I’m an avid listener to podcasts. It’s one of the ways – along with reading and manic
Twittering – of making the time go faster as I cross London on my regular commute.
Bizarrely enough, today I listened to the
Something Beautiful podcast featuring…..me! A new experience, and - as I write this post – an incomplete one.
I’ve not managed to listen to it all the way through myself yet, so disclaimers may follow later!
From the offset, I have to point two things out:
1.
I feel more like a Celt than an Anglo! In my clearly excited state entering the wonderful world of podcasting I managed to tell
Thomas the exact opposite when we were riffing on Scottishness, accent and
identity.
2. Much as I think
Erwin McManus is a top man, and we have a number of mutual friends, I can’t claim –
as Thomas suggested – to be speaking to Erwin on a regular basis, hanging out at Starbucks together, shooting hoops or any other such liaison
Erwin’s ministry simply has had an impact on my life, and for that I’m grateful.
I’ve heard him speak here in the UK, he’s regularly one of a number of great communicators in my iPod earbuds, I’ve shot him a coupla Tweets and Facebook messages - but that’s as close as I’ve been.
So….if you’ve got some time to spare…you might wanna check it out. A good exercise would be to scribble down all the people who get a name check on this podcast and go and search them out.
It’ll be way more impactful than listening to me blethering on!