Connecting current affairs and the Bible together through the lens of justice. Guests each week share with our host how they would approach the Lectionary readings for the following Sunday, with ‘the Bible in one hand and the newspapers in the other’. Usually released on Tuesday mornings during term time. A Joint Public Issues Team (JPIT) production.
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Connecting current affairs and the Bible together through the lens of justice. Guests each week share with our host how they would approach the Lectionary readings for the following Sunday, with ‘the Bible in one hand and the newspapers in the other’. Usually released on Tuesday mornings during term time. A Joint Public Issues Team (JPIT) production.
The seventh episode of Politics in the Pulpit Autumn 2025 is hosted by Stephen Ansa-Addo, and featuring our special guest, Phil Nevard!
Other than a few years dabbling in other jobs, Phil has been a URC minister for most of his working life - over 30 years. For all of that time Phil has managed to escape temptation into regional URC jobs and has happily followed his calling to be a local church minister and not much else. Phil counts preaching to be one of the joys of ministry and URC folk might vaguely remember his name from the three year vlog and podcast series "Talking Absolute Worship" that Phil hosted through the Covid years. Phil's most significant contribution to the Liberation struggle has probably been his voluntary work with the Battery Hen Welfare Association. With the Essex team, including his youngest daughter, he has helped liberate thousands of battery chickens, many of them finding refuge and a new life in his own back garden. Being a lifelong Bolton Wanderers fan has taught him all he needs to know about dealing with disappointment and disaster. It is said that this is character-building! Phil is currently Minister in three churches across Cambridgeshire and Suffolk and is mostly talking about retirement these days!
This week, Stephen, Phil and Simeon explore the lectionary readings for Sunday 2nd November.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
08:50 - Habakkuk 1: 1-4; 2:1-4
23:56 - Luke 19: 1-10
37:44 - Psalm 119: 137-144
44:01 - 2 Thessalonians 1: 1-4, 11-12
Mentions:
Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Talking Absolute Worship podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/3bPvwOSi9UIuXVMhw5Ks9m
Together with Refugees https://togetherwithrefugees.org.uk/
The Zacchaeus tax campaign https://www.cwmission.org/news/spotlights/zacchaeus-tax-campaign-to-relaunch-in-africa/
Politics in the Pulpit
Connecting current affairs and the Bible together through the lens of justice. Guests each week share with our host how they would approach the Lectionary readings for the following Sunday, with ‘the Bible in one hand and the newspapers in the other’. Usually released on Tuesday mornings during term time. A Joint Public Issues Team (JPIT) production.
