Luminary Interview: Strahan Coleman

Rule of Life

Practicing the Way

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 700 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

In this final episode of season 2 of the Rule of Life podcast, we are joined by Strahan Coleman for a conversation on experiencing God, the differences between the fruits of the spirit and the gifts of the spirit, the dangers of depersonalizing God, and how to bring ourselves to silence.

Strahan Coleman is an award winning musician, poet, writer, and spiritual director from Aotearoa New Zealand. He is the founder of Commoners Communion, a place for exploring deepness with God through spiritual retreats, a podcast, and online prayer schools. Strahan has written three volumes of poetic prayer books as well as “Beholding: Deepening Our Experience With God” that invites readers into the joy of being in God’s presence.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Rule of Life podcast by practicing the way.
0:11.2	In each season, we explore an ancient practice from the way of Jesus and its relevance for the modern era.
0:18.3	This is Season 2, Prayer.
0:20.6	Thank you. the modern era. This is Season 2, Prayer.
0:45.2	Welcome back, everyone. We are officially done with the four-episode roundtable discussion on prayer.
0:51.7	But now we want to get into a few long-form interviews with our luminary thinkers of choice,
0:57.5	ladies and gentlemen. We have none other than Strawn on the other end of the line. Strawn, you do officially have a last name, Coleman, right?
1:01.0	They do.
1:02.0	Yeah, yeah, not so known for it, but Coleman it is.
1:05.0	But when you have a name like Strawn, you know, it's like Sting or Bono or whatever. You're just in great company. You need nothing more.
1:14.5	For those of you, not familiar with my friend Strawn, he is an award-winning folk musician from, okay, help me. I've been there and even after two weeks on the ground, I get the pronunciation wrong of where you are from. Help me as a hopeless American.
1:30.3	Yeah, I live in a small beach town called Tairoa.
1:33.3	Yeah, there you go. Just a couple of hours south from Auckland, which is our main city in the North Island.
1:39.3	That's the North Island of New Zealand, ladies and gentlemen.
1:43.3	Strawn is also a poet and a writer.
1:47.3	You have three beautiful little booklets out on prayer,
1:51.1	and your first full-length book is out this month.
1:54.8	It's called Beholding, Deepening Our Experience in God.
1:58.3	It was my honor to read an early version and write a forward for it.
2:03.4	You are also the founder of commoners communion, where Strawn serves as a spiritual director,
2:09.5	retreat leader, and also runs online prayer courses, and we can chat about that later,
2:13.9	for those interested in deepening their communion with God. So Strahan, welcome, my friend.
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