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We often talk about growing in faith, but what does that actually mean? Is the faith we have at 50 or 60 supposed to look different from the faith we had at 20? What happens when growth involves not simply learning more, but questioning or even letting go of things we once thought were certain?

And for pastors, how do we navigate our own growing and changing faith alongside that of our congregation?

In this episode, Vic Francis talks with Alan Jamieson — Baptist leader, author, researcher and explorer of spiritual formation, who has spent considerable time thinking about how souls grow, and how faith changes and develops over a lifetime.

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Meanwhile, here are some links to people referred to in this podcast:

James Fowler

• Faith Development and Pastoral care (1987)
• Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the quest for Meaning (1981)

Janet O. Hagberg & Robert A. Guelich

• The Critical Journey: Stages in the Life of Faith (1995)

Alan Jamieson

• A Churchless Faith (2000 Garside Publishing in NZ) Published internationally by SPCK, 2002.

• Called Again (2004 Garside Publishing in NZ). Titled ‘Journeying in Faith' – published internationally by SPCK – 2004. Printed copies available from Alan (email aj@portland.org.nz)

• Five years On (published in NZ April 2006 and internationally by SPCK under the title ‘Church Leaving' –Aug 2006). Printed copies available from Alan (email aj@portland.org.nz)

• Chrysalis: The hidden transformation in the journey of faith (2008 Paternoster).

Enjoy the podcast, everyone.

Vic