Selina Stone – Why Do the Wicked Prosper? (N366)
Nomad Podcast
Nomad
4.7 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode, theologian and author Selina Stone reflects on one of the oldest and most unsettling human questions: why do the wicked prosper?
Drawing on scripture, history, and her own experience, Selina explores the anger, grief and moral disorientation that arise when cruelty and exploitation seem to flourish while justice is delayed.
Rather than offering easy answers, she invites us to stay present to these realities — and to notice how hope, truth and resistance might still begin to stir within us.
After Selina’s reflection, Nomad host Anna Robinson guides us into a contemplative space, helping us sit with what we’ve heard and attend to what might be emerging in our own lives.
The episode is woven together with original music by Jon Bilbrough (Wilderthorn), creating a meditative soundscape to hold the journey.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome back to Nomad podcast. |
| 0:38.8 | I'm Anna Robinson and this episode is one of our reflective episodes where we invite a previous Nomad guest to share their thoughts with us. |
| 0:50.3 | After their sharing, I create a spacious time to help us reflect further on their words and their |
| 0:57.2 | reflections, to help us move that head knowledge into our bodies, into our hearts, to stir our souls. |
| 1:07.8 | Today we have invited the theologian,. Selina Stone to share reflection with us. |
| 1:16.6 | Selena has been on the podcast many times before. |
| 1:19.6 | She's written the book Tarry a while, wisdom from black spirituality for people of faith, |
| 1:26.6 | and a heavy yoke, theology, power and abuse in the church. |
| 1:34.2 | She also runs a podcast. She's the creator of Sunday School for Misfits, which is a space to critically explore black British experiences of Christianity, |
| 1:45.0 | Christian theology and spirituality. You can find out more about Salina's work by her website, |
| 1:52.7 | selenestone.co.com.uk. The music for this episode is created and curated by Wilderthorn, aka John Bilbara. |
| 2:04.3 | And you can find out more about his work and music and creativity at wilderthorn.com. |
| 2:13.2 | To support Nomad Podcast, go to patreon.com forward slash Nomad Podcast. And you'll notice that this podcast |
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| 2:28.5 | access to when you become a supporter. There's a large back catalogue and also new content being created monthly. |
| 2:37.5 | But if finances are ever a problem, then do get in touch with Tim because he always likes to |
| 2:43.6 | make that content available if it would help. If you want to follow more of my work on faith shifting, contempl, contemplation, faith deconstruction, and exploring, reimagining and healthy spirituality, then you can find me at live-light dwell deep.org. |
| 3:06.5 | Many of us in this space still want to live lives centered in love, even if we have changing or shifting theology and beliefs and practices. |
| 3:18.4 | And part of our journeys of shifting faith often has been about learning to think for ourselves, to speak for ourselves, |
| 3:27.0 | to choose consciously how we live with and beyond the structures that shaped us. |
| 3:34.2 | And in her reflection, Selina invites us to ponder and grapple and be stirred by the ancient human question of why do the wicked prosper? |
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