Pentecost for Progressives - Roger Mitchell (NS31)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2016
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In our sixth instalment of our Pentecost for Progressives series, we bring you Roger Mitchell.
Roger teaches political theology at Lancaster University and has pioneered a movement around the idea of Kenarchy, by which he means ‘self emptying power’.
You can read more about this in his book Discovering Kenarchy: Contemporary Resources for the Politics of Love. But until you do, you can enjoy this refection!
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| 0:00.0 | Nomad Spirituality |
| 0:16.2 | Welcome back to Nomad spirituality. |
| 0:19.2 | Pentecost for Progressives. This week we're bringing |
| 0:22.3 | you Roger Mitchell. And who is Roger Mitchell? He is someone that friend of Nomad podcast, David |
| 0:29.4 | Benjamin Blower, recommended. And I'm glad he did because it turns out he's a very interesting |
| 0:33.2 | chap. And he lectures in political theology at Lancaster University. |
| 0:38.3 | Well, that's pretty heavy. |
| 0:39.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:40.5 | And he's now pioneering a movement around the idea of Kenarchy, which is a word that he's |
| 0:44.9 | come up with, meaning self-empting power. |
| 0:47.5 | Not to be confused with anarchy. |
| 0:49.5 | Yeah, or Ken, which is my dad's name. |
| 0:53.3 | Kenarchy. Yeah, my dad's name. Ken Archi. |
| 0:54.6 | Yeah, my dad's a least anarchic person you could meet. |
| 0:58.8 | Very interesting chap, and I think most worthy of being elevated to the status of Nomad |
| 1:04.2 | interviewee. |
| 1:05.4 | I think it would be good to get an interview with this chap. |
| 1:07.0 | Definitely. |
| 1:07.7 | Next time we head up north. |
| 1:08.7 | I think I feel like we need to go up north again fairly soon go down south quite a lot don't we there's some good stuff happening up north |
| 1:15.1 | it's good up north i like it up there yeah um but if you can't wait until we interview him |
| 1:19.6 | hopefully sometime in the future maybe i'll actually discuss that with him yet um you could read |
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