Creation's Paths (usually Charlie)
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Seeking truth in science, diversity, and wisdom through Creation Spirituality and Christopagan Druidry. Hosted by @cedorsett.com and @queereyeonscifi.com
Church of the Oak gathering is a quiet, steady service shaped around the Four Freedoms as practices that protect life itself. We explore the difference between a life that is green with viriditas and one narrowed into survival and fear.
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LIVE SOON: The Four Freedoms protect Life- A Church of the Oak gathering
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February 4, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Church of the Oak gathering is a quiet, steady service shaped around the Four Freedoms as practices that protect life itself. We explore the difference between a life that is green with viriditas and one narrowed into survival and fear.
Starting shortly:
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This Wednesday’s live Church of the Oak: a calm, grounded service reflecting on the Four Freedoms as ways of tending life, not slogans to defend. Join us live.
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LIVE SOON: The Four Freedoms protect Life- A Church of the Oak gathering
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February 4, 2026 at 4:34 PM
This Wednesday’s live Church of the Oak: a calm, grounded service reflecting on the Four Freedoms as ways of tending life, not slogans to defend. Join us live.
A new Creation’s Paths episode is live: The Kin-dom That Cannot Be Seized. A reflection on Jesus, empire, and the kind of freedom no power can confiscate.
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The Kin-dom That Cannot Be Seized Discussion
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February 4, 2026 at 12:26 AM
A new Creation’s Paths episode is live: The Kin-dom That Cannot Be Seized. A reflection on Jesus, empire, and the kind of freedom no power can confiscate.
This Wednesday’s Church of the Oak gathering is a quiet, steady service shaped around the Four Freedoms as practices that protect life itself.
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LIVE SOON: The Four Freedoms protect Life- A Church of the Oak gathering
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February 3, 2026 at 10:52 PM
This Wednesday’s Church of the Oak gathering is a quiet, steady service shaped around the Four Freedoms as practices that protect life itself.
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Jesus says the kin-dom suffers violence, not that it is created by it. What if force only ever plunders what is already alive?
🎧 The Kin-dom That Cannot Be Seized
🎧 The Kin-dom That Cannot Be Seized
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The Kin-dom That Cannot Be Seized Discussion
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February 3, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Jesus says the kin-dom suffers violence, not that it is created by it. What if force only ever plunders what is already alive?
🎧 The Kin-dom That Cannot Be Seized
🎧 The Kin-dom That Cannot Be Seized
Guided by Brigid’s hearth and forge, we reflect on justice, repentance, care, and the quiet disciplines that sustain real change. This is an invitation to return to the fire already burning within and among us, and to keep it strong for the work ahead. https://bit.ly/4brPahN
February 1, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Guided by Brigid’s hearth and forge, we reflect on justice, repentance, care, and the quiet disciplines that sustain real change. This is an invitation to return to the fire already burning within and among us, and to keep it strong for the work ahead. https://bit.ly/4brPahN
The Snow Moon rises, and the call is clear. Not to light a new fire, but to tend the one already burning. A Full Moon Via Transformativa devotional for Imbolc. https://bit.ly/4brPahN
February 1, 2026 at 6:00 PM
The Snow Moon rises, and the call is clear. Not to light a new fire, but to tend the one already burning. A Full Moon Via Transformativa devotional for Imbolc. https://bit.ly/4brPahN
Under the Full Snow Moon at Imbolc, this Via Transformativa devotional turns us toward the work of tending rather than igniting. https://bit.ly/4brPahN
February 1, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Under the Full Snow Moon at Imbolc, this Via Transformativa devotional turns us toward the work of tending rather than igniting. https://bit.ly/4brPahN
This episode of Church of the Oak sits with a winter that is both natural and unjust. We name the grief, the harm, and the ways power has failed the vulnerable, without turning away from truth or from love. Join us live in 15 minuets
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LIVE SOON: Brigid is coming
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January 28, 2026 at 9:45 PM
This episode of Church of the Oak sits with a winter that is both natural and unjust. We name the grief, the harm, and the ways power has failed the vulnerable, without turning away from truth or from love. Join us live in 15 minuets
We name grief. We refuse hatred. We keep the hearth lit. Join us as we walk toward Imbolc together live today
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LIVE SOON: Brigid is coming
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January 28, 2026 at 4:09 PM
We name grief. We refuse hatred. We keep the hearth lit. Join us as we walk toward Imbolc together live today
Winter has come hard this year. Some of it is weather. Some of it is injustice. And still, Brigid is coming. This week on Church of the Oak. Join us live Wednesday
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LIVE SOON: Brigid is coming
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January 28, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Winter has come hard this year. Some of it is weather. Some of it is injustice. And still, Brigid is coming. This week on Church of the Oak. Join us live Wednesday
What practices change us so we don’t become what we resist? A Via Transformativa path asks:
This episode listens for one surprising answer: celebration.
This episode listens for one surprising answer: celebration.
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Justice-Making Through Celebration Discussion
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January 28, 2026 at 12:35 AM
What practices change us so we don’t become what we resist? A Via Transformativa path asks:
This episode listens for one surprising answer: celebration.
This episode listens for one surprising answer: celebration.
Celebration is not what we do after justice is done.
It may be how we stay human while justice is still unfinished.
It may be how we stay human while justice is still unfinished.
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Justice-Making Through Celebration
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January 27, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Celebration is not what we do after justice is done.
It may be how we stay human while justice is still unfinished.
It may be how we stay human while justice is still unfinished.
When celebration disappears, justice becomes brittle.
This episode explores why joy is not optional for those who seek a better world.
This episode explores why joy is not optional for those who seek a better world.
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Justice-Making Through Celebration Discussion
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January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
When celebration disappears, justice becomes brittle.
This episode explores why joy is not optional for those who seek a better world.
This episode explores why joy is not optional for those who seek a better world.
When harm is done to one, the whole land cries out. Imbolc is not denial. It is promise. What are you tending while the ground is still frozen? Join us live Wednesday
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LIVE SOON: Brigid is coming
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January 27, 2026 at 8:49 PM
When harm is done to one, the whole land cries out. Imbolc is not denial. It is promise. What are you tending while the ground is still frozen? Join us live Wednesday
Justice doesn’t only require courage.
It requires joy strong enough to carry grief without breaking.
This is a Via Transformativa reflection on celebration as spiritual resistance.
It requires joy strong enough to carry grief without breaking.
This is a Via Transformativa reflection on celebration as spiritual resistance.
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Justice-Making Through Celebration
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January 27, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Justice doesn’t only require courage.
It requires joy strong enough to carry grief without breaking.
This is a Via Transformativa reflection on celebration as spiritual resistance.
It requires joy strong enough to carry grief without breaking.
This is a Via Transformativa reflection on celebration as spiritual resistance.
The kin-dom does not grow through coercion or shame. It grows through mutual aid, shared life, and the discipline of blessing. https://bit.ly/49Iq2Rg
January 26, 2026 at 10:53 PM
The kin-dom does not grow through coercion or shame. It grows through mutual aid, shared life, and the discipline of blessing. https://bit.ly/49Iq2Rg
What do you do after you refuse violence but still feel the fire of urgency burning in your chest? This episode explores the moment most movements skip: the creative, imaginative work of building something new instead of becoming what we resist. https://bit.ly/4qEZiID
January 26, 2026 at 9:30 PM
What do you do after you refuse violence but still feel the fire of urgency burning in your chest? This episode explores the moment most movements skip: the creative, imaginative work of building something new instead of becoming what we resist. https://bit.ly/4qEZiID
The land cries out. But beneath the anguish, something is being born.
This First Quarter Moon devotional invites us to become midwives of new creation.
This First Quarter Moon devotional invites us to become midwives of new creation.
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Midwives of the First Light
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January 26, 2026 at 2:22 AM
The land cries out. But beneath the anguish, something is being born.
This First Quarter Moon devotional invites us to become midwives of new creation.
This First Quarter Moon devotional invites us to become midwives of new creation.
When the world feels loud with pain and injustice, yet beneath the noise there is a quieter truth. What if the work before us is not to fix the world, but to tend what is being born?
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Midwives of the First Light
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January 25, 2026 at 11:35 PM
When the world feels loud with pain and injustice, yet beneath the noise there is a quieter truth. What if the work before us is not to fix the world, but to tend what is being born?
In the tension of the First Quarter Moon, creation asks for midwives, not heroes.
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Midwives of the First Light
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January 25, 2026 at 6:06 PM
In the tension of the First Quarter Moon, creation asks for midwives, not heroes.
What if the work before us is not to fix the world, but to tend what is being born?
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Midwives of the First Light
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January 25, 2026 at 4:29 PM
What if the work before us is not to fix the world, but to tend what is being born?
Nonviolence is not passivity. It is the courage to stay present, refuse domination, and imagine a future worth building. This episode walks the third path between rage and withdrawal. https://bit.ly/4qEZiID
January 23, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Nonviolence is not passivity. It is the courage to stay present, refuse domination, and imagine a future worth building. This episode walks the third path between rage and withdrawal. https://bit.ly/4qEZiID
Unclean spirits are not cast out by slogans or rage. They lose their hold when the soul is strengthened and dignity is restored. https://bit.ly/49Iq2Rg
January 23, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Unclean spirits are not cast out by slogans or rage. They lose their hold when the soul is strengthened and dignity is restored. https://bit.ly/49Iq2Rg
If the goal is only removal, something else will always rush in to fill the gap. Liberation requires imagination. This episode sits with what comes after the refusal of the sword. https://bit.ly/4qEZiID
January 23, 2026 at 12:33 AM
If the goal is only removal, something else will always rush in to fill the gap. Liberation requires imagination. This episode sits with what comes after the refusal of the sword. https://bit.ly/4qEZiID