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Discussion on current events relating to justice and peace from the Joint Public Issues Team (JPIT). JPIT is Baptists Together, the Methodist Church of Great Britain and the United Reformed Church working together for peace and justice.
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Sienna talks to anti-poverty campaigner Hannah Fremont-Brown on this final episode of our election mini-series. They discuss poverty in the UK and how engagement with candidates and our future MPs can encourage putting the ending of poverty higher up the political agenda of all parties. Remember to take your voter ID if you vote at a polling statio…
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Sienna talks to Emma Nash, a Baptist minister and member of the Methodist Mission Team on voting, the local church, mission, marginalisation and hope in politics. Emma shares how her work and ministry influence why she votes, especially from the perspective of churches in marginalised communities. She makes the case that hope is an action that Chri…
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Sienna and Annie discuss universal suffrage, politics and gender equality and being a mosquito. Huge leaps forwards in gender equality in the UK have been made in the almost 100 years since all women were allowed to vote. However, the gender pay gap remains stubbornly at 8%, women remain underrepresented in leadership positions and in politics, and…
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Do we vote for the benefit of others as well as ourselves? Can a 15-year gap in life expectancy between the wealthiest and poorest be addressed through elections? Sienna talks to Bevan Powell, Director of Inclusion for the Methodist Connexional Team, about being an architect of change and how political engagement by people of faith might help creat…
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With around 4 million people able to vote in a General Election for the first time in 2024, how can we help young people to engage and make their voices heard? Roo talks to Maya, Youth Assembly Moderator Elect for the United Reformed Church, about her attitude to voting and politics, and what changes she thinks would help young people to get more i…
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A General Election has been called! How should churches and Christians engage? Join Simeon and Sienna as they talk about our call to ‘Love, Pray and Vote’, some of the issues we want to see on the election agenda, and how churches can be part of the democratic process through voter registration and holding hustings.Further reading/resources: https:…
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This week, the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, stated that we are closer to nuclear escalation than at any point since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Is he right and what can be done? In 2008, US nuclear weapons were removed from British soil. Now it looks like the US wants to send them back. Should the British public have a say? Listen to Annie and S…
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UPDATED 13 May to reflect an announcement from the Home Office on one of the issues raised in the episode.-----Roo talks to Fr Dominic Robinson and Revd Jennifer Mills-Knutsen, two of London's West End church leaders, about their recent letter denouncing the UK Government's approach to 'nuisance' rough sleeping in the Criminal Justice Bill.Further …
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