Feb 23 2024 36 mins 16
What can we learn from Alexei Navalny's life? What does chaos in Westminster teach us about church life? How can we show that life is valuable from conception?
In this episode, Phil Topham, John Stevens, and Adrian Reynolds discuss some of the stories in the news from the past fortnight and consider how we can learn as church leaders from them.
00:00 - Introduction
01:00 - FIEC news
03:24 - Alexei Navalny and opposition to Russia
12:20 - Chaos in Parliament and the Gaza vote
17:22 - Church governance and policies
23:20 - IVF, baby loss certificates, and life from conception
28:42 - Pastoral care for baby loss
33:05 - Samantha Morton's BAFTA Fellowship
Show notes
- Introducing our Director for North Wales (fiec.org.uk)
- Thrive and Ministry Wives Retreat (fiec.org.uk)
- FIEC Local Conferences 2024 (fiec.org.uk)
- Humour, Friendship, and a Kingdom Perspective (fiec.org.uk)
- Putin critic Alexei Navalny dies in Arctic Circle jail, says Russia (bbc.co.uk)
- Gaza vote: What happened in the Commons yesterday - and can the Speaker Lindsay Hoyle be sacked? (news.sky.com)
- Alabama clinics pause IVF treatments after frozen embryo ruling (bbc.co.uk)
- Baby loss certificates introduced in England to 'provide comfort' for parents grieving after a miscarriage (news.sky.com)
- Samantha Morton has BAFTA viewers in tears as she dedicates Fellowship prize to children in care (virginradio.co.uk)
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