Diana Butler Bass - A Horizontal Church for a Horizontal Spirituality (N125)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2016
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
The question 'who is God?' used to be the starting point for religious reflection, but increasingly spiritual seekers are concerning themselves with the question 'where is God?'. We ask historian, religious commentator and author of Grounded: Finding God in the World, Diana Butler Bass, about her faith journey and how her shift from a vertical to a horizontal theology dramatically reshaped her faith and understanding of Church.
"I've relocated the idea of transcendence to the horizon. Rather than thinking of God's transcendence as up, I've started thinking of God's transcendence as just beyond our sight lines.” - Diana Butler Bass
Interview starts at 6m 16s
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| 0:00.0 | Nomad, Christian Community, Mission and the Future of the Church. |
| 0:16.3 | Welcome back to Nomad Podcast. |
| 0:18.6 | We're still in Birmingham. |
| 0:19.9 | We've been sat here waiting for two weeks, waiting for the beloved listener to tune back Podcast. We're still in Birmingham. We've been sat here waiting for two weeks, |
| 0:22.0 | waiting for the beloved listener to tune back in. |
| 0:24.6 | We found lots to do, didn't we? |
| 0:25.9 | Two weeks were listening to Wardo banging on about horses. |
| 0:29.1 | At one point, you tried to nail my shoe onto my foot. |
| 0:32.3 | I was just keeping my hand in, so I didn't forget. |
| 0:34.7 | I resisted, but I ended up letting him trim my nails instead, my toe nails. |
| 0:38.7 | Actually, that's sort of a transferable skill, isn't it? |
| 0:41.1 | If the horse shoeing industry ever sort of bombed out, you could get a job of a nail bar |
| 0:46.6 | trimming people's nails, can you? |
| 0:48.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.7 | Yeah, that would be interesting. |
| 0:51.8 | No, but also I can't see the horse shooting industry bombing out |
| 0:56.4 | I mean it could be that horses don't need shoes anymore but they still need the |
| 1:02.0 | You could get the horse equivalent of mad cow disease and they all just get wiped out |
| 1:05.9 | Yeah, I wonder what transferable skills would be of an amateur podcaster |
| 1:09.5 | The fact that I can't even think of anything sarcastic or witty to say about that is quite troubling. |
| 1:15.1 | Well, obviously there's other radio broadcasters and stuff like you could become a DJ. |
| 1:19.0 | It's hard to imagine, isn't it? |
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