Generous Faith

S2 Ep6: Art and Spirituality

Generous Faith Series 2 Episode 6 - Art and Spirituality Guest: 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.

S2 Ep5: Palestine: The Fear of Oppression and The Power of Freedom (Part 2)

Generous Faith Series 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 Trust [https://www.amostrust.org/] Medical Aid For Palestinians [https://www.map.org.uk/] Sabeel-Kairos: Taking Action for Palestine [https://www.sabeel-kairos.org.uk/]   You can reach host Georgia via email georgia@stjohnswaterloo.org

S2 Ep4: The Fear of Oppression and The Power of Freedom

Generous Faith Series 2 Episode 4 - Palestine: The Fear of Oppression and The Power of Freedom 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 Trust [https://www.amostrust.org/] Medical Aid For Palestinians [https://www.map.org.uk/] Sabeel-Kairos: Taking Action for Palestine [https://www.sabeel-kairos.org.uk/]   You can reach host Georgia via email georgia@stjohnswaterloo.org

S2 Ep3: Meditation: Concentrate, Contemplate and Transcend

Generous Faith Series 2 Episode 3: Meditation: Concentrate, Contemplate and Transcend Guest: 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 [https://www.tm.org]

S2 Ep2: Nature, Faith and Psychedelics

Generous Faith Series 2 Episode 2: Nature, Faith and Psychedelics Guests: 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.