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The Stage at C3

C3 Spiritual Community

Listen to one of our many guest speakers on the stage at C3 West Michigan"s Inclusive Spiritual Community.

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00:33:42

Laughing Our Way Awake presented by Brad Ruggles

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2026/04/26

This week, we’ll explore what happens when that way of seeing begins to soften how we move through life. Humor, laughter, and exuberant joy are not distractions from reality. They can be ways of meeting reality with greater spaciousness, resilience, and wonder. Laughter helps us zoom out, unclench our butt-cheeks a little, and better appreciate the strange, beautiful, and often ridiculous experience of being human

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00:31:58

Beauty in Broken Things presented by Brad Ruggles

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2026/04/12

We spend a lot of energy trying to smooth the edges, hide the cracks, and present the polished version of ourselves. This week, we’ll explore the quiet power of things that bear the marks of time, use, loss, and repair, and why they often move us in ways polished perfection cannot. In a culture fixated on flawless appearances, we’re making room for the light that shines through the cracks, for the grace that emerges through loss, change, and the passage of time.

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00:36:42

Beauty as Subjectively Objective presented by Michael...

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2026/04/05

Why it is Ordinarily ExtraordinaryYou might think that the experience of beauty in and of itself would be enough - that to appreciate it, to revel in it, to be grateful for it, would suffice. But no. Scientists, philosophers, and other fringe elements want to know more: does it have universal properties? how does it arise? how is it we recognize it as such? can it be defined? does it serve a function? In this talk we’ll allow these killjoys to have their say, and then say what we think.

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00:22:43

Hidden in Plain Sight presented by Brad Ruggles

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2026/03/29

Beauty is not in short supply, but our attention often is. We spend so much of life skimming past the familiar that the everyday starts to look, well, ordinary. Same street. Same dishes. Same inbox. Same tree outside the window doing tree things again. Has life lost its wonder or have we just stopped noticing?

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00:28:37

How Belief Becomes Behavior presented by Brad Ruggles

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2026/03/15

This week, we explore how beliefs become behaviors and how our daily patterns reveal what we love, fear, and value most. We look at the difference between beliefs and values, and how they shape one another. Along the way, we’ll consider the strange wisdom of the gut, the power of repetition, and the way identity is formed through what we do again and again.

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00:27:25

Heart Knowledge presented by Ruth Zwald

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2026/03/08

Long Time C3 guest speaker Ruth Zwald continues our new series The Architecture of Belief with her talk on, "Heart Knowledge."

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00:26:43

How Beliefs Form presented by Brad Ruggles

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2026/03/01

Brad kicks off our new series The Architecture of Belief with his talk, “How Beliefs Form.”

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00:29:03

Setting presented by Brad Ruggles

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2026/02/22

This week’s wrap-up talk is about the part we usually skip over: creating an environment that makes quiet practices sustainable. Silence, simplicity, and sabbath are beautiful ideas but they require intentionality on our part to make those practices stick.

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00:30:14

Sabbath presented by Brad Ruggles

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2026/02/15

This week’s installment in our Quiet Practices for Loud Times series asks us to rethink our relationship with rest, not just as something we do to recover from working, but as essential preparation for living in our noisy, chaotic world.

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00:30:42

Silence Part 2: presented by Brad Ruggles

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2026/02/08

Week 2 of Quiet Practices for Loud Times is all about Simplicity. Modern life runs on more: more options, more inputs, more tabs open (in your browser and your brain).

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00:29:50

Silence presented by Brad Ruggles

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2026/02/01

This week we’re stepping into a new series at C3 called Quiet Practices for Loud Times and Brad Ruggles leads us off with his talk, "Silence."

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00:25:03

Rifting Apart: How Loss Can Lead to Renewal and...

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2026/01/25

Cait West, author of Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy, shares her own prespective.

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00:31:19

The Purpose of the University in an Era of AI,...

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2026/01/18

Michael Dewilde returns as Core Teacher this week. Accompanying Michael will be a few GVSU students, who have agreed to share their perspectives on the topic, “The Purpose of the University in an Era of AI, Animosity, and Anxiety.”

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00:22:35

What the (bleep) is Wrong with Everyone? A Gentle...

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2026/01/11

Michael Dewilde provides an interesting reflection on people, society, and its norms.

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00:31:21

What’s Mine? Thoughts, on Saying, Doing, and Caring

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2026/01/04

Our own Beth Buelow presents her talk on, "What's Mine? Thoughts, on Saying, Doing, and Caring.

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00:30:41

The Courage of Giving Up presented by Tod Wyn

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2025/12/28

Our own C3 member Tod Wyn fills in for Brad Ruggles this week and delivers his talk about the courage of giving up.

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00:27:56

Walk Together in the Dark presented by Brad Ruggles

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2025/12/21

We arrive at Winter Solstice, the longest night and shortest day of the year. In a season when many of us feel the weight of less light and, at times, the heaviness of depression. Instead, we’ll explore what it means to walk together into the dark and to meet winter with honesty, gentleness, and open hearts.

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00:27:08

Chasing Light presented by Ruth Zwald

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2025/12/14

This is the season of darkness - the days are getting shorter. We are invited into the quiet of the dark. We explore how we can find light in the darkness - and how we can do that individually, as well as together. There are tools that assist us in tending the light, and Ruth will guide us to consider what we want to carry with us in the dark.

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The Good Death presented by Brad Ruggles

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2025/12/07

We pick up where the snowstorm left us and land the plane on our Memento Mori series with a talk called “The Good Death.” For centuries, many cultures have had their own sense of what makes a “good death” and how to prepare for it.

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Grief is a Paradox, presented by Liz Freedman

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2025/11/23

Liz Freedman, who is earning her End of Life Doula certification, adds to our series by talking about grief, death and dying.

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