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Elle Limebear on saying 'Goodbye fear'

3 Apr 2025
00:50:44

As the daughter of Delirious?'s Martin Smith Elle Limebar grew up with music all around her. Her father had received a word when she was born that she too would grow up to be a musician but it was not so clear to her. But that's exactly what she...

Leadership Special Arit Eminue MBE: ‘Leading into your better future’

2 Apr 2025
00:28:07

Andy Peck talks to the award-winning Talent Management and Inclusion Specialist about her work helping others flourish, alongside parenting her daughter. How might you think through possible changes to your leadership? Is ‘work-life balance’ actually...

Tom Nelson on connecting Sunday worship to Monday morning.

28 Mar 2025
00:52:45

Tom Nelson is the president of Made to Flourish, a network dedicated to empowering pastors to integrate faith, work, and economics in their congregations. He has served as the senior pastor of Christ Community Church in Kansas City for over 30 years....

Strahan Coleman- on contemplative Christianity

21 Mar 2025
00:47:15

Strahan Coleman is an award-winning musician, poet, writer, teacher and spiritual director from Aotearoa in New Zealand. He is the founder of Commoners Communion, which explores deep communion with God through spiritual retreats. He also has a podcas...

Leadership Special Letitia Shelton: ‘Pastoring the city’

19 Mar 2025
00:26:11

Andy Peck talks to the founder of the charities ‘City Women’ and ‘City Free from Porn’ about her work serving women in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane. How did she get women out of the church reaching women locally, and how might we be doing the same in...

Austin Suggs and Gospel Simplicity

14 Mar 2025
00:53:33

Austin grew up in a Christian home but had a period of doubt in his youth. After wrestling with some of the fundamentals of faith he went on to become a theology graduate from Moody Bible Institute. He created the YouTube channel "Gospel Simplici...

Leadership Special Dave Landrum: ‘Leading in an anti-Christian world’

12 Mar 2025
00:27:45

Andy Peck talks to the author of a new book entitled Seismos: Christian Citizenship in a Post-Christian West about his alarming analysis of how secularism ideology has pushed Christianity to the margins of society in the West. How are we to underst...

Dr John Bergsma on the Dead Sea Scrolls

7 Mar 2025
00:57:40

John Bergsma grew up with a military chaplain as a father and his family were Dutch Calvinists. As an adult he went on to become a Protestant pastor but later felt the call to join the Catholic church which he joined in 2001. He's now Professor o...

Leadership Special Simon Cross: ‘Navigating AI as a leader’

5 Mar 2025
00:31:55

Andy Peck talks to the author of ‘Artificial Intelligence: a guide for the perplexed’ about his work understanding the ethical implications of AI as part of the Church of England’s Faith and Public Life Team. What do we need to be concerned about? Ho...

Elizabeth Oldfield on intentional living and 'off limits' topics

28 Feb 2025
00:39:05

As a writer, broadcaster and consultant Elizabeth Oldfield is passionate about helping people and organisations grow to align with their values, particularly in the third sector. She was Director of the religion and society think-tank Theos for t...

Leadership Special Peter Roberts: ‘Leading a new church plant’

26 Feb 2025
00:26:18

Andy Peck talks to the founding pastor of Trinity Church Everton, north Liverpool, about how a small team planted a Gospel minded church in one of the poorest areas of the UK. How did they decide on Everton and what lessons has he learned over the l...

Alister McGrath - Why we believe.

21 Feb 2025
00:52:42

Alister McGrath is many things, an academic, a historian, a writer, a theologian but above all he is an apologist. McGrath was born in Belfast and went to study chemistry at Oxford University describing himself at the time as an 'aggressive athei...

Leadership Special Stewart McCulloch: ‘Stewarding finances as you lead’

19 Feb 2025
00:27:48

Andy Peck talks to the CEO of Christians Against Poverty (CAP) about the need to be aware of finances as we lead. How well do we need to know our way around a balance sheet? What is wise practice with fundraising? How might your church support those...

Brother Guy Consolmagno- The Pope's Astronomer

14 Feb 2025
00:55:42

As Director of the Vatican Observatory Brother Guy Consolmagno has had his fair share of stargazing. He's a Jesuit priest who has a keen interest in considering space in God's creation and how it can feed us has humans. He grew up in Detroi...

Leadership Special Jason Mandryk: ‘Leading intelligently to fulfil the Great Commission’

12 Feb 2025
00:28:10

Andy Peck talks with the editor of Operation World, a tool that helps Christian pray intelligently and act strategically as they seek to make worldwide. As Operation World celebrates 60 years of publication, they look at where the church is growing...