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Rev. Ed Bacon

lines on the record: 44
first: 2025-08-13
most recent: 2025-08-13
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“God saying Ed I need this from you and I think that's what real prayer is. Instead of my bringing all my needs to God, I sit until I can be still enough for God to bring God's needs through me.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that's the spirit connecting us all. Here I am, this country preacher, and somebody else over there, and the spirit has connected us because I chose to give it sixty minutes to stay there to let it happen. So my prayer is not about, okay, Lord, I need this. I need this and I need that. This is.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Every day Absolutely. And then Oprah immediately I start praying for people. People come into my mind who've been asking me to pray for them. People in the hospital, people going through divorce, people who are struggling in life, people I wouldn't think of praying for. So I know it's not my mind doing this. This is more even than my consciousness. This is God. I call it the God's Spirit asking me to pray. And sometimes I feel their bodies come into me. I hope you don't mind my time this mystically. And it's just amazing.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mentioned the basin of silty water. Yes. So I sit very silty water. The Maybe 30, 35, 40 minutes. And that's why people oftentimes just give up on this prayer stuff because they say, oh, I'm so distracted. I'm having all these thoughts and I'm having to process my dream from last night and all the...”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sometimes I do Martin Luther, the great reformer in the 15th century, said, I'm going to be very busy today, so I'm going to have to pray another extra hour. The more challenge I'm in. The busier I am, the more I pray. I'm going to get caught up in that anger thought thing or lose myself.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So he looked at them menu and he said, I will have bacon. Two eggs over easy and whole wheat toast dry and orange juice and coffee. Just goes away. She comes back, brings the orange juice coffee, then brings this plate with a Bacon Toast and a glob of white stuff that he's never seen. And he says, Ma'am, what's that? But I didn't order Grizz. She says, You don't order grits. Gris just comes. No, that's grace”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Here's about Grace So this man who lived north of the Mason Dixon line. Went into a southern restaurant. Waitress came over and said, Honey, what do you want? I love Southern waitresses”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Which is what Dr. King was saying. Over and over again. Thank God he came into my life. I was seventeen when I met him, and he said and bigotry and oppression have two victims. Not just the person who's on the short end of the stick, but the oppressor. Is being victimized also, because evil both the perpetrator and the victim. And that's why it's important for us to keep this unifying breath if we could have this unifying breath throughout the world, the breath of grace. Yes.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You are so wrong if you think that Yoga's about what's going on in this room, about bending, stretching, breathing, sweating. On this yog Yoga is about whether or not you can keep this breath slow non reactive breathing through your nose when somebody flips you off on the freeway in LA. You keep that breath and you don't fall into that. There's a great Christian hymn about May we not become the evil we deplore.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Unless the beauty of yoga. That you've concentrate on your breath The idea is for all of us who are in the same room practicing yoga to be breathing slow, non reactive, breathing through your nose. And if your breath starts to get too fast. Don't continue the exercises, put your knees on the mat. Oh,”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Rabbi Heschel said in every moment something sacred is at stake. And even in that moment something sacred is at stake. Can I choose or be awake or aware enough? See that going on and to say, I need an imaginative, creative, loving response that keeps my power. Rather than give it over to that person and just act the way they want me to ask.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We have to interrupt the cycle of violence and went as long as we are doing tit for tat. As Dut King said, violence leads to violence”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, but to lose yourself in madness so that you don't have that voice and you don't have that consciousness and that awareness. You have fallen asleep. If you want to get it. If you want your dreams to come true, you have to wake up Wakeness awareness. is huge in this and you can fall asleep in the midst of retaliation.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Be able to step back and observe that and say Look at that person attacking me. Am I going to choose not to retaliate or given kind, but am I going to choose something bigger than they?”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Which is the evil one Findings A place and to seek And someone who's doing you harm. Is the test of spirituality, it seems to me.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's right And they're just as advantaged before God. You are. Gandhi talked about the democracy of souls. Jesus lived that out every soul is of equal worth. Jesus said one of the most radical things Now see this Jesus doesn't get preached a lot but in the Sermon on the Mount Jesus said God makes his reign to fall on the just and the unjust alike, and God makes the sun to shine on the good as well as the evil. God's grace. Is democratic, it's equal. And we want to say my tribe, my group, the people who think the way I do, the people who feel the way I do. We've got a leg up. Everybody else. And as soon as I put myself with a leg up over some other group, that's the first step. Abusing those people or excluding them, or maybe even bombing them.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's correct Because he would say the homeless person on the street. Iraq Mother had just lost her child. The men in Iran, you're thinking of bombing. Gay and lesbian person you're excluding They all have the kingdom of God within them God is in them, and they're just as valuable.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I want everybody. To know the love that I know. That fills their hearts so much that they are joyful and peaceful, and they are respectful of every human being. What I want, Oprah, is to turn the human race into the human family You don't have to be in church. To be a part of that.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, I say that because they're wonderful people who have spiritual experiences on their horses. Sunday They just are not going to bother with this religious stuff. For a lot of very good reasons, and some are lazy reasons”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That they're their voice. I am your voice. I shuddered once at a dinner party. This was early in my ministry, sitting next to a member of a parish where I'd now become rector. And she said, I expect you to tell me everything to think. Wow. I said, you're going to be very disappointed in me My job is to do the opposite.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I had a conversation with my son two nights ago. He's looking for. What he's going to do in life right now. We were talking about the role advisors play. said son. Take him all that advice. You have to be the president of your cabinet. Use all those voices as advisors or your cabinet. But you're the president. And the way you have to obey is to obey this voice inside. And people who don't practice Listening to that voice, that's a voice that has to be exercised just like you have to go to the gym. That's right. You have to exercise that puppy every day.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Have a moment for stillness Say life's too short I want joy. I want peace. I want love. I want forgiveness. I want to be magnanimous toward this person who is abusing me.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Where can I in my experience right now? Turn to Joy, forgiveness, peace, love. That be the Spirit. That's how you follow grace. Simply stop, say I am an observer of myself.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There is a being Behind or beneath our thoughts, and if we can just stop and say, Suffering is in me, or sadness is in me, that I am sad. That was a great distinction he made in the New Earth, you remember?”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Jesus said You can judge a tree by the fruit that it bears. Paul, St. Paul, says in Galatians, there are two kinds of fruit the fruit of the Spirit. And the fruit of the devil and the fruit of the Joy, love, generosity Self control”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You follow grace. It's important to understand what grace feels like. It's where you feel all of a sudden overwhelmed by God's goodness. And you didn't deserve it. You didn't merit it. God just gave it to you because God loves you. That's grace The degree that we follow grace instead of trying to get out of ahead of it and explain everything, grace will lead us to the reconciliation point that you're talking about, reconciling our minds and our hearts, our souls and our intellects, our doctrine and our spirituality. The reconciliation point is there if we will follow grace.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was raised the Southern Baptist. Southern Baptist student, yeah. Now my answer to your question is what do we say to all of these people about how to reconcile?”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That leads us to kill that leads us to be violent. That leads us to abuse other people because we can't see that we have evil within us.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Save us, save me please save the human race from people who think that the devil is purely external. For us to talk about evildoers as though evil exists outside of us instead of the fact that we have to struggle ourselves with evil within us.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's there. You are your own priest, which leads you to God. It doesn't separate you from God. Does separate you from having to have an external authority?”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It will be with us always. Yes. are doing it for their own self gratification. They're not interested in empowering everyone. Interested in filling the pews instead of filling the hearts. And so the great thing about an independent, popular expression of the truth, as in your work, is that it encourages, it empowers people to think for themselves, to feel for themselves, and to have a connection. That's what's really underneath that notion of the priesthood of all believers so that you don't have to have a priest what Jesus is saying to people when he says the kingdom of God is within you and your faith has made you well is that you have this divinity inside there it is”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If these people have developed Theology that makes them dependent on a doctrine or a dogma. They are not interested in being liberated to trust their inner voices. So, I'm no longer connecting with God's voice inside me”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But if you don't examine scripture for yourself, Read it meditatively and spiritually, and just take what the preacher is saying, and don't have your own thought processes going on, then you are going to miss an awful lot of sacred scripture.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly, and the kingdom of God is within you And your faith has made you well. And the first chapter of the Gospel of John says the light that was in every human being is now come into the world. The Bible itself talks about the divinity within each one of us.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Which means go wider also because there's the connectivity with every other human being because when you find and discover the divine in yourself, You know that that exists in everyone else and that no one is advantaged before God? Whoa.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is what he says. And if you depart from it, and if you depart from the language that I use and that I found comfort in Then you are starting your own church, you're antichrist, you're not religious, whatever. And it's the criticism that comes at you because you are pointing to something that's deeper and more universal. When I was reading about the phenomenon that we're addressing today, Chuck Yeager came to mind. He was the guy who first human being to fly faster than the speed of sound Through the sound bar He landed, the media came up and said, What do you have to say about this? he said just before you break through the sound barrier is when the cockpit shakes the most. Every leader just before a breakthrough. cockpit was shaking. And that's what happens, I think, as we are trying to go deeper in spirituality.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“These folks are coming from the house of fear. We choose to live at any particular moment in our life, either in the House of Fear or the House of Love and a house of fear always drives us to put God in a box, put our theology in a box, put our spirituality in the box, put it in the spirit.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that's the importance of the work that you did with Tolah because he says that we have to go to stillness. He's so right. Whenever we will choose, make a decision. Make time The experience of stillness in our lives. Like a basin of silty water that's all muddy, and you let it sit on a table until the silt goes to the bottom of the basin, and then you have clear water at the top.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of course you do. He wanted to hear God and there came an earthquake and then a wind and then a fire. And God was not in the earthquake, wind or fire. The still small voice.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, it was something that transcends those kind of categories There's this wonderful story about Elijah in the Old Testament.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“All right, here's my stab. I think it's the experience of feeling unconditionally loved. So much so powerfully that you know there is some power greater than you are loving you. This love that you are experiencing is coming from a great power and it's filling you so much that you want to love other people. That to me is the experience of spirituality. Can I tell you a story When I was five I was playing alone in a pine grove in South Georgia. All of a sudden I felt enveloped by warmth and light. And I heard Inaudibly in the deepest part of myself. You are the most beloved creature in all of creation. At the same time I got that message I also heard and every other person is the most beloved creature in all of creation. Changed It made my life what it is. It is that experience of unconditional love that is so over.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We do, and we as a Christian church, we certainly believe that Jesus is the Savior and that Jesus is the Son of God, etc. But when you are in the pew at All Saints, what you're hearing emphasized more than those rather doctrinal and dogmatic issues that kind of go along with religion is about your connection with God, your connection with the Spirit, your connection with the cosmos, your connection with other people, and your connection with your deepest self. So that's what's most important for us to emphasize, because we... Have folks who are abused religiously and spiritually who are searching and they want to hear some things that are comforting and challenging and empowering.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Ha ha ha. We're always trying to find 21st century language to explain church ease, church language. Rector is my official title. And some people say, well, that's a kind of a spiritual CEO, isn't it? Or something like that.”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Difficult Of answers for I do understand this question of trying to reconcile With a new sense of spirituality. Opening I too experi”
2025-08-13 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Summer: Rev. Ed Bacon Do You Recognize Grace? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source