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Last week we began reflecting on recent events of the substantiated allegations against Mike Pilavachi, founder and leader of Soul Survivor, a large successful Christian conference that ran for just under 30 years until recently. We focused our last episode on why we need to be putting survivors first in situations where abuse has taken place.

This week we are exploring the impact this news has had on us as youth leaders and individuals who may taken taken many young people to Soul Survivor events and possibly attended as a delegate when we were a teenager. Rachel chatted to Rev. Dr. Kate Middleton about what it means to try and process our collective grief and find constructive ways to move forward.

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There are sadly many forms of injustice, prejudice and discrimination in our contexts, but how do they relate to each other, and what does a Christian lens add to this? How do we support young people as they navigate these intersecting layers of injustice? Martin sits down with Joy Faulkner-Mpeho, Head of Children's and Youth Ministry at St Martin in the Field in London, to explore just this.

Meanwhile, Martin and Rachel share their thoughts on what they're reading and Martin sneaks a bit of a potential stand up set about bin day...

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Rachel gets a chance to sit down with Rev. Ben Atkins as they talk about a recent trend that's popped up in youth culture known as WitchTok. Ben shares some of his own experiences with paganism and the occult and together Rachel and Ben explore what this could mean for our practice as youth workers. How do we set out to listen to and support young people while helping them to put down anything that takes them away from life with God? Get ready for an excellent interview as we dig into how young people might delve into this world in order to find meaning, purpose and identity and what they gospel has to say about that.

Meanwhile, back at Youthscape HQ, Martin tries some smelling salts, both share their mixed experience of Halloween and we hear a tale from Martin's time trying to make it as a Hollywood screenwriter...

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In today's episode, Martin and Rachel catch up on some major life updates and discuss the recent fails of youth work in their contexts. As they open the topic of how to help ourselves and the young people we serve figure out how to navigate the recent tragedies and global events, we have Dr. Krish Kandiah joining us this week on the mic. 

Dr. Kandiah is an author, speaker, founder of Sanctuary Foundation, an organisation that works to support refugees and he also founded Home for Good, a charity working to make sure every child has a home through fostering and adoption. Krish is also a regular advisor to the government on some of these issues, and chats to us from an particluarly unusual location to help us think about how can we support and help the young people and communities around us.

If you want to find out more, head to sanctuaryfoundation.org.uk

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Martin and Rachel are back again with a brand new series - Into God Knows What.

This season of the podcast is all about looking ahead towards the future. In a world that feels uncertain and ever-changing how can we as practitioners help young people navigate paths that we haven’t travelled ourselves? How do we chart out safe passage for ourselves, let alone those who are looking to us as we work with the teenagers around us? Come join us as we delve into the unknown, chat to experts and decipher and discern what this could mean for our youth work in this next season.

Today we sit down with Dr. Gemma Madle as she brings her reflections and thoughts from the research she's been sifting through as part of the team at the Youthscape Centre for Research. If you want to explore some more of the wonderful research and work that the team are producing, head over to youthscape.co.uk/research

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