Extra Ecclesiam

09/12/2022

Episode 24: Paul Handly interview is now live

Paul Handley is a distinguished journalist whose career has spanned the post of press officer at Lambeth Palace when Robert Runcie was Archbishop of Canterbury and various roles on Anglican newspapers. His decades-long editorship at the Church Times provides an unparalleled vantage point from which to look at changes in ecclesiastical and broadsheet journalism. During that time, Paul has witnessed the terms of three Archbishops of Canterbury: George Carey, Rowan Williams and Justin Welby. The interview also covers the ordination of women priests, the New Atheism, the development of websites and social media, and the Church Times cartoon!

Paul Handley is a distinguished journalist whose career has spanned the post of press officer at Lambeth Palace when Robert Runcie was Archbishop of Canterbury and various roles on Anglican newspapers. His decades-long editorship at the Church Times provides an unparalleled vantage point from which

13/11/2022

Episode 23: Chris Lee is now live

During the 2020 lockdown in the UK, the Reverend Chris Lee came to prominence through his 60-second sermons, which were posted on his Instagram account: revchris7.

His aim was to give solace and spiritual encouragement during this difficult time, particularly to the young. This life story interview follows Chris from his childhood and schooling to a good job, followed by his decision to step off “the middle-class conveyor belt” to train as a vicar in Africa. The conversation covers contemplative spirituality, Chris’s setting up of the Young Franciscans, Chris’s book, the OMG effect, and the Hot Priest in Fleabag.

Since the recording, Chris has negotiated a two-book deal with Tyndale publishing house coming out in 2024. One adult book and one children’s book co-written with his wife.

During the 2020 lockdown in the UK, the Reverend Chris Lee came to prominence through his 60-second sermons, which were posted on his Instagram account: revchris7. His aim was to give solace and spiritual encouragement during this difficult time, particularly to the young. This life story interview

23/10/2022

Episode 22: Martyn Percy is now live

The former principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon and former Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, the Very Revd Professor Martyn Percy, is a British theologian with wide-ranging interests across faith, the church, music, culture and the social sciences.

Martyn is the subject of Reasonable Radical?: Reading the Writings of Martyn Percy, edited by Ian S Markham and Joshua Daniel.

He has been a religious columnist for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Independent and is a member of the BBC’s Standing Committee on Religion and Belief. Martyn Percy is an honorary fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford and former dean of Christ Church, Oxford.

The former principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon, and former Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, the Very Revd Professor Martyn Percy is a British theologian with wide-ranging interests across faith, the church, music, culture and the social sciences. He is the subject of Reasonable Radical?: Reading the

07/10/2022

Episode 21: Pete Greig is now live

(Follow the link below to the interview, available on YouTube and all major podcast platforms).

With family links back to revival in twentieth-century Scotland, Pete Greig is the Senior Pastor of Emmaus Rd church, Guildford, in Surrey, England. But he also describes himself as the “bewildered" founder of 24-7 Prayer, an international, inter-denominational movement of prayer, mission and justice operating in more than 100 nations.

A popular writer, Pete’s earlier books Red Moon Rising and Dirty Glory describes his odyssey in mobilising young people into intercession and evangelism and becoming inspired by the founder of an earlier 24/7 Prayer Movement, Count Zinzendorf of Herrnhut.

https://extraecc.com/you-tube/episode-21-pete-greig

Pete's recent memoir, God on Mute, which describes the crisis of faith when his wife Sammy was diagnosed with a brain tumour, is considered ‘a Christian classic’ by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.

With family links back to revival in twentieth-century Scotland, Pete Greig is the Senior Pastor of Emmaus Rd church, Guildford, in Surrey, England. But he also describes himself as the “bewildered" founder of 24-7 Prayer, an international, inter-denominational movement of prayer, mission and j

01/10/2022

Episode 20: Jessica Martin

The daughter of the sociologists David and Bernice Martin, Jessica Martin, has combined a distinguished career as an academic working across the fields of English literature and theology with ordination in the Church of England. Her book Holiness and Desire was published in June 2020, and in 2021 she delivered the prestigious Bampton Lectures on the subject of Four Dimensional Eucharist. Jessica is married to the novelist Francis Spufford and, like him, has written about her own childhood - in Holiness and Desire. The Revd Dr Jessica Martin is a Canon Residentiary of Ely Cathedral and is a member of the influential Littlemore group of theologians.

The daughter of the sociologists David and Bernice Martin, Jessica Martin, has combined a distinguished career as an academic working across the fields of English literature and theology with ordination in the Church of England. Her book Holiness and Desire was published in June 2020, and in 2021 sh

01/10/2022

Episode 19: Francis Spufford

Francis Spufford is a writer of nonfiction and, more recently, novels. He teaches at Goldsmiths College, London, where he is a Professor of Creative Writing. His books include the Costa First Novel Award-winning Golden Hill, the memoir The Child That Books Built, and Unapologetic, possibly the sweariest ever work of Christian apologetics.

He is married to the Anglican priest and writer Jessica Martin, his mother was the historian and spiritual writer Margaret Spufford, and his daughter shows every sign of becoming a writer too. His most recent novel Light Perpetual was published by Faber & Faber in February 2021.

Francis Spufford is a writer of non fiction and more recently of novels. He teaches at Goldsmiths College, London, where he is Professor of Creative Writing. His books include the Costa First Novel Award-winning Golden Hill, the memoir The Child That Books Built, and Unapologetic, possibly the swear

01/10/2022

Episode 18: Steve Chalke

Rev Stephen Chalke MBE is a British Baptist minister, social activist, broadcaster and writer.

He founded the Oasis Charitable Trust in 1985, and has presided over its development as a provider of grass-roots social services in the United Kingdom and internationally across housing, healthcare and education.

A prolific author and former GMTV presenter, he has written on Christian Social activism, and Public Theology, and is now a regular contributor and commentator on television, radio and other media.

The founder of the Stop the Traffik global coalition and a former United Nations Special Adviser on Human Trafficking, Rev Chalke was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2004 New Year Honours “for services to social inclusion”.

Rev Stephen Chalke MBE is a British Baptist minister, social activist, broadcaster and writer. He founded the Oasis Charitable Trust in 1985, and has presided over its development as a provider of grass-roots social services in the United Kingdom and internationally acros

12/09/2022

Episode 17: Anna Rowlands

A cultural and practising Catholic who grew up in the Irish diaspora community in Greater Manchester, Dr Anna Rowlands, is St Hilda Associate Professor of Catholic Social Thought and Practice at the University of Durham. A political theologian, she is the author of the forthcoming book ‘Towards a Politics of Communion: Catholic Social Teaching in Dark Times’ (Bloomsbury), co-author of ’T&T Clark Reader in Political Theology (T&T Clark) and co-editor of a forthcoming book ‘Oxford Handbook of Religion and Contemporary Migration’ (OUP). She is a researcher on the AHRC/ESRC project Refugee Hosts (www.refugeehosts.org).

Dr Rowlands combines innovative research with a deep engagement with contemporary catholic communities, most recently with the Jesuit Refugee Service UK. She is a member of the Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University and Founding Chair of the Centre for Catholic Social Thought and Practice. She is a trustee of the William Leech Fellowship in the North East of England, the incoming chair of trustees of The Woman at the Well, a London-based charity that works with women whose lives are affected by prostitution. and a Director of the University of Notre Dame London Gateway.

Dr Rowlands has recently written on the politics of Brexit and COVID-19 from the perspective of her long-standing interest in the works of the Jewish thinkers Hanna Arendt, Gillian Rose, and, most specifically, Simone Weil.

https://extraecc.com/you-tube/episode-17-anna-rowlands

A cultural and practising Catholic who grew up in the Irish diaspora community in Greater Manchester, Dr Anna Rowlands, is St Hilda Associate Professor of Catholic Social Thought and Practice at the University of Durham. A political theologian, she is the author of the forthcoming book ‘Towards a ...

09/08/2022

Episode 16, with Dr Donald Kraybill, author of the Upside Down Kingdom, is now live.

Donald B. Kraybill is Distinguished College Professor, Senior Fellow, and Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Elizabethtown College., Pennsylvania. Internationally recognized for his scholarship on Anabaptist groups, with a particular emphasis on the Amish, Professor Kraybill is the author or editor of many books and dozens of professional articles.

He is also well known for Upside-Down Kingdom, written in 1976 and published in 1978, with the purpose of reconciling his sociological training and perspectives with theological ones. His newest book, What the Amish Teach Us, is a collection of 22 short essays that infuse storytelling with informative reflections. Each essay is a lesson that the author has learned from the Amish.

Dr Donald B. Kraybill is Distinguished College Professor, Senior Fellow, and Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Elizabethtown College., Pennsylvania. Internationally recognized for his scholarship on Anabaptist groups, with a particular emphasis on the Amish, Professor Kraybill is the author or edit

03/08/2022

Episode 15: Dr Ruth Valerio is now live

The daughter of missionary parents, Ruth Valerio, has been actively connected to many of the major initiatives in the charismatic renewal and social justice for most of her life. She has been the youngest speaker at Spring Harvest (which she later chaired), a researcher at the Evangelical Alliance, and then head of its Social Responsibility department; whilst in her church life, Ruth has witnessed the birth of the 24/7 Prayer Movement. Increasingly drawn to embedding the values of social justice, environmentalism and simple living in her own life, Ruth helped to galvanise A Rocha UK, a Christian environmental organisation, into greater influence through its Eco Church programme. Ruth Valerio is currently Global Advocacy and Influencing Director for the international NGO Tearfund.

The daughter of missionary parents, Ruth Valerio, has been actively connected to many of the major initiatives in the charismatic renewal and social justice for most of her life. She has been the youngest speaker at Spring Harvest (which she later chaired), a researcher at the Evangelical Alliance,

16/07/2022

Episode 14: Simon Pellew OBE

Simon Pellew, OBE, is a social entrepreneur who has spent his career addressing some of the most intractable social problems in the UK, unemployment and repeat offending in the criminal justice system. Influenced in his twenties by the radical communitarian theology of the Anabaptists, Simon studied in America with the expert on the Amish community, Professor Donald Kraybill, being much influenced by his famous book The Upside-Down Kingdom. Returning to England, he set up the pioneering education and training charity PECAN in Peckham, South London, famous for its impact in lowering unemployment in some of the toughest council estates in London and for its equal pay policy for all employees. For the last twenty years, Simon has worked with charities aiming to reduce reoffending in the prison population, pioneering approaches to improve family relationships and reduce unemployment amongst ex-offenders.
https://youtu.be/DgjQFDkb720

24/06/2022

Episode 13: Peter Owen Jones

The Reverend Peter Owen Jones is an Anglican priest, author, environmentalist and television presenter. Peter has had an extraordinarily varied and adventurous life as a jackaroo in Australia, a farm labourer in southern England, and then running a mobile disco, before working his way up from messenger boy to creative director in an advertising agency. But then, a bit like Saint Anthony the Great or Saint Francis of Assisi, he abandoned a metropolitan lifestyle to become an Anglican priest, firstly in rural Cambridgeshire and now in the delightful East Sussex countryside at Firle, near Lewes. In fact, like St Anthony the Great, Peter - in his Extreme Pilgrim television series - lived in a cave for 21 days in the Egyptian desert. He is currently working on a television series exploring the less glamorous but fascinating areas of the United Kingdom.

https://extraecc.com/you-tube/episode-13-peter-owen-jones