This week James and Wayne talk about the Premier League footballer, Marc Guehi, who wrote 'Jesus loves you' on his pride armband and what this tells us about inclusion, difference and good conversation.
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Boris Johnson said some thing this week and he blamed he Church of England for them. We talk about why he might have done that, what he missed out on and how we think about the why behind issues in a post Christian culture.
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James and Wayne look into a story about 132 hamsters getting loose on a plane got the guys thinking about small things and why they really matter in life and in faith.
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James and Wayne discuss what the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the fact that Gary Lineker is ending his time as the presenter of Match of the Day tell us about our culture? What do we look for in certain public positions and why? How does this link to the good news of Jesus for us and for our culture?
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After watching the first episode of Mr Bates vs. the Post Office, James and Wayne talk about how to be a prophet when you find yourself in the middle of an organisation or a culture where there is injustice and dysfunction. They do also define what they mean by prophet!
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This week Wayne has a chat with a member of B&A, Esther, about the ongoing conflict in Gaza and how as followers of Jesus we can think, talk and pray about the situation. We're also joined by Esther's daughter Sehna!
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Can we change what we think as Christians?
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Who is president of the United States is a big deal, not just for Americans but for everyone. James and Wayne talk about how we should think about the election from a UK perspective, what difference Christian faith makes and how then we should pray for the new president.
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Wayne and James discuss recent decisions around the availability of life-extending drugs and how our reactions to those decisions expose what we think about life.
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Why your friends might think differently to you.
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In light of horrendous ways that death has visited our city recently, with fatal stabbings of teenage boys and the killing of three young children, James and Wayne discuss Christian beliefs about death and how to have difficult conversations.
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In the light of the horrific fatal stabbings of two teenagers in Bristol, Wayne and James examine the city where we live and question how well we might know the place we live.
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James and Wayne take you through what Bringing Bristol to Jesus, the new vision for 2024, means for the B&A church family.
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As B&A kicks off a series on its new vision for 2024, this week James and Wayne talk about how vision and values work in the church.
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Following Wayne Massey’s recent Mission to Uganda as part of SOMA UK, James and Wayne discuss what Wayne saw and experienced and reflect on the difference between a post Christian culture and one that is Christian or even pre Christian. How can we apply what we see God doing elsewhere to Bristol and the UK in 2023?
Uganda Mission in numbers; 10 days, average temperature 28 degrees centigrade, approx. 3,000 evangelists from the local church, Uganda, across Africa and Europe. 200 parishes. 80 open air crusades. 370,000 heard the good news of Jesus. 7,800 people gave their lives to Jesus.
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James in conversation with Ed Shaw, Pastor of Emmanuel City Centre Church, Bristol, about the recent voting by the Church of England to welcome the blessing of same sex marriages in dedicated church services. The amendment to the motion scraped through by one vote; the amended motion passed by 227 votes to 203.
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This week James is joined by Matt Southcombe from St Nick's, Bristol, to talk about how we live well as disciples in a world of non-stop media.
On Monday night, thousands of football fans stayed behind to cheer their team after a 4-1 defeat. Why?
This week Wendy and James talk about 'vision and values' and how they can make for flourishing or perishing.
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Following Matthew Perry’s death, James and Wendy talk about light and darkness, addiction and hope in Jesus. What affects who we are becoming as we journey through life and how to alter that trajectory.
This episode was recorded on Halloween, if you’re confused about how to respond to Halloween as a Christian, you may want to read this quick reflection from J John
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