Eve Pitts - A Messy Christmas (N238)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Merry Christmas, beloved listeners!Â
In this episode we hear from Revd Canon Eve Pitts. Having missed Christmas in their church last year, due to repairs, the residents of Birchfield were looking forward carols and candles in their building. But 2020 being what it is, Eve wondered if Christmas might as well be cancelled all together. However, perhaps living in a time of restrictions, precarity and mess is all the more Christmassy. Eve reflects on the humanity of Mary, the messiness of birth, and the God who is found in the places where nobody wants to live.
The music is from the EP Epiphany by The Blood Magnetic.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Greetings, beloved listeners and Merry Christmas. |
| 0:43.3 | Here's the Reverend Eve Pitts telling us a little bit about Christmas in Birchfield, North Birmingham. |
| 0:50.3 | Yeah, okay, that's fine. So welcome to my home. This is where I hung out when I'm pretending to be a vicar. |
| 1:02.0 | So my name is Eve, everybody called me Reverend Eve. I'm sure they call me other things, but it's never to my face. |
| 1:10.0 | So I'm known as Reverend Eve. |
| 1:13.6 | People say to me, what do I call you? |
| 1:15.6 | And do I call you father? |
| 1:18.6 | No, no, don't call me father. I won't be amused if you do. |
| 1:22.6 | So I've been around here now for nearly 11 years, no just over 11 years, you know Dave. |
| 1:30.3 | And it's been a roller coaster of a ride. It's been an amazing experience, you know, that God has a sense of humor. |
| 1:41.3 | I always say to people, if you don't believe that God has a sense of humor, |
| 1:46.0 | just actually take a look at yourself in the mirror and you realize that |
| 1:51.0 | God's kind of killing over laughing when we, in our pomposity and all of that stuff. |
| 1:58.0 | It's strange, really is strange because this time last year we didn't, we weren't |
| 2:02.6 | able to have Christmas in our church building here at Holy Trinity in Birchfield, where nobody |
| 2:10.2 | wants to live. So when I came here and people still ask me, are you enjoying being around |
| 2:17.4 | here every and even? |
| 2:18.3 | And I say, well actually, yes, I do. |
| 2:20.3 | I didn't grow up in the inner city, |
| 2:22.3 | contrary to what many people think that all black people live in the inner city. |
| 2:27.3 | I know I grew up in Nottingham and I'm a Nottingham girl. |
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