Episodes
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In the final episode of the season, Rachel interviews the legendary John Roberto, author, researcher and all-round expert on lifelong faith. He lifts the lid on faith development and lays down the challenge for those of us in ministry of 'how do we disciple people through all 10 decades of their life?'
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Martin sits down with author, lecturer, broadcaster and host of The Sacred podcast, Elizabeth Oldfield. Together they unpack what faith development looks like in the period of 'perma-crisis' that young people are growing up in, and discuss Elizabeth's latest book - Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times. Elizabeth also tells us about her journey of rediscovering her faith as an adult and an insight into what she was like as a teenager in youth group. Meanwhile back at 'Youthscape Towers', Martin tells us of his mid-life crisis/chrysalis...
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In a shocking change of events, Martin is answering the questions rather than asking them! Rachel is joined by the podcast producer Dave as they dig into Martin's new book, Signal Fire. Martin unpacks his journey in crafting this book as well as a deep dive into how important prayer is in lifelong faith development in young people...
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This week Rachel sits down with Rick Otto, who is the Diocese Of Manchester's Childrens Advisor as well as heading up the children's work at New Wine. Rick unpacks some of his latest research about longevity in faith and what it means for us as leaders for the long haul. Meanwhile, Rachel and Martin play 'would you rather - youth work style' and Martin recalls his woes with his disastrous sabbatical...
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This week Martin chats to Aaron Nayagam from Fusion, all about young people transitioning from youth work to university, the pitfalls and the challenge that the youth work community need to take up around setting these young people up to win. Meanwhile Rachel and Martin discuss their youth work confessions and how they'd fare in 'Race Across the World'...
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This week's guest is Liz Bewley, Executive Director from OneLife. Liz and Martin dive into the importance and role that being a young leader can have on lifelong faith development in young people, Liz introduces Martin to 'The Character Death Star'. Meanwhile, back at Youthscape Towers, Martin and Rachel open up the conversation around influencers, the place of young people's voice in the church and the ever-popular Mr Beast...
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Continuing our theme of lifelong faith, Martin sits down with Emma and Tim Owen from the Message Trust to dig into the work they do in schools. Together they wrestle with the difficulties of pop-up events and the important relationship with the local church while contextualising the music and evangelism that they’re involved in.
Meanwhile Martin and Rachel discuss the enneagram, a new food-related app and whether in the “third phase of life” they still have what it takes for one more adventure of a lifetime...
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This week Rachel sits down with Andy Du Feu, Principal of Moorlands College, to lift the lid on what the Bible says about faith formation. Back in the studio, Martin and Rachel divulge on some of their youth work 'zingers', and Rachel shares the story on the journey of church plant in Blackburn as well as a funny story about late night mistaken identity...
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This week Martin invited Tom Clark, Online Pastor at Holy Trinity Brompton, to share some of the lessons he's learned being in youth ministry for nearly two decades and the intentional ways they've built discipleship for the long haul into the fabric of what they do. Rachel and Martin also discuss the recent tale of Martin's youth group's 30 year reunion and the sort of young person Martin was back in his teenage years...
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The podcast is back! This season we’re asking the important question of ‘how do we set up young people for a lifetime with Jesus’ and digging into the misconceptions and foundations of building lifelong faith.
Martin and Rachel sit down with Dr Hannah Bowden, part of the Youthscape Centre for Research, as they kick off the start of the season exploring what data is already around there, how good Rachel is at sound effects and the topic of metaphorical pizza…
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We want to invite you to join Rachel Gardner and Dr. Lucie Moore as they explore the first part of the Translating God research from the Youthscape Centre for Research in their own podcast. They lift the lid on what the research is all about and give a sneak peak at some of the headlines and topics that they'll cover over the next 4 episodes. Still not sure? Have a listen by searching for 'Translating God: A Youthscape Podcast', you won't want to miss out…
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The light at the end of a challenging season, this week we're talking about hope! Martin sits down with theologian and author Canon Dr. Paula Gooder as they begin to unpack how we can hope despite all of the chaos that is going on around us in this changing landscape. Meanwhile we unwrap Rachel's gift-giving woes...
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Today's guest is Rev. Will Van Der Hart, wellbeing chaplain to the Church Revitalisation Trust as well as being an author and one of the directors of Mind and Soul Foundation. With the future ever-changing at a rapid pace, how do we as leaders cope with that? Rachel sits down with Will to talk about looking after ourselves as leaders and managing uncertainty in the everyday. Meanwhile, Martin and Rachel delve into the world of overwhelm with neighbours and menopause (separately)...
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This week, Martin sits down with Rev. Jon Swales MBE, as he shares his journey with creation care and the fight for justice around climate change. What does the future hold for the young people who we work with and how can we help fight for the best case scenario in the coming years? Also Martin tells Rachel the new update to the 'bin situation' following his recent move...
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Martin and Rachel reveal their own levels of tech-competence in this week's episode of the podcast as they dig into the world of artificial intelligence. Today's guest is Ramsey el-Khazen, who expertly guides Martin through the world of artificial intelligence as they begin to unpack what impact this has on young people and how it is forming the world around them.
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Last week we began reflecting on recent events of the substantiated allegations against Mike Pilavachi, founder and leader of Soul Survivor, a large successful Christian conference that ran for just under 30 years until recently. We focused our last episode on why we need to be putting survivors first in situations where abuse has taken place.
This week we are exploring the impact this news has had on us as youth leaders and individuals who may taken taken many young people to Soul Survivor events and possibly attended as a delegate when we were a teenager. Rachel chatted to Rev. Dr. Kate Middleton about what it means to try and process our collective grief and find constructive ways to move forward.
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This week and next week we're reflecting on recent events of the substantiated allegations against Mike Pilavachi, founder and leader of Soul Survivor, a large successful Christian conference that ran for just under 30 years until recently. Martin sits down with Justin Humphreys, joint Chief Executive Officer for Thirtyone:eight, an independent Christian safeguarding charity, to focus on why we need to be putting survivors first in situations where abuse has taken place.
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There are sadly many forms of injustice, prejudice and discrimination in our contexts, but how do they relate to each other, and what does a Christian lens add to this? How do we support young people as they navigate these intersecting layers of injustice? Martin sits down with Joy Faulkner-Mpeho, Head of Children's and Youth Ministry at St Martin in the Field in London, to explore just this.
Meanwhile, Martin and Rachel share their thoughts on what they're reading and Martin sneaks a bit of a potential stand up set about bin day...
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Rachel gets a chance to sit down with Rev. Ben Atkins as they talk about a recent trend that's popped up in youth culture known as WitchTok. Ben shares some of his own experiences with paganism and the occult and together Rachel and Ben explore what this could mean for our practice as youth workers. How do we set out to listen to and support young people while helping them to put down anything that takes them away from life with God? Get ready for an excellent interview as we dig into how young people might delve into this world in order to find meaning, purpose and identity and what they gospel has to say about that.
Meanwhile, back at Youthscape HQ, Martin tries some smelling salts, both share their mixed experience of Halloween and we hear a tale from Martin's time trying to make it as a Hollywood screenwriter...
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In today's episode, Martin and Rachel catch up on some major life updates and discuss the recent fails of youth work in their contexts. As they open the topic of how to help ourselves and the young people we serve figure out how to navigate the recent tragedies and global events, we have Dr. Krish Kandiah joining us this week on the mic.
Dr. Kandiah is an author, speaker, founder of Sanctuary Foundation, an organisation that works to support refugees and he also founded Home for Good, a charity working to make sure every child has a home through fostering and adoption. Krish is also a regular advisor to the government on some of these issues, and chats to us from an particluarly unusual location to help us think about how can we support and help the young people and communities around us.
If you want to find out more, head to sanctuaryfoundation.org.uk
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