Jesus Has Left The Building: Season 3, Episode 1 R. Butts & T. Swift [Theme music plays] Mandy Todd, Director of Arts and Worship: Welcome to “Jesus Has Left The Building,” where we talk with people leading creative, outside the box - I mean, outside the church building - ministries that inspire and engage us. Our 3rd season, recorded during Lent 2021, connects our desire to follow Jesus outside the church building and the recognition that Lent is an invitation to quiet our minds and hearts. Our guests share how they find nourishment as they build God's kin-dom. This is the “Jesus Has Left The Building” podcast, where ministers, people of faith, activists, and church leaders have left the building, too. With Marta and Mandy. [Melodic music plays] Reverend Marta Fioriti: Today we are joined by Roger Butts, author of “Seeds of Devotion: Weekly Contemplations on Faith.” The new devotional book will guide our season of Lent in this podcast as an added resource to Black Forest Community Church’s online Lenten retreat and Sunday's communal gathering AKA worship. You can purchase the book through Amazon and find more information on the “Seeds of Devotion” Facebook page. Reverend Roger Butts is a staff chaplain at Penrose Saint Francis Health Service in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Ordained in the Unitarian Universalist tradition, he is a long time member of the U.U. Christian Fellowship and the International Thomas Merton Society. He has served congregations in Iowa and Colorado. His writings have appeared in a number of anthologies and newspapers. He organizes a couple of centering prayer groups here in Colorado Springs. He loves music, pop culture, tennis, his 3 teenagers, his black lab, and his minister wife, Marta. He is the author of “Seeds of Devotion: Weekly Contemplations on Faith.” [Music continues then ends while Marta is speaking] Marta: So, we have asked you here today because we know the work of Jesus, both in action and rest, are important. Sometimes, Jesus needs to leave the building to go to the other side of the lake, up the mountain, to the hillside. He dismisses the crowds or sends the multitudes away. Often, he was alone and simply prayed by himself. In some ways, we must begin within