John Bell - Finding Celtic Faith (N276)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

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

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

We talk to the hymn-writer John Bell, who is a member of the Iona community, about the roots and traditions of Celtic Christianity, which took shape in the British Isles and modelled a very different way to the Roman church that followed shortly after.

After the interview, Nomad hosts David Blower and Anna Robinson talk about their own experiences of Celtic Spirituality, and the role it’s played in the evolution of their faith.

Interview starts at 14m 40s

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello and welcome back to Nomad Podcast. I'm Anna Robinson and with me is David Benjamin Blower. Hello David. Hello Anna. How are you?
0:47.2	I'm all right. Thank you. Yeah, I've got a bit of a sore back. But apart from that, the sun is shining and looking forward to this conversation. How are you doing?
0:55.2	I'm the same. It's a really beautiful sunny day and I've hurt my back. What did you do to yours?
1:02.1	I don't know. Every now and then, I've got a bit of a week lower back. I hurt it a while ago.
1:08.1	I don't know. Maybe it's a bit of stress, strain. I don't know. Jim's been away in South Sudan for a couple of weeks and he's just got back, I don't know, just like maybe it's a bit of stress, strain, I don't know,
1:10.9	Jim's been away in South Sudan for a couple of weeks and he's just got back. I don't know
1:14.9	whether that's it. Sometimes when he comes back from trips, I think my body suddenly goes,
1:18.9	oh, and relax, and then that might be it. That might be it. What about you? You have an idea. It's just like the weather, isn't it? You just wake up one day and it's a, it's back hurting.
1:29.3	Yeah, yeah. It does seem to be a bit of a common issue, I think, the old back. So, what have you been up to, David? Have you been busy? Last time I saw you was at the Gathering Embers retreat, but you've been doing lots of things since then. Tell me what you've been up to.
1:48.7	Oh yeah, I've been really, really busy. That retreat was delightful, by the way, wasn't it?
1:58.3	It's all been so busy that we haven't actually kind of touched base since we did it to wax on how beautifully it went.
2:02.1	But there we go. That was a beautiful thing to be part of.
2:07.2	Yeah, and then it was half term, and I was camping with the kids.
2:14.6	And then straight after that, I went camping again at an event called Gather in Anglesea,
2:16.4	on the sort of the brink of Wales.
2:18.3	And the wind was amazing. She nearly got blown off the hill into the sea
2:21.2	by a relentless wind that kept going for like two days
2:24.4	everyone was in hats and gloves and scarfs you know in June
2:26.9	and then I can't remember what else I've been doing
2:30.0	after I did I did a gig in Bristol
2:31.7	I just held a table conversation in Manchester last night.
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