Generous Faith

Morley Radio

Generous Faith is a series hosted by Reverend Georgia Ashwell, a podcast that celebrates the curious and the questioning.

  1. 2 Jul

    S3 Ep1: LGBTQIA+ and the Church

    Generous Faith Series 3 Episode 1: LGBTQIA+ and the Church Guest: rev Charlie Bell   Generous Faith is a series hosted by Reverend Georgia Ashwell, a podcast that celebrates the curious and the questioning. In these challenging times we’re thinking about how to live a good life – a life which embraces questions and explores a generous way to understand faith, life and the world. Join Georgia and featured guests each month to seek those spaces found between the binaries, spaces where beauty and mystery often dwell. This podcast is produced by St John’s Waterloo in collaboration with Morley Radio.   It is not a secret that, unfortunately, the Church has a reputation of being homophobic. And that is because despite the many LGBTQIA+ people, priests and bishops who advocate and long for an affirming and inclusive church, the Church of England still holds particular view points and practices that prevent full inclusion and affirmation of LGBTQI+ people. So why and how does the Church of England maintain this institutional homophobia? What is being done to push against it? Surely, with the ever-growing presence of the far right the Church should be a place of safety for all, especially minority groups. It begs the question – just where is the power and how is it being used?

  2. 05/12/2025

    S2 Ep6: Art and Spirituality

    Generous Faith Series 2 Episode 6 - Art and Spirituality Guest: Fleur Dorrell   Generous Faith is a series hosted by Reverend Georgia Ashwell, a podcast that celebrates the curious and the questioning. In these challenging times we’re thinking about how to live a good life – a life which embraces questions and explores a generous way to understand faith, life and the world. Join Georgia and featured guests each month to seek those spaces found between the binaries, spaces where beauty and mystery often dwell. This podcast is produced by St John’s Waterloo in collaboration with Morley Radio.   Art has been a part of the human experience for as long as there has been human experience and art has been a part of faith and religion for as long as there has been faith and religion. What power does art have within the life of this world and how might art lead to or enable spiritual experience and connection with the Divine? Listen to this final episode of season two as host, Rev Georgia Ashwell interviews guest Fleur Dorrell on Art and Spirituality.

  3. 19/09/2025

    S2 Ep5: Palestine: The Fear of Oppression and The Power of Freedom (Part 2)

    Generous Faith Series 2 Episode 5 – Palestine: The Fear of Oppression and The Power of Freedom (Part 2) Guests: Dr Sharon Jagger, Esther McIntosh & Samuel Salim Munayer   Generous Faith is a series hosted by Reverend Georgia Ashwell, a podcast that celebrates the curious and the questioning. In these challenging times we’re thinking about how to live a good life – a life which embraces questions and explores a generous way to understand faith, life and the world. Join Georgia and featured guests each month to seek those spaces found between the binaries, spaces where beauty and mystery often dwell. This podcast is produced by St John’s Waterloo in collaboration with Morley Radio.   Our freedom can so easily be taken for granted, and perhaps rightly so – it is a human right. But what is it to have your freedom taken away? To live in the shadow of oppression. In this double episode I talk to Sharon and Esther, two Christian women from the UK on their recent visit to Palestine and all they witnessed for Christians and all Palestinians living there. Also joining us is Samuel, a Palestinian man who they met as part of their visit.   What is the history of this land and people? What is the Palestinian Christian experience? And is the Christian influence both good and bad from the UK, US and other places? How much has White-Christian Supremacy caused harm to Palestinians? If it doesn’t aid freedom, can we all it Christian?   Useful Resources   Amos TrustMedical Aid For Palestinians Sabeel-Kairos: Taking Action for Palestine   You can reach host Georgia via email georgia@stjohnswaterloo.org

  4. 12/09/2025

    S2 Ep4: The Fear of Oppression and The Power of Freedom

    Generous Faith Series 2 Episode 4 - Palestine: The Fear of Oppression and The Power of Freedom Guests: Dr Sharon Jagger, Esther McIntosh & Samuel Salim Munayer   Generous Faith is a series hosted by Reverend Georgia Ashwell, a podcast that celebrates the curious and the questioning. In these challenging times we’re thinking about how to live a good life – a life which embraces questions and explores a generous way to understand faith, life and the world. Join Georgia and featured guests each month to seek those spaces found between the binaries, spaces where beauty and mystery often dwell. This podcast is produced by St John’s Waterloo in collaboration with Morley Radio.   Our freedom can so easily be taken for granted, and perhaps rightly so – it is a human right. But what is it to have your freedom taken away? To live in the shadow of oppression. In this double episode I talk to Sharon and Esther, two Christian women from the UK on their recent visit to Palestine and all they witnessed for Christians and all Palestinians living there. Also joining us is Samuel, a Palestinian man who they met as part of their visit.   What is the history of this land and people? What is the Palestinian Christian experience? And is the Christian influence both good and bad from the UK, US and other places? How much has White-Christian Supremacy caused harm to Palestinians? If it doesn't aid freedom, can we all it Christian?   Useful Resources   Amos TrustMedical Aid For Palestinians Sabeel-Kairos: Taking Action for Palestine   You can reach host Georgia via email georgia@stjohnswaterloo.org

  5. 29/08/2025

    S2 Ep3: Meditation: Concentrate, Contemplate and Transcend

    Generous Faith Series 2 Episode 3: Meditation: Concentrate, Contemplate and Transcend Guest: Chancellor Chandler   Generous Faith is a series hosted by Reverend Georgia Ashwell, a podcast that celebrates the curious and the questioning. In these challenging times we’re thinking about how to live a good life - a life which embraces questions and explores a generous way to understand faith, life and the world. Join Georgia and featured guests each month to seek those spaces found between the binaries, spaces where beauty and mystery often dwell. This podcast is produced by St John’s Waterloo in collaboration with Morley Radio.   Is meditation good for us? Can it alleviate suffering? Is it a way for us to transcend? Or is there a danger that we focus too much on the internal and fail to engage with the world? Join me as I interview guest, Chancellor Chandler, teacher of Transcendental Meditation, and unpack together to joys of Transcendental Meditation what it means for him to teach and practice this technique and what it could mean for other to engage in this practice ourselves. Find out more about Trascendental Meditation here

  6. 15/08/2025

    S2 Ep2: Nature, Faith and Psychedelics

    Generous Faith Series 2 Episode 2: Nature, Faith and Psychedelics Guests: Annette Kaye & Muzammal Hussain  We are intricately connected to the natural world which brings so much joy and beauty, as well as disaster and devastation because of climate injustice for many people across the world – and more so on those who have contributed the least to the climate crisis. In this episode I’m joined by to guests, Muzammal - who has been involved with grassroots ecological work for almost 20 years and is one of the pioneers amongst Muslims in the UK, and Annette - spiritual director, psychotherapist and artist, and recent explorer into the realm of psychedelics within a spiritual context. Together we talk about how faith can influence the way we interact with nature – positively and negatively, and how we understand spirituality / God to be found within the natural world. Generous Faith is a series hosted by Reverend Georgia Ashwell, a podcast that celebrates the curious and the questioning. In these challenging times we’re thinking about how to live a good life - a life which embraces questions and explores a generous way to understand faith, life and the world. Join Georgia and featured guests each month to seek those spaces found between the binaries, spaces where beauty and mystery often dwell. This podcast is produced by St John’s Waterloo in collaboration with Morley Radio.

  7. 01/08/2025

    S2 Ep1: Magic and Mystery

    Generous Faith Series 2 Episode 3: Magic and Mystery Guests: Dr Shanon Shah and Max Gordon   Generous Faith is a series hosted by Reverend Georgia Ashwell, a podcast that celebrates the curious and the questioning. In these challenging times we’re thinking about how to live a good life - a life which embraces questions and explores a generous way to understand faith, life and the world. Join Georgia and featured guests each month to seek those spaces found between the binaries, spaces where beauty and mystery often dwell. This podcast is produced by St John’s Waterloo in collaboration with Morley Radio.   We begin season 2 with a magical conversation. Is magic evil? Can you believe in God and magic? Is it all the same? Join me, Georgia Ashwell, as I interview two guests, Max Gordon, a tarot reader, astrologer and psychic from the U.S, who has been reading professionally for over thirty years. And Dr Shanon Shah, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, King's College London (KCL). He conducts academic research on minority religions and alternative spiritualities at the Inform, an educational charity affiliated with KCL.   Together we talk about the binary of faith and magic – why was faith always displayed as good and magic bad. But doesn’t magic occur in the bible? Christianity has at the centre of the faith – the Holy Spirit – could it be that magic and faith are not so polarised. Maybe all magic is from God.

  8. 22/03/2025

    S1 Ep6: Prophecy and the Church

    Generous Faith Episode 6: Prophecy and the Church Guests: Rev Giles Goddard and Rev Chantal Noppen   Generous Faith is a series hosted by Reverend Georgia Ashwell, a podcast that celebrates the curious and the questioning. In these challenging times we’re thinking about how to live a good life – a life which embraces questions and explores a generous way to understand faith, life and the world. Join Georgia and featured guests each month to seek those spaces found between the binaries, spaces where beauty and mystery often dwell. This podcast is produced by St John’s Waterloo in collaboration with Morley Radio.   In this final episode of season one, Georgia talks with returning guest, Rev Giles Goddard, author of Generous Faith – that this podcast is named after – and one of the organisers of the conference – Generous Faith: our wound is our word. A new guest Rev Chantal Noppen, a priest in the church of England with over 10 years of working on Estates, now the National Coordinator for Inclusive Church, and working with Giles to produce the Generous Faith conference. The theme of the conference is prophecy and so, Georgia and guests talk about prophecy, what it is and what it might be. Join them as they venture into conversations on fortune telling, witchcraft, palm reading, mediums (yes, they’re in the Bible). Is this prophecy? Or is the work of the prophet to speak truth to power? Or both? Do we have prophets today? Where are they and who are they? Listen to find out more.   And come along to the Generous Faith: our wound is our word conference at St John’s waterloo on Saturday 22nd March. Tickets here   This is the last episode for series one, but Georgia will be back for another series soon. If you have any thoughts, comments, ideas or asks, let her know on georgia@stjohnswaterloo.org

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Generous Faith is a series hosted by Reverend Georgia Ashwell, a podcast that celebrates the curious and the questioning.

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  • Creator
    Morley Radio
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    13
  • Rating
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