In this special episode, writer, priest and theologian Jarel Robinson-Brown reflects on the power of love in a world that so often feels fragile, unjust, and burning at the edges.
Drawing on the story of his grandmother’s resilience and tenderness, the radical imagination of Mary, and the embodied life of Jesus, Jarel invites us to see Christian truth not as a text but as a life — love made flesh, love that puts its body where its heart is.
After Jarel’s reflection, Nomad host Anna Robinson guides us into a contemplative space — a gentle invitation to sit with the stories we’ve heard, notice what stirs, and discern how love might ripple outward in our own lives.
The whole episode is woven together with original music by Jon Bilbrough (Wilderthorn), creating a meditative soundscape to hold the journey.
WEBSITES
SOCIALS
BOOKS
Black, Gay, British, Christian, Queer: The Church and The Famine of Grace
TALKS
The 2025 David Nicholls Memorial Lecture
St Paul’s Cathedral Talk on James Baldwin 2024
Sermon preached at St Bart’s, New York City
QUOTES
“One of the reasons I think Christian faith gets so easily misused is because most people forget that Christian truth is not a text, but a person.”
“Perhaps everything stands or falls here, on our own ability to become small. To learn the power found in vulnerability, chosen vulnerability.”
“When everything around us appears to be falling apart, I choose to put my hope in that simple carpenter from Nazareth whose only power was love.”