Why Church - with Petra Bagust

In the Shift by Michael Frost

Nov 15, 202557:06Religion & Spirituality

Episode 111: In this collab episode between In the Shift and Sunday Sanctuary, I’m joined by Petra Bagust to discuss “why church?” In this conversation we chat through a bunch of reasons why church communities and collec...

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