Claire Gilbert - Letters on Dying and Living (N260)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

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

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Claire Gilbert is a theologian, writer, and founding director of Westminster Abbey Institute. When she discovered that she had Myeloma - terminal cancer in the blood - she began her way by writing letters to a circle of trusted friends. The journey drew her home to nature, to her body, and to her long love for the mystic, Julian of Norwich. The letters are now published in the book Miles to Go Before I Sleep.

After the interview, Nomad hosts Tim Nash and David Blower chat about how Claire’s experiences might inform their own faith journeys.

Interview starts at 16m 15s

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome back to Nomad Podcast.
0:39.5	I'm Tim and this is my old mate, David Blower.
0:41.8	Hello, how goes it?
0:43.7	All right, mate.
0:44.3	You're on Nomad all the flipping time at the moment, aren't you?
0:47.2	Yeah, I'm on a bit of a run.
0:49.2	Although I don't know if it feels that way because to the listener,
0:51.9	I was only on it last week, wasn't I?
0:55.1	Yeah, but now you're on this one and then you're doing the next two and then you're doing a Christmas
1:00.1	devotional as well, aren't you? Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah. So the rest of this year is just
1:04.7	wall-to-wall David Blower. Yeah, well, how's that? There's a reason why David is having a run of episodes, primarily, of course, well, how's that?
1:15.7	There's a reason why David is having a run of episodes, primarily, of course, because we love him,
1:18.3	and we're always delighted when he is on NOMO podcast.
1:25.4	But also, I was recently given a date to have surgery on my hip, which would mean taking a few weeks off. And you'd already got some interviews in the can, hadn't you?
1:27.4	So we thought, just do a whole bunch of David Blower episodes, and then I can take some weeks off. And you'd already got some interviews in the can, hadn't you? So we thought,
1:28.4	just do a whole bunch of David Blower episodes and then I can take some time off. But then I only went
1:33.3	and caught COVID while on holiday, spent the whole holiday in bed, and the surgery's been cancelled.
1:39.6	Apparently you can't have surgery for a couple of months after having COVID. So I'm not going to
1:43.6	lie to you, mate, bit ticked off about that.
1:46.0	I'm feeling for you, man.
1:47.4	Do you know how long you're going to have to wait to get a new hip operation?
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