A regular podcast of youth leader inspiration. Hosts Rachel Gardner and Martin Saunders talk faith, church and culture with brilliant guests from the world of youth work, the wider church and beyond.
This season of the podcast is all about looking ahead towards the future. In a world that feels uncertain and ever-changing how can we as practitioners help young people navigate paths that we haven’t travelled ourselves? How do we chart out safe passage for ourselves, let alone those who are looking to us as we work with the teenagers around us? Come join us as we delve into the unknown, chat to experts and decipher and discern what this could mean for our youth work in this next season.
Podcast Search
Categories
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…
Sorry, we couldn't find anything that matched your search. Try something else?
27 November 2023
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.
20 November 2023
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.
17 November 2023
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.
6 November 2023
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…
30 October 2023
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
23 October 2023
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.
16 October 2023
Today we sit down with Dr. Gemma Madle as she brings her reflections and thoughts from the research she's been sifting through as part of the team at the Youthscape Centre for Research. If you want to explore some more of the wonderful research and work that the team are producing, head over to youthscape.co.uk/research
17 July 2023
Buckle up for the last episode of this season where we've looked at some of the most difficult questions within youth ministry. Martin and Rachel are in the hot seat answering rather than asking the questions and we dive straight in!
26 June 2023
Season Finale (Part 1) | Tough Questions in Youth Ministry | Episode 250
12 June 2023
Why does God appear to be inconsistent in the Bible? | Alanzo Paul | Tough Questions in Youth Ministry | Episode 249
5 June 2023
Rachel sits down with Reverend Alan Gault, youth-worker-turned-vicar in Blackburn as they pick apart Alan's journey to ordination and what it looks like to help prioritise youth work even when you're not the youth worker.
29 May 2023
Rachel sits down with John Reynolds, content creator and current volunteer youth worker. John chats about his life, and some of the challenges he's faced and how he's adjusted to them while understanding where God has placed him.
Page 1 of 21
