Podcast
Generous Faith
Hosted by Morley Radio · EN
Generous Faith is a series hosted by Reverend Georgia Ashwell, a podcast that celebrates the curious and the questioning.
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S3 Ep2: Young and Christian
6d ago00:35:24Tap to summarizeGenerous FaithSeries 3 Episode 2: Young and ChristianGuest: Moll Creaser-Ogden Generous Faith is a series hosted by Reverend Georgia Ashwell, a podcast that celebrates the curious and the questioning. In these challenging times we’re thinking about how to live a good life – a life which embraces questions and explores a generous way to understand faith, life and the world. Join Georgia and featured guests each month to seek those spaces found between the binaries, spaces where beauty and mystery often dwell. This podcast is produced by St John’s Waterloo in collaboration with Morley Radio. The church has for many years been seen as a place and a space for the older generation. However, more recently there has been conversations, research and articles exploring the growth of younger people in the Church. Is this really happening?
Transcribe →S3 Ep1: LGBTQIA+ and the Church
Jul 200:41:46Tap to summarizeGenerous FaithSeries 3 Episode 1: LGBTQIA+ and the ChurchGuest: rev Charlie Bell Generous Faith is a series hosted by Reverend Georgia Ashwell, a podcast that celebrates the curious and the questioning. In these challenging times we’re thinking about how to live a good life – a life which embraces questions and explores a generous way to understand faith, life and the world. Join Georgia and featured guests each month to seek those spaces found between the binaries, spaces where beauty and mystery often dwell. This podcast is produced by St John’s Waterloo in collaboration with Morley Radio. It is not a secret that, unfortunately, the Church has a reputation of being homophobic. And that is because despite the many LGBTQIA+ people, priests and bishops who advocate and long for an affirming and inclusive church, the Church of England still holds particular view points and practices that prevent full inclusion and affirmation of LGBTQI+ people. So why and how does the Church of England maintain this institutional homophobia? What is being done to push against it? Surely, with the ever-growing presence of the far right the Church should be a place of safety for all, especially minority groups. It begs the question – just where is the power and how is it being used?
Transcribe →S2 Ep6: Art and Spirituality
Dec 500:42:31Tap to summarizeGenerous FaithSeries 2 Episode 6 - Art and SpiritualityGuest: Fleur Dorrell Generous Faith is a series hosted by Reverend Georgia Ashwell, a podcast that celebrates the curious and the questioning. In these challenging times we’re thinking about how to live a good life – a life which embraces questions and explores a generous way to understand faith, life and the world. Join Georgia and featured guests each month to seek those spaces found between the binaries, spaces where beauty and mystery often dwell. This podcast is produced by St John’s Waterloo in collaboration with Morley Radio. Art has been a part of the human experience for as long as there has been human experience and art has been a part of faith and religion for as long as there has been faith and religion. What power does art have within the life of this world and how might art lead to or enable spiritual experience and connection with the Divine? Listen to this final episode of season two as host, Rev Georgia Ashwell interviews guest Fleur Dorrell on Art and Spirituality.
Transcribe →S2 Ep5: Palestine: The Fear of Oppression and The Power of Freedom (Part 2)
Sep 1900:49:24Tap to summarizeGenerous FaithSeries 2 Episode 5 – Palestine: The Fear of Oppression and The Power of Freedom (Part 2)Guests: Dr Sharon Jagger, Esther McIntosh & Samuel Salim Munayer Generous Faith is a series hosted by Reverend Georgia Ashwell, a podcast that celebrates the curious and the questioning. In these challenging times we’re thinking about how to live a good life – a life which embraces questions and explores a generous way to understand faith, life and the world. Join Georgia and featured guests each month to seek those spaces found between the binaries, spaces where beauty and mystery often dwell. This podcast is produced by St John’s Waterloo in collaboration with Morley Radio. Our freedom can so easily be taken for granted, and perhaps rightly so – it is a human right. But what is it to have your freedom taken away? To live in the shadow of oppression. In this double episode I talk to Sharon and Esther, two Christian women from the UK on their recent visit to Palestine and all they witnessed for Christians and all Palestinians living there. Also joining us is Samuel, a Palestinian man who they met as part of their visit. What is the history of this land and people? What is the Palestinian Christian experience? And is the Christian influence both good and bad from the UK, US and other places? How much has White-Christian Supremacy caused harm to Palestinians? If it doesn’t aid freedom, can we all it Christian? Useful Resources Amos TrustMedical Aid For PalestiniansSabeel-Kairos: Taking Action for Palestine You can reach host Georgia via email georgia@stjohnswaterloo.org
Transcribe →S2 Ep4: The Fear of Oppression and The Power of Freedom
Sep 1200:49:14Tap to summarizeGenerous FaithSeries 2 Episode 4 - Palestine: The Fear of Oppression and The Power of FreedomGuests: Dr Sharon Jagger, Esther McIntosh & Samuel Salim Munayer Generous Faith is a series hosted by Reverend Georgia Ashwell, a podcast that celebrates the curious and the questioning. In these challenging times we’re thinking about how to live a good life – a life which embraces questions and explores a generous way to understand faith, life and the world. Join Georgia and featured guests each month to seek those spaces found between the binaries, spaces where beauty and mystery often dwell. This podcast is produced by St John’s Waterloo in collaboration with Morley Radio. Our freedom can so easily be taken for granted, and perhaps rightly so – it is a human right. But what is it to have your freedom taken away? To live in the shadow of oppression. In this double episode I talk to Sharon and Esther, two Christian women from the UK on their recent visit to Palestine and all they witnessed for Christians and all Palestinians living there. Also joining us is Samuel, a Palestinian man who they met as part of their visit. What is the history of this land and people? What is the Palestinian Christian experience? And is the Christian influence both good and bad from the UK, US and other places? How much has White-Christian Supremacy caused harm to Palestinians? If it doesn't aid freedom, can we all it Christian? Useful Resources Amos TrustMedical Aid For PalestiniansSabeel-Kairos: Taking Action for Palestine You can reach host Georgia via email georgia@stjohnswaterloo.org
Transcribe →S2 Ep3: Meditation: Concentrate, Contemplate and Transcend
Aug 2900:42:17Tap to summarizeGenerous FaithSeries 2 Episode 3: Meditation: Concentrate, Contemplate and TranscendGuest: Chancellor Chandler Generous Faith is a series hosted by Reverend Georgia Ashwell, a podcast that celebrates the curious and the questioning. In these challenging times we’re thinking about how to live a good life - a life which embraces questions and explores a generous way to understand faith, life and the world. Join Georgia and featured guests each month to seek those spaces found between the binaries, spaces where beauty and mystery often dwell. This podcast is produced by St John’s Waterloo in collaboration with Morley Radio. Is meditation good for us? Can it alleviate suffering? Is it a way for us to transcend? Or is there a danger that we focus too much on the internal and fail to engage with the world? Join me as I interview guest, Chancellor Chandler, teacher of Transcendental Meditation, and unpack together to joys of Transcendental Meditation what it means for him to teach and practice this technique and what it could mean for other to engage in this practice ourselves. Find out more about Trascendental Meditation here
Transcribe →S2 Ep2: Nature, Faith and Psychedelics
Aug 15, 202500:50:35Tap to summarizeGenerous FaithSeries 2 Episode 2: Nature, Faith and PsychedelicsGuests: Annette Kaye & Muzammal Hussain We are intricately connected to the natural world which brings so much joy and beauty, as well as disaster and devastation because of climate injustice for many people across the world – and more so on those who have contributed the least to the climate crisis. In this episode I’m joined by to guests, Muzammal - who has been involved with grassroots ecological work for almost 20 years and is one of the pioneers amongst Muslims in the UK, and Annette - spiritual director, psychotherapist and artist, and recent explorer into the realm of psychedelics within a spiritual context. Together we talk about how faith can influence the way we interact with nature – positively and negatively, and how we understand spirituality / God to be found within the natural world.Generous Faith is a series hosted by Reverend Georgia Ashwell, a podcast that celebrates the curious and the questioning. In these challenging times we’re thinking about how to live a good life - a life which embraces questions and explores a generous way to understand faith, life and the world. Join Georgia and featured guests each month to seek those spaces found between the binaries, spaces where beauty and mystery often dwell. This podcast is produced by St John’s Waterloo in collaboration with Morley Radio.
Transcribe →S2 Ep1: Magic and Mystery
Aug 1, 202501:06:21Tap to summarizeGenerous FaithSeries 2 Episode 3: Magic and MysteryGuests: Dr Shanon Shah and Max Gordon Generous Faith is a series hosted by Reverend Georgia Ashwell, a podcast that celebrates the curious and the questioning. In these challenging times we’re thinking about how to live a good life - a life which embraces questions and explores a generous way to understand faith, life and the world. Join Georgia and featured guests each month to seek those spaces found between the binaries, spaces where beauty and mystery often dwell. This podcast is produced by St John’s Waterloo in collaboration with Morley Radio. We begin season 2 with a magical conversation. Is magic evil? Can you believe in God and magic? Is it all the same? Join me, Georgia Ashwell, as I interview two guests, Max Gordon, a tarot reader, astrologer and psychic from the U.S, who has been reading professionally for over thirty years. And Dr Shanon Shah, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, King's College London (KCL). He conducts academic research on minority religions and alternative spiritualities at the Inform, an educational charity affiliated with KCL. Together we talk about the binary of faith and magic – why was faith always displayed as good and magic bad. But doesn’t magic occur in the bible? Christianity has at the centre of the faith – the Holy Spirit – could it be that magic and faith are not so polarised. Maybe all magic is from God.
Transcribe →S1 Ep6: Prophecy and the Church
Mar 22, 202500:44:00Tap to summarizeGenerous FaithEpisode 6: Prophecy and the ChurchGuests: Rev Giles Goddard and Rev Chantal Noppen Generous Faith is a series hosted by Reverend Georgia Ashwell, a podcast that celebrates the curious and the questioning. In these challenging times we’re thinking about how to live a good life – a life which embraces questions and explores a generous way to understand faith, life and the world. Join Georgia and featured guests each month to seek those spaces found between the binaries, spaces where beauty and mystery often dwell. This podcast is produced by St John’s Waterloo in collaboration with Morley Radio. In this final episode of season one, Georgia talks with returning guest, Rev Giles Goddard, author of Generous Faith – that this podcast is named after – and one of the organisers of the conference – Generous Faith: our wound is our word. A new guest Rev Chantal Noppen, a priest in the church of England with over 10 years of working on Estates, now the National Coordinator for Inclusive Church, and working with Giles to produce the Generous Faith conference. The theme of the conference is prophecy and so, Georgia and guests talk about prophecy, what it is and what it might be. Join them as they venture into conversations on fortune telling, witchcraft, palm reading, mediums (yes, they’re in the Bible). Is this prophecy? Or is the work of the prophet to speak truth to power? Or both? Do we have prophets today? Where are they and who are they? Listen to find out more. And come along to the Generous Faith: our wound is our word conference at St John’s waterloo on Saturday 22nd March. Tickets here This is the last episode for series one, but Georgia will be back for another series soon. If you have any thoughts, comments, ideas or asks, let her know on georgia@stjohnswaterloo.org
Transcribe →S1 Ep5: Sexism, Misogyny and the Church
Mar 22, 202500:49:30Tap to summarizeGenerous FaithEpisode 5: Sexism, Misogyny and the ChurchGuests: Rev Martine Oborne and Dr Sharon Jagger Generous Faith is a series hosted by Reverend Georgia Ashwell, a podcast that celebrates the curious and the questioning. In these challenging times we’re thinking about how to live a good life – a life which embraces questions and explores a generous way to understand faith, life and the world. Join Georgia and featured guests each month to seek those spaces found between the binaries, spaces where beauty and mystery often dwell. This podcast is produced by St John’s Waterloo in collaboration with Morley Radio. In this episode Georgia is joined by two guests, Rev Martine Oborne, and Dr Sharon Jagger. Martine is vicar of St Michaels Chiswick and Chair of WATCH – Women and the Church, a charity that campaigns for equality for women and men in the Church of England, Sharon is associate Professor at York St John university and researcher in feminist theory and religion. Both guests hold a deep passion for justice and equality for women in the Church. Unfortunately, this is still something that is being fought for and there are still restrictions on women in the Church. In this episode Georgia and guests talk about why these discriminations exist, the history of women in the Church, the impact this discrimination has on women both lay and ordained and what is being done to try and change this. Listen now and, as ever, get in touch if you have any questions. Further information on The Five Guiding Principles can be found here.
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