Sam Ewell - A Convivial Faith (N301)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

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

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

Theologian and community gardener Sam Ewell reflects on his years as a missionary and a neighbour, and how a radical priest called Ivan Illich led him back to the soil.

After the interview, Nomad hosts David Blower and Anna Robinson ponder how the life and teaching of Illich might help shape their evolving faith.

Interview starts at 10m 50s

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome back to No Man Podcast. I'm Anna Robinson and today I am chatting with the wonderful David Benjamin Blower. Hi David.
0:44.1	Hello Anna. How's things? Yeah, it's all right. Thanks. How are you doing? How's the summer moving for you?
0:50.1	It's all right. Yeah. I'm enjoying the warm weather and the kind of monsoon madness that is becoming a little bit more normal at this time of the year.
1:02.8	Yeah, right. We've had a really hot spell and then lots and lots of rain.
1:06.6	You've got any good sort of things in the pipeline for the summer? Any camping holidays?
1:11.5	Anything like that?
1:12.9	I may or may not be going camping.
1:15.5	I'm not sure.
1:17.0	There's a possibility of it.
1:19.4	I'm sure we'll go camping at some point.
1:21.5	You have to go camping in the summer day.
1:23.6	Yeah.
1:24.3	And are you going to be at Greenbelt this year?
1:26.8	No, I'm not doing Greenbelt this year. I did it last year. I feel a bit like, it feels a, isn't it, when you go to something, you think, oh, that must be what it's always like, but of course, it's not.
1:45.5	What normally happens is that I think I should see if I can play, you know, music there.
1:51.7	But then I always remember a few days after the window for submissions closes.
1:59.3	Oh, the submission wind, yeah.
2:02.7	It gets quite a way before, isn't it?
2:04.8	I think they're super busy as well this year,
2:05.8	because I think they had a lot of,
2:07.4	because it's an anniversary, isn't it?
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