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Mid-faith Crisis 392: ‘God, rid me of God’ This week Joe talks to John Wakeman about his poem, ‘Unease’ and how what he thought was a drift towards atheism, turned into a profound encounter with God. Also, Nick talks a little about the fourteenth century mystic Julian of Norwich and we think about whether goodness and wrath can ever co-exist.
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Mid-faith Crisis 391: Town and country
We continue our thoughts about encountering God through nature with thinking about how we also do that in urban landscapes. Where do we find the beauty there? How do we hear from God on the high street? What moments of delight can inspire worship? Also, Joe has been celebrating like a Mexican, and Nick has been going too fast.
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Mid-faith Crisis 390: ‘I need to visit this tree’
In this episode we delve deeper into how we relate to nature, in particular, how Joe leads his reflective ‘Wild Awake’ walks. We talk about paying attention, intentionally entering a place and, most of all, how wonder is another name for worship. Also, Joe talks about how he had some business to do with the big cedar, and how you don’t see a lot of anxious fungus.
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Mid-faith Crisis 389: Ten Years!
It’s our tenth anniversary! Who’d have thought it? We’re so grateful for the support of this great community. Anyway, in what can only be described as ‘more of the same’, we reflect on the origins of the podcast and what, if anything, we have learnt along the way.
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Mid-faith Crisis 388: Embodied Spirituality - an interview with Lacey Finn Borgo
Joe talks with our friend Lacey Finn Borgo about the importance of acknowledging our bodies, of listening to them, and of recognising their fundamental importance to spirituality and how we encounter the Divine. As the blessing at the end says, we have holy hands, holy face, holy feet, and holy everything in between.
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Mid-faith Crisis 387: Not a Bible study
The big announcement this week is the Mid-faith Crisis Church Weekend 2027. All the details in the link below. Meanwhile, in a possibly ill-advised move, we explore a Psalm together. We talk about sacramental moments, what fulness of life really means, find out the names of Joe’s enemies, and discover why Nick hates Bible study. So dig out your spiritual ears and have a listen.
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Mid-faith Crisis 386: Make faith great again
We’re back! Nick is back from Canada and Joe has forgotten to read the Bible. In our continuing tour of the house of faith, we revisit the attic but also consider the bar and even the playroom. Also, there are some very important announcements and an update from Denmark.
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Joe talks to Mary and Charles Hippsley about their excellent book, Reimagining the Landscape of Faith. What is our map of faith - and what do we do when the map is no longer helpful? How can we find new pathways? Who will help us on our travels? Mary and Charles share their own experience of spiritual change and offer wise, encouraging and helpful insights into the crucial journey of spiritual transformation.
Currently reading Banbury Bog by Phoebe Atwood Taylor, a mystery author I’d never heard of. The book is entertaining enough, but I bought it for the design: I really like these old Dell mapbacks. As the name implies, each has a map on the back of the cover illustrating where the action takes place.
And there’s a website devoted to them and scans of the covers can be found on the awesome BookScans website.
I have a new book coming out next year, with an accompanying website. So I may be more active on social media than I have been for some time. No idea who will read this stuff, but that doesn’t matter… What I haven’t cracked to do is work out a workflow for posting on the blog and cross-posting to Mastodon and Bluesky. So let’s see what happens here.