Tent Talks with Dr Stephen Backhouse

In episode 3 of Interrupting Serious Youth Violence Tent Talks co-host Rev. Natasha Beckles discusses power and privilege with Leroy Logan. Logan is the UK's most highly decorated and well known black police officer and is the founding member of the Black Police Association. He is the author of "Closing Ranks", which detailed his time as a senior police officer in London and had his story dramatized for television by Steve McQueen in "Red White and Blue."

Through conversations and interviews, this series takes on the systemic and personal issues that create unsafe communities for our children and looks to solutions for what schools and churches can do about it.  Natasha developed these episodes in conjunction with Compassionate Communities as part of the Diocese of London. This episode's co-host includes Revd. Lara Edwards.

You can find out more about Leroy Logan's work at his website.

For more information on Compassionate Communities please visit their website.

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Tent Talks co-host Rev. Natasha Beckles continues her series on Interrupting Serious Youth Violence with a discussion about education and belonging in a conversation with education thought leader Rachel Clarke. Through conversations and interviews, Natasha takes on the systemic and personal issues that create unsafe communities for our children and looks to solutions for what schools and churches can do about it. Natasha developed this series with Compassionate Communities as part of the Diocese of London. This episode's co-host includes Revd. Pete Hopkins.

You can find out more about Rachel's work with Promote Equality and Apex Educate which help organizations fight systemic racism here and here, and you can follow her on twitter here. 

For more information on Compassionate Communities please visit their website.

The theme music for this series is by Nikita Khamenskii. You can find his music here or commission a work through his Fiverr page.

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In this episode Tent Talks co-host Revd. Natasha Beckles begins her series on Interrupting Serious Youth Violence. Through conversations and interviews, Natasha takes on the systemic and personal issues that create unsafe communities for our children and looks to solutions for what schools and churches can do about it. This first episode gives an overview of the "big picture" of youth violence and then focuses supporting young families through a discussion on birth and bereavement. Natasha developed this series with Compassionate Communities as part of the Diocese of London. This episode's co-hosts include Revd. Pete Hopkins and Revd. Lara Edwards.

For more information on Compassionate Communities please visit their website.

The theme music for this series is by Nikita Khamenskii. You can find his music here or commission a work through his Fiverr page.

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Nikita Khamenskii

Brad Jersak's most recent book Out of the Embers deals with deconstruction in all its forms. Tent Talks invited Brad to make a four-part series on the themes of his book.  In this fourth episode has a conversation with Judith Moses, a seasoned indigenous political activist in Canada who is known for working on the committee that worked with Canadian prime ministers to ensure the First Nations charter of rights got into the Canadian Charter. She was born on the Six Nations Indian Reserve and her lifetime of service was recognized by the Queens Diamond Jubilee Medal. She is also a chair at St. Stephens University where Brad works.

More about Judith Moses can be found at www.nordicity.com/team/associates/judith-moses

Find out more about Jersak and his books HERE. Check out the graduate programmes which Brad teaches on at St Stephen's University HERE. 

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Brad Jersak's most recent book Out of the Embers deals with deconstruction in all its forms. Tent Talks invited Brad to make a four-part series on the themes of his book.  In this third episode he sits down with Felicia Murrell to explore deconstruction from a path of love and understanding but also as a black woman in the American context. Felicia is a certified master life coach, a former ordained pastor, and also serves the publishing industry as a freelance copy editor/proofreader. She helped Brad to co-write a chapter of Out of the Embers.

You can read some of Felicia's articles here, find her on Instagram here, and  inquire about her editing/proofreading services here. Her book Truth Encounters can be purchased here or wherever books are sold online.

 Find out more about Jersak and his books HERE. Check out the graduate programmes which Brad teaches on at St Stephen's University HERE. 

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Brad Jersak's most recent book Out of the Embers deals with deconstruction in all its forms. Tent Talks invited Brad to make a four-part series on the themes of his book.  In this second episode he sits down with David Hayward, the NakedPastor, to talk about deconstruction, staying in relationship as we go through the process of reshaping our faith, and finding community in the aftermath of it all.

David Hayward, "left the ministry to pursue his passion for art." You can view his works HERE, and learn more about The Lasting Supper HERE.

Find out more about Jersak and his books HERE. Check out the graduate programmes which Brad teaches on at St Stephen's University HERE. 

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Brad Jersak's most recent book Out of the Embers deals with deconstruction in all its forms. Tent Talks invited Brad to make a four-part series on the themes of his book. In this first episode he sits down with Brian Zahnd to talk about deconstruction, reconstruction and the church.

Zahnd is a pastor, speaker and prolific author, well known for his stance against Christian nationalism. You can find more about him and his books HERE.

Find out more about Jersak and his books HERE. Check out the graduate programmes which Brad teaches on at St Stephen's University HERE. 

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Clare Backhouse is a nutritional therapist who specialises in human system and lifestyle health. She joins the Tent to talk about the chemistry and biology of anxiety, safety and affection, and tackles the question of how what we eat helps us how to love. 

You can find out more about Clare's practice and writing at www.transformationnutrition.org. 

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Thomas Jay Oord is the Professor of Open and Relational Theology at Northwind Theological Seminary and the author of a number of books on love, and what this might mean when we talk about power and God.

You can find out more about Thomas Oord and his works HERE.

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The love of enemies is the most famous, and least practiced, of all forms of love. We talk with Melissa Florer-Bixler, who is an Anabaptist activist, Mennonite pastor and author, amongst other things, of How to Have an Enemy.

You can find our more about Melissa and her work HERE. 

How to Have An Enemy is available widely. You can find out more about it HERE.

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