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“It is into this mess that the cry goes out, “Prepare the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.” It is into this disaster that God will once more come, incarnating in helpless human flesh.”
Special guest, the Rev. Hannah Wilder, joins to talk about John the baptizer, and how his invitation to turn and prepare touches us today.
We’re taking a little podcast sabbatical during Advent and Christmas. So we’ve gone into the dusty corners of the undercroft to dig out some of our favorite conversations from previous episodes. This one is from nearly two years ago; and was a really good conversation about death and the promises that lay on the other side of that.
This week we look at the 7th century Welsh martyr, St Winefride who is linked to a healing spring at the place of her decapitation, known as the “Lourdes of Wales”