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Pentecost for Progressives 01: Barbara Glasson
We’ve got a new Nomad Spirituality series for you, Pentecost for Progressives. Each week between Easter and Pentecost we’ll be giving you a reflection from someone who’s been through a faith...
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Pentecost for Progressives 02: Alastair McIntosh
Here’s our second Pentecost reflection for you. This time Alastair McIntosh reflects on how his understanding of Pentecost and the Holy Spirit has changed and evolved, from one of judgement to one of...
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Nomad 102: Wayne Jacobsen – What Sort of Church is Jesus Building?
Wayne Jacobsen – co-author of The Shack – was a successful pastor. But as his disillusionment with the institutional nature of church grew, he decided to walk away and begin a search for the church...
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Whose Church are we Building?
It’s interesting that Jesus only mentioned Church twice. Firstly to say that he would build it, and secondly to tell us how we should protect it. But what is it that Jesus is building and we should be...
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Pentecost for Progressives 03: Ann Morisy
Our journey towards Pentecost continues. This week’s refection comes from freelance community theologian and author, Ann Morisy. Ann has researched and written on everything from the spirituality of...
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Signs of Hope 10: Wayne Jacobsen
It’s Wayne Jacobsen’s turn to reflect on what he sees as Signs of Hope in the Church. For Wayne this means reflecting on the sort of Church Jesus is building. If you want more from Wayne, then check...
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Pentecost for Progressives 04: Sharon Putt
Our Pentecost for Progressives series continues with a jazz inspired reflection from Sharon Putt. Sharon is a theologian, and author of Razing Hell and Executing God. If you want more from Sharon, then...
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Nomad 103: Jon Underwood – Tea and Mortality at the Death Cafe
Apparently the vast majority of us feel uncomfortable talking about death, and haven’t spoken to anyone about our end of life wishes. Buddhist, Jon Underwood thinks this is having a profoundly negative...
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The Fear of Death and My Need for Continuity
The charity Dying Matters reckons 70% of us are uncomfortable talking about death and less than one third of us have spoken to our family about end of life wishes. I can relate to that. Death is a...
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Pentecost for Progressives 05: Rachel Mann
Rachel Mann brings us our fifth Pentecost for Progressives reflection. Rachel is a Church of England priest, and is poet in Residence at Manchester Cathedral. She’s also transgender, and brings...
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Pentecost for Progressives 06 – Roger Mitchell
In our sixth instalment of our Pentecost for Progressives series, we bring you Roger Mitchell. Roger is an Honorary Research Fellow at Lancaster University and has pioneered a movement around the idea...
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Nomad 104: Gary Burge – Whose Land? Whose Promise?
Professor Gary Burge joins us on the podcast to help us get our heads round the complexities of Israel/Palestine. Gary was a student at the university of Beirut, he now lecturers in the US on the New...
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Pentecost for Progressives 07: Richard Beck
With Pentecost almost upon us, we offer you our 7th and final refection. So who has the privilege of closing out this series? Well it’s Associate Professor of Psychology, Richard Beck of course! If you...
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Nomad 105: Christena Cleveland – Disunity in Christ
Why is the Church divided into over 40,000 denominations? Why do Churches in the same town often have very little to do with each other? Why are Christians always fighting on social media? It doesn’t...
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Signs of Hope 11: Anthony Reddie
lIt’s Anthony Reddie’s turn to share what he sees as Signs of Hope in the Church. Anthony is one of the foremost Black Liberation theologians in UK, working predominantly with poorer black communities...
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Nomad 106: Welcome the Stranger – A Refugee Special
We have a humanitarian disaster unfolding on our doorstep. Many of us feel frustrated at our government’s half-hearted response, yet we feel overwhelmed and powerless to do anything ourselves. In this...
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Nomad 107: Anthony Reddie – Is God Colour-Blind?
Why in our multicultural society is the Church still predominantly led by, and our theology predominantly written by, white men? We head to Birmingham to meet up with one of the UK’s leading black...
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Learning from the Other
Growing up in the evangelical tradition that I did, it wasn’t just enough to believe the right things, we had to recognise and avoid those who believed the wrong things! In hindsight this position is...
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Nomad 108 – Diana Butler Bass – A Horizontal Church for a Horizontal...
The question ‘who is God?’ used to be the starting point for religious reflection, but increasingly spiritual seekers are concerning themselves with the question ‘where is God?’. We ask historian,...
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Exploring a Horizontal Spirituality
Through most of my faith journey the question I have wrestled with is ‘Who is God?’ This seemed to me the fundamental question to ask. In recent years though, a different – but related – question has...
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