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Grace Podcast

HeartEdge | Grace

Conversations about God and race with Azariah France-Williams, Winnie Varghese and guests. A HeartEdge podcast. #Godandrace.

Episodes

19 episodes

18. Anthony Reddie: "Professor Reddie, I can see why Azariah quotes you all the time... I will too!"

Director of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture, Professor Anthony Reddie joins Azariah France-Williams and Winnie Varghese for more...

00:42:44Mar 6, 2023

17. Lanecia Rouse Tinsley: “I wanted to create a table where people could fully show up as themselves and experience the life, the joy, the healing…”

US multidisciplinary artist Lanecia Rouse Tinsley joins Azariah France-Williams and Winnie Varghese for more transatlantic conversation abou...

00:40:52Oct 19, 2022

16. Augustine Tanner Ihm: "People who decide to come to your church... you've got to give them good food."

UK based Augustine Tanner Ihm is an assistant curate and Student, Mission and Outreach Director at St. James and Emmanuel Didsbury in Manche...

00:51:29Sep 23, 2022

15. Jeff Chu: "Our hope is not for ourselves…”

“Those of us who feel a little bit of hope have a responsibility to share that. Our hope is not for ourselves…” US based Jeff Chu - writer,...

00:42:00Jul 24, 2022

14. Kim Jackson: "The work of the gospel is beyond the walls of the church..."

US Senator and Episcopal priest Kim Jackson in conversation with Azariah France Williams and Winnie Varghese. "The work of the gospel is doi...

00:46:47Apr 25, 2022

13. Natalia-Nana: "To embrace difference - that's costly, sacrificial, uncomfortable..."

This episode rich and candid conversation about God, race and racial justice in church and society with educationalist and activist Natalia-...

00:44:51Mar 21, 2022

12. "Prophetic and fearless... and deep solidarity..." Azariah and Winnie on Recent Loss and Remembering

Winnie and Azariah on recent deaths and loss, remembering bell hooks; "She uses her grandmother's name... and doesn't capitalise her name......

00:33:12Feb 16, 2022

11. Bev Thomas: "I wasn't doing what they said I should do..."

"They chose to ban us from crossing certain lines because they didn't want us to be hurt. And I wanted to explore that and it got me into an...

00:44:12Dec 18, 2021

10. Kobna Holdbrook-Smith: “... If it’s not practical it’s not spiritual…"

“You cannot expect to experience grace except through other people…” Actor Kobna Holdbrook-Smith - Wonka, (2023), Mary Poppins Returns (2018...

00:38:35Nov 18, 2021

9. Anderson Jeremiah: "If we don't understand God in our context, God cannot be relevant..."

"You don't have to justify your place. This is your voice. And you have all the right to talk about God the way you want to talk..." Lecture...

00:32:27Oct 15, 2021

8. Jarel Robinson-Brown: "Grace is something we all participate... we are all able to share..."

"I can’t separate the black part of me from the gay part pf me, from the British part of me. It’s all one part of me…" Theologian and activi...

00:46:21Sep 8, 2021

7. Glenna J. Huber: "Organising people and money creates change…"

“I was being introduced to organising before I knew what was organising… I organised a movement to make sure students had a voice… I believe...

00:42:49Aug 13, 2021

6. Sam Lindo: "Speaking truth to power was the path my faith led me on…"

Singer and activist Sam Lindo joins Azariah and Winnie to talk God, race, and finding home. "I spent my whole school trying to minimise my d...

00:44:15Jul 8, 2021

5. Mihee Kim-Kort: "We hold each other up because of differences..."

“You see us as perpetual foreigner…” Writer and Presbyterian minister Mihee Kim-Kort joins Winnie Varghese and Azariah France Williams for m...

00:32:44Jun 11, 2021

4. Chine McDonald: "God is not a white man..."

"Our worship songs, the way that we do church are so wrapped up in this notion of Englishness..." Communicator and influencer Chine McDonald...

00:45:06May 13, 2021

Trail New (G)race - now monthly!

(G)race returns for conversation about God and race! Azariah France-Williams in the UK, Winnie Varghese in the US plus guests digging deep i...

00:01:06May 10, 2021

3. Sharon Lewis: 'Afro-Futurism and recovering faith'

"Your work, the spirit is pulsating through it... it's deeply spiritual..." Writer, director and award-winning film maker, Sharon Lewis in c...

00:36:04Mar 5, 2021

2. David Neita: 'Barriers, boundaries and finding home'

UK based poet and lawyer David Neita in conversation with Azariah France-Williams and Winnie Varghese. “I belong to the Lord – so this is my...

00:35:22Feb 26, 2021

1. Broderick Greer: 'Black imagination, white reactions'

Broderick Greer Canon Precentor at Saint John's Cathedral in Denver, Colorado US in transatlantic conversation with Azariah France-Williams...

00:34:44Feb 19, 2021