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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Jan 24, 2020 · 1 hr 41 min
Ann Morisy - Enacting Hope in Troubled Times (N213)
is a community theologian, community worker and author who has researched and written on everything from the spirituality of public transport, through to the spirituality of ageing. Her works draws on a wide range of research and influences, including...
Jan 10, 2020 · 2 hr
Steve Chalke - The Lost Message of Paul (N212)
There’s a handful of guests that have appeared on Nomad a number of times, and Steve Chalke is one. Why? Because he keeps speaking and writing about really interesting things. He was one of the first high profile evangelicals to critique the penal...
Dec 20, 2019 · 22 min
Em Kolltveit - No Room at the Inn (N211)
It's Christmas! And so we thought we'd share a festive Devotional episode with you all. Pub landlady, touring musician and anglican priest Em Kolltveit talks about community building and hospitality when there’s no room at the Inn. We produce...
Dec 11, 2019 · 1 hr 10 min
Zoe Heming & Nick Thorley - Disability, Doubt and the Search for Wholeness (N210)
Rather than our usual interview format, in this episode we host a conversation between Zoe Heming and Nick Thorley. Zoe is a priest in the Church of England and for many years has suffered with chronic pain, which often means she has to use a...
Nov 29, 2019 · 2 hr
Richard Beck - The Gospel According to Johnny Cash (N209)
Richard Beck is Professor of Psychology at Abilene University, author, and leader of a weekly bible study for inmates at the maximum security French-Robertson unit. He’s also a big fan of the country musician Johnny Cash (who also knew a thing or...
Nov 12, 2019 · 1 hr 47 min
Vicky Walker - Sex, Relationships and Religion (N208)
In this episode we speak with writer, speaker and researcher, . Vicky conducted a survey with nearly 1500 people about their experiences of the changing nature of relationships and how, if at all, their faith and churches have helped them make sense...
Oct 23, 2019 · 1 hr 51 min
Pádraig Ó Tuama - In the Shelter (N207)
In this episode Jemimah speaks with Irish poet, storyteller and theologian, Pádraig Ó Tuama. It’s a profoundly wise and insightful interview, touching on themes of language, story, gospel, power, community, sexuality and religion. After the...
Oct 10, 2019 · 1 hr 39 min
Jennie Hogan - This is My Body (N206)
When Jennie Hogan was 11 years old she had a brain haemorrhage. Then at the age of 14 she had another one. This devastating experience left her with a brain injury that would transform her life. So we met up with Jennie at Goodenough College...
Sep 25, 2019 · 1 hr 42 min
Brian McLaren - How to Pass on Your Faith When Your Faith is Evolving (N205)
Author, speaker and activist knows a thing or two about navigating an evolving faith. He was raised in the fundamentalist Plymouth Brethren tradition, but is now a passionate advocate for "a new kind of Christianity" - just, generous, and working...
Sep 11, 2019 · 1 hr 46 min
Greg Boyle - Homies, Homicides and the Power of Radical Kinship (N204)
is a Jesuit priest, who in 1986 was appointed pastor of a church in one of the most deprived areas of Los Angeles, in a church that sat between two large public housing projects, which had the highest concentration of gangs in the country. ...
Aug 30, 2019 · 34 min
Simon Jay - Prayer and the Urban Walker (N203)
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...
Aug 13, 2019 · 2 hr 8 min
Alexander John Shaia - The Four-Fold Path of Transformation (N202)
How do we face change? How do we move through suffering? How do we receive joy? And how do we mature in service? According to psychologist, spiritual director, liturgist and author , these four questions are the questions of our lives. They are...
Jul 24, 2019 · 2 hr 2 min
Barbara Brown Taylor - Finding God in the Faith of Others (N201)
Episcopal priest, professor, theologian and author Barbara Brown Taylor, joins us on Nomad. In the early 2000s Barbara left the ministry, an experience she described in Leaving Church, the first of a trilogy of books about redefining her faith....
Jul 3, 2019 · 1 hr 51 min
Sally Mann and Shane Claiborne - People, Places and Post-Evangelicals (N200)
In this episode we bring together London based sociologist, pastor and community theologian Sally Mann and Philadelphia based social activist and author Shane Claiborne. Shane had crossed the pond to join Sally and others in launching Red Letter...
Jun 20, 2019 · 1 hr 37 min
Cynthia Bourgeault - Centering Prayer (N199)
is a mystic, priest, and author, who is committed to teaching and spreading the recovery of Christian contemplative practices. So she’s the perfect guide for nomad’s ongoing exploration of contemplative practices. She’s been a long-time...
Jun 10, 2019 · 1 hr 55 min
Christopher Collingwood - Zen Wisdom for Christians (N198)
Christopher Collingwood is an Anglican priest - Canon Chancellor of York Minster, no less. And… he’s a Zen Buddhist teacher. So clearly he knows a thing or two about navigating an evolving faith, and the pushback that can come with it. After the...
May 21, 2019 · 1 hr 11 min
David Blower - We Really Existed and We Really Did This (N197)
Nomad hosts Tim Nash and Jemimah McAlpine sit down with fellow host David Benjamin Blower to talk through his new album - . It's a conversation in which David wrestles with faith and theology, and searches for signs of hope in the increasingly...
May 8, 2019 · 1 hr 54 min
Natalie Collins - Power, Privilege and Patriarchy (N196)
is a gender justice specialist, who speaks, writes and trains on issues of violence against women and wider gender injustice. In trying to make sense of her own experience of domestic abuse - and the fact that over the course of a lifetime over a...
Apr 19, 2019 · 29 min
Ruth Wilde & John Philip Newell - Getting in the Way (N195)
Rather than based around an interview, this episode is in the style of our Nomad Devotionals, which our patrons enjoy each month. Ruth Wilde of reflects on the practice of "getting in the way", and John-Philip Newell reflects on a spirituality deeply...
Apr 12, 2019 · 1 hr 20 min
Martin Newell - When Not to Obey the Rulers and Authorities (N194)
Martin Newell is a catholic priest who has been arrested over twenty times. His crimes range from criminal damage, trespass, and burglary, for which he has been to prison several times. All of this has been the result of Martin’s non-violent...