Martin Newell - When Not to Obey the Rulers and Authorities (N194)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2019
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Martin Newell is a catholic priest who has been arrested over twenty times. His crimes range from criminal damage, trespass, and burglary, for which he has been to prison several times.
All of this has been the result of Martin’s non-violent protests against the arms trade and more recently the government's inaction on the climate crisis. He believes that now more than ever we need to resist the rules and authorities, as the future of the planet is at stake.Â
Not only this, but Martin has formed a community with destitute asylum seekers.Â
After the interview Nomad hosts David Blower, Jemimah McAlpiine and Tim Nash ponder when it's right to say no to the rulers and authorities? Would they go to prison for their convictions? And how would they go about modelling a community that points to the world to come?
Interview begins at 11m 1s
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome back to Nomad podcast. |
| 0:39.3 | Jemima's here. |
| 0:40.2 | I'm back. |
| 0:41.0 | And David's here. |
| 0:42.1 | Hello there. |
| 0:42.8 | There's been a change of plan. |
| 0:44.0 | In the last episode, I said that due to my ill health, |
| 0:46.5 | David was going to produce a two-part Easter devotional. |
| 0:50.3 | But as it turns out, you snuck off and recorded your first solo interview, didn't you? |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, I did. |
| 0:55.7 | I feel a bit like a proud father. |
| 0:57.3 | Do you? |
| 0:57.8 | His son has gone off to school for the first time. |
| 1:01.2 | I spent my whole time thinking, what would Tim do? |
| 1:03.5 | What would Tim do? |
| 1:04.3 | I kind of felt that parental fear. |
| 1:06.1 | I was sort of thinking, oh no, you know, what if he's forgotten his satchel? |
| 1:08.9 | Or some... Turns out you've forgot the pop filters, didn't you? |
| 1:11.0 | Yeah, and my first thought when I realized that they weren't there was, oh, Tim's going to be so |
| 1:16.5 | disappointed. |
| 1:18.9 | That's interesting, because I thought, I assumed that you had completely forgotten about them. |
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