A Subsistence Spirituality, with Barbara Brown Taylor

The Evolving Faith Podcast

Sarah Bessey

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 939 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In our first episode of season 2, Barbara Brown Taylor discusses the realities of spiritual wilderness and asks us to consider what it looks like to have a faith lean enough to survive. She explains that a true wilderness means coming to the end of our perceived safety and learning that we’ve never really had any guarantees all along. Barbara says that grief is necessary for the vitality of the soul and asks us to imagine what subsistence spirituality would mean in our own wilderness. Then Jeff and Sarah discuss the unforeseen ways grief has impacted our lives since this talk was given at the 2019 conference and the beauty of a lean spirituality that can carry us through loss.

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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.
0:14.0	Perhaps what you used to call home isn't really home anymore for one big reason or a thousand reasons.
0:20.0	Maybe you've landed somewhere completely different.
0:23.0	Maybe like most of us you're still landing.
0:26.0	Many of us have found our way here to evolving faith
0:29.0	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 and doubts.
0:38.0	We yearn to be more connected and less alone and we're reaching out for others who feel the same to know that it's not just
0:44.8	us out here, to know that it's possible to resurrect and reimagine, even maybe rebuild.
0:52.0	So this is why we exist exist to cultivate hope and love in that
0:55.1	wilderness. We know we're not alone and neither are you and we are so ready to
0:59.4	welcome you to our little outpost so that you can rest, laugh, grieve, create hope, and know that you are
1:07.8	loved through and through.
1:10.1	You're invited to join us, a bunch of folks from all over the world who are making our own
1:14.4	beautiful, diverse, and messy table in the wilderness.
1:18.0	Tickets are now on sale for Evolving Faith 2023.
1:21.6	We're gathering both online and in person this year on October 14th and 15th in
1:26.4	Minneapolis, Minnesota. We're so excited to welcome all of you and speakers such as Krista
1:32.1	Tippett, Dante Stewart, Nautia Bolts Weber, Dr. Will Gaffney, Barbara
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