12 Days of Christmas: Wendy VanderWal-Gritter – An Hospitable Christmas (NS04)

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Deconstruction, Christian Mysticism, Post-evangelical, Liberation Theology, Progressive Christianity, Christianity, Mystical Christianity, Contemplative Spirituality, Religious Trauma Healing, Religion & Spirituality, Faith Shift, Reconstruction, Spiritual Direction, Embodied Spirituality, Evolving Faith

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🗓️ 15 December 2014

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Wendy is the executive director of New Direction Ministries in Canada, an organisation that exists to provide "safe and spacious places for those outside the heterosexual mainstream to explore and grow in faith in Jesus Christ." So we asked Wendy to...

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0:00.0	Nomad Spirituality
0:15.0	On the fourth day of Christmas, Nomad gave to me...
0:23.1	A reflection from Wendy Vanderbill.
0:27.6	Something rather...
0:28.7	Gritter.
0:30.2	I knew you'd forget that, Wardo.
0:31.7	It's a tricky name, isn't it?
0:32.9	Possibly the trickiest name we've ever had on Nomad podcast.
0:36.4	Wendy VanderWall Gritter.
0:37.9	Yeah, that's a great name.
0:38.9	It's a great name.
0:39.6	And she's the first Canadian we've had on the show.
0:43.6	We haven't had any other Canadians on the show.
0:45.1	I don't think so.
0:46.6	No.
0:47.2	Yeah.
0:47.7	So who is she, Tim?
0:49.3	Okay.
0:49.9	She works, she's an executive director of New Direction, which is an organisation.
0:58.0	Sounds a bit like what Andrew Marin does, who we interviewed a while back, sort of building bridges between the church and the gay community.
1:04.8	So she has learnt a lot about radical hospitality and inclusion, accepting people for who they are,
1:13.0	and all that kind of stuff. So she's done a Christmas reflection for us based around the theme
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