Songs In A Strange Land

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In a reckless game of philosophical rock-paper-scissors Ned Lunn and Peter Birkinshaw grapple with the relationship between culture, creativity and faith. Is there any space in church for art? Does culture have anything to gain from religion, and will creativity finally stop moping around like a tee…

Ned Lunn and Peter Birkinshaw


    • Nov 2, 2015 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 34m AVG DURATION
    • 7 EPISODES


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    "Finally Shall Come The Poets"

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2015 34:18


    Today we're talking about poets and prophets, and how prophets are poets and vice-verse. The key writer who set us off on this is Walter Bruggeman - in particular his book 'The Prophetic Imagination'. Circling around this topic we talk artistic communities, imagery in scripture, and where we find the poetic voice in the church today. Finally we throw in some Walt Whitman for good measure.

    Offshoots: "The Start Of The Road"

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2015 18:02


    Ross Meikle tells the first of his beatitude parables.

    "Nothing describes the indescribable like a good yarn."

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2015 35:41


    We talk to Ross Meikle - friend and storyteller - about his trip to the USA to the Gathering Of Biblical Storyteller. We cover a bit of performance, a bit of preaching, the dynamics of learning scripture and writing fiction ,all while Ned and Peter struggle with the concept of talking to other people.

    "A desert is a place without expectation."

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2015 34:57


    Recorded at the 2015 Riding Lights Summer Theatre School, we talk about symbols in both stories and church services.

    "At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook"

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2015 31:03


    After 40 days (more like 400) in the digital wilderness we final get down to recording Episode 3. We talk about curating spaces and creating prayer stations. In particular Ned talks about Threshold and Free To Be, two events in York Minster and Durham Cathedral respectively trying to use the buildings in new and welcoming ways.

    "For there our captors asked us for songs"

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2014 46:44


    It's episode 2 and we finally have a title! So we talk about it and where it came from, leading us into the always troubling psalm 137. After this we talk about the church in exile and, via The Cure, wonder whether it's just being a moody teenager.

    "a place where the invisible can appear"

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2014 40:21


    An episode in which we fail to choose a name for this podcast and discuss a quote from Peter Brook's "The Empty Space".

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