Your Story isn’t Over (finding God in your past) with Sarah Penwarden

In this episode, Graeme and Joey sit down with Rev. Dr. Sarah Penwarden to discuss why our experience matters for theology and understanding God, why emotions matters, how to integrate experience and faith, how stories help us creating meaning, and why people receive counselling.

Sarah Penwarden (Pākehā) has a doctorate in counselling, is a practicing counsellor, supervisor, and an Anglican priest. She teaches in the School of Theology (Laidlaw College) on a part-time basis. Her academic interests connect to practical theology and counselling, and how the realities of ordinary life can be held in tandem with the hope of the Gospel. She teaches papers about research methods and mental health.

00:00 Teaser
03:10 Why does experience matter in theology?
07:55 What is Practical Theology vs Systematic Theology?
11:55 How to let experience connect with your preaching
15:35 Why experience matters for convincing others
19:39 Why emotions matter
23:25 How to integrate your faith and experience
25:55 Understanding EXPERIENCE in the Wesleyan Quadrilateral
30:40 When does experience go too far?
34:40 MY experience needs to be open to OUR experience
36:15 Why stories help us create meaning
41:15 How to shift bad personal stories
44:10 How to reflect better on our experience
50:45 A bit of Sarah's story
55:35 Pastors need to know this

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