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Nomad Podcast

Christmas Q&A (N334)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

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

4.7658 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

In this special seasonal episode, your Nomad hosts come together for a Q&A session filled with festive cheer and thoughtful reflections.

As a heartfelt thank-you to our amazing supporters—whose generosity has made this year’s Nomadic journey possible—we’re diving into their most pressing (and quirky) questions. While our answers may not always be the most accurate or helpful, they’ll hopefully spark some meaningful conversations and perhaps a few laughs along the way.

So join us as we wrestle with profound and playful questions alike, such as:

•    “Has the loss of a loved one after your deconstruction brought back old fears about the afterlife?”

•    “What’s the one thing you struggle most to let go of from your ‘earnest evangelical days’?”

•    “If you could go back to when you were 20, what advice would you give yourself?”

•    “You’ve been made Archbishop of Canterbury for a day. You can make all churches in the UK do three things—what are they?”

Pour yourself a festive drink, get comfortable, and join us for an episode brimming with honesty, humour, and gratitude for the community that makes this journey so special.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Welcome back to Nomad Podcast. I'm Tim Nash and I'm very pleased to say I'm joined by Joy Brooks.

0:42.6

Hello. Anna Robinson. Hi Tim. Hi everybody. And Nick Thorley.

0:47.1

Hello. Which can only mean it's our annual Christmas Q&A.

0:51.5

Hoor. Yay. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

0:54.9

I'm tempted to do our usual kind of catch-up, but I'm worried it might go on for a bit

0:59.7

too long.

1:00.2

So I thought we'd start off with a question from a listener.

1:03.9

Emily wants to know what has brought you joy today, Anna.

1:09.9

Today, what brought me joy was getting stuck into my birthday present from Jim and the

1:15.6

girls, which was an ancestry kit.

1:18.2

So one of these, you know, we need to send off your DNA.

1:21.5

But part of it, you're able to have like a month's free doing the ancestry thing where you

1:26.0

can punch in your relatives and like work out who's who. So I've got a lot of joy discovering even my, so I've gone

1:33.0

back so far my great, great, great, great grandparents on one side, on my maternal side to

1:40.2

discover that I've got a lot of Pembrokeshire Welsh and Devon routes so far, which is quite exciting.

1:46.5

Yeah.

1:46.7

Wow.

1:47.2

I was pleased to see Pembrokeshire roots because I go to Pembrokeshire every year and I love it.

1:51.8

It's where my grandparents used to live, but I didn't know if there was any ancestry connected there.

1:55.5

So yeah.

1:56.7

Nice.

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