Mark Oakley - Poetry and the Journey of the Soul (N225)

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

4.7 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2020

⏱️ 92 minutes

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In this episode Mark Oakley shares with us his lifelong relationship with poetry. He believes poetry is the language of the soul, and should therefore be the person of faith’s native language. For Mark poetry has put to words his deepest longing,...

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Nomad Podcast. I'm Jemima McAlpine.
0:40.6	And I'm David Benjamin Bloher.
0:43.3	Hello. Hello. Hello.
0:44.3	David has interviewed Mark Oakley. Mark Oakley is an Anglican priest, who's the dean of St John's College in Cambridge.
0:53.3	And before that he was a residential canon at St John's College in Cambridge and before that he was a
0:54.3	residential canon at St Paul's Cathedral in London how was the interview David how was it
1:01.2	do you know what it's so long ago that I can't really remember it very well I think the room was a
1:06.4	bit echoing and cold I think Mark Oakley was a delightful presence to be with. We just heard him
1:14.5	preacher's sermon, haven't we? I wasn't in the room for the actual sermon. Oh, were you not? No,
1:18.8	but I was, I have listened to it a couple of times. Have you? Yeah, since. Okay. Back for the
1:24.6	the post-gathering kind of MP3s of the sermons.
1:27.9	Yeah.
1:29.5	Took notes and everything.
1:30.9	Wow.
1:31.6	But we were in Oxford, aren't we?
1:33.7	Yeah, we were.
1:34.4	Long time ago.
1:35.5	It feels like a long time ago now.
1:36.8	And we both have a slightly ambivalent relationship to Oxford or feeling towards Oxford.
1:43.3	Yeah.
1:44.7	Kind of do. Yeah. Kind of do.
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