Jon Underwood - Tea and Mortality at the Death Cafe (N120)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2016
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Apparently the vast majority of us feel uncomfortable talking about death, and haven't spoken to anyone about our end of life wishes. Jon Underwood thinks this is having a profoundly negative effect on society. So he pioneered the Death Cafe movement where people gather together, drink tea, eat cake and talk openly and honestly about death.
"Death can shake us beyond cultural constraints and make us ask serious questions about what life is actually about." - Jon Underwood
Interview begins at 4m 19s
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| 0:00.0 | Nomad, Christian community, mission and the future of the church. |
| 0:16.4 | Welcome back to Nomad podcast. I'm Dave Ward. I'm Tim Nash. |
| 0:22.4 | I like London as a place to visit. |
| 0:23.9 | Wouldn't want to live here. |
| 0:24.7 | Exactly. I couldn't afford to live in London. |
| 0:26.6 | For one, I couldn't afford to live here. |
| 0:27.8 | It's just so hectic, isn't it? |
| 0:28.9 | It is mad. |
| 0:29.9 | Too much rushing around. |
| 0:30.8 | I know. |
| 0:31.3 | I had a right problem on the underground, trying to catch up. |
| 0:34.2 | Yeah, I know you did. It was partly my fault. |
| 0:42.6 | Well, it's partly some bad information that I was given about a station closure. |
| 0:44.8 | And it just led to chaos in it. As we were trying to ring each other, text each other, you got off a train, got on the wrong train, went in the wrong direction. |
| 0:49.3 | It was actually really fortunate that most of the underground was actually overground, |
| 0:54.0 | because otherwise |
| 0:54.5 | you wouldn't have been able to even text each other. That's true actually. I was wondering how |
| 0:57.3 | you were texting me because I was just sat in a coffee shop relaxing while you were practically |
| 1:00.7 | trying to get across London and I was thinking how are these texts getting from? Yeah. |
| 1:05.2 | It's because you're on the, you should have been on the underground. I think not the overground. Perhaps was the problem. Possibly. Anyway. |
| 1:17.1 | So, as our regular listeners will know, we occasionally interview people who wouldn't consider themselves followers of Jesus, but I think we can still learn from them. |
| 1:21.7 | Exactly. Is that a radical thought? |
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