Podcasts by Songs In A Strange Land

"Finally Shall Come The Poets" from 2015-11-03T00:43:27

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...

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Offshoots:"The Start Of The Road" from 2015-10-04T20:12:45

Ross Meikle tells the first of his beatitude parables.

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"Nothing describes the indescribable like a good yarn." from 2015-09-28T23:52:54

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 scr...

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"A desert is a place without expectation." from 2015-08-14T00:13:48

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

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"At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook" from 2015-06-28T22:36:35

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...

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"For there our captors asked us for songs" from 2014-08-16T12:58:21

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 Cur...

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"a place where the invisible can appear" from 2014-08-16T11:29:49

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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