Chine McDonald - Unmaking Motherhood: Faith, Family, and Feminism (N341)

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Post-evangelical, Faith Shift, Christianity, Mystical Christianity, Liberation Theology, Progressive Christianity, Contemplative Spirituality, Deconstruction, Reconstruction, Religious Trauma Healing, Religion & Spirituality, Embodied Spirituality, Christian Mysticism, Spiritual Direction, Evolving Faith

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🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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What happens when the idealised image of motherhood meets the lived reality? In this episode, we sit down with Director of Theos, Chine McDonald to explore the complexities of motherhood and faith. Chine shares her personal journey, from growing up in...

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome back to Nomad Podcast. I'm Tim Nash, and this is Joy Brooks.
0:41.3	Hello.
0:42.4	How are you, Joy Brooks?
0:44.0	Well, I'm the usual mixture of complex emotions and all the rest of it, just like any human.
0:49.6	But I reckon on this lovely, bright, cold morning, I'm pretty good.
0:55.1	My 18-year-old car got through its MOT this week, so, I mean, what's not to love about that?
1:00.1	That's doing well.
1:01.0	Like, I try and sort of eke out my car's life to around that time, and then it usually just all goes horribly wrong, and I end up breaking down like 12 times in a year, and then I reluctantly get rid of it.
1:11.3	So you're doing very well. Well, yeah, once that starts happening, it will go. I do think the particular
1:16.2	make and model is one that's renowned for going on forever. So, and I don't use it loads. So it is
1:22.2	doing very well. And yeah, and tomorrow I go away to Northumberland by myself with nobody else to a friary for four nights.
1:31.5	So I'm very excited about that.
1:33.4	That's amazing.
1:34.3	It is amazing.
1:35.0	I can't quite believe that past me got her act together enough to actually book it.
1:39.3	So I am thanking past me.
1:41.8	That's just like a kind of a personal retreat thing.
1:43.5	It's not through work or something.
1:44.8	It's not through work.
1:46.1	It's really strange.
1:47.2	I'm really resistant to the word retreat, calling it that.
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