Dec 09 2024 58 mins
A big welcome to Roz as our conversation partner for this December podcast! Roz is Assistant Chaplain at the University of Glasgow and she joins Holly and Darren to discuss all things Adventy – it’s that time of year, folks.
Their starting point is Rachel Mann’s new Advent book, Do Not Be Afraid: The Joy of Waiting in a Time of Fear, which is the Archbishop of York’s Advent Book for 2024. Rachel Mann is an Anglican priest and (as faithful listeners will remember) a former smallVOICE podcast guest. We chat about Christmas services, Carols in general – the best AND the most problematic – and the strange intersection of nostalgia and incarnation at this time of year.
Before delving in to Advent, we also wanted to have a short tribute to Tony Campolo who died at the end of November. Tony Campolo was an influential Christian writer, sociologist and Baptist preacher and the co-founder of Red Letter Christians, an organisation focused on the words and example of Jesus and which promotes social justice.
We end our podcast, as has been our tradition these last few years, with fantastic Scottish singer Hannah Rarity and her specially-recorded version of Silent Night.
Go well, people, and we’ll see you in 2025.
Links:
Tony Campolo website
Red Letter Christians
Darren’s tribute on Substack
Do Not Be Afraid: The Joy of Waiting in a Time of Fear: The Archbishop of York’s Advent Book 2024 by Rachel Mann
Rachel Mann website
Rachel Mann on smallVOICE (April 2021)
University of Glasgow chaplaincy
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This podcast was recorded on Thursday 5 December 2024. Available from Apple Podcasts, TuneIn Radio, and via your favourite podcast App.
Duration: 58’22 minutes. Theme music and stings by Nicolai Heidlas.