A Messy, Mysterious Faith with Pete Enns
The Evolving Faith Podcast
Sarah Bessey
4.9 • 939 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Pete tells the story of his own evolving faith and what he learned about being born of the spirit as he wrestled with questions and doubts. He discusses how the work of the spirit can often feel like a loss of control and a moving away from a spirituality dependent on systems and certainty. Pete reminds listeners that clarity is often the first thing you need to let go of as you make the choice between fear and trust. After Pete’s talk, Jeff and Sarah discuss the struggle and the beauty of letting go of old systems and what it really means to have “faith like a child.”
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We are all looking for belonging. |
| 0:03.0 | Some of you are listening to this podcast because you've deconstructed your beliefs, |
| 0:07.0 | maybe you've endured some pain and trauma, |
| 0:10.0 | stood bewildered before a community that once felt so much like family. |
| 0:14.1 | Perhaps what you used to call home isn't really home anymore for one big reason or a thousand |
| 0:19.0 | reasons. |
| 0:20.3 | Maybe you've landed somewhere completely different. |
| 0:23.0 | Maybe like most of us you're still landing. |
| 0:25.0 | Many of us have found our way here to evolving faith because we are looking for healing spaces. |
| 0:31.0 | We are longing for fellow sojourners and needing room to exhale all of our questions |
| 0:36.4 | and doubts. We yearn to be more connected and less alone and we're reaching out for others |
| 0:42.2 | who feel the same to know that it's not just us out here, |
| 0:45.2 | to know that it's possible to resurrect and reimagine even maybe rebuild. |
| 0:51.4 | So this is why we exist to cultivate hope and love in that wilderness. We know we're not alone and neither are you and we are so ready to welcome you to our little outpost so that you can rest, laugh, grieve, create hope, and know that you are loved through and through. |
| 1:09.0 | You're invited to join us, a bunch of folks from all over the world who are making our own beautiful, diverse, and messy table in the wilderness. |
| 1:17.0 | Tickets are now on sale for Evolving Faith 2023. |
| 1:21.0 | We're gathering both online and in person this year on October 14th and 15th in Minneapolis, Minnesota. |
| 1:28.0 | We're so excited to welcome all of you and speakers such as Krista Tippett, Dante Stewart, |
| 1:33.6 | Nautia Bolts Weber, Dr. Will Gaffney, |
| 1:36.0 | Barbara Brown Taylor, and so, so many more. |
| 1:39.6 | I would absolutely love to see you in Minneapolis |
| 1:42.3 | or online for that sacred weekend and I hope |
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