Giles Goddard, Halima Hussein & Natasha Chawla - Where Rivers Meet: Three Faith Traditions in Conversation (N367)
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4.7 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
In this conversation, Giles Goddard and Halima Gosai Hussein are joined by Natasha Chawla for a wide-ranging exploration of faith, change, and the unexpected places where different spiritual rivers meet. Drawing on their journeys within Christianity, Islam, and Hindu philosophy, they reflect on the traditions they inherited, the moments that reshaped them, and what it means to remain rooted while allowing faith to evolve.
Along the way they explore rivers as both metaphor and reality: places of origin, transformation, and encounter. The conversation moves between story and reflection — from pilgrimage and practice to ecology, justice, and the sacred in everyday life — offering a glimpse of how people from very different traditions can sit together with curiosity, generosity, and hope.
Conversation starts at 19m 10s
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome back to Nomad Podcast. I'm Tim Nash and this is Anna Robinson. |
| 0:41.2 | Hello everybody. Hi Tim. Hi Anna. How are you? |
| 0:44.2 | I'm all right. Thank you. Yeah. I'm good. Enjoying the sunny spring weather. |
| 0:48.4 | The last Nomad episode you contributed to was the sort of devotional special with Selena. But obviously, I didn't |
| 0:55.3 | have an opportunity then to ask what you'd been up to. So, Hannah, what have you been up to? |
| 1:01.0 | Well, something I've done that's a bit different and you, I haven't done for about 10 years, |
| 1:05.7 | is I've been clubbing. I don't know why that made me laugh. Well, you know, Jim and I met, you know, through house music and we went on a, we went on a mission trip to Ibiza. |
| 1:17.3 | That's a whole other story and that's how we kind of got connected. |
| 1:20.3 | That's a whole other nomad episode, I think. |
| 1:22.0 | I know. That's such a fun story, yeah, because Jim used to be a house DJ. |
| 1:25.6 | And about 10 minutes up the road is Paul |
| 1:28.8 | Chowin, and they have the Eco Park, which is the homeland of tropical pressure, which is a festival, |
| 1:33.6 | that has a world music and stuff, and that my daughter has been to, and I keep meaning to go to, |
| 1:37.3 | but for some reason, I've never managed to go along. They have club nights once a month, |
| 1:42.1 | but they're early. It starts at 7.30 and they go until |
| 1:45.6 | one. That's still late. Yeah, but it's not, it's not what we used to do, you know, |
| 1:52.0 | where it really only gets in at about like one in the morning and then, you know, then off we go. |
| 1:56.7 | So there was a DJ playing that Jim was familiar with, Jam Supernova. Yeah, she's on six music. |
| 2:01.7 | Yeah. |
| 2:02.2 | So she was playing. |
| 2:03.9 | So Jim was like, I wish to get tickets. And it turns out, Beth also, my eldest daughter, had tickets. Yeah, I bet she loved that going clubbing with her parents. Exactly. I was like, oh, it's just a bit awkward. No, she was happy. So we went in with her and she was with her friends, obviously, and we were hanging out. |
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