When one door closes...
Raised Catholic podcast thank-yous, grace-filled moments, stories, endings and new beginnings
Hi friends. As you might have heard, today is the last episode (at least for now) of the Raised Catholic podcast.
A couple of weeks ago, I told the story of the Raised Catholic podcast through the lens of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, and the fire there that started it all. (You know I love a metaphor.) Last week was about my view of the future of the Church in light of the ongoing second meeting of the Synod on Synodality. And today it’s a look back on some truly grace-filled moments over the last four years, some big thank-yous, a couple of metaphor-laden stories1 (one about tapestries and one about a bell), and what’s next for me and for this community. I really hope you’ll give these episodes a listen.
I’m so incredibly grateful to all of you who have listened, shared, subscribed and commented on episodes of the Raised Catholic podcast over these four years, and to those who have reached out here in the final stretch to say hello and thanks. That is so meaningful to me, thank you! I want you to know that the episodes will remain available wherever you listen, along with lots of resources in the show notes of each episode so that you can dig into and study these topics for yourself. Find transcripts of all of them, plus a bunch of my other writing at my website, kerrycampbell.org. For those of you who have received the podcast via my Wordpress blog, now’s the time to come on over here to Substack as I won’t be posting over there, please and thank you!
As I say in the episode, I started the Raised Catholic podcast in response to a call from the Holy Spirit and I’m ending it for the same reason. I had a sense that I would need open hands to receive whatever is next for me and while I can’t tell this story yet, I do see God opening new doors for me in my work in the last two weeks that are completely unexpected, synchronistic, promising, and maybe even providential2? Stay tuned about all of that!
But for now, I am just profoundly grateful to be walking with you along this journey of faith. I do believe that when we all get to Heaven, we will see all of these connections between our fellow humans fully illuminated, and see just how much they mattered, and we will not believe the very big work God was up to all along in bringing people together in so many kinds of ways. I’m grateful that you and I are connected here on the road and I know that there are good things up ahead.
Listen to Raised Catholic episode 200: Open Doors on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts (or read the transcript) and then please come on back here to introduce yourself in the comments. I’m excited for the new Substack chapter of our story together and I’d love to know a bit of yours. Thank you, friend, for everything.
Would it even be a podcast from me if it didn’t have a metaphor in it?
praying hands emoji ;)