John Hayes - Christmas Contradictions? (NS24)

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Deconstruction, Christian Mysticism, Post-evangelical, Liberation Theology, Progressive Christianity, Christianity, Mystical Christianity, Contemplative Spirituality, Religious Trauma Healing, Religion & Spirituality, Faith Shift, Reconstruction, Spiritual Direction, Embodied Spirituality, Evolving Faith

4.7 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2015

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Last year we gave you our refections. We're adding to that series with a refection by the director of the missional community , John Hayes. John reflects on the contradictions inherent in our modern celebration of Christmas. See you in 2016! If you...

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0:00.0	Nomad Spirituality
0:15.2	Welcome back to Nomad Spirituality.
0:19.3	If you've joined us in the last year, you might not be aware that last Christmas, we did 12 days of Christmas.
0:25.9	We did.
0:26.8	It's good, wasn't it?
0:27.5	Yeah, it was.
0:28.3	We got reflections from the likes of Krista Tippett, Phyllis Tickle, Greg Boyd, Shane Claiborne, Nadia Bolesweber, and many others.
0:35.0	In fact, I think it was 13 days of Christmas in the end, wasn't it? Yeah, we got an extra one in just in case somebody didn't turn up.
0:41.4	It was hard work for you, I seemed to remember.
0:44.0	Yeah, I didn't enjoy organising that.
0:45.6	No.
0:45.9	I very quickly thought, why on earth did I take this one?
0:49.0	It didn't bless me at Christmas, getting that organised.
0:51.8	Yeah, but it was worth it. It was, yeah.
1:05.6	I think on reflection, the sort of mould wine that we'd consumed and the Christmas spirit that we were intoxicated with also did lead to perhaps a bit of a overload of banter and even quite a bit of singing as well.
1:07.8	Yes, I seem to remember.
1:08.5	Yeah.
1:10.9	I think in reflection, I perhaps would have edited that out.
1:14.0	But apart from that, it was a cracking series, I think.
1:16.6	So if you haven't listened to it, go back to the archives, check it out.
1:19.7	Yeah, I'm amazed that anybody wants to be interviewed by us after that.
1:21.9	Mine hope is I haven't listened to it.
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