Rowan Williams - Christianity After Certainty (N346)

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Post-evangelical, Reconstruction, Liberation Theology, Religion & Spirituality, Christian Mysticism, Progressive Christianity, Faith Shift, Deconstruction, Evolving Faith, Religious Trauma Healing, Embodied Spirituality, Spiritual Direction, Mystical Christianity, Contemplative Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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In this episode, we speak with former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams about his vision of faith as attentiveness, not answers — a path not of mastery, but of mystery. Drawing on themes from his book Discovering Christianity, Rowan reflects...

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome back to Nomad podcast. I'm Tim Nash. This is my beloved co-host. It's Nick Thorley.
0:41.6	Hello there. This is, of course, the second part of our mini-series, make Nick Christian again.
0:47.6	You can make me Christian again. Have you been feeling a bit more Christian since our LaMorna Ash episode?
0:53.8	Not particularly. No, not really. I think I have a little bit. Have you? I'm bit more Christian since our LaMona Ash episode? Not particularly.
0:54.4	No. Not really. I think I have a little bit. Have you? I'm very easily swayed though.
0:58.2	It happens to me all the time on Nomad. Like anyone who's kind of smart and articulate and kind
1:02.5	just sort of wins me over. I see. What's been happening? Nothing. Just sort of feeling,
1:07.1	you know, I want to be a bit more like that. You've not been listening to praise music or anything.
1:11.2	No.
1:12.1	It's just part of me, I think, wishes that I kind of had that imaginative, poetic approach to life and faith, you know.
1:17.7	Yeah.
1:18.1	When I hear someone talking about the richness of the sacraments and the liturgy, the kind of poetry of the sacred text.
1:24.5	Yeah. But then there's like a little voice in the back of my head that just sort of says, yeah, but it's going to be really boring.
1:29.8	Do you know what I mean?
1:30.9	I know exactly what he sort of feels.
1:32.5	Is it my voice?
1:33.3	Is it my voice?
1:35.4	Remember to him.
1:36.5	It's boring.
1:37.4	It's just boring.
1:38.5	Yeah.
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