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The books or articles quoted in my commentary are:  Dominion by Tom Holland  Christology at the Crossroads by Jon Sobrino  Sermon for Sunday June 21st by Father Simon O'Connor     

The books or articles quoted in my commentary are:  The Eucharist and Human Liberation - Tissa Balasuriya  Poverty as Resistance - Adrian G R Scott  Available at https://adriangrscott.com/product/poetry-as-resistance/      

The books or articles quoted in my commentary are:  The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything: Brian D McLaren Any reflections, comments, thoughts, and perhaps your own idea of a retelling in your setting, please send them to me at theanxiouspoetspodcast@gmail.com You can read the text and see accompanying material on my Substack - https://adriangrscott.substac...

The books or articles quoted in my commentary are: What Jesus Meant: Garry Wills.  The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything: Brian D McLaren Any reflections, comments, thoughts, and perhaps your own idea of a retelling in your setting, please send them to me at theanxiouspoetspodcast@gmail.com You can read the text and see accompanying material on my Substack...

The books or articles quoted in my commentary are: A Poor Man Called Jesus by Jose Cardenas Pallares  Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Gospel by Ched Myers Any reflections, comments, thoughts, and perhaps your own idea of a retelling in your setting, please send them to me at theanxiouspoetspodcast@gmail.com You can read the text and see accompanying material on my Substack -...

The books or articles quoted in my commentary are: A Poor Man Called Jesus by Jose Cardenas Pallares  The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything by Brian D McLaren. Any reflections, comments, thoughts, and perhaps your own idea of a retelling in your setting, please send them to me at theanxiouspoetspodcast@gmail.com You can read the text and see accompanying ma...

The two Poems quoted are from A Sheffeild Traipsing, available at my Shop With huge gratitude to Monica for the hour she spent on the podcast and for her years of friendship.  Any reflections, comments, or thoughts, please send them to me at theanxiouspoetspodcast@gmail.com    

The books or articles quoted in my commentary are: Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Gospel by Ched Myers Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind, by Tom Holland. The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything by Brian D McLaren. Any reflections, comments, thoughts, and perhaps your own idea of a retelling in your setting, please send them to me...

The books or articles quoted in my commentary are: Binding the Strong Man : A Political Reading of Mark's Gospel by Ched Myers What Jesus Meant by Gary Wills The World, the Flesh, and the Devil: The Spiral of Violence - Wednesday, October 21, 2015 -  https://cac.org/daily-meditations/world-flesh-devil-spiral-violence-2015-10-21/ Any reflections, comments, thoughts, and perhaps your own idea of a r...

The books quoted in my commentary are: A Poor Man Called Jesus by Jose Cardenas Pallares  The Secret Message of Jesus by Brian D. McLaren Pope Leo's Homily for Palm Sunday - Read Here Any reflections, comments, thoughts, and perhaps your own idea of a retelling in your setting, please send to me at theanxiouspoetspodcast@gmail.com You can read the text and see accompanying material on my substack...

The books quoted in my commentary are: The Gospel In Solentiname - Ernesto Cardenal  Jon Sobrino - Spiritual Writings - Ed Robert Lassalle-Klein Christology At The Crossroads- Jon Sobrino  The Secret Message of Jesus by Brian D. McLaren Any reflections, comments, thoughts, and perhaps your own idea of a retelling in your setting, please send to me at theanxiouspoetspodcast@gmail.com You can read t...

The books quoted in my commentary are: The Secret Message of Jesus by Brian D. McLaren A Poor Man Called Jesus by Jose Cardenas Pallares  Any reflections, comments, thoughts, and perhaps your own idea of a retelling in your setting, please send to me at theanxiouspoetspodcast@gmail.com You can read the text and see accompanying material on my substack - https://adriangrscott.substack.com

The book quoted in my commentary is: The Secret Message of Jesus by Brian D. McLaren Any reflections, comments, thoughts, and perhaps your own idea of a retelling in your setting, please send them to me at theanxiouspoetspodcast@gmail.com You can read the text and see accompanying material on my Substack - https://adriangrscott.substack.com

The books quoted in my commentary are: The Secret Message of Jesus by Brian D. McLaren A Poor Man Called Jesus by Jose Cardenas Pallares  The Great Turning - From Empire to Earth Community by David C Korten  Any reflections, comments, thoughts, and perhaps your own idea of a retelling in your setting, please send to me at theanxiouspoetspodcast@gmail.com You can read the text and see accompanying...

The Hermeneutic Circle I mention is from this book: The Liberation of Theology (1976), written by Juan Luis Segundo, S.J., translated by John Drury, and published by Orbis Books. The second book mentioned is The Secret Message of Jesus by Brian D. McLaren. The Third is The Great Emergence by Phyllis Tickle.  Here is a link to the Good News translation that I reference. Good News Translation Here i...

With gratitude to Andy Selman for the background music to the Jingle.  With thanks to Wilma Scott for the artwork that she did for the original publication, which I have reproduced here.  Also with gratitude to Mick Donelan, whom I met all those years ago (1980) in Ray Alan Manshops on Pinstone Street in Sheffield.  Finally, thanks to Fr. Christopher Posluszny of St. Mary's Cathedral in Sheffield...

The Poems recited are as follows: BC: AD By U.A. Fanthorpe |Christmas Poem By Wendell Berry | Song of the Shepherds By Richard Bauckham | The Hope Of The Few By Ian Adams | Born in You By Ian Adams | A Christmas Blessing By John O'Donohue. The music we used in the Scared Space for Christmas 2025 that you might want to listen to was: Shepherds Arise – Kate Rusby |O Antiphons – Floriani |Blake's Lul...

This poem is from my first collection- The Call of the Unwritten this is available by clicking here .  The photo in the podcast episode image is from https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Strider_%28chapter%29 The quote from CG Jung is as follows  “We think we can congratulate ourselves on having already reached such a pinnacle of clarity, imagining that we have left all these phantasmal gods far behind...

The poems used in this podcast are The Real Truth from The Call Of The Unwritten, Inconsequence and Silence from The Call Of The Unwritten, Death Lodge from Arriving In Magic and No Such Thing As Right And Wrong from The Call Of The Unwritten. The book I mentioned is The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness by Ken Smith. The piece about Death Lodges is from this blog Soul Craf...

The poem I read at the beginning called Crying For A Vision at Ghost Ranch will be part of a new collection called Where Do Dreams Come From? The poem that Simon reads is A Man Lost By A River by Michael Blumenthal from the anthology, The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, edited by Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael Meade. The poem Ben reads is one of his own and it is called We Need Artists Tod...

If you want to know more about Mary Marken and her novel Belfast Song go to https://marymarkenbelfastsong.com/ For more about the Podcast and my work in general go to www.adriangrscott.com      

The two poems are to be published in my next collection - Where Do Dreams Come From. The books mentioned are The Book Of Symbols - Reflections on Archetypal Images - Taschen, Animal Life in Nature, Myth and Dreams - Elizabeth Caspari, Inner Work: Using Dreams & Active Imagination for Personal Growth: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth - Robert A. Johnson, The Penguin Dicti...

The poem comes from my collection entitled A Night Sea Journey available by Clicking Here The Poem by Mary Oliver is called Don't Hesitate. Look out for the next full podcast Naming Our Myths Part Two coming soon. 

The Poems I read are available on my Website www.adriangorscott.com you can read all four of them there. The carol Diadem is from Kate Rusby's album 'While Mortals Sleep' Listen on Spotify . Thanks for listening in 2024 and I look forward to more chat in 2025. 

The poems used in this episode are Taking Stock from the Call of the Unwritten - I Am Me And You Are You from Arriving In Magic - Bottle Digging from A Night Sea Journey -  all available to buy at www.adriangrscott.com   This is the first quote used  “I suspected that myth had a meaning which I was sure to miss if I lived outside it in the haze of my own speculations. I was driven to ask myself in...