The Youthscape Podcast

This week, Martin sits down with Clare Williams from GET REAL and the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. They take a deep dive into the difficulties that the arise when people have used the Bible for their own agendas and whether this causes any problems.

Martin chats to a familiar voice of the podcast for dedicated listeners - Charles Merritt. Together they look at the different disciplines of youth work and children's work and grapple with the similarities as well as the challenges of co-existing.

Martin sits down with the wonderful Linda Geevanathan, a long-time friend of Youthscape and local youth worker in Luton, as they chat about unity in the context of differing beliefs.

Rachel sits down with Katie Madanat as they discuss what expectations youth leaders should expect around modesty and what their response should be in those difficult scenarios.

Martin sits down with Robbie Thomson, Events Director for Satellites, to discuss the importance of making sure summer events have the right weighting in our youth ministry calendars, and how they fit into a wider understanding of discipleship.

Rachel sits down with Claire Banham as she shares some of the story of her journey to creating the Haven, a safe space for young people suffering from anxiety and how that started with walking her own teenage daughter through her anxiety.

Martin sits down to Gareth Cheesman from Acet UK as they discuss a whole host of questions around relationship and sex education including, condoms, polyamory and what AI means for future tough questions we might want to be asking in youth ministry.

Rachel sits down with the wonderful Richard Passmore as they unpick ecclesiology and what church for young people could look like. Meanwhile, Martin and Rachel share their reflections on the recent events coming out of Asbury college in America.

Martin sits down with Director of South West Youth Ministries, Paul Friend, who has just come off a three month sabbatical to discuss something we all know is important, but often find is at the bottom of our to-do list: rest. They chat about what Paul has learned from his time on sabbatical and how do you manage to build in rest when there's never a clear and easy time to do it.

Martin sits down with Youthscape's own Alex Drew (for the second time), as they discuss training, volunteers and how to best set up other members of our youth teams to win.

Martin sits down with Ruth Jackson, producer, presenter, apologist and former editor at Premier Youth and Children's Work magazine to discuss the relevance of apologetics in today's age and how you as a youth worker should respond to the challenging question of suffering. Meanwhile, Rachel and Martin update us on the latest exploits with their dogs, and Rachel pitches her new idea for something called "The Guilty Youth Worker”.