This episode is part of Roadside Conversations—standalone conversations shared between regular episodes of The Light in Everything.

Jonah is joined by Conner Habib and explores questions of spiritual biography: how a person comes into relationship with Christ, how that relationship develops over time, and what feels most alive now.

Conner talks about growing up without religion, an early attentiveness to the sacred, and the roles philosophy, science, anthroposophy, and esoteric Christianity played in shaping his spiritual life. Rather than a single conversion moment, he describes a gradual, sometimes indirect way Christ became real to him.

The conversation also touches on healing, suffering, the “holy wound,” burnout, and Conner’s current focus on vitality—how to notice what enlivens rather than drains, and how attention to vitality might guide life and action.

About the guest:
Conner Habib hosts the podcast Against Everyone with Conner Habib (https://connerhabib.com/against-everyone/) and is the author of the novel Hawk Mountain (https://connerhabib.com/hawkmountain/), longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award.Support the show

The Light in Every Thing is a podcast of The Seminary of The Christian Community in North America. Learn more about the Seminary and its offerings at our website (https://www.christiancommunityseminary.ca/). This podcast is supported by our growing Patreon community. To learn more, go to www.patreon.com/ccseminary.

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The Light in Every Thing is a podcast of The Seminary of The Christian Community in North America. Learn more about the Seminary and its offerings at our website. This podcast is supported by our growing Patreon community. To learn more, go to www.patreon.com/ccseminary.

Thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who composed our theme music, “Seeking Together."

In this episode, Patrick and Jonah conclude their Facing Evil series by exploring discernment, inspiration, and the challenge of recognizing true light in a time of false goods. They reflect on Christ as the orienting center for spiritual life and ask how human beings learn to test what appears good, spiritual, or beneficial.

The conversation ranges across technology, medicine, and sexuality, considering how instincts and insights meant to serve humanity can become distorted when separated from responsibility and love. Drawing on Rudolf Steiner, near-death experiences, and modern scientific discovery, they reflect on inspiration, illusion, and what it means to remain human in an age of overwhelming stimulation.

The episode closes with a powerful meditation on compassion, accountability, and hope—inviting listeners to consider how awakening, rather than avoidance, might be the path through the darkness.

Extended reflections and personal notes are available on Patreon.

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The Light in Every Thing is a podcast of The Seminary of The Christian Community in North America. Learn more about the Seminary and its offerings at our website. This podcast is supported by our growing Patreon community. To learn more, go to www.patreon.com/ccseminary.

Thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who composed our theme music, “Seeking Together."

In this episode, Patrick and Jonah begin the new year by returning to a central question of our time: how do we face evil without losing freedom, discernment, or love? Drawing on the Gospel of John and Rudolf Steiner’s reflections on the work of the angels in the human soul, the conversation explores compassion, individuality, technology, medicine, and the danger of “automatic” spirituality. Along the way, they ask whether what feels like apocalypse today might actually be an unveiling — a revealing of what we desire, neglect, or refuse to see.

Extended reflections, personal notes, and deeper context are available on Patreon.

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The Light in Every Thing is a podcast of The Seminary of The Christian Community in North America. Learn more about the Seminary and its offerings at our website. This podcast is supported by our growing Patreon community. To learn more, go to www.patreon.com/ccseminary.

Thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who composed our theme music, “Seeking Together."

Patrick and Jonah continue their Facing Evil series by reflecting on Rudolf Steiner’s picture of Christ’s activity in our time and the work of the angels in human life.

They explore the idea of a “second Golgotha,” consider the spiritual consequences of modern materialism, and touch on Steiner’s image of a kind of spiritual “smog” surrounding the earth. As Christmas approaches, the conversation turns toward the angels as messengers and guides, and toward Christ as a presence encountered through inner awakening rather than outward spectacle.

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The Light in Every Thing is a podcast of The Seminary of The Christian Community in North America. Learn more about the Seminary and its offerings at our website. This podcast is supported by our growing Patreon community. To learn more, go to www.patreon.com/ccseminary.

Thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who composed our theme music, “Seeking Together."

Patrick and Jonah continue their “Facing Evil” series by reflecting on the tension between automatic spirituality and a purely material, technical way of thinking. Drawing on Rudolf Steiner’s images of Lucifer and Ahriman, they ask what it means to remain free, responsible, and awake in a world shaped by instant answers and constant stimulation.

The conversation touches on silence, screens, artificial intelligence as a source of guidance, and the challenge of making space for discernment. Along the way, they introduce the striking idea of a “second Mystery of Golgotha” and what it might mean for human consciousness today.

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The Light in Every Thing is a podcast of The Seminary of The Christian Community in North America. Learn more about the Seminary and its offerings at our website. This podcast is supported by our growing Patreon community. To learn more, go to www.patreon.com/ccseminary.

Thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who composed our theme music, “Seeking Together."

Patrick and Jonah continue their “Facing Evil” series, returning to Steiner’s Work of the Angels in Man’s Astral Body. They explore what happens when we sleep through the spiritual impulses meant to awaken us, and how Ahrimanic materialism and Luciferic automatic spirituality can distort those impulses. The conversation touches on the New Testament image of Christ coming “as a thief in the night,” the danger of losing moral discernment, and Steiner’s striking idea of a renewed Mystery of Golgotha in the etheric world.

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The Light in Every Thing is a podcast of The Seminary of The Christian Community in North America. Learn more about the Seminary and its offerings at our website. This podcast is supported by our growing Patreon community. To learn more, go to www.patreon.com/ccseminary.

Thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who composed our theme music, “Seeking Together."

In this week’s episode of The Light in Everything, Patrick and Jonah continue exploring Rudolf Steiner’s lecture The Work of the Angels in Man’s Astral Body by turning to a central spiritual question: What happens when the guidance meant for human beings is met by resistance—both within us and around us?

They revisit the three core impulses the angels weave into humanity:
• a deepening sense of human solidarity,
• meeting each person as a revelation of the divine,
• and a redeemed form of thinking that can receive the life of the Spirit.

Then they follow Steiner’s claim that if these impulses are not consciously received, they do not simply disappear—they transform. Patrick and Jonah describe how Luciferic forces can turn spirituality into something automatic and coercive, while Ahrimanic forces draw us toward cold materialism and a purely technological future.

Along the way, they consider scriptural motifs, inner freedom, cultural examples, and Steiner’s “Representative of Humanity” sculpture as an image of Christ holding the balance between these extremes--to see this examination, please find and follow our YouTube page!

This episode invites us to reflect on how spiritual currents work through our culture, our choices, and our thinking—and how freedom becomes the meeting place where the human being can stand upright in the midst of them.

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The Light in Every Thing is a podcast of The Seminary of The Christian Community in North America. Learn more about the Seminary and its offerings at our website. This podcast is supported by our growing Patreon community. To learn more, go to www.patreon.com/ccseminary.

Thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who composed our theme music, “Seeking Together."

After weeks exploring Revelation’s cosmic images, Patrick and Jonah turn to something far more intimate and immediate: the mystery of sleep and wakefulness. Drawing on Rudolf Steiner’s research in spiritual science, they explore what actually happens when the human being enters and exits the body each day, and how these daily rhythms reveal deeper layers of consciousness.

They outline seven distinct modes of human awareness—from the darkness of dreamless sleep to the clarity of waking thought, and further into the higher states Scripture hints at through the prophets: Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition. Along the way, they reflect on why these thresholds matter, how they shape our moral development, and what it means to stay awake to the spiritual impulses being woven into human life.

This episode sets the groundwork for understanding not just the “enemies” described in Scripture, but the spiritual helpers whose work continues in the background of every human soul.

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The Light in Every Thing is a podcast of The Seminary of The Christian Community in North America. Learn more about the Seminary and its offerings at our website. This podcast is supported by our growing Patreon community. To learn more, go to www.patreon.com/ccseminary.

Thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who composed our theme music, “Seeking Together."