Wayne and James talk about music, creativity and artificial intelligence. Musician Sting, animal rights philosopher Peter Stringer and the bible have different things to say about humanity’s place in the world. In Genesis, God creates man in his own image and humanity is made last; what does this tell us about God’s purpose for humanity? Is there something distinct about humans as compared to the rest of the created order? We discuss how a common grace and truth that resides in all of us, Christians and non-Christians, speaks to who God is.
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This week we felt it was the right thing to share our vision for our new building at 279 Gloucester Road with you, and talk about where we are headed as a church family. With our new building, we now have 24,000 square feet of faith ! We plan to share it with our community, with the Gloucester Road and with our whole city, Bristol. The next era of B&A is one church, one parish, one building….and we feel God's purpose for us is to fill this building with faith.
We want to see our building becoming fully alive in the week and people welcomed inside straight from the street.
We want faith to rise up and grow - ultimately we want the whole city to be filled with faith - and our building is the first step on this journey.
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This week our discussion is around the news that Canon Mike Pilavachi, founder of Christian youth festival Soul Survivor, has stepped down from his role as Associate Pastor of Soul Survivor Church, St.Albans, as safe-guarding concerns against him are investigated. We look at individuals, at systems, at King David's Old Testament transgressions and how God would like us to respond and how we as a church family can learn to build greater health into our organisations to help prevent future leaders from failing.
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This week we are definitely not talking about ducks in the font, currently causing a storm on Anglican Twitter. What we are talking about is why we do this podcast; how through More Tea, Vicar, we hope to bring a Christian understanding to contemporary issues in culture, and apply this to life as we are living it.
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Following the Bishops' announcement this week proposing that the Church of England offer prayers of blessing to same-sex couples, a proposal that will be debated at General Synod next month, James and Wayne discuss some of the issues behind the issue: how can we have an established church in post-Christian culture? And what happens when a faith-group that is increasingly marginalised still has a significant role in public life?
This is the first in a short series we'll be recording about sexuality and same-sex marriage.
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Happy new year and welcome back to More Tea Vicar! In our first episode of 2023 we discuss the the recently aired interviews with Prince Harry, his desire to call out the injustice of the behaviour of the British press and how we can be people who prophetically speak out against injustice without it becoming personal.
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This week we’re discussing the news following Kwasi Kwarteng’s “U-turn” over plans to scrap the 45p tax cut for high earners. Why do we hate it so much when leaders attempt to gloss over a U-turn? And how can we learn to U-turn well in our own lives?
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