Latest Emergingchurch Podcast Episodes
Vanessa Chamberlin - A Spirituality of the Land (N317)
Nomad Podcast - March 27, 2024 08:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsIn this Easter devotional podcast, Vanessa Chamberlin reflects on biblical narratives and personal mystical experiences as she navigates the intersection of theology, art, and ecological consciousness. Following Vanessa’s reflection, Anna Robinson creates a contemplative space for us to more d...
Selina Stone - Womanist Ways (N316)
Nomad Podcast - March 11, 2024 08:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsTheologian Selina Stone joins us to share her experience of growing up in a black Pentecostal church, the questions and doubts she wrestled with, and the answers she found in womanist theology. Among other things, Selina reflects on the limitations of traditional theology, the role of spiritua...
Mark Karris - Healing From Hell (N315)
Nomad Podcast - February 23, 2024 10:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsTherapist and author Mark Karris joins us to discuss religious trauma and the path to healing. Drawing on his own personal experiences and professional insights as a therapist, Mark reflects on oppressive religious beliefs, in particular the doctrine of Hell, original sin, and the image of a wra...
Cole Arthur Riley - Black Liturgies (N314)
Nomad Podcast - February 09, 2024 08:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsPoet and author Cole Arthur Riley joins us to talk about her desire for a spirituality that was more human and a more liberating expression of faith. This journey led to the emergence of Black Liturgies. From prayers and poetry to breath practices and ancestral writings, this digital project exp...
Bethany Sollereder - Animal Suffering and the Love of God (N313)
Nomad Podcast - January 24, 2024 08:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsIn this podcast theologian and author Bethany Sollereder explores the complex intersection of animal suffering, the evolutionary process and divine love. She reflects on God's role in the face of suffering, the possibility of redemption for non-human animals, and creation's journey towards love ...
Rachel Held Evans - Losing My Evangelical Religion [Revisited] (N312)
Nomad Podcast - January 08, 2024 08:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsTo kick off 2024 we thought we’d share a Nomad Revisited episode with you. Each month on Revisited Tim and Nick raid the Nomad archives, dust off an old interview, and ponder where their faith was then, where it is now, and what influences shaped that transition. Nomad Revisited is usually tuc...
Christena Cleveland - A Spirituality of the Womb (N311)
Nomad Podcast - December 20, 2023 08:41 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsIn this Christmas devotional podcast, Dr Christena Cleveland explores the symbolism of the Black Madonna. In times of dysregulation and uncertainty, the Black Madonna has provided Christena a powerful symbol of love, nurture and connection, allowing her to move from a spirituality of fear to one...
Christmas Q&A (N310)
Nomad Podcast - December 08, 2023 08:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsIn this special seasonal episode, all the Nomad hosts come together for a Q&A to infuse your holidays with festive cheer. As a thank you to our beloved listeners whose financial support made this year's 24 Nomad episodes possible, we've gathered around the virtual fireplace to wrestle with 24 ...
Jay Hulme - A Queer Journey of Saints and Sanctuaries (N309)
Nomad Podcast - November 24, 2023 08:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsAuthor and poet Jay Hulme joins us to talk about his literal and metaphorical search to connect with a variety of ancient and eccentric saintly figures. Weaving together themes of wilderness, faith, sexuality and decay, Jay speaks of the connections he discovered and the inspiration we might fin...
Dana Hicks - Reimagining Marriage (N308)
Nomad Podcast - November 09, 2023 08:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsIn this episode former pastor Dana Hicks guides us through the evolving landscape of marriage and relationships. Dana explores how our cultural perceptions of marriage are shifting and challenging established norms, and ponders the relevance of biblical images of marriage for our modern context....
Ilia Delio - The Primacy of Love (N307)
Nomad Podcast - October 24, 2023 08:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsIn this episode we’re joined by Franciscan sister and theologian Ilia Delio. Ilia guides us through the intersection of science, spirituality, and love. We explore the concept of God's love as a fundamental force in the cosmos, existing at the heart of everything, connecting us to God, each othe...
Lindsay Munroe - Sexuality After Purity Culture (N306)
Nomad Podcast - October 10, 2023 07:41 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsAs part of her personal spiritual journey and theological master's research, Lindsay Monroe invited a group of women to explore the impact of purity culture on their sexuality. We invite her to discuss what she discovered, about the harm inflicted by this ideology and how we might be open to fin...
ChatGPT - In AI We Trust? (N305)
Nomad Podcast - September 22, 2023 07:51 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsIn this episode we speak with a non-human guest: the AI chatbot, ChatGPT. We quiz ChatGPT on the ethical complexities and moral implications of weaving AI into our lives and spiritual journeys. We discuss what safeguards need to be in place to ensure AI acts as a catalyst for human flourishing, ...
Nicola Slee - Abba Amma: Improvisations on the Lord's Prayer (N304)
Nomad Podcast - September 10, 2023 08:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsReflecting on the Lord's Prayer, theologian, writer, and poet Nicola Slee delves into some of it’s problematic language, and through a process of improvisation reimagines the prayer as one that brings a universal message of hope in a world marred by injustice. After the interview, Nomad hosts...
David Blower - Farewell and Godspeed (N303)
Nomad Podcast - August 24, 2023 07:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsWell, this is it. After over six years of hosting, interviewing, music and creativity, David Blower is bowing out. In his final episode Tim and David reflect on David’s nomad journey, answer listener questions, and listen to some music. And, of course, talk about the Nah Box and signs of hope....
Michael Frost - Deconstructing the Christian Narrative of Power (N302)
Nomad Podcast - August 10, 2023 07:15 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsHost of the In the Shift podcast Michael Frost is a researcher, writer and theologian. In this episode he shares from his own experience of faith and church, as he unpicks the language that has so often been co-opted in Christian spaces to enforce power and perpetuate unhealthy systems of contro...
Sam Ewell - A Convivial Faith (N301)
Nomad Podcast - July 24, 2023 07:20 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsTheologian 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 t...
Claire Gilbert - Revelations of Divine Love (N300)
Nomad Podcast - July 10, 2023 07:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsDuring two and a half years of cancer treatment, Claire Gilbert found a spiritual companion in Julian of Norwich. We speak to Claire about her experience of writing Julian's fictional autobiography. She considers the tensions between Julian's visions and Holy church, whilst reflecting on the pos...
Doug King - Spiral Dynamics, Deconstruction and the Future of Faith (N299)
Nomad Podcast - June 23, 2023 07:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsWe speak with Doug King about the evolution of his faith, progressing from Christian fundamentalism to a post-Christian identity. At the heart of Doug’s understanding of this journey is the historical framework of Spiral Dynamics, a model that illuminates the evolution of worldviews across cultu...
Sally Mann - Encountering the Neighbourhood (N298)
Nomad Podcast - June 09, 2023 09:15 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsSally Mann has lived on the same road in East Ham that her family have lived on since the 1800s. She and Dave have worked and played with their neighbours to form all kinds of shared spaces for common life: community halls, gardens, sports fields and more. This is a story about faith shaped more...
Rachel and Simon Jay - Complex Families (N297)
Nomad Podcast - May 24, 2023 08:23 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsOver the last 20 years Rachel and Simon Jay have been parents to many children through fostering and adoption as well as raising their own biological children. In this conversational episode, we listen in as they reflect on their experiences, discuss what they've learnt, and explore the expectat...
Brad Jersak - The Great Deconstruction (N296)
Nomad Podcast - May 10, 2023 08:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsWe speak with author and teacher Brad Jersak about his book Out of the Embers: Faith After the Great Deconstruction, and how his dark night of the soul led him to a 12 Step program, the Eastern Orthodox Church and to a new kind of faith. Brad also reflects on the roots of what he refers to as T...
Olivia Jackson - Stories of Deconstructing Faith (N295)
Nomad Podcast - April 20, 2023 07:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsFrustrated at the lack of literature on faith deconstruction, Olivia Jackson carried out her own research as she sought to provide hope and solidarity to others on a similar journey. Here she talks about her own story, alongside the impact of receiving hundreds of questionnaires and listening to...
Ched Myers - Easter and Empire (N294)
Nomad Podcast - April 06, 2023 08:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsIn this Easter special we interviewed the theologian Ched Myers about the politics of the passion narratives, exploring what the cross and its religious atonement ideas have to do with colonialism, capitalism and the power structures we live in today. Show Notes → The creation of Nomad's th...
Pete Enns - Curveballs, the Bible and Finding a Bigger God (N293)
Nomad Podcast - March 24, 2023 08:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsWe speak with Bible scholar and author, Pete Enns about his new book Curveball, and how he allowed his crisis of faith and deconstruction to open him up to new ways of engaging with the Bible, and to a God who was bigger and more mysterious than he could have previously imagined. After the i...
Carmen Acevedo Butcher - Practice of the Presence (N292)
Nomad Podcast - March 10, 2023 07:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsIn this episode we speak with award-winning translator Carmen Acevedo Butcher. Carmen’s latest work is a new, inclusive translation of Brother Lawrence’s classic Practice of the Presence. Brother Lawrence was a poor, uneducated, disabled monk who worked in a monastery kitchen, who found the div...
Gareth Higgins - The Stories We Tell Ourselves (N291)
Nomad Podcast - February 24, 2023 08:09 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsGrowing up during the northern Ireland Troubles, author Gareth Higgins experienced some of the devastation stories can effect on individuals and communities. He joins us to talk about his subsequent development and growth, reflecting on the role of story telling and inviting us to consider its r...
Katelyn Beaty - Celebrities for Jesus (N290)
Nomad Podcast - February 10, 2023 09:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsIn this episode we chat with journalist and editor Katelyn Beaty about Christian celebrity. After distinguishing between celebrity and fame, Katelyn explores the ways celebrity has shaped the church and Christian faith in unhealthy ways, how it has led to the abuse of power, the pursuit of growt...
Mark Vernon - Spiritual Intelligence (N289)
Nomad Podcast - January 24, 2023 09:23 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsPsychotherapist and philosopher Mark Vernon chats with us about his evolving faith journey, and his conviction that nurturing our spiritual intelligence is crucial if we are to survive and thrive in these troubled times. Known by many names, spiritual intelligence, Mark contends, is the foundati...
Jo Dolby & Azariah France-Williams - When Leaders Deconstruct (N288)
Nomad Podcast - January 09, 2023 09:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 402 ratingsIn this episode we listen in on a conversation between Jo Dolby, Hub leader of Oasis Church Bath, and Anglican Priest Azariah France-Williams. Together they reflect on their faith shifting experiences alongside navigating church leadership roles. With honesty and humour they communicate the chal...
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