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Soberful

305: Rediscovering Grace with Rev. Dr. Ben Gosden

Soberful

Veronica Valli & Chip Somers

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.8611 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0

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0:21.6

I've dream that you were twisting through seven suns of gold

0:27.3

and the gypsy was insisting.

0:30.7

Their story must be told.

0:33.6

I came two in the morning,

0:36.7

but I took it as a warning that you might be a treasure.

0:42.4

I could touch but never hold.

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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