Sylvia Baikie is the national co-ordinator for child poverty, a public health practitioner and the leader of Maximise, an initiative to provide a long term, holistic model of intensive support for families in poverty. She also shares some of her story and the role that Leslie Baptist has played in her life.  Eilidh Proudfoot is the Scottish Lead of Home For Good, a UK Christian Charity that seeks to inspire, enable and empower the church to support families who foster and adopt. They’re here to give us an insight into family in different contexts across the country and what the local church might have to offer.

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For more stats on adoption and fostering in the UK visit  https://homeforgood.org.uk/statistics

To find our more about Maximise visit https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/22917/sylvia-baikie---maximise

What do we really mean when we ask "Who is my neighbour?". To read more on the themes in this episode, why not check out "Covenant and Conversation" by Rabbi Sacks, or "Who Is My Neighbour?" by Carter and Wells. Credit it also due to Caio Peres, whose work you can find through the Centre for Hebraic Thought. https://hebraicthought.org/joseph-and-his-brothers-kingship-servanthood/

This week we're joined by Ian Birch (Scottish Baptist College) and Margaret Sutherland (Glasgow University) to think about what it means to learn in community and what it might look like to expand the Kingdom of God in our educational spaces.

In today's message Fraser takes us through the story of the unforgiving servant.

Amie takes us through this more complex parable in Matthew 25, exploring the concept of work, stewardship and knowing who we serve.

Jim takes us through this somewhat tricky parable in Luke 16, plus Amie gives us some news on the next development happening with the podcast.

We explore the tension between Jesus and the Pharisees in Matthew 15:1-20.

Some parables are long complex stories and others are just short little metaphors. This week we are looking at two very short, one-point parables that Jesus gives in Matthew 13:44-46