Jemimah McAlpine & Joy Brooks - Jemimah, Joy and Jezebel (N215)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

Christianity, Faithshift, Deconstruction, Christianmysticism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianspirituality, Progressivechristian, Christian, Religion, Emergingchurch

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In another break from our usual interview format, we listen in on a conversation between Jemimah McAlpine and Joy Brooks as they reflect on their experiences as women who grew up immersed in evangelical Christianity. Unpicking some of the messages they absorbed over the years, they examine what it means for them to move away from repression and reconnect with their embodied and internal experiencing. Learning to value their own voice, they also explore the responsibility that comes with agency and privilege within their respective communities.

Conversation starts at 4m 30s.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	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
0:57.8	about a Nomad podcast? When did you start listening? I think I started listening about 18 months ago.
1:05.8	It might be two years. And I actually came across it through somebody I know on Facebook who lives in America
1:12.9	who posted the Steve Backhouse episode. And I thought I'd have a listen. And I just love the fact
1:20.3	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?
1:31.3	Yeah, I grew up going to church as a baby twice a day on a Sunday
1:36.4	in fairly mainstream evangelical denominations,
1:42.9	which changed a little bit through my teenage years when we went to
1:47.3	a New Frontiers church. And then when I went to university, I joined a Pentecostal church. I was
1:54.4	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.
2:08.9	Yeah.
2:09.2	Questioning became more of a thing for my life.
2:12.8	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.
2:22.9	Can you describe for us a bit what that space is like?
2:26.7	Yeah, that space is full of people on a similar journey at different stages, I guess, and from different perspectives.
2:36.7	And there can be some really thoughtful threads.
2:39.7	And there can be quite a lot of humour that actually I think I enjoy that.
2:44.9	Maybe I get the most from that at times.
2:47.7	And also there's plenty of animal photos, which I also also love but it's a really good safe space in
2:53.4	which people never attack each other but are thoughtful in how they respond to each other
3:00.2	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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