12 days of Christmas: Greg Boyd – A Subversive Christmas (NS08)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2014
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Greg Boyd is one of Nomad's favourite theologians and authors. He's a leading figure in the reformation of evangelicalism, passionately advocating everything from the importance of doubt, care for creation, a non-violent view of God, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Nomad Spirituality |
| 0:15.2 | On the 8th day of Christmas |
| 0:18.9 | Nomad gave to me. |
| 0:22.0 | A Christmas reflection by Greg Boyd. |
| 0:27.6 | Very good, too. |
| 0:28.2 | Yeah, just halfway through that. |
| 0:29.7 | I thought, oh no, this isn't going to, |
| 0:30.7 | I'm not going to get it all in, |
| 0:31.5 | but actually it worked out okay, didn't it? |
| 0:33.0 | Yeah, it's a bit difficult, |
| 0:33.9 | Phyllis tickle, isn't it? |
| 0:36.7 | It's only two syllables, see? |
| 0:38.4 | Yeah, it's all about the syllables, isn't it, this kind of thing? |
| 0:42.4 | Have you heard of Forbes, who one of the things I do, |
| 0:45.7 | they put together like rich lists, you know, who the richest people in the world are? |
| 0:49.5 | Well, apparently, I didn't know this. I came across this the other day. |
| 0:51.6 | They also put together each year a rich list of fictional characters. |
| 0:57.0 | So people from novels and movies, TVs, games and work out who's the richest fictional character. |
| 1:02.9 | And they kind of construct portfolios based on the stories and they kind of calculate the value of how much they're worth according to their fictional lives. |
| 1:13.8 | Just trying to have a guess here. |
| 1:15.8 | Yeah, go on then. |
| 1:16.4 | So they put together a fictional list. |
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