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Strahan Coleman | A More Holistic Charismatic (Part 1)
Feb 8, 2023
Strahan Coleman, writer, award-winning folk musician, and spiritual director from New Zealand, discusses his spiritual journey in a hyper-Charismatic culture. He shares how he recovered from liturgies of anxiety and found a more holistic Christian spirituality. The podcast explores the challenges of reconciling identity and faith, the need for heart reformation, and the importance of experiential knowledge in deepening one's relationship with God.
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- Struggling to balance a charismatic experience of God with mental health challenges, the speaker shares their journey of finding integration and understanding in the midst of isolation within ministry circles.
- Through the practices of silence, solitude, and beholding, the guest speaker discovered a deeper, participatory knowledge of God that transcends propositional understanding and integrates personal experience with theological insight.
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The Tension of Charismatic Experience and Mental Health
The speaker discusses the struggle of balancing a charismatic experience of God with mental health challenges like depression and anxiety. They share their personal journey of feeling isolated within ministry circles due to the lack of understanding and integration of these two aspects of their life.
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