Nicola Slee - Come as a Girl (NS33)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2016
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
It's that time of the year again! We thought we'd have a week off interviewing, and so we've arranged a little Christmas reflection for you. Nicola Slee is a feminist practice theologian and poet who is currently director of research at The Queen's Foundation of Ecumenical Theological Education in Birmingham. In this podcast, Nicola reflects the implications of Jesus being born a girl. Now there's something for you to ponder over your mince pies and mulled wine!
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| 0:00.0 | Nomad Spirituality |
| 0:16.2 | Welcome back to Nomad spirituality. |
| 0:19.4 | It's Christmas again, Wardo. |
| 0:21.0 | Happy Christmas, everybody. |
| 0:22.4 | Yeah, happy Christmas. |
| 0:23.7 | It's that time of the year again. |
| 0:25.3 | That kind of, was one of those many annual events that just reminds you that you're just advancing in years more rapidly than you'd like ideally. |
| 0:34.7 | It just comes around so quickly, doesn't it? |
| 0:36.9 | Can you remember anything about last Christmas? |
| 0:38.9 | I was thinking about this earlier and it's just gone. |
| 0:41.6 | Well, I went to Vienna last Christmas. |
| 0:43.2 | Oh, he did, yeah. |
| 0:43.8 | Yeah, to do stuff with the refugees out there, yeah. |
| 0:47.3 | All I can remember is Elliot, who was one at the time, |
| 0:51.1 | just being overwhelmed by the presence, he couldn't handle it. |
| 0:55.5 | It was all too much. |
| 0:57.1 | Not the presence of Jesus. |
| 0:58.5 | Well, exactly. |
| 0:59.7 | I think he's just too, he was too young to appreciate the kind of subtle, creative, kind of nuanced, understated way that in the consumer west we go about celebrating the birth of Jesus. |
| 1:11.6 | He just hadn't quite grasped that |
| 1:12.9 | and it was all a bit too much. |
| 1:14.9 | Yeah, well, no one is going to be like this Christmas |
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