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The Welcome to Nomad Podcast. I'm here with Joy today. Joy is a fellow beloved listener who I met at Greenbelt last year but really have got to know through the beloved listener lounge where she's a valued voice of wisdom. Joy, how did you come to find out

about a Nomad podcast? When did you start listening? I think I started listening about 18 months ago.

It might be two years. And I actually came across it through somebody I know on Facebook who lives in America

who posted the Steve Backhouse episode. And I thought I'd have a listen. And I just love the fact

that I'd found a podcast from the UK that fitted where I was at. And can you tell us a bit about your church background?

Yeah, I grew up going to church as a baby twice a day on a Sunday

in fairly mainstream evangelical denominations,

which changed a little bit through my teenage years when we went to

a New Frontiers church. And then when I went to university, I joined a Pentecostal church. I was

there for 20 plus years and always trying my best to fit within the mainstream evangelical views until probably five or six years ago, where it changed.

Yeah.

Questioning became more of a thing for my life.

And you're not just a beloved listener, but you're quite an active part of the listener lounge, which is the Facebook group that you can access through Patreon.

Can you describe for us a bit what that space is like?

Yeah, that space is full of people on a similar journey at different stages, I guess, and from different perspectives.

And there can be some really thoughtful threads.

And there can be quite a lot of humour that actually I think I enjoy that.

Maybe I get the most from that at times.

And also there's plenty of animal photos, which I also also love but it's a really good safe space in

which people never attack each other but are thoughtful in how they respond to each other

and then your husband's also part of a book club isn't he yes which um he's been a great addition to the book club. How does he find that?

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