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The Revd Canon David Tyler tells the story of his calling to Bishop Steven Croft.
From an introduction to faith through close friends to becoming the next Archdeacon of Dorchester, David shares the passions and challenges of ministry and how looking to the fantastic people around him and the gifts they bring sees him through.
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Episode 5: Distinctive
The Church holds in tension two great images: on the one hand, we are a chosen race, God’s own people. On the other, we are aliens and exiles, living against the grain as we wait for God’s kingdom to come in its fulness. As we look forward in anticipation this Advent, the words of 1 Peter set us on the path of living as best we can in these in-between times.
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Episode 4: Chosen
Bishop Steven is joined this week by the Rt Revd Mary D. Glasspool, Assistant Bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of New York.
As they delve deeper into 1 Peter, Bishop Mary discusses the complexities of being ‘chosen’ without feeling entitled, as she and Bishop Steven contemplate the seeds of hope for a post-pandemic future and the idea of the church as a centre for healing and protection. She also has some thoughts about the Lambeth Conference, taking place in 2022…
A video of their conversation is also available to watch on the Diocese of Oxford YouTube channel
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Episode 3: Living Stone
We have learned during the pandemic how important our church buildings are. But we’ve also learned more deeply than we did before, that the church is not the building. The church is the community which gathers for worship, whether virtually or physically, and is sustained by the presence of the Risen Christ in Word and sacrament. It is we who are the living stones.
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The picture for this episode is taken from the poster on Bishop Steven’s wall, referred to in his introduction.
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Episode 2: Resilience
In a candid conversation with the Bishop of Western Louisiana, the Rt Revd Jacob Wayne Owensby, Bishop Steven delves deeper into the first letter of 1 Peter.
Facing the uncomfortable realisation of feeling too content in the world as it is, and the importance of being the light in a world that’s aching for more, Bishops Steven and Jacob explore how to be people of resilience and grit in times of great hardship.
A video of their conversation is also available to watch on the Diocese of Oxford YouTube channel
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Episode 1: ExilesWe will only navigate the challenges of the coming years if we learn to be a deeper church again. This new series of podcasts explores what God is saying to us as a Church through the first letter of Peter.
Join the Bishop of Oxford, the Rt Revd Dr Steven Croft, and some of his fellow bishops from around the world as they rediscover that the medicine Peter offers is good for today’s church.
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Come and Eat – Draw Near with Faith
Come to this table, not because you must but because you may,not because you are strong, but because you are weak.
Through small, simple actions, the scattered and dispersed Church is drawn together as one. Bishop Steven concludes our exploration of Holy Communion – the meal through which God will build up his tired and depleted church after the demands of the last 15 months.
We need to come and eat, and be restored.
Bishop Steven has asked some of our very creative liturgists to draw together some resources and prayers for parishes to mark this season of regathering and rededication. These resources invite churches to renew their thanksgiving to God for the ‘wonderful sacrament’ of Holy Communion.
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Come and Eat – Prayer and Parties
Jesus loves parties. Everyone who reads the gospel knows that. The Eucharist is prayer and parties with a purpose: to fill us with hope and a fresh vision for what this world can become.
As we regather as a church around the table of the risen Lord, what are we to draw from this theme of the Eucharist as a meal which looks forward – a sign of hope and of the kingdom?
Bishop Steven has asked some of our very creative liturgists to draw together some resources and prayers for parishes to mark this season of regathering and rededication. These resources invite churches to renew their thanksgiving to God for the ‘wonderful sacrament’ of Holy Communion.
Image from Shutterstock.
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Come and Eat – The Bread of Life
“The bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world”.
Many of us find ourselves languishing in the wake of the pandemic. It’s good to remind ourselves – and the whole world – that Jesus came to bring life in all its abundance. The bread which Jesus gives, and is, is more than the food we need to stay physically alive. This is the nourishment we need to have life, to flourish again.
The second episode in this series on Holy Communion considers the Eucharist as a meal which looks back and remembers, calling to mind the story of manna and of John 6, after the feeding of the five thousand.
The music at the end is is Now the Green Blade Riseth, written by John McCrum, performed by Steve Winwood. Image from Shutterstock.
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Come and Eat – The Exhausted Prophet
“The Lord, through his angel, simply sees what is needed. The Lord prepares a meal: fresh bread, cool, clear fresh water in a jar. Time to rest and sleep.”
Welcome to the first in a short series of podcasts on Holy Communion, the profound, wonderful meal at the heart of our faith.
Our starting point is the story of Elijah in 1 Kings 19: the exhausted prophet, right at the end of his resources. Because that, if we’re honest, is where we are – tired and worn down, finding every day quite hard.
The Lord meets Elijah where he is – not with big visions or daunting tasks for the future, but with simply what he needs. An invitation to come and eat.
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The Lamb of God: A journey through St John’s story of the passion
Our journey to the cross begins with the betrayal and arrest of Jesus. While the other three gospels focus on Jesus’ agony and inner turmoil, John instead focuses our attention elsewhere – on the real reason Jesus is drawn to the cross.
Hymn: There is a Green Hill Far Away, recorded and performed at home by Tom and Mandy Green for this podcast.Reading: John 18.1-14 by Julia Hollander. (NRSV)Commentary by Bishop Steven.A minute of silence follows +Steven’s commentary for personal reflection.Taizé: Kyrie, kyrie, eleison.This episode was produced by the Revd Charlotte Bannister-Parker in collaboration with Steven Buckley and Phil Hind. Music performed under CCLI 535160 and Limited Online Music License LE-0018115. Licenses registered to the Oxford Diocesan Board of Finance. Album artwork ‘Jerusalem’, Charlotte Bannister-Parker.
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The Lamb of God: A journey through St John’s story of the passion
We see both darkness and light around us in this pandemic – the darkness of human isolation and suffering; the light of love as people reach out to one another. The story of Jesus’ passion takes place in the cold darkness of night, but John tells us that light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not overcome it.
Reading John 18.15-27 by Julia Hollander. (NRSV).Commentary by Bishop Steven.A minute of silence follows +Steven’s commentary for personal reflection.Taizé: Kyrie, kyrie, eleison.This episode was produced by the Revd Charlotte Bannister-Parker in collaboration with Steven Buckley and Phil Hind. Music performed under CCLI 535160 and Limited Online Music License LE-0018115. Licenses registered to the Oxford Diocesan Board of Finance.
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The Lamb of God: A journey through St John’s story of the passion
The Evangelists invite us to place ourselves in the story through the characters who come and go. Like them, we are both powerful and powerless before this story of the cross.
Reading John 18.28-40 by Julia Hollander. (NRSV)Commentary by Bishop Steven.A minute of silence follows +Steven’s commentary for personal reflection.Taizé: Kyrie, kyrie, eleison.Hymn: Amazing Love. What sacrifice, recorded and performed at home by Tom and Mandy Green for this podcast.This episode was produced by the Revd Charlotte Bannister-Parker in collaboration with Steven Buckley and Phil Hind. Music performed under CCLI 535160 and Limited Online Music License LE-0018115. Licenses registered to the Oxford Diocesan Board of Finance.
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The Lamb of God: A journey through St John’s story of the passion
As Jesus rides into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, he is making a profound statement of who he claims to be. But in all that follows, Jesus takes this claim to kingship and power and to being God’s Son and God’s Messiah and turns it inside out.
Reading: John 19.1-16 by Julia Hollander. (NRSV)Commentary by Bishop Steven.A minute of silence follows +Steven’s commentary for personal reflection.Taizé: Kyrie, kyrie, eleison.This episode was produced by the Revd Charlotte Bannister-Parker in collaboration with Steven Buckley and Phil Hind. Music performed under CCLI 535160 and Limited Online Music License LE-0018115. Licenses registered to the Oxford Diocesan Board of Finance.
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The Lamb of God: A journey through St John’s story of the passion
As we come to the centre of the story, we travel with Jesus to the cross. No-one takes Jesus’ life. He gives it. What has he done? What has been completed?
Reading: John 19.17-37 by Julia Hollander. (NRSV)Commentary by Bishop Steven.A minute of silence follows +Steven’s commentary for personal reflection.Hymn: When I survey the wondrous cross, recorded and performed at home by Tom and Mandy Green for this podcast.This episode was produced by the Revd Charlotte Bannister-Parker in collaboration with Steven Buckley and Phil Hind. Music performed under CCLI 535160 and Limited Online Music License LE-0018115. Licenses registered to the Oxford Diocesan Board of Finance.
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The Lamb of God: A journey through St John’s story of the passion
We end these reflections with much to think about, but hopefully with anticipation: not cast down by the solemn events we have rehearsed but deepened by them. The story is told but is not yet complete.
Reading John 19.38-24 by Julia Hollander. (NRSV).Commentary by Bishop Steven.A minute of silence follows for personal reflection.Intercessions followed by The Lord’s Prayer Led by Paul Cowan.Closing message from Bishop Steven.This episode was produced by the Revd Charlotte Bannister-Parker in collaboration with Steven Buckley and Phil Hind. Music performed under CCLI 535160 and Limited Online Music License LE-0018115. Licenses registered to the Oxford Diocesan Board of Finance.
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As we reach the sombre anniversary of the start of the first national lockdown, revisit this podcast from October 2020. Take a moment to reflect on all that has passed and cast your fears for the future on the Lord.
Look back over the last six months and reflect for a moment. What part has fear played in your own life and your life’s journey? What part is anxiety playing now in the key decisions of your life? Does it have too loud a voice? Does all of that fear and caution have the support of reason? Are there inner fears which you are keeping buried deep inside and cannot name or talk through with those closest to you? Are those chains of fear shaping the decisions you make in your work or your Christian service?
If that is the case, listen to the word of the Lord to you: “Do not fear, for I am with you. Do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my victorious right hand”.
The famous Dad’s Army episode at the start of this episode is taken from this BBC clip on YouTubePhoto: Shutterstock
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Some people spend their whole lives trying to discover what is important and valuable – what really matters in life. Some stumble across it almost by accident.
The final lines of the Creed remind us of the blessings which are ours in Christ, offered to us by God, free of charge.
This film marks the end of our series on the Creed, but there is still so much more to come and see.
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Sometimes God can feel distant and far away, and the truths about God can seem hard to take hold of.
When we feel worn down by life, the Holy Spirit can bring us comfort and peace. But how do we actually experience the Holy Spirit at work in our lives?
This is the fourth of the Come and See weekly films from Bishop Steven. It accompanies daily email reflections throughout Lent.
See the journey so far and join us at oxford.anglican.org/come-and-see
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Even on the best of days, there are shadows in our lives – darkness created by our human tendency to mess things up. There’s a shadow at the end of our journey too. The Bible calls it ‘the shadow of death.’
The third part of the Creed makes the remarkable claim that Jesus rose from the dead, three days after he was crucified. What does that mean for the darkness within us? What lies beyond that final shadow?
This is the third of the Come and See weekly films from Bishop Steven. It accompanies daily email reflections throughout Lent.
Find out more and join at oxford.anglican.org/come-and-see
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