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Nomad Podcast

Brad Jersak - The Orthodox Way (N165)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

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

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2018

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Brad Jersak was in town recently, so we took the opportunity to quiz him about why his faith journey led him to the Eastern Orthodox Church. Despite many Western Christians being only vaguely aware of this ancient Christian tradition, it is increasingly influencing our beliefs. So we ask Brad, could the Orthodox Church be a home for spiritual nomads?

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0:00.0

Nomad, Christian Community, Mission and the Future of the Church.

0:16.4

Welcome to Nomad podcast.

0:18.9

My name's Tim Nash.

0:20.0

I'm David Blower.

0:21.1

We are in Telford.

0:23.5

When we travel, as the committed, beloved listener will know, I sometimes like to give

0:28.5

some facts to give people a bit of context so they can kind of picture where we are.

0:32.3

Okay, go for it.

0:33.3

So I've Googled Telford.

0:35.0

Turns out there's not many facts.

0:36.6

Well, there are facts, obviously, about Telford, but they're not very interesting facts.

0:40.9

So one website I came across, one of the key facts that listed about Telford was that Telford's International Centre is the sixth largest exhibition centre in the country.

0:52.0

Now, if I was putting a website together about Telford Facts, I'm not sure that one would have made it.

0:57.1

That would not have made the cut.

0:59.2

That was as good as it got.

1:00.4

I couldn't find anything else that's more interesting than that.

1:02.4

That's just perfect.

1:03.5

Yeah, apparently we've got quite a large shopping centre as well.

1:07.5

Okay, is there anything else?

1:09.3

Is that it?

1:09.9

That's pretty much it, yeah.

1:11.1

The shopping centre and the sixth largest exhibition centre.

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