Living into the Tension of Advent: Rev. Michael S. Chen
The Allender Center Podcast
The Allender Center
4.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In the final episode about what it means to enter the Advent season at such a time as this, Rachael Clinton Chen invites her husband, the Rev. Michael S. Chen, to engage this question together on the podcast. What follows is a tender, vulnerable conversation about what it means that God came to be present with us in an embodied, vulnerable way, how we can enter into a season of expectant waiting, and how “God with us” meets us in our shame.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm Dr. Dan Allender. |
| 0:08.7 | And I'm Rachel Clinton-Centen. |
| 0:10.5 | We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world. |
| 0:14.7 | And restoration for the heart. |
| 0:17.2 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:18.5 | Let's get this conversation started. |
| 0:26.8 | Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Good people with good bodies. I hope this finds you well loved today, wherever you're listening in from, or however you find yourself as you're listening. |
| 0:36.5 | For those of you have been joining the past couple of weeks, |
| 0:39.6 | you know that I've had the profound privilege of having some of my colleagues and friends |
| 0:45.8 | and partners on the podcast to talk about this particular Advent season. |
| 0:51.9 | And in some ways, how are we meant to enter the Advent season at such a time as this? |
| 1:00.3 | And so this will be our final podcast episode talking specifically about Advent. |
| 1:06.9 | As you know, we'll be entering this next week. |
| 1:11.1 | We enter into Christmas Eve and Christmas and then Christmas Tide. |
| 1:15.8 | If you follow the liturgical calendar, there actually are 12 days of Christmas |
| 1:20.3 | and a capacity to kind of keep the wonder and the gratitude and the joy of God coming to be with us going. |
| 1:32.5 | But today, I am so privileged to be joined by my husband, the Reverend, working on Dr. Michael S. Chen. |
| 1:44.1 | Thanks for joining me. Thank you. And, you know, I am really |
| 1:50.2 | privileged to get to have all kinds of conversations with you. We both have, you know, this ridiculous |
| 1:57.9 | thing called a master of divinity as if you could ever master the divine. |
| 2:01.9 | But I digress. |
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