, author of Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy, shares her own prespective.

The Purpose of the University in an Era of AI, Animosity, and Anxiety presented by Michael DeWilde

Jan 18, 2026 31m

Michael Dewilde returns as Core Teacher this week. Accompanying Michael will be a few GVSU students, who have agreed to share their perspectives on the topic, “The Purpose of the University in an Era…

What the (bleep) is Wrong with Everyone? A Gentle Reflection… by Michael DeWilde

Jan 11, 2026 22m

Michael Dewilde provides an interesting reflection on people, society, and its norms.

What’s Mine? Thoughts, on Saying, Doing, and Caring

Jan 04, 2026 31m

Our own Beth Buelow presents her talk on, "What's Mine? Thoughts, on Saying, Doing, and Caring.

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