S3 Ep3: Exploring Spirit

Generous FaithSeries 3 Episode 5 - Rivers of LifeGuest: Sachi Patel Have you ever asked the question – is a river alive? Perhaps you have read the recently published popular book by Robert Macfarlane of the same name. Have you ever asked the question is the river a god? Are rivers and nature pointers to a divine presence in the world or divine themselves? And if this is your world view how might that change one's relationship to the natural world and how we treat it? Join Georgia and her guest this month Dr Sachi Patel. Sachi’s Hindu beliefs about the world have had direct implications to how he understands and interacts with the world, leading to his current involvement with faith and climate. If trees are the hairs of god and rivers the arteries, might this change how we treat them and regard them.

Generous FaithSeries 3 Episode 4 - Music, Faith and SpiritualityGuest: Rev Tati  In this episode, Georgia talks with guest, Rev Dr Tati Gutteridge about her debut album Yolk. Tati is a songwriter and lead singer of the band Mother Church and shares with us the place that prayer has in the songwriting process, the role that music has as a way of connection to God, and most of all – her favorite topic – sin! Perhaps not a common theme for an album, but Tati beautifully weaves this theme through her lyrics and music, and it is the driving force behind much of her inspiration.  Is sin a helpful term to use today? Maybe we need to do more to celebrate sin! Listen now and hear not only the conversation but clips from the music of Mother Church.This episode of Generous Faith features commercially released music, which has been shortened to meet copyright requirements. You can listen to the episode in full on MorleyRadio.co.uk.

Generous FaithSeries 3 Episode 3 - Exploring SpiritGuest: Rev Giles Goddard  In this episode, Georgia talks with guest, Rev Giles Goddard, on his latest book, Exploring Spirit, a book that invites readers on a transformative journey – one that moves beyond religious dogma and towards an inclusive, open-hearted spirituality. It is a call to explore, to connect and to flourish.

Generous FaithSeries 3 Episode 2: Young and ChristianGuest: Moll Creaser-Ogden  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?

Generous 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?

Generous 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.

Generous 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 [email protected]

Generous 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 [email protected]  

Generous 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

Generous 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.