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Nomad Podcast

Alex Clare-Young & Sarah Hobbs - Trans. Christian. Human. (N258)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

Christianity, Faithshift, Deconstruction, Christianmysticism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianspirituality, Progressivechristian, Christian, Religion, Emergingchurch

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we listen in on a conversation between Alex Clare-Young and Sarah Hobbs about their trans experience.
Alex is a transmasculine non-binary minister with the United Reformed Church, currently completing doctoral research into trans theology. Sarah is a trans woman, who leads a consultancy business, and is a speaker and trainer. Together they co-chair the Open Table Network, a partnership of Christian communities which welcome and affirm people who are LGBTQ+.
In the conversation Alex and Sarah honestly and vulnerably share their stories of coming to terms with their identities, their transition, the reaction of their faith communities, and their evolving relationship with the Bible and the Christian faith.
It’s a beautiful, honest, heartbreaking, inspiring, hopeful conversation.

Conversation starts at 21m 25s

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Welcome back to Nomad Podcast. I'm Tim and this is my old mate Anna Robinson.

0:42.4

Hello. It's good to be back in your digital presence, Anna. Yeah, lovely, lovely to be here, Tim.

0:48.0

I wonder when we might enjoy each other's offline presence again. It's been a couple of years at least,

0:52.6

hasn't it? Are you got any plans to travel north? Yeah, definitely, definitely plans to travel north. It's just a case of making those plans

0:59.9

happen. We've got a lot of people who we love up north. We come to Plymouth about once a year,

1:05.7

but that's still about two hours from you, isn't it? Like, I'm not sure it's possible with you to live any further away from other people. It really has a long way away, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, I think I've said this before,

1:14.8

but I mean, when we moved down here, I don't think I'd quite realize looking on the map how

1:19.6

far down we were. But I love it. I love it. I love being down here. But, you know, and with COVID restrictions, you haven't really noticed it because we haven't been able to travel that much.

1:28.4

But yeah, now things are opening up again.

1:30.5

I am very aware of the pilgrimage that we need to take.

1:34.4

It's almost like we need to take like a month off just to go further up the country.

1:38.6

But we definitely want to do that.

1:39.9

So we will definitely meet again, Tim, in person.

1:42.9

Cool.

1:44.2

It's been a couple of months since you'll ask on the podcast.

1:46.3

Any big news stories?

1:47.5

Anything from the listener needs to know?

1:50.4

Well, one sort of exciting news story in the Robinson household is that I am actually

1:55.6

moving on from a job that I've been doing for the last 18 months.

1:59.0

I've been working for a church in Truro,

2:10.0

and I, yeah, just feel like it's the right time to leave that and press into some other exciting sort of ventures that I've been thinking a lot about, a lot more connected to my

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