Jason Swan Clark - Podcast

Jason Swan Clark

This podcast contains audio versions of my 'long-form' articles at jasonswanclark.org for leaders about some of the key challenges the modern church faces.

  1. Perceptual Narrowing: How to avoid what you don't want to hit in 2022

    12/31/2021

    Perceptual Narrowing: How to avoid what you don't want to hit in 2022

    On New Year eve a short reflection in the face of what we might be hoping to avoid in 2022, after the experience of 2020 and 2021…So as we go into 2022, how is your perception? Are you suffering from target fixation and perceptual narrowing? Are you struggling not to hit the dangers and things you want to miss?

    8 min
  2. When Faith Falters- Facing Loss Without Losing Your Faith

    11/27/2021

    When Faith Falters- Facing Loss Without Losing Your Faith

    Faith often falters in the face of suffering and loss. Christianity is not about avoiding suffering through some name it and claim it superstition, and it is also not a stoical fatalism and the mere acceptance of fate. Instead, it is something radically different, of participation and transformation that can be practiced, whereby our faith begins to grow and grow instead of dissipating.

    9 min
  3. Everything's NOT Going To Be Alright And That's Alright

    10/29/2021

    Everything's NOT Going To Be Alright And That's Alright

    Denial does not protect but traps us and deceives us, keeping us from the experience of death and resurrection. Just as its opposite psychological sibling, fatalism overwhelms and destroys us, keeping us buried in the tomb of loss. Both snuff out real Faith.

    7 min
  4. The Great Revealing: COVID shows us what was already there

    09/30/2021

    The Great Revealing: COVID shows us what was already there

    Perhaps COVID is the great compression, an intensifier, and the great revealing. What has manifest was already there, something underneath that came to the surface under the intense pressures of COVID. COVID was not the cause of many things. It just took what was there and revealed it.

    5 min
  5. A Great Awakening - Why It's Not To Late To Be Who You Were Meant To Be - 14:08:2021, 17

    08/14/2021

    A Great Awakening - Why It's Not To Late To Be Who You Were Meant To Be - 14:08:2021, 17

    So many words have been used to chronicle and delineate this pandemic. The great _____(insert your choice of adverbial word or phrase); reset, leveller, pause, accelerator, resignation, etc. I prefer the descriptor of 'disruption'. Perhaps the 'Great Unsettling' is a better diagnostic word and account of our time….But what if the nature of COVID or its length meant something else. Indeed what if this moment, this disruption, was a chance to wake up. And to stop putting off all the things I want to be as a Christian and know I could be.

    10 min
  6. Stay Awake - Why This Might Be The Most Dangerous Time - 31:07:2021, 18

    07/31/2021

    Stay Awake - Why This Might Be The Most Dangerous Time - 31:07:2021, 18

    We are entering what is known as the 'recovery phase' of a disaster, and it is the most prolonged phase, taking years. Adrenalin is spent. Exhaustion sets in. Losses have to be counted and processed. Rebuilding in the face of loss takes an effort amid depletion of resources, emotional and financial. But Jesus has a route through it for us, if we choose Him.

    10 min
  7. Extra ECC - Public & Private Faith

    06/06/2021

    Extra ECC - Public & Private Faith

    Since March last year, I have been working on a project that is almost ready to launch. I have made over twenty long-form interviews with Christian leaders, from three worlds of the academic, social entrepreneurship and prayer. We have called the project ExtraECC - short for Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. Those interviewed include, Rowan Williams, Frances Spufford, Steve Chalke, Martyn Percy, Jill Weber, Ben Pink Dandelion, Pete Greig, Ruth Valerio, Peter Meadows, Eve Poole, Chris Lee, Peter Owen Jones, and Sam Wells.

    4 min
  8. How To Read The Bible Well - Interview With Dr Stephen Burnhope

    05/21/2021

    How To Read The Bible Well - Interview With Dr Stephen Burnhope

    The truth is this: Christians need no permission in order to read God’s Word. God delights in speaking to his followers, as they read his Word. But there is another truth. We can also be very bad at reading the Bible. So how on earth are you and I ever going to be able to read the Bible well? A new book by Dr Stephen Burnhope speaks to and responds to this most enormous of challenges. How to let the Bible speak by itself and directly, but how we might also better navigate it with an understanding that we cannot obtain on our own. I this episode I interview Steve about this most amazing book How to Read the Bible Well: http://mybook.to/readbiblewell The Big Story of the Bible - talk by Steve Burnhope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJzXSIECr-0 Steve Burnhope’s Blog: https://www.talkingofgod.com/conversation

    57 min
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This podcast contains audio versions of my 'long-form' articles at jasonswanclark.org for leaders about some of the key challenges the modern church faces.

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  • Creator
    Jason Swan Clark
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2021
  • Episodes
    13
  • Rating
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