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Christena Cleveland - God Is a Black Woman (N268)

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Nomad

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

4.7689 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we speak with social psychologist, theologian, activist and author of , . Christena speaks with us about her journey of unmasking the white male image of God and the hurt, hopelessness, and racial and gender oppression it has caused. ...

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

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

0:41.1

Hello. Anna, who only last week I saw in the offline world twice.

0:47.5

Yeah. It was great to meet up in person after all these years. Yeah. And Anna was joined all

0:53.2

away from Birmingham by David Benjamin Blower,

0:55.9

all the way from Leicester by Joy Brooks,

0:58.0

and all the way from just around the corner, Nick Thorley.

1:00.1

We had a splendid evening of drinks and food and conversation, didn't we?

1:03.8

We did. It was lovely.

1:05.1

It was the first time I've met in person, Joy, and David.

1:09.3

Which is incredible, because you've been working with them for quite a while,

1:11.6

haven't you? I know. So I feel like I know them really quite well, but it was, it was true.

1:16.7

I was really surprised at how tall David was. Hmm, interesting. He's quite tall, isn't he?

1:21.9

Well, I don't know, because I'm six foot four, I don't know whether other people are tall or not. Do you know what I mean? Everyone's just a little

1:28.0

bit shorter. I think I just thought he was, normally height doesn't, I don't even notice height,

1:33.2

but it just really struck me that he was really, it was taller than I'd perceived him to be. Joy was,

1:38.0

there was no surprises with joy. But, yeah, it's funny. I wonder why you perceived David to be a

1:43.6

short man. I wonder why that's not short. Well, not it's funny. I wonder why you perceived David to be a short man.

1:44.9

I wonder why that.

1:46.7

Not short.

1:48.7

Well, there's nothing wrong with you. I don't.

1:51.4

It just surprised me, and I don't know why.

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