Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace?

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🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Original Air Date: March 28, 2018 Enjoy this episode, specially selected for our Super Soul Summer—a series celebrating some of the greatest Super Soul moments and messages to inspire and uplift your spirit. Oprah sits down with the Rev. Ed Bacon, a retired priest from the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles and the author of the book "8 Habits of Love." Saying that we often obscure our ability to identify grace in our lives, the Rev. Bacon reveals how to recognize grace in your life, especially during the toughest times. He tells Oprah that people operate from a place of either fear or love when it comes to their relationship with God, and explains why he believes there is a bit of God in all of us and why we should embrace it. Plus, the Rev. Bacon offers a surprising and enlightening answer to the question of whether religion and spirituality can work together.

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of the most
0:07.8	valuable gifts you can give yourself is time. Taking time to be more fully present. Your journey
0:16.6	to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right now.
0:24.2	This is a show devoted to try to help us just wake ourselves up, just wake up our lives
0:31.9	to our life's purpose. But that, frankly, as we all know, is not an easy path to follow many times.
0:38.7	There are many, so many of you who I know are earnest and you are faithful and you are deeply religious
0:46.7	and you're having a difficult time reconciling your religious beliefs with the spiritual pursuit.
0:57.6	I have heard from a number of you who are in honest pursuit of answers for yourself. I do understand this question of trying to reconcile
1:05.0	your faith with a new sense of spirituality and opening because I too experienced that, because I didn't want
1:13.4	to have to throw away the way I'd been raised, everything I had been taught to believe and
1:19.6	felt in my heart to be true. And so I thought I would be helpful to invite on the show a bona fide
1:27.0	authority on this matter, a man of the cloth, of the cloth,
1:31.5	and who happens to be the rector of the All Saints Church in Pasadena, Reverend Ed Bacon, hello.
1:36.6	Hi.
1:37.2	Hi. Welcome.
1:38.5	Thank you.
1:39.4	So, Reverend Ed, your other designation at the church I hear is chief spiritual officer?
1:46.4	We're always trying to find 21st century language to explain church ease, church language.
1:53.9	Rector is my official title.
1:55.3	And some people say, well, that's kind of a spiritual CEO, isn't it?
1:58.6	Or something like that.
1:59.4	Yeah.
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