Best Kirk Winslow Canvas Irvine Podcasts (2025)

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Healing Eden, Part 01: Twice Upon a Time 49:19

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Welcome to part 1 of our series Healing Eden - a detailed journey through the grand story of salvation, from Genesis to Revelation. And as you would expect, we begin at the beginning with the creation story, indeed the two creation stories in Genesis. But our goal is not simply to explain how the world began, but why the world began. For the creati…

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Healing Eden, Part 00: The Best Kept Secret in Christendom 41:55

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With this episode we begin an extensive and very personal-to-me new series titled, Healing Eden: The Story of Salvation from Genesis to Revelation. And the series is exactly as it sounds: a detailed journey thru the biblical narrative as I try my hardest to reveal and clarify the fundamental story the Bible is trying to tell. Despite its 66 books, …

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Prayer in the Tradition of the Saints, Part 03: Augustinian Meditation 43:50

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Continuing our experiential examination of contemplative prayer in the Christian tradition, we turn this week to the great Doctor of the Church, St. Augustine of Hippo (d. 430 AD) and the form of meditation that has developed in the Augustinian school. (It's quite similar to Ignatian contemplation, but rather than seeking to place ourselves - by ac…

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Prayer in the Tradition of the Saints, Part 02: Ignatian Contemplation 44:54

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“How can I hear God’s voice?” “Would I recognize God’s voice if I heard it?” “How do I know if a sense of call is really from God?” These are some of the key questions of Christian spirituality. And thankfully, they are some of the very questions St. Ignatius of Loyola sought to answer (and did). What we are really talking about is the practice of …

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Prayer in the Tradition of the Saints, Part 01: St. Benedict and Lectio Divina 49:18

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Prayer - as in abiding, personal contact with God - is the very heart of the Christian life. And yet for most of us, the practice of prayer is a struggle (it often is for me as well). Indeed, “How can I feel closer to God?” is probably one of the most asked questions in Christian history. And the good news is: there is an answer! Actually, there ar…

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The Abundant Life, Part 13: Abundant Freedom (Conclusion) 43:53

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With this episode we conclude our short series on the abundant life – exploring what it means to live a fully human existence in a world that that can been very dehumanizing. It's a series that has taken us deep into the 10 commandments, as I’ve been doing my best to make the case that far from being a checklist of restrictions, the 10 commandments…

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The Abundant Life, Part 12: Coveting Never Helps 32:53

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To put it bluntly, if it’s the abundant life we seek, then covetousness has to go. Mainly because yearning for the things of others turns life into a constant competition that we can never win. Whatever we possess or achieve, we can always find someone with "more." And the tragic result is a never-ending experience of deprivation and a fundamental …

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The Abundant Life, Part 11: Bearing Honest Witness 42:30

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In this episode we turn to – you guessed it – the 9th commandment: You shall not bear false witness. It’s instruction that – like all the commandments – seems, at first glance, very simple and straightforward: When you are called as a witness in a trial, do not give false testimony. But when we look a little deeper, we see that this commandment is …

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The Abundant Life, Part 10: Don't Acquire What Isn't Yours 38:31

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This is part 10 of our series on the abundant life as we try to figure out what it looks like – in practice – to live fully, to live richly as a human. It’s a search that has taken us deep into the 10 Commandments of all places - today to the 8th commandment and one of the most obvious lessons in life: You shall not steal. Seems clear enough: no ro…

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The Abundant Life, Part 09: The Virtue of Integrity 38:18

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We continue our search for life and life abundantly, a search that has taken us to unexpected places, not least the 10 commandments – which has turned out to be far more than a list of religious rules, but a source of profound insight into what constitutes a fundamentally healthy life. Today we turn to the 7th commandment: "You shall not commit adu…

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The Abundant Life, Part 08: Treasuring Humanity 50:10

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Today we arrive at the 6th Commandment: “You shall not murder…” That, at least, is how the NRSV translates it. But as you’ll see, there is much, much more to the 6th commandment than not murdering someone. (Though not murdering is a darn fine place to start!) The goal, however, is to go much farther than not taking life. Rather we are to honor the …

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The Abundant Life, Part 07: Honoring Family, Weighting Memory 42:02

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The 5th commandment tell us to "Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land the Lord your God is giving you." But what does "honor" truly mean? Is it obedience? Gratitude? Or something even deeper—a call to listen, to remember, and to carry forward the lessons of love and grace? Our world often teaches us to move fa…

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The Abundant Life, Part 06: Sabbath Rest 31:45

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Today we arrive at the 4th commandment: "Remember the Sabbath..." And you get a sermon not from me (which is probably good because – as you might have guessed – I’m not great at Sabbathing!), but from our old friend, Rev. Ian Farrell – who is much better at Sabbath than I am. In this episode, Ian is going to make the case that Sabbath is not about …

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The Abundant Life, Part 05: Calling Rightly on the God of Love 37:39

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Today we continue our journey through the Ten Commandments—not as a list of rules, but as a pathway to true freedom and flourishing, arriving at the 3rd commandment: "You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God." For many of us, this commandment has been reduced to a simple rule about avoiding bad words or not using God’s name in vain. But i…

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The Abundant Life, Part 04: The One Perfect Image of God 45:30

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In this episode we continue our look at what Jesus meant when he said he came to bring "life and life abundantly." It’s a study that has taken us not into the NT so much, but into the Old – specifically into the 10 commandment of all places. Indeed, today we look at the 2nd commandment “You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form o…

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The Abundant Life, Part 03: The Freedom of Worshipping Rightly 46:30

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"I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me." It is the first commandment and it sounds...rather ominous. But if we take a moment to listen more deeply, what we discover is actually a call to radical freedom! In a world of myriad deities, each with a slight p…

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The Abundant Life, Part 02: The Life-Giving Law of God 45:47

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We continue our look at the abundant life by turning - quite unexpectedly! - to the 10 Commandments and consider the possibility that they are not meant to be the burden we so often imagine them to be, but are rather a gift pointing us to health, life and joy. They are, after all, the first instruction of a loving God to his chosen people. Perhaps …

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The Abundant Life, Part 01: What's Missing? 51:39

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We begin our look at the abundant life in Christ by examining what has gone wrong. Why do we find ourselves so taxed so often? Why does inner peace feel so ellusive, even though I have a genuine faith in God's goodness and love? To answer these questions we turn to the Apostle John and also to the theological work of St. Augustine and his metaphor …

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The Podcast Returns! 8:36

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Yes, you read that correctly, the podcast is returning!! Returning on Wednesday, March 19, 2025 to be exact. It has been a long two-and-a-half years... a break I never expected. But a pretty bad case of burnout hit me hard and it's taken some time to recover and build some new habits that make podcasting possible once again! New episodes begin this…

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Jesus and the Revolution, Part 03 - The Enemy and the Allure of Now 43:37

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The divine rescue - of which the ministry of Jesus is the decisive act - is not merely to be understood as the securing of a heavenly afterlife for the faithful, but the restoration of a fallen creation. To be "saved" is to be set free, to be healed and to be counted a citizen of the "kingdom of God." But such freedom recognizes there we are presen…

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Jesus and the Revolution, Part 02 - A Prophet as of Old 46:05

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God's Revolution to Restore All Creation begins with a cry to all Israel to prepare for war. But not the war Israel expected... For decades tensions with Rome had been growing. Various political and religious sects (think Pharisees, Sadducees, et al.) were staking out their positions in the coming conflict. Swords and spears were beginning to be sh…

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Jesus and the Revolution, Part 01 - A Call to Revolution! 46:14

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At the heart of Jesus's ministry is the declaration that "the Kingdom of God has come near!" This is not merely a call for sinners to secure the afterlife, but the announcement that the fulfillment of the covenant of salvation is at hand! The God of Israel has arrived to depose the powers and principalities of this age and re-establish his reign ov…

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Hope in the Time of COVID, Part 19 - Resting for the Kingdom 42:01

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The one commandment I disregard without a second thought is the one about resting. The irony, of course, is that I often ignore this divine call to honor the sabbath in what feels like the work of the Kingdom. And it has been more clear in the last two years than in most of my lifetime that there is work to be done. It is easy for good people to be…

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Hope in the Time of COVID, Part 18 - The Loving Road to Justice 55:55

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No, your eyes do not deceive you...the podcast is back! (It never really left, but was definitely on leave of absence for a while...very sorry about that - some of the details are in the intro.) Then it's on to part 18 of our series: Hope in the Time of Covid. In this episode, we take a look at the difficult-yet-essential truth that the road to jus…

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Hope in the Time of COVID, Part 17 - Origin Stories 50:52

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Does the 21st century nation state of Peru play an essential role in salvation history? Short answer: Of course not. God loves Peruvians! But Peru the cultural/political body is not critical to the plan redemption. So why do many American Christians suspect that the US, as a nation (or a cultural dimension of the nation), is a divinely ordained act…

Kirk Winslow Canvas Irvine Podcasts

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Healing Eden, Part 01: Twice Upon a Time 49:19

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Healing Eden, Part 00: The Best Kept Secret in Christendom 41:55

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Prayer in the Tradition of the Saints, Part 03: Augustinian Meditation 43:50

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Prayer in the Tradition of the Saints, Part 02: Ignatian Contemplation 44:54

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Prayer in the Tradition of the Saints, Part 01: St. Benedict and Lectio Divina 49:18

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The Abundant Life, Part 13: Abundant Freedom (Conclusion) 43:53

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The Abundant Life, Part 12: Coveting Never Helps 32:53

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The Abundant Life, Part 11: Bearing Honest Witness 42:30

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The Abundant Life, Part 10: Don't Acquire What Isn't Yours 38:31

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The Abundant Life, Part 09: The Virtue of Integrity 38:18

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The Abundant Life, Part 08: Treasuring Humanity 50:10

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The Abundant Life, Part 07: Honoring Family, Weighting Memory 42:02

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The Abundant Life, Part 06: Sabbath Rest 31:45

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The Abundant Life, Part 05: Calling Rightly on the God of Love 37:39

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The Abundant Life, Part 04: The One Perfect Image of God 45:30

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The Abundant Life, Part 03: The Freedom of Worshipping Rightly 46:30

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The Abundant Life, Part 02: The Life-Giving Law of God 45:47

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The Abundant Life, Part 01: What's Missing? 51:39

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The Podcast Returns! 8:36

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Jesus and the Revolution, Part 03 - The Enemy and the Allure of Now 43:37

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Jesus and the Revolution, Part 02 - A Prophet as of Old 46:05

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Jesus and the Revolution, Part 01 - A Call to Revolution! 46:14

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Hope in the Time of COVID, Part 19 - Resting for the Kingdom 42:01

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Hope in the Time of COVID, Part 18 - The Loving Road to Justice 55:55

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Hope in the Time of COVID, Part 17 - Origin Stories 50:52