ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Converging Paths is a podcast for people who care about faith and refuse to live it narrowly.
Through sustained conversations among a Christian minister, Jewish rabbis, Buddhist teachers, and others, the podcast explores how different spiritual traditions wrestle with the same human questions — meaning, suffering, joy, justice, love, and the transformation of the self.
Hosted from a Christian perspective shaped by Christian Pluralism, Converging Paths is rooted in the way of Jesus while honoring the sacred wisdom of other faiths. It is not about blending religions or erasing difference, but about listening across boundaries, learning with humility, and discovering how interfaith dialogue can deepen — rather than dilute — a faithful life.
Each season offers thoughtful, honest conversation at the intersection of spirituality, culture, and the inner work needed to live wisely and compassionately in a fractured world.
Through sustained conversations among a Christian minister, Jewish rabbis, Buddhist teachers, and others, the podcast explores how different spiritual traditions wrestle with the same human questions — meaning, suffering, joy, justice, love, and the transformation of the self.
Hosted from a Christian perspective shaped by Christian Pluralism, Converging Paths is rooted in the way of Jesus while honoring the sacred wisdom of other faiths. It is not about blending religions or erasing difference, but about listening across boundaries, learning with humility, and discovering how interfaith dialogue can deepen — rather than dilute — a faithful life.
Each season offers thoughtful, honest conversation at the intersection of spirituality, culture, and the inner work needed to live wisely and compassionately in a fractured world.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
33 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
14 episodes
since Feb. 20, 2026
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
For three years, Eric Lackie experienced God as an intimate conversation partner. Then, for twenty years, the conversation stopped.
In this Special Episode of Converging Paths, Rev. Eric Elnes welcomes Eric Lackie, a Christian, licensed marriage and family therapist, and mental health clinician ser…
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“For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.”
What does it mean to say those words when innocent people suffer and the world seems anything but governed by a loving God?
In the finale of The Prayer We Thought We Knew, Rev. Eric Elnes, Ph.D., Rabbi Brian Zachary Mayer, and Zen B…
What if the temptations we most need to worry about aren’t obviously bad—but look like something good?
Rev. Dr. Eric Elnes is joined by Rabbi Brian Zachary Mayer and Zen Buddhist teacher Esther Freinkel-Tishman to explore one of the strangest lines in the Lord’s Prayer: “Lead us not into temptation…
What does it really mean to pray, “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors”? And did Jesus actually mean that our willingness to forgive others has something to do with our own forgiveness?
Rev. Dr. Eric Elnes is joined by Rabbi Brian Zachary Mayer and Zen Buddhist teacher Esther Freinkel-T…
It gets complicated fast. The mysterious Greek word translated “daily,” epiousios, appears almost nowhere else in surviving Greek, leaving open surprisingly different ways of hearing Jesus’ prayer. But the deeper question may be hiding in a word most of us pray straight past: us.
Rev. Dr. Eric Elne…
What are we actually asking when we pray, “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven”?
In Episode 2 of The Prayer We Thought We Knew, Rev. Eric Elnes is joined by Rabbi Brian Mayer and Zen Buddhist teacher Esther Freinkel-Tishman to explore a deceptively familiar line of the Lo…
Two billion people know the Lord’s Prayer by heart. Almost nobody stops to ask what Jesus hoped would happen inside us when we say, “Our Father.”
In the first episode of The Prayer We Thought We Knew, Rev. Eric Elnes explores the prayer one line at a time with Rabbi Brian Mayer, who says the word “…
Pride is usually imagined as swagger, ego, and self-importance. But in this episode, the conversation goes deeper: pride may be the invisible cage of certainty — the belief that we already know, already see, already understand.
In this season finale of Converging Paths, Eric, Brian, and Esther exp…
What is the difference between lust and love? In this episode of Converging Paths, Rev. Eric Elnes, Rabbi Brian Mayer, and Esther Freinkel-Tishman explore lust not simply as sexual desire, but as grasping, control, and objectification — and love as mutuality, spaciousness, and the freedom to let an…
Why does “more” so often leave us miserable?
In this episode of Converging Paths, Rev. Eric Elnes joins Rabbi Brian Mayer and Zen teacher Esther Tishman to explore gluttony not as simple overeating, but as the deeper spiritual burden of “too muchness” in a culture that never stops asking for more.…
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