Interfaith Easter: Mark Vernon - An Agnostic Easter (NS15)

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🗓️ 18 February 2015

⏱️ 10 minutes

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This year we're bringing you an Easter reflection, with a twist. Rather than asking Christians to reflect on their own festival, we thought it'd be more interesting to ask people from other faiths and none to reflect on the symbolism of Easter. We're...

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0:00.0	Nomad Spirituality
0:16.2	Welcome back to Nomad podcast.
0:18.7	So fresh off the back of our Christmas series,
0:22.5	we thought we'd do a kind of a Lent slash Easter series.
0:26.5	But this one's got a little bit of a twist.
0:28.6	Yeah.
0:29.2	Because we're asking people who wouldn't necessarily consider themselves to be Christians
0:33.2	to reflect on the Easter story.
0:37.8	That's a very good thinking on your part.
0:39.3	Appreciate that.
0:41.2	Because I think that, although we would hold to the traditional Christian belief that God is sort of, you know, fully revealed in Jesus,
0:49.9	God is going throughout all the world, isn't he, revealing himself?
0:52.7	Yeah.
0:52.9	I think we can hear God speak to us through other faith traditions.
0:57.0	So we are hopefully going to speak to an atheist.
1:03.5	Definitely a Muslim.
1:05.1	They've agreed.
1:05.8	I'm hoping to get someone from a Jewish background, maybe a Buddhist.
1:10.3	It'd be really interesting, wouldn't it? to see what the idea of who they think Jesus is
1:14.3	and what sort of death and resurrection means to them.
1:16.6	It'd be really interesting, yeah.
1:17.7	So we're kicking off with Mark Vernon, who describes himself as a writer, a broadcaster, a journalist,
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