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Nomad Podcast

Chris Sunderland - Soil, Soul and Society (N40)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

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

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2011

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Chris Sunderland is involved in all manner of Jesus-inspired community stuff, but we're particularly interested in his Earth Abbey project. Earth Abbey is a movement of people helping each other live more in tune with the earth. So dust off you wellies and prepare to get muddy, Jesus style! 

“These problems that are bearing down on the earth are not just climate change, not just big oil; they’re not just erosion of soils or the loss of the rainforest, or whatever – it’s all of them, and it’s to do with how we think about our relationship with the earth. And that’s a spiritual issue.” - Chris Sunderland 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Nomad, Christian Community, Mission and the future of the church.

0:22.7

Welcome back to No Bad podcast. This is Dave Ward.

0:26.1

And Tim Nash. And we're off to see Chris Sunderland in Bristol.

0:31.3

I used to work with Chris Sunderland. So it would be interesting to who remembers. I suspect he won't, to be honest.

0:36.9

It was when I was a researcher for Barbell Society,

0:39.5

and they produced a sort of a journal called Transmission.

0:44.5

And I had to sit in the editor's meetings,

0:46.5

like discussing what the next edition would be.

0:48.6

And I don't think I made one contribution in the three and a half years.

0:51.8

I did it.

0:52.3

Wow.

0:52.9

Because I didn't know anyone at the time.

0:55.4

So it was quite difficult to sort of, you know.

0:57.0

Of course you know those people now.

0:59.0

That's right.

0:59.5

I'm one of the most well-connected people in the world now.

1:01.5

Yeah, through Nomad podcast.

1:02.9

Indeed.

1:03.5

Yeah.

1:04.1

Yeah, fantastic.

1:05.8

So he should be in honour of actually meeting you today.

1:08.7

Yeah. honour of actually meeting you today, shouldn't really? So this is Chris Sunderland of Agora fame, or is it Agora, I can never remember.

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