We sat down with Roger Ellis - a pioneer in church planting, church leadership, preacher, author and fisherman - to discuss how the central message of the gospels, a message of love and community, is being manipulated by the far-right to validate a politics of exclusion and, perhaps more importantly, how the church should be responding the the historical and political moment.

In this episode we sat down with Dr Alistair McKitterick from the London School of Theology. We discussed the recent Bible Society Report and the rise of church attendance (particularly amongst young adults); social & cultural influences; male identity and coming to Faith; the Intelligent Design Movement and it's place in the public sphere.

Dr Alistair McKitterick's book Faithful Science is available at this link https://amzn.eu/d/83opVLt

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In this introductory episode, hosts Natalie and Dane lay the groundwork for listeners to familiarise themselves with the Theology in the Margins Podcast; is theology still relevant in the 21st century? What do we mean by 'in the margins'? Finally we explore what ideas and topics will shape this first series of conversations.