Postost Podcast Andrew Perriman

This is a quick one—an audio version of a post from 2018 on the doctrine of the second coming. Simply put, the evangelical church needs to choose between dogma and history, and I think we should choose history. For more on the argument about the judgment of the sheep and goats see this post.

Here’s another podcast in the “mission in post-Christian Europe” category. It’s an interview with Paul and Jordan Prins and Sheila Wittenberg about their Urban Monastics project. They have some really good things to say about cross-cultural mission in Western Europe, their reasons for starting an “ecumenical monastic community,” and the values and vision that they are seeking to put into practice. The audio quality is a bit uneven in places, but hopefully that won’t be too distracting.

I've got to know Rob Bavington through his connection with Communitas. He has been something of an accidental church-planter, first in Sweden for some years, now in Bradford. We talk about what he's learned, what he's learning, and some of the less obvious cross-cultural dimensions of church-planting in the UK today.

I’m hoping to do the occasional podcast interview with people doing mission in the Western secular context. This is the first one. I’ve got to know Lynsey and Stuart Gilmour through Communitas and I love listening to them talk about who they are and what they do. They live in Stenhousemuir, Scotland, and have been working for some years with a very alternative crowd in the Glasgow and Edinburgh. They also go into schools and talk about sexual and mental health issues. You can find out a bit more about them on their Is This It? website, but listen to the podcast first.

This is the audio version of a recent post on my blog. There's a lot going on in the world right now. Climate change and ecological destruction is relatively slow and longer term, but it is likely to constitute an existential crisis on an epochal, even geological, time scale. This podcast looks at one way of framing a response to this in biblical terms.

This is a quick look at how the evangelical church might "justify" its mission today in the light of what Paul has to say about "rightness" and faith in Philippians 3:2-11.