Holli and Brendan go back to basics on Christmas and longing for Jesus.

The Collect Call is a podcast that unpacks and reflects upon the meaning of the collect of the week – that prayer at the start of the service that changes every week. Turns out there’s a lot in those little paragraphs! Hosts Brendan O’Sullivan-Hale and Holli Powell challenge themselves to learn about the history of the prayers, reflect on their spiritual meaning and application to daily life, and, inevitably, reduce them to tweets.

On Soundcloud:

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Link of the week:

Brendan’s YouTube video for Christmas

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This Week’s Prayer

(page 212 of the Book of Common Prayer, or bcponline.org):

O God, you make us glad by the yearly festival of the birth of your only Son Jesus Christ: Grant that we, who joyfully receive him as our Redeemer, may with sure confidence behold him when he comes to be our Judge; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

About the hosts:

Brendan O’Sullivan-Hale is a member of the Episcopal Church of All Saints, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Holli Powell is a member of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Georgetown, Kentucky.

Other Credits:

Theme Music: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, performed by Aaron DeVries, distributed under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.

Image: Grant C., distributed under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license.

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Ok, ok, even though this episode features something called “Man Town” we swear this podcast is not NSFW, though Holli does drop a little heresy. For real, though, we ponder the possibility of daily encounter with God, and what it means to prepare a home for God in our hearts.

The Collect Call is a podcast that unpacks and reflects upon the meaning of the collect of the week – that prayer at the start of the service that changes every week. Turns out there’s a lot in those little paragraphs! Hosts Brendan O’Sullivan-Hale and Holli Powell challenge themselves to learn about the history of the prayers, reflect on their spiritual meaning and application to daily life, and, inevitably, reduce them to tweets.

On Soundcloud:

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Link of the week:

Brendan’s video for Advent 4

Places to listen to us:

Stitcher Radio

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Places to talk to us:

@thecollectcall

Email (listen to the show for the address)

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This Week’s Prayer

(page 212 of the Book of Common Prayer, or bcponline.org):

Purify our conscience, Almighty God, by your daily visitation, that your Son Jesus Christ, at his coming, may find in us a mansion prepared for himself; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

About the hosts:

Brendan O’Sullivan-Hale is a member of the Episcopal Church of All Saints, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Holli Powell is a member of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Georgetown, Kentucky.

Other Credits:

Theme Music: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, performed by Aaron DeVries, distributed under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.

Image: Grant C., distributed under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license.

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Come for Holli’s Smorgasbord of Outrage™; stay for Brendan’s ruminations on Pope John Paul II’s funeral. Featuring, for the second week, special guest Kyle Oliver!

The Collect Call is a podcast that unpacks and reflects upon the meaning of the collect of the week – that prayer at the start of the service that changes every week. Turns out there’s a lot in those little paragraphs! Hosts Brendan O’Sullivan-Hale and Holli Powell challenge themselves to learn about the history of the prayers, reflect on their spiritual meaning and application to daily life, and, inevitably, reduce them to tweets.

On Soundcloud:

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Links of the week:

Brendan’s video for Advent 3

Panikhilda for Pope John Paul II on YouTube

NPR News story about Pope John Paul II’s funeral (from which we took audio for this podcast)

Kyle’s Easter People podcast

Places to listen to us:

Stitcher Radio

Soundcloud

iTunes

Places to talk to us:

@thecollectcall

Email (listen to the show for the address)

Acts 8 Moment Facebook

Places to commune with us pictorally:

Pinterest

Or leave us a comment here!

This Week’s Prayer

(page 212 of the Book of Common Prayer, or bcponline.org):

Stir up your power, O Lord, and with great might come among us; and, because we are sorely hindered by our sins, let your bountiful grace and mercy speedily help and deliver us; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, be honor and glory, now and for ever. Amen.

About the hosts:

Brendan O’Sullivan-Hale is a member of the Episcopal Church of All Saints, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Holli Powell is a member of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Georgetown, Kentucky.

Other Credits:

Theme Music: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, performed by Aaron DeVries, distributed under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.

Image: Grant C., distributed under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license.

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Along with special guest Kyle Oliver, Holli and Brendan consider the parallels between the Advent wait for the coming of Christ with the present wait for justice and reconciliation.

The Collect Call is a podcast that unpacks and reflects upon the meaning of the collect of the week – that prayer at the start of the service that changes every week. Turns out there’s a lot in those little paragraphs! Hosts Brendan O’Sullivan-Hale and Holli Powell challenge themselves to learn about the history of the prayers, reflect on their spiritual meaning and application to daily life, and, inevitably, reduce them to tweets.

On Soundcloud:

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Links of the week:

Brendan’s video for Advent 2

Kyle’s Easter People podcast

Places to listen to us:

Stitcher Radio

Soundcloud

iTunes

Places to talk to us:

@thecollectcall

Email (listen to the show for the address)

Acts 8 Moment Facebook

Places to commune with us pictorally:

Pinterest

Or leave us a comment here!

This Week’s Prayer

(page 211 of the Book of Common Prayer, or bcponline.org):

Merciful God, who sent your messengers the prophets to preach repentance and prepare the way for our salvation: Give us grace to heed their warnings and forsake our sins, that we may greet with joy the coming of Jesus Christ our Redeemer; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

About the hosts:

Brendan O’Sullivan-Hale is a member of the Episcopal Church of All Saints, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Holli Powell is a member of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Georgetown, Kentucky.

Other Credits:

Theme Music: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, performed by Aaron DeVries, distributed under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.

Image: Grant C., distributed under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license.

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Special guest Steve Pankey joins Holli and Brendan to talk about Advent traditions, the Domino’s Noid, and Christ’s Second Coming. As one does.

The Collect Call is a podcast that unpacks and reflects upon the meaning of the collect of the week – that prayer at the start of the service that changes every week. Turns out there’s a lot in those little paragraphs! Hosts Brendan O’Sullivan-Hale and Holli Powell challenge themselves to learn about the history of the prayers, reflect on their spiritual meaning and application to daily life, and, inevitably, reduce them to tweets.

Or on Soundcloud:
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Links of the week:

Brendan’s video for Advent 1

Steve Pankey’s awesome blog, Draughting Theology

Places to listen to us:

Stitcher Radio

Soundcloud

iTunes

Places to talk to us:

@thecollectcall

Email (listen to the show for the address)

Acts 8 Moment Facebook

Places to commune with us pictorally:

Pinterest

Or leave us a comment here!

This Week’s Prayer

(page 211 of the Book of Common Prayer, or bcponline.org):

Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

About the hosts:

Brendan O’Sullivan-Hale is a member of the Episcopal Church of All Saints, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Holli Powell is a member of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Georgetown, Kentucky.

Other Credits:

Theme Music: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, performed by Aaron DeVries, distributed under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.

Image: Grant C., distributed under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license.

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Holli and Brendan learn that Christ the King Sunday is also known as the Sunday of Doom, and reflect on how being in relationship with those in need has affected their lives.

The Collect Call is a podcast that unpacks and reflects upon the meaning of the collect of the week – that prayer at the start of the service that changes every week. Turns out there’s a lot in those little paragraphs! Hosts Brendan O’Sullivan-Hale and Holli Powell challenge themselves to learn about the history of the prayers, reflect on their spiritual meaning and application to daily life, and, inevitably, reduce them to tweets.

Or on Soundcloud:
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Link of the week:

The history of the Feast of Christ the King

Places to listen to us:

Stitcher Radio

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Places to talk to us:

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Email (listen to the show for the address)

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This Week’s Prayer

(page 236 of the Book of Common Prayer, or bcponline.org):

Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his most gracious rule; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

About the hosts:

Brendan O’Sullivan-Hale is a member of the Episcopal Church of All Saints, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Holli Powell is a member of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Georgetown, Kentucky.

Other Credits:

Theme Music: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, performed by Aaron DeVries, distributed under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.

Image: Grant C., distributed under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license.

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Brendan, Holli, and special guest Lara Dreyer get really real about the Bible and Christian Contemporary music, and also urge you not to buy anything in this week’s collection.

The Collect Call is a podcast that unpacks and reflects upon the meaning of the collect of the week – that prayer at the start of the service that changes every week. Turns out there’s a lot in those little paragraphs! Hosts Brendan O’Sullivan-Hale and Holli Powell challenge themselves to learn about the history of the prayers, reflect on their spiritual meaning and application to daily life, and, inevitably, reduce them to tweets.

Or on Soundcloud:
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Link of the week:

Bible Women, the new book from Forward Movement

Places to listen to us:

Stitcher Radio

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iTunes

Places to talk to us:

@thecollectcall

Email (listen to the show for the address)

Acts 8 Moment Facebook

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Or leave us a comment here!

This Week’s Prayer

(page 236 of the Book of Common Prayer, or bcponline.org):

Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

About the hosts:

Brendan O’Sullivan-Hale is a member of the Episcopal Church of All Saints, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Holli Powell is a member of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Georgetown, Kentucky.

Other Credits:

Theme Music: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, performed by Aaron DeVries, distributed under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.

Image: Grant C., distributed under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license.

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It’s a fraught episode, what with the devil, the second coming, William Shatner, and Regis Philbin rattling around. Holli and Brendan do their best to figure out whether a prayer’s use of verb tense offers some wiggle room on sin and forgiveness.

The Collect Call is a podcast that unpacks and reflects upon the meaning of the collect of the week – that prayer at the start of the service that changes every week. Turns out there’s a lot in those little paragraphs! Hosts Brendan O’Sullivan-Hale and Holli Powell challenge themselves to learn about the history of the prayers, reflect on their spiritual meaning and application to daily life, and, inevitably, reduce them to tweets.

Or on Soundcloud:
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Links of the week:

The new Daily Office Online Facebook page, presented by the Very Rev. David Kendrick

The Rev. Steve Pankey blogs about the rapture!

Places to listen to us:

Stitcher Radio

Soundcloud

iTunes

Places to talk to us:

@thecollectcall

Email (listen to the show for the address)

Acts 8 Moment Facebook

Places to commune with us pictorally:

Pinterest

Or leave us a comment here!

This Week’s Prayer

(page 236 of the Book of Common Prayer, or bcponline.org):

O God, whose blessed Son came into the world that he might destroy the works of the devil and make us children of God and heirs of eternal life: Grant that, having this hope, we may purify ourselves as he is pure; that, when he comes again with power and great glory, we may be made like him in his eternal and glorious kingdom; where he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

About the hosts:

Brendan O’Sullivan-Hale is a member of the Episcopal Church of All Saints, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Holli Powell is a member of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Georgetown, Kentucky.

Other Credits:

Theme Music: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, performed by Aaron DeVries, distributed under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.

Image: Grant C., distributed under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license.

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