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Nomad Podcast

Elaine Heath - How to be a Christian Mystic (N72)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

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

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2014

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Lecturer in evangelism, theology and Chrisitan spirituality and author of The Mystic Way of Evangelism, Elaine Heath joins us on the show. We chat with Elaine about contemplative prayer, and the healing and outreach that naturally flows from it. So tune in if you want to know how to experience God and change the world.

“We have been so captured by rationalism since the enlightenment – it’s really shaped how we think about our faith. And we’ve bought into the idea that to have faith is to ascribe intellectually to a set of doctrines and hopefully behave yourself along the way.” - Elaine Heath

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0:16.9

Nomad.

0:21.0

That's when you intro.

0:22.8

Yeah, you're getting into this whole monastic thing, aren't you?

0:25.1

I just think it's a bit more impactful.

0:28.0

It's going to, like, engage people.

0:29.3

They're going to know they're listening to Nomad, aren't they?

0:31.2

Yeah, instead of just going, welcome back to Nomad Podcast.

0:34.6

It's like wishy washing it.

0:35.7

Yeah.

0:36.1

Do it every month.

0:36.9

Yeah.

0:39.8

Why are you holding your journal?

0:41.7

You look like you've got something profound that you want to share from your journal.

0:44.8

That's very clever of you, Tim.

0:47.1

It is.

0:47.4

Very observant like that.

0:49.4

Yeah.

0:49.7

This is a little quote by Thomas Merton,

0:51.8

because I know that we're going to be looking at the whole area of contemplation.

0:54.8

This is very unlike you to have prepared something.

0:58.0

I know.

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