In conversation …

Open the Gospel for 1 September, 14 after Trinity. Mark 7.1-8,14,15,21-23. The Revd Kate Stacey, Lay Reader Nick Partridge, and Senior Youth Connector Barrie Voyce in conversation.

Open the Gospel is a learning community for anyone who preaches, who listens to preaching, who wants a space to dig into scripture with others. We look at the coming Sunday’s Gospel from the Common Lectionary, with a conversation between a clergy and lay person, and someone considering the reading from the child at the centre, before opening up to the online community. The conversation will be available as a podcast that can be used in planning, or even where there is no one to preach in a Sunday service.

Open the Gospel for 22 September, 17 after Trinity. Mark 9.30-37. The Revd Kate Stacey, Lay Reader Nick Partridge, and Senior Youth Connector Barrie Voyce in conversation.

Open the Gospel is a learning community for anyone who preaches, who listens to preaching, who wants a space to dig into scripture with others. We look at the coming Sunday’s Gospel from the Common Lectionary, with a conversation between a clergy and lay person, and someone considering the reading from the child at the centre, before opening up to the online community. The conversation will be available as a podcast that can be used in planning, or even where there is no one to preach in a Sunday service.

Open the Gospel for 15 September, 16 after Trinity. Mark 8.27-38. The Revd Kate Stacey, Lay Reader Nick Partridge, and Senior Youth Connector Barrie Voyce in conversation.

Open the Gospel is a learning community for anyone who preaches, who listens to preaching, who wants a space to dig into scripture with others. We look at the coming Sunday’s Gospel from the Common Lectionary, with a conversation between a clergy and lay person, and someone considering the reading from the child at the centre, before opening up to the online community. The conversation will be available as a podcast that can be used in planning, or even where there is no one to preach in a Sunday service.

Open the Gospel for 8 September, 15 after Trinity. Mark 7.24-37. The Revd Kate Stacey, Lay Reader Nick Partridge, and Senior Youth Connector Barrie Voyce in conversation.

Open the Gospel is a learning community for anyone who preaches, who listens to preaching, who wants a space to dig into scripture with others. We look at the coming Sunday’s Gospel from the Common Lectionary, with a conversation between a clergy and lay person, and someone considering the reading from the child at the centre, before opening up to the online community. The conversation will be available as a podcast that can be used in planning, or even where there is no one to preach in a Sunday service.

The Anglican Bishop for HM Prisons, the Right Revd Rachel Treweek, in conversation with Marc Conway, CEO at Fair Justice, an organisation which aims to help get the voices of those who live and work within the criminal justice system, out and into the public.

In this third podcast in the series of 'Holding the Key: Unlocking the door to doing prison differently', Bishop Rachel and Marc Conway talk about Marc's lived experience of the criminal justice system, his work with offenders and ex-offenders, and specifically around the injustices and issues with historical IPP prison sentences. 

Open the Gospel for 1 September, 14 after Trinity. Mark 7.1-8,14,15,21-23. The Revd Kate Stacey, Lay Reader Nick Partridge, and Senior Youth Connector Barrie Voyce in conversation.

Open the Gospel is a learning community for anyone who preaches, who listens to preaching, who wants a space to dig into scripture with others. We look at the coming Sunday’s Gospel from the Common Lectionary, with a conversation between a clergy and lay person, and someone considering the reading from the child at the centre, before opening up to the online community. The conversation will be available as a podcast that can be used in planning, or even where there is no one to preach in a Sunday service.

Open the Gospel is a learning community for anyone who preaches, who listens to preaching, who wants a space to dig into scripture with others. We will look at the coming Sunday’s Gospel from the Common Lectionary, with a conversation between a clergy and lay person, and someone considering the reading from the child at the centre, before opening up to the online community. The conversation will be available as a podcast that can be used in planning, or even where there is no one to preach in a Sunday service.

The Anglican Bishop for HM Prisons, the Right Revd Rachel Treweek, in conversation with Tom Wheatley and Mark Icke of the Prison Governors’ Association.

In this second podcast in the series of 'Holding the Key: Unlocking the door to doing prison differently', Bishop Rachel talks to Tom Wheatley, President of the Prison Governers' Association, and Mark Icke, Vice President of the Prison Governors' Association. Tom and Mark bring over 57 years combined experience working in Prison leadership roles, and they discuss their experience of the effectiveness of the justice system, as well as their hopes for what the future might hold.

The Anglican Bishop for HM Prisons, the Right Revd Rachel Treweek, led a visit to the Netherlands to discover more about their criminal justice system as she continues with her commitment to inspire alternatives to prison in England and Wales.

In this podcast Bishop Rachel, Pia Sinha (CEO of the Prison Reform Trust) and Andrea Coomber (Chief Executive for the Howard League for Penal Reform), reflect on what they learnt during the visit and their key takeaways from the meetings that took place and the visit of PI Alphen aan den Rijn prison.

This is the first of a series of Podcasts called -  'Holding the key: A series of conversations to unlock the door to doing prison differently’. Bishop Rachel will be joined by influencers and change-makers as they ask the questions – what is prison really for and more importantly what could the alternatives be? 

Bishop Rachel Treweek visits the Cotswold School to talk to two young people there; Sam (y13) and Maya (y11). They are joined by Helen Ford of NHS Gloucestershire, programme Director for the Development of Children's Mental in Gloucestershire, and Jodi Carter, Deputy Head for Cotswold School.