Simon Jay - Prayer and the Urban Walker (N203)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Instead of our regular show we're treating you to a Nomad Devotional. Community development worker Simon Jay reflects on life in his neighbourhood and his discovery of urban walking as a form of prayer and community building. David Blower responds with music and ambient sounds.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Nomad Podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Instead of our usual interview format, this episode is a Nomad Devotional. |
| 0:10.7 | This time, Baptist minister and community worker Simon Jay reflects on life in his neighbourhood |
| 0:16.9 | and on discovering urban walking as a form of prayer and community building. |
| 0:24.6 | Our patrons enjoy Nomad Devotionals every month. |
| 0:28.6 | If you want to find out more about these, please go over to patreon.com. |
| 0:33.5 | We hope you're well and enjoying the last of the summer. |
| 0:36.7 | Music We hope you're well and enjoying the last of the summer. The |
| 0:57.0 | The The |
| 1:13.6 | The It's quite a small but very clearly bounded community between some major roads and a private golf course. |
| 1:57.0 | I reckon it has about a thousand households in, about three, four thousand people living in the neighbourhood. |
| 2:04.6 | Wonderfully mixed, wonderfully diverse, young children, elderly people. |
| 2:11.6 | Over the last, I said 20 years or so, we've been able to attract people from all over them, particularly |
| 2:22.5 | from North Africa, but lots of people coming in, which with it has brought some incredible |
| 2:28.7 | food, lots of different languages and just a real diverse bubbling life and way of seeing the world. |
| 2:39.0 | So a couple of weeks ago we had a community food festival |
| 2:56.5 | and all of the food was put on by local people |
| 2:59.9 | just bringing their own homegrown dish |
| 3:03.4 | and just the diversity |
| 3:06.4 | the being able to experience so much of the world right here on your doorstep. |
| 3:15.3 | I think quite remarkable thing about our community is we have very little issues around racism. |
| 3:22.3 | So although we're such a diverse community, the community |
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