
Project Zion Podcast
Welcome to the Project Zion Podcast. This podcast explores the unique spiritual and theological gifts Community of Christ offers for today's world.
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1012 episodes
A46 | Awaken to God's Presence | Breath Prayer
Slowing down and connecting with God can be as simple as paying attention to the rhythm of our breath. Join host, Shannon McAdam, as she leads us through a spiritual practice known as a breath prayer. It’s not complicated unless you make it com...
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825 | Coffee to Go | 4th Sunday After Lent | Year C
Choose joy! It may be hard sometimes, but the alternative will just tear you down. In this episode of Coffee to Go, hosts Karin Peter and Blake Smith take a look at the story of the Prodigal Son from the Gospel of Luke. While the young man was ...
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824 | Say What?! | 2025 World Conference Resolutions | G-8 and G-9
There is a lot of history and context, both inside and outside the church, that accompanies the sections in Community of Christ’s Doctrine and Covenants. Over the years, some of the sections have been removed due to a lack of alignment with Com...
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823 | Say What?! | 2025 World Conference Resolutions | G-6 and G-7
Two of the resolutions submitted for the 2025 World Conference come from the Cedar Valley-Nauvoo Mission Center. Say What hosts, Mary Anne and Kassie, sit down with the mission center leaders, Evelyn Dustin and Kent Levan, to get a better idea ...
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822 | Coffee to Go | Third Sunday of Lent | Year C
You can almost hear the kids saying, “Are we there yet?” And the answer is NO! We are still on the road to Jerusalem with Jesus, and Jesus is still encountering people asking questions to which he has already given answers. And yet, he tells a ...
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821 | Nice to Matcha | President-Prophet Designate | Stassi Cramm
World Conference 2025 is almost here, and this is going to be a historic Conference once again as Stassi Cramm’s call to serve as Prophet-President is considered. Stassi has always sensed a deep connection with God and with the church. She had ...
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ES 133 | Extra Shot | Ask the Parliamentarian
If talking parliamentary procedure and Robert’s Rules of Order is like speaking a foreign language to you, you’re at the right place. Join members of the World Church Leadership as well as International Headquarters staff as they put the questi...
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820 | Coffee to Go | Second Sunday of Lent | Year C
Are you going to be a fox or a hen? Before you answer that question, stop and take a few minutes ... it is Lent after all ... to engage in some honest self-reflection. The world may suggest that it’s better to be a fox, but Jesus would likely d...
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819 | Say What?! | 2025 World Conference Resolution G-12
“It's just a very sad thing that across many nations, as people get fearful, they tend to go out and buy more firearms,” says Rick Sarre, member of Community of Christ’s Peace and Justice Team, and guest for this episode of Say What? Join hosts...
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818 | Cuppa Joe | Women of the Restoration | A Prophetic People
As Community of Christ moves closer to the historic moment of considering the call of the first woman President/Prophet of the church, Stassi Cramm, there is no better time to reflect with Karin Peter and historian extraordinaire, Wendy Eaton, ...
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817 | Coffee to Go | First Sunday of Lent | Year C
It’s the first Sunday of Lent... a time for looking inward. Be advised, you can’t blame everything on the devil. Well, you could, who would you be fooling? Sometimes you have to take responsibility for your own actions. Making responsible choic...
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816 | Coffee in the Swarm | Ishbel Wilson
Aliyah and Mike are back in the Swarm at Graceland University, and this time they’re sitting down with senior, Ishbel Wilson. Ishbel hails from Independence, Missouri and the Liberty Street congregation where she established a strong foundation...
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815 | Coffee to Go | Ash Wednesday | Year C
It may seem strange that on a Christian Holy day where many disciples will walk around with a smudge of ash on their foreheads for all to see, we have a scripture passage that tells us to pray and fast privately in our “closet.” Why don’t we we...
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A45 | Awaken to God's Presence | Ashes
What significance, if any, do ashes have in your life? Are they just the dirty remains left by a forgotten fire, or do they symbolize something meaningful? Throughout history and across cultures and traditions, ashes have had a number of symbol...
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814 | Coffee to Go | Transfiguration Sunday
We all have those special places where we’ve experienced God’s presence (the Holy Spirit), and for some reason we let ourselves believe that we need to return to that place to find God again. It’s in those places that we want to “pitch our tent...
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813 | Say What?! | G-5: Climate Emergency - Fossil Fuel Reduction | Part II
If you’ve ever wondered what you can do to be a part of the change with regard to the climate emergency, grab your coffee and settle in. This episode of Say What? Is the second part of a two-part conversation between Kassie and Mary Anne ...
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812 | Say What?! | G-5: Climate Emergency
In order to understand the depth of the climate crisis we are facing, Laurie Gordon suggests we may need to connect with our inner mystic. Laurie, and Paul Bethel, are the guests of Say What for this conversation about resolution G-5: Climate E...
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811 | Coffee to Go | Seventh Sunday after Epiphany | Year C
We sing about it, we talk about, we say that it is at the heart of God, but when it comes to sharing it with those we find undeserving, we have second thoughts. “It,” of course, is LOVE. In this week’s Coffee to Go, hosts Karin Peter and Blake ...
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810 | Nice to Matcha | New Leader | Shannon McAdam
From rule-following teenager to mischievous Gracelander, to volunteer leadership in the church and a career in technology and business sales, Shannon McAdam (she/her) has spent her life journeying with God in community. Now, Shannon has accepte...
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809 | Nice to Matcha | New Leader | Kat Hnatyshyn
After 20 long years of self-sustaining ministry, including her most recent role as Midlands Mission Center President, Kat Hnatyshyn has said yes to a role that requires a change in career... but not a change in passion. In this episode of...
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808 | Coffee to Go | 6th Sunday After Epiphany | Year C
There’s no better place to give a sermon about community than on a plain (aka a level field). All communities may not put everyone on the same level, but in God’s Kingdom, every field is a level playing field. The blessings and woes of such a c...
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807 | Nice to Matcha | New Leader | Adam Wade
Since an early age, Adam Wade has sensed the movement of God in his life... affirming at each step that he was being called to new things. But that doesn’t make it any less frightening, or any less daunting. In this episode of Nice to Matcha, y...
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806 | Say What?! | President of the High Priest Quorum | Dave Anderson
Someone once said, “you get out of life what you put into it.” Well, David Anderson ought to be getting a lot out of life, because he has certainly put a lot into his life, his career, his family, and his ministry. And, at the heart of it all, ...
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805 | Coffee to Go | 5th Sunday After Epiphany | Year C
There are other ways to determine your abundance than just by counting what’s in your “net.” Sometimes our abundance lies in the gifts and skills with which God has blessed us. In today’s Gospel passage from Luke, the disciples end up with enou...
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804 | What's Brewing | Partnering in Ministry | Noel Scherer and Janelle Anders
Imagine a world where we worked together, sharing physical, financial and human resources ... a world where the skills and creativity of a variety of persons across geographical spaces were shared in order to magnify the possibilities of minist...
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