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God‘s story is the story of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. But it‘s also humanity‘s story, the story of a world fallen and blown apart and of a world reshaped and restored. It‘s the beginning of all beginnings and the end of all ends. Join Brent Siddall and the Rev Ian ‘Reido‘ Reid as they explore God, time, salvation and the cosmos. Explore the stories of Western culture as they pivot and interact with the main narrative of salvation history.
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Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
‘Cancer is an overgrowth, a kudzu:/Tangling and strangling legitimate life. Chemo is a killing, a burning out: Burning down to ashy carbon, indiscriminately But cancer, did you know that I am a poet’?
Brent talks with poet Katy Bowser Hutson about her new IVP America book called ‘Now I Lay Me Down to Fight: A Poet Writes Her Way Through Cancer’ (second edition).
Katy is a forming member of the children’s band ‘Rain for Roots’. She is the co-author with Tish Harrison Warren and Fio Paris Oakes of ‘Little Prayers for Ordinary Days’ and a contributing author to ‘It Was Good: Making Music to the Glory of God’.
- (1:20) Why do we need poets?
- (2:30) Cancer;
- (3:45) Katy’s cancer diagnosis;
- (5:15) Poetry as a tool;
- (12:00) ‘Meeting my Oncologist’;
- (13:30) Cancer as a battle;
- (14:30) Bach’s Goldberg Variations;
- (15:15) ‘Sleep As War’;
- (17:15) Jesus in these poems;
- (19:50) ‘Frustration’;
- (21:20) God’s comfort.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com/Now-Lay-Me-Down-Fight/dp/1514007991
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