Tim & Elliot Nash – A Year of Practice, Family & the Unexpected Sacred (N355)

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Oct 23, 2025

Elliot Nash, an eleven-year-old co-presenter who brings child-centered curiosity to spiritual experiments, joins his father to reflect on a year of trying a different practice each month. They talk about creativity projects, pilgrimages and nature rituals. Expect stories of dismantled hi-fis, ice-cream pilgrimages, Sabbath surprises and playful family rituals.

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Practice Over Propositions Changed Tim's Faith

Approaching faith through practice shifted Tim from focusing on right beliefs to embodied experiences that foster gratitude, peace, and family closeness.
Months of doing practices together (nature, creativity, Sabbath, pilgrimage) changed daily family rhythms and Tim's emotional state.

ANECDOTE

Turning A Hi‑Fi Into Meaningful Artwork

At a massive car boot sale Tim and Elliot bought a broken hi-fi, spent a full day dismantling it, then turned components into two artworks (capacitor swirl and socket sea-creatures).
The project taught Tim to trust Elliot's quick intuition and showed transformation of discarded objects into meaningful art.

ANECDOTE

Holy Island: Sea Air, Silence And An Epic Ice Cream

On Holy Island Tim had a transcendent moment sitting on Cuthbert's Island, listening to waves and feeling deeply present; Elliot obsessively praised an epic ice cream.
The pilgrimage combined quiet contemplative experience with kid‑scale pleasures, both memorable.

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Over the last year, Tim and his eleven-year-old son Elliot have been quietly experimenting with faith at home — exploring a different spiritual practice each month and discovering what happens when faith is lived, not just discussed.

From gratitude and Sabbath to activism, creativity, and pilgrimage; from sawing coconuts and dismantling Hi-Fis to marching for their local library and hiding painted pebbles — they’ve stumbled into moments of laughter, frustration, and the occasional glimpse of transcendence.

In this conversation, Tim and Elliot look back over their first year of Homegrown Faith — reflecting on what surprised them, what changed them, and how spirituality can take root in the ordinary rhythms of family life.

(This conversation is also being shared on the Homegrown Faith podcast feed, where you can follow Tim and Elliot’s ongoing monthly experiments in everyday spirituality.)

Conversation starts at 12m 56s

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