Elizabeth Oldfield - Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times (N326)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2024
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
On this episode Elizabeth Oldfield joins us to talk about what it means to tend to our souls during turbulent times. Elizabeth shares the practices that are helping her become a depolarising presence in a culture of outrage, tribalism, and division, and forming intentional community in an age of disconnection and isolation. She also reflects on what hope has come to mean to her, and how she resists despair. Â
Following the interview Nomad hosts Tim Nash and Nick Thorley reflect on Elizabeth’s journey, and how her experiences of community and forming relationships across divides might shape their own evolving faith.Â
Interview starts at 13m 23s
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome back to Nomad Podcast. I'm Tim Nash, and it's my great pleasure to inform you that this is once again, Nick Thorley. |
| 0:44.3 | Hello. |
| 0:44.9 | Two in a row, Nick. That is unprecedented. Yeah, what was the last one? |
| 0:49.4 | That was Gospel of Thomas. Oh, yeah. I get mixed up between what's revisited and what's |
| 0:55.1 | nomad. It is confusing. I get mixed up between the past and the present. Yeah. Two in a row with |
| 0:59.5 | Nick Fawley. It's like a little summer treat for the listener, isn't it? Hopefully. Or on the |
| 1:05.4 | subject of summer, we're enjoying some good weather, aren't we, Nicholas? We are. I've taken |
| 1:09.3 | in too much sunshine this afternoon, you know. |
| 1:12.6 | Have you? |
| 1:12.9 | Feel a little bit like I'm glowing. |
| 1:15.0 | I'd have to come back and drink two large, what are they called, jars of olives worth of water? |
| 1:22.7 | Because I'm a hipster. |
| 1:24.1 | That's going to say, that's an odd way to measure water. |
| 1:26.9 | Olive jar quantities. |
| 1:28.3 | Yeah, my big olive jar that I used to drink out of. My daughter, who is 13, finds everything that I do |
| 1:35.0 | cringe these days. And she just, she's like aghast when I turn up to the dinner table with a jar. |
| 1:42.6 | What are you? Oh, you're not starting doing that again, are you? |
| 1:46.5 | Like, it's cool. It's what the core kids do. No, it's not. Why are you doing that? |
| 1:54.2 | The other afternoon, even, I was just sitting on her bed as she read listening to music. And we're having |
| 1:59.4 | what I thought was a nice chat until |
| 2:01.0 | suddenly she went, oh my gosh, you're so cringy. Stop doing that. And I was like, what? It's like |
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