Nicola Slee - Abba Amma: Improvisations on the Lord's Prayer (N304)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

Christianity, Faithshift, Deconstruction, Christianmysticism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianspirituality, Progressivechristian, Christian, Religion, Emergingchurch

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Reflecting on the Lord's Prayer, theologian, writer, and poet Nicola Slee delves into some of it’s problematic language, and through a process of improvisation reimagines the prayer as one that brings a universal message of hope in a world marred by injustice.

After the interview, Nomad hosts Tim Nash and Anna Robinson reflect on their own journeys with the Lord’s Prayer, and ponder its role in their current spiritual practices.

Interview starts at 17m 28s

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome back to Nomad podcast. I'm Tim National. I'm very pleased to tell you. This is Anna of the Robinsons.
0:42.7	Hello everyone. Hi. Hi, Tim. I can probably have a pretty good guess as to how you are, Anna. You've had a lovely couple of weeks away, first with your family in Wales and then straight onto Greenbelt. So I'd imagine you're probably feeling quite tired now after all that travel and time with people, but you're pleased to be home.
0:57.6	Oh, very good. Yeah, I am feeling very topped up in terms of connection with people and
1:01.7	interesting things to ponder. But yeah, you know, that feeling when you've been away for about
1:07.0	three and a half weeks and I still haven't got through the washing, a big pile
1:10.8	of washing and then landing into work, you know, trying to get organised. It's always a bit of a shock.
1:15.6	I don't know. I find those transitions, I have to remind myself that this transition from holiday
1:20.5	greenbeltie back home can sometimes be a little bit tricky. I don't think I've been away for three
1:26.2	and a half weeks for probably like 30 years or something. I don't think I've been away for three and a half weeks for probably like 30
1:28.6	years or something. I can't remember being away that long in a long time. It is a long time and we
1:35.2	don't normally do that. It's just because we happen to be going away for two weeks with my family
1:39.9	this year to Wales and it overlapped with Greenbelt so it meant that we couldn't go back to Cornwall
1:46.0	so I was in Pembrokeshire and then oh it's quite complicated I mean our car isn't big enough basically to
1:51.9	fit all our camping kit in for Greenbelt and all our stuff for holiday because we take our bodyboards
1:57.4	and stuff like that wet suits and stuff so we had to drop it off at my sisters in Somerset on the way up and then pick it back up in Somerset on the way back,
2:05.4	which meant we had to go back down the motorway before we came back up the motorway.
2:09.8	But I don't know, I mean, anyone else who was travelling on the M5, well, certainly when
2:13.6	we were travelling on it, there was just unfortunately so many accidents. It's not great, the M5, yeah.
2:18.0	We've had some bad experiences there.
2:20.1	And lots of traffic.
2:21.2	So we were driving down the motorway looking at the standstill traffic nightmare that we were going to have to turn around and come back in.
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