In this season of the podcast, we’ve sharing stories about how our past looks different when we cross some kind of threshold in our lives. In this last episode, Mo. Lindsay and Fr. Carl talk about how we, as a community, might see our past diff

Donna, knocking down their stories

Jun 23rd, 2023 27m 1s

In this episode, we are joined by Donna Gentle Spirit Barron: the family historian of the Matinecock people. We only scratch the surface of Native history in this episode, but It’s a privilege for us to hear some of that story today—and to hear

Zion, on the threshold

Jun 2nd, 2023 19m 31s

As you know, on this season of the podcast we’ve been sharing stories about thin places in time: stories of people who step across a threshold into a new chapter of their lives.Today we’re talking about a threshold that Zion is crossing. For t

Peter and Cornelius, opening

May 12th, 2023 15m 19s

In this episode, we’re going to do something a little different: Fr. Carl tells a story—a story from the Bible; one of his favorites. It’s a story which is very much about being called across a threshold, and about how our ancestors in the fait

Michael, repenting and rebuilding

Apr 21st, 2023 15m 11s

On this episode of the podcast, we’re going to hear from Michael—a newer member of Zion. In the early months of the pandemic, Michael stepped across a threshold: he realized that his strategies for dealing with conflict were not working—for him

Katie, drawn forward by love

Mar 31st, 2023 14m 42s

On this season of the podcast we’re sharing stories about thin places in time: stories of people who step across a threshold into a new chapter of their lives. And when they look back through that doorway, their past has a different shape than

Dillon, Reclaiming

Mar 17th, 2023 21m 47s

Christina and Marguerite

Mar 2nd, 2023 10m 36s

In this season of the Thin Places podcast, we’re gathering stories of people who step across a threshold into a new chapter of their lives. When they look back through that doorway, they find that their past looks different. They’ve stepped int

Season 2 Trailer! (Corrected link!)

Feb 25th, 2023 2m 36s

Thin Places is back! Over the next few months, we'll turn our attention from thin places in space toward "thin places" in time. We'll hear stories of people who step across a threshold into a new chapter of their lives. When they look back a

Looking Ahead

Nov 11th, 2020 25m 12s

For our last episode of this "season," Mother Lindsay and Carl talk about what lessons we are learning as a Zion community amidst this challenging year. What are we learning from this podcast experiment? From worshipping together on Zoom? What

Zion's Churchyard

Nov 4th, 2020 23m 40s

This week we speak with two people who are grieving: Regan Calmer and Sureya Addoh. Both of them speak about the Zion churchyard as a thin place in which those we've lost are present, and a thin place which invites us to maintain it through the

La Jornada

Oct 28th, 2020 23m 13s

This week, we're at the La Jornada Food Pantry in Flushing, Queens with attorney, activist, and Zion Sunday School teacher Alexis Soterakis. We talk about living our values, faith and activism, and the great cloud of witnesses who have gone bef

Being Thin Places

Oct 21st, 2020 19m 34s

We're back! This week we talk with Mary Beth Welsh about an experience she had with Zion's Peanut Butter and Jesus ministry at Penn Station. It's a moment that has stayed with her through the pandemic: it reminds her to ask God to help her show

Alley Pond Park

Oct 7th, 2020 18m 21s

This week, we talk with Rachel Shonfeld, a wise and compassionate 16-year-old. We met Rachel in Alley Pond Park, where she told us about the extra stresses that young people are facing in this time, and how God is showing up for her—in nature,

Walking the Labyrinth

Sep 30th, 2020 13m 30s

Last summer, Zion built a labyrinth in the grass on the west side of the churchyard. This labyrinth is still pretty new to us, but labyrinths have been thin places for spiritual seekers for thousands of years. This week, we talk to Merrill Toml

Udall's Cove with Lynn Koch

Sep 23rd, 2020 17m 39s

In our second episode, Zion parishioner Lynn Koch teaches us how sensing God's presence in nature, and about what forests have to teach us about new growth amidst loss. Then, Mother Lindsay leads a meditation about nature's cycles and seasons.

Starting at Home

Sep 16th, 2020 16m 24s

In our first episode, we explore the thin places right in our homes with 4 parishioners from Zion. We laugh, we reflect, we get a little misty, and Mother Lindsay offers a blessing for all our homes.