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Episode 3: The Place for Politics
Guests: Grey Collier & Abigail Oyedele
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.
On this month’s episode Georgia and guests, Rev Grey Collier, Curate at St John’s Waterloo and Abigail Oyedele, community organiser at Citizens UK, talk about how politics and faith merge, or don’t they?
This is not just a conversation about party politics, but politics as a whole.
For some people with faith there is a binary of the secular and sacred and never do the two come together. Does this binary exist? What is found in the space between these binaries? And, where is the place of politics within a world of faith?
Grey speaks from his perspective as a former human rights lawyer, as well someone who didn’t hold a faith for some years, before now being ordained in the Church of England. Abigail speaks from her position as a community organiser, who engages with politics on a daily basis and who also grew up in the Church.
What is their advice to anyone who is not yet engaged in politics? And, indeed, is everything political…