The Profile

Every Saturday from 8pm

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...

Glyn Barrett on Church planting and growth

7 Feb 2025
00:55:43

With his Aussie accent you'd be forgiven for thinking Glyn Barrett was homegrown in Australia but he was in fact born to Welsh parents and spent the first two years of his life in Manchester before going down under. Glyn grew up in a Christian ho...

Leadership Special Karl Vaters: Leading a small church

5 Feb 2025
00:27:24

Andy Peck chats with a man who has served in small-church ministry for over 40 years. Having pastored a church in the US which grew and then shrank, he founded a ministry supporting pastors of small churches. They talk about why some churches remain...

Shell Perris and Gary Spicer on Christian entrepreneurship

31 Jan 2025
00:45:55

Shell Perris - once a singer in a Christian girl band - now leads Alive Ministries which helps families worship. She works with Gary Spicer at The Lions which guides Christians in setting up and running successful businesses, not just to make money,...

Leadership Special Liz Taylor MBE: ‘Providing leadership training for Diaspora Christians’

29 Jan 2025
00:26:19

Andy Peck chats with the national director of Development Associates International (DAI UK) about their leadership training and support of Diaspora Christians including overseas students. They talk about her background in community health and develop...

Carey Nieuwhof on church leadership

24 Jan 2025
00:56:25

Podcaster Carey Nieuwhof has said being a pastor 'nearly killed' him. Not that he felt a particular call to church leadership initially. Nieuwhof grew up in a Christian home to immigrant parents who lived in Canada but it wasn't until he was 13 and...

Leadership Special Nicholas & Sheila Rowe ‘How your upbringing impacts how you lead’

22 Jan 2025
00:29:08

Andy Peck chats with the authors of Healing Leadership Trauma: Finding emotional health and helping others flourish (IVP). They discuss how past trauma can impact a leader’s style and approach, what signs we should look for, and what we might do to g...

Jason McCarthy on football and Jesus

17 Jan 2025
00:26:50

After a tough year Wycombe Wanderer's Jason McCarthy was looking to assess his priorities. He was having a successful career as a defender but after a close relative died and during a nasty spell when he got held up at knifepoint he began to qu...

Victory Boyd on scripture and music

17 Jan 2025
00:27:14

Singer and songwriter Victory Boyd grew up in a big musical family. She's one of nine children and credits her parents for her musical success and the investment they put into her and her siblings. As a family they moved to New York with littl...

Leadership Special Phil Moore: ‘When what and how you lead needs to change’

15 Jan 2025
00:26:21

Andy Peck chats with Phil Moore about his transition from serving as pastor at Everyday Church Wimbledon for a new kind of discipling based ministry. They explore his new book, ‘The Forgotten Manifesto of Jesus’ and how new believers can become leade...

Isabel Vaughan-Spruce on standing up for the unborn

10 Jan 2025
01:00:39

Isabel Vaughan-Spruce is one of the most outspoken pro-life activists working in the UK today. She is the Director of 40 Days for Life and March for Life UK which uses volunteers and prayer to encourage women to believe that their pregnancies are...

Leadership Special Kate Coleman & Cham Kaur-Mann: ‘Leading in a multi-racial setting’

8 Jan 2025
00:28:09

Andy Peck chats with Kate, the founder of Next Leadership and her co-director Cham. As the first black and Asian ministers in the Baptist Union of Great Britain respectively, they share their experience as pioneers. They look at what racism is, and...