Nomad Podcast

Nomad

For more than 15 years, Nomad Podcast has been an independent, listener-supported space for open-hearted conversations about faith, doubt, and belonging, offering a British perspective shaped by voices from across and beyond the Christian story.

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411 episodes
Updated July 24

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Dec 8, 2016 · 1 hr 10 min
Sally Smith - A Holy Welcome (N135)
Sally Smith joins us for part 3 of our Welcome the Stranger series. In this episode we hear about the fascinating and inspiring story that emerged when Sally opened the doors of her dying church to asylum seekers and refugees. She's seen large numbers...
Nov 24, 2016 · 1 hr 10 min
Dave Smith - Clothing the Naked Jesus (N134)
Our regular listeners will remember our refugee special where we looked at the crisis through the eyes of a Syrian refugee and a refugee charity worker. The aim was to raise awareness and money through the sale of 's album On this week's...
Nov 8, 2016 · 50 min
Michael and Lisa Gungor - Music for Doubters and the Disenchanted (N133)
- a multi-grammy nominated Christian band - were the toast of the evangelical worship scene. That is until it became clear that Michael was having significant doubts about his faith. This did not go down well among evangelicals, to say the least. So...
Oct 20, 2016 · 57 min
Brian McLaren - The Great Spiritual Migration (N132)
has a knack for articulating what many of us are feeling. For a decade he has been the voice of those Christians who are concerned about, for example, the Church's overemphasis on doctrinal belief, its lack of inclusivity, and its lack of concern...
Oct 7, 2016 · 53 min
Mark Yaconelli - The Transforming Power of Stories (N131)
is - among many other things - a storyteller. Such is his belief in the power of stories that he founded , a gathering of local people who simply share their own stories. Mark has seen this simple gathering profoundly impact his local community. So we...
Sep 22, 2016 · 1 hr 2 min
Kester Brewin - The Church and Other Means of Escape (N130)
was founder of one the UK's most creative and innovative alternative worship communities, Vaux. He went onto write , a critically acclaimed book calling for an emerging Church. But over the following years he began to realise that Christianity was...
Sep 9, 2016 · 1 hr 15 min
Paula Gooder - A Spirituality for the Whole Person (N129)
Christianity can be quite a disembodied faith. Muslim's have prayer positions, Hindu's have yoga, Buddhists have Tai-Chi, whereas Christians tend to pray with little more than a bowed head. We ask theologian why Christians have separated the...
Aug 23, 2016 · 1 hr 30 min
Brian Draper - Mindfulness: The Doorway to the Soul? (N128)
Mindfulness has exploded in popularity over recent years, with seemingly every other community centre, school, health service and therapist offering it. But what benefit, if any, does it offer the follower of Jesus? , speaker and retreat leader, ,...
Aug 10, 2016 · 1 hr 22 min
Roger Mitchell - Jesus and the Politics of Love (N127)
With the dust just beginning to settle after Britain's decision to leave the European Union, we thought we'd take the opportunity to look at our relationship with politics. Was Jesus political? Should Christians engage in party politics, or be a...
Jul 22, 2016 · 1 hr 17 min
Pete Enns - The Sin of Certainty (N126)
Is faith based purely on belief, and a strong faith holding to those beliefs with certainty? If so, what happens when our beliefs evolve and shift? Prof. - author of - believes that we've misunderstood the nature of faith, and it is...
Jul 8, 2016 · 1 hr 14 min
Diana Butler Bass - A Horizontal Church for a Horizontal Spirituality (N125)
The question 'who is God?' used to be the starting point for religious reflection, but increasingly spiritual seekers are concerning themselves with the question 'where is God?'. We ask historian, religious commentator and author of , , about her...
Jun 22, 2016 · 1 hr 19 min
Anthony Reddie - Is God Colour-Blind? (N124)
Why in our multicultural society is the Church still predominantly led by, and our theology predominantly written by, white men? We head to Birmingham to meet up with one of the UK's leading black theologians, . We ask him if the Church is racist...
Jun 12, 2016 · 1 hr 26 min
Welcome the Stranger - A Refugee Special (N123)
We have a humanitarian disaster unfolding on our doorstep. Many of us feel frustrated at our government's half-hearted response, yet we feel overwhelmed and powerless to do anything ourselves. In this episode we hear from Adel Hamad,...
May 23, 2016 · 1 hr 11 min
Christena Cleveland - Disunity in Christ (N122)
Why is the Church divided into over 40,000 denominations? Why do Churches in the same town often have very little to do with each other? Why are Christians always fighting on social media? It doesn't seem much like the one new humanity Jesus came to...
May 9, 2016 · 1 hr 13 min
Gary Burge - Whose Land? Whose Promise? (N121)
Professor joins us on the podcast to help us get our heads round the complexities of Israel/Palestine. Gary was a student at the university of Beirut, he now lecturers in the US on the New Testament and the Theology of the Promised Land. He...
Apr 25, 2016 · 1 hr 5 min
Jon Underwood - Tea and Mortality at the Death Cafe (N120)
Apparently the vast majority of us feel uncomfortable talking about death, and haven't spoken to anyone about our end of life wishes. thinks this is having a profoundly negative effect on society. So he pioneered the movement where people...
Apr 11, 2016 · 1 hr 14 min
Wayne Jacobsen - What Sort of Church is Jesus Building? (N119)
- author of - was a successful pastor. But as his disillusionment with the institutional nature of church grew, he decided to walk away and begin to search for the church Jesus was building. 20 years later he says this was one of the best decisions...
Apr 7, 2016 · 11 min
Pentecost for Progressives - Richard Beck (NS32)
With Pentecost almost upon us, we offer you our 7th and final refection. Associate Professor of Psychology, and , has the privilege of closing our this series. We hope you've found these reflections helpful. See you later on in the Church calendar. ...
Apr 6, 2016 · 14 min
Pentecost for Progressives - Roger Mitchell (NS31)
In our sixth instalment of our Pentecost for Progressives series, we bring you . Roger teaches political theology at and has pioneered a movement around the idea of Kenarchy, by which he means ‘self emptying power’. You can read...
Apr 5, 2016 · 14 min
Pentecost for Progressives - Rachel Mann (NS30)
brings us our fifth Pentecost for Progressives reflection. Rachel is a Church of England priest, and is poet in Residence at Manchester Cathedral. She's also transgender, and brings something of her experience of wrestling with identity and faith...