Interfaith Easter: Paul Beaumont - An Atheist Easter (NS20)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2015
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
For our sixth Easter reflection we've asked Paul Beaumont to mull over what Easter means for someone who has lost their faith.
Paul was a committed evangelical Christian for 25 years, but when he began to be honest about his lack of spiritual experiences and his concerns about aspects of the character of God as revealed in the Old Testament, his faith began to unravel...Â
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| 0:00.0 | Nomad Spirituality |
| 0:16.2 | Welcome back to Nomad podcast and another edition of our Interfaith Easter. |
| 0:23.1 | These are very good. |
| 0:24.3 | Yeah, they are good, aren't they? |
| 0:25.4 | They're working out well. |
| 0:26.8 | And when we talk about interfaith, this one actually is sort of a lack of faith, |
| 0:31.7 | because we've asked an atheist to give us an Easter reflection. |
| 0:36.4 | Which is, it's a real challenge, one and it's a risky one to do as well, isn't it? |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah, but we asked Paul Beaumont, who was a fully committed evangelical Christian, you know, did youth work, committed to local church, 25 years a Christian and lost his faith. |
| 0:58.6 | I actually found this one really interesting. |
| 1:01.1 | Yeah, I did. |
| 1:02.3 | And there was the sort of thing that I wanted to go and have a coffee with a guy, you know, and really chat about. |
| 1:07.8 | I definitely think we should interview him at some point. |
| 1:09.6 | It would be good. |
| 1:10.4 | I loved his... |
| 1:11.0 | In the reflection, I love just... |
| 1:12.2 | He's just totally honest, isn't he? |
| 1:13.3 | He just lays it all out there. |
| 1:14.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.7 | And I really like that. |
| 1:15.4 | And I have some really challenging questions of our faith. |
| 1:18.3 | So he talks about the absence of God. |
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