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🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Ben Gosden is a pastor and alcoholic. He was the 'cool' pastor, the one who went for a couple of beers. What people didn't see was all the secret drinking. He joins Veronica to discuss how the 12-steps reignited his faith.
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0:47.7 | Hello, everybody, and you are listening to the So Before podcast, and I'm joined today by the Reverend Dr. Ben Gosden. Hi, welcome. Hey, |
0:57.7 | thanks for having me. You're welcome. Now, can I call you Ben? Yeah, please. Ben has written a book |
1:05.8 | called Grace Rediscovered and I just thought, I'm just going to tell you, I get tons of people like |
1:11.7 | soliciting me to come on the podcast. But yours kind of stood out because I just thought what an |
1:16.6 | interesting story about, well, you tell us, what's the book about in a nutshell? |
1:24.4 | Yeah. So the book, I wrote it two and a half-ish years into sobriety. So now I've just |
1:31.8 | celebrated my third sober birthday. The best way to probably describe the book is it became a |
1:39.3 | cathartic experience for me to try to share my story, which is one of the things where we learned to do |
1:46.3 | in recovery, that part of the gift of recovery is to share it with other people. I'd have to say |
1:52.5 | from the outset, it comes from a Christian perspective because I'm a pastor, but that's not to say |
1:57.8 | that there aren't many things in there that couldn't be applicable to people of all traditions and spirituality leanings. |
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