12 Days of Christmas: Phyllis Tickle – The Church of Christmastide (NS07)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2014
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Author and lecturer, Phyllis Tickle, is one of the most influential voices in emerging church circles, and one of our favourite guests of 2014.
We asked Phyllis to reflect on Christmas from the perspective of the emerging church and emergence Christianity.
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| 0:00.0 | Nomad Spirituality |
| 0:15.2 | On the seventh day of Christmas, Nomad gave to me a Christmas reflection by Philistichael. |
| 0:29.5 | Changed that up a little bit. |
| 0:30.9 | That wasn't the, that's not the tune we've been using over the previous. |
| 0:33.9 | No, but it's a bit difficult to get a Philistickle in with the other two. |
| 0:43.8 | Philisticle. That's all right, it works. Well, yeah, okay. I think you need to trust. But you had to, but you just did the end bit with just using her name. I had to get all the other bits in between. |
| 0:48.7 | I think you need to trust your own talent. I think you were doubting yourself then. You didn't fully commit. But it's just easy to go, |
| 0:54.7 | Fearless Tyco, isn't it? |
| 0:57.0 | But it's the Christmas reflection. |
| 1:01.7 | I read the other day, Wardo, |
| 1:03.5 | that all the gifts in the 12 days of Christmas, |
| 1:06.6 | actually, if you add them all up |
| 1:07.9 | because they're repeated over the 12 days, |
| 1:09.8 | actually adds up to 364 gifts. You obviously don't have a TV, do it? All much to do. |
| 1:16.6 | Because, you know, this time of year, Christmas facts pop up on the internet and stuff, don't they? |
| 1:22.0 | So if we were going to follow this pattern strictly, because we're trying to 12 days of Christmas, |
| 1:26.6 | or nomads 12 days of Christmas, we're giving 12 gifts, a Christmas reflection to our audience, because we're trying to 12 days of Christmas, or no match 12 days |
| 1:27.5 | of Christmas, we're giving 12 gifts, a Christmas reflection to our audience. If we were |
| 1:31.8 | strictly sticking to that pattern, we'd have to give 364 gifts. So that's a gift a day. |
| 1:36.2 | So we'd just have Christmas day off? Yeah. I'd have a next breakdown. So we'd have to start |
| 1:41.5 | on Boxing Day, ready for the next Christmas. |
| 1:44.5 | Yeah. |
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