Dave Smith - Clothing the Naked Jesus (N134)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

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

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2016

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Our regular listeners will remember our Welcome the Stranger refugee special where we looked at the crisis through the eyes of a Syrian refugee and a refugee charity worker. The aim was to raise awareness and money through the sale of David Benjamin Blower's album Welcome the Stranger. On this week's podcast, we're looking at the crisis through the eyes of Dave Smith who decided to do something about it, and start The Boaz Trust, a charity that works with destitute asylum seekers. If what Dave has to say moves you, then please consider giving a gift to the work he's doing.

“[Failed asylum seekers] just have no rights...if you’re a [stray] dog at least you can get a kennel...and you get fed. Asylum seekers don’t if they are refused.” - Dave Smith

Interview begins at 7m 12s

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0:00.0	Nomad, Christian community, mission and the future of the church.
0:16.2	Welcome back to Nomad podcast.
0:19.3	This nomad is a little bit different because I had a revelation
0:24.2	recently that Nomad is kind of a community, isn't it? Yeah, it's a bit of a sort of dispersed community.
0:30.7	That's what I was going to say. Dispersed community is a good description.
0:33.4	Yeah, sort of dispersed online community, but it is a community, I think.
0:36.7	All over the world. Yeah, because we're on a similar journey, aren't we a community, I think. All over the world.
0:37.6	Yeah, because we're on a similar journey, aren't we?
0:39.6	And actually, that was one of the reasons why I'd been sort of resisting the idea of doing a nomad gavern
0:45.5	because I thought, there's enough conferences.
0:48.0	Yeah.
0:48.4	Do you know what I mean?
0:49.2	But then it dawned on me that it's not a conference, it's a community gathering.
0:53.9	And then I felt excited by the idea.
0:56.5	Yeah.
0:56.8	Because it's a get-together of we're all kind of linked, we're all in relationship, albeit
0:59.7	in a sort of dispersed online kind of way.
1:02.4	But it's quite exciting the thought of all getting together, isn't it?
1:05.1	Yeah, it's a funny thought that, isn't it?
1:06.6	The people around the world listening either individually or little groups to this podcast.
1:13.8	Yeah.
1:14.7	But that led me on to, well, us, that led us on to think that if we're a kind of a Christian community,
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