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All right, beloved listener, welcome back to Nomad Podcast.

My name's Tim Nash.

And I'm David Blower.

David, what is Nomad Podcast if this is someone's first listen?

This is a podcast where we have conversations with people of faith, Christians who are, I don't know, you do it.

Thinking thoughts. They're Christians that are thinking thoughts about faith and life and

following Jesus. Yeah, yeah. We talk about looking for signs of hope, don't which I think

is nice. Yeah, yeah, that's right. So there's some, there's elements of deconstruction,

but essentially it's about looking for hope, isn't it? Looking to build something new, something life-given.

I mean, secretly, there's a lot of reconstruction going on, isn't there?

A lot of secret reconstruction.

There's a lot more talk about deconstruction, but there's actually a lot of reconstruction happening.

I think so, yeah.

What's the point of deconstructing if you're not going to build something?

Yeah, that's just nihilistic, isn't it?

Talk to me about compost.

Oh, compost. I mean, you know, I'm surrounded by people talking about composting these days.

So composting is, of course, a natural process of things breaking down, but that's part of the cycle of life.

So the things that break,

you know, break down, they go into the soil. They make it full of goodness and nourishment,

which creates the conditions for new and beautiful things to grow, which is, you know,

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