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St Albans Podcast with Danny Smith
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Footpaths, birds, reminiscing & health
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Alan Bellinger returns with an update on COVID-19 in our local area and tells us about his experience of having the first installment of the vaccine. More details, including facts, figures and links on Alan’s Health Matters post. Matt and Laura give details on a few local news stories, including a poorly installed ‘traffic calming’ measure on a St …
This time, Elspeth explores all subjects connected with the word “Invisible”. For example, how you define the word. She also discovers invisibility as a theme in a children’s novel, a piece of adult non-fiction, and in a film. She considers views on the current COVID-19 situation and even discovers that scientists are working on actually making obj…
Mark Helvadjian | 17 Jan 2021By Mark Helvadjian
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Bishop of St Albans on defending democracy and the harm caused by problem gambling
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Recent events in the United States show that Western-style liberal democracies may not be as robust as we like to think, the Bishop of St Albans, Dr Alan Smith, writes in a comment article in this week’s Church Times (15 January). The arrest last week of pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong, and the attempt in 2019 by the British Prime Minister…
In this episode, we are celebrating Burn's night. Burns night is a celebration of the work of Robert Burns the Scottish poet and his contribution to Scottish culture. It is traditionally celebrated in Scotland with a supper of Haggis, neeps, and tatties. The team has recorded themselves reading verses from the traditional Burns poem 'Address To A H…
On this week’s podcast, Ed Thornton talks to Simon Parke about his new book Gospel: Rumours of love. A work of historical fiction, it is narrated in the first-person through the eyes of Jesus (Yeshua), Mary Magdalene (Miriam), and Mary, the mother of Jesus.“I was interested in going and having a look at some of the gaps,” Simon says. “What was it l…
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Holiday Adventure Books, Free School Meals & Theatre Refunds
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On this week’s edition we hear from our book correspondent Clare Hobba. This month’s book recommendations are based around the them of Holiday Adventures. Clare chose this theme as this is the time of year when many of us look ahead to breaks and holidays we plan to take. Her selections are: The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane The Salt Path by Raynor…
I wonder how many of you made New Year’s resolutions this year. And the next question is – Have you kept any of them? Elspeth looks into the origins of New Year’s resolution and discovers that they go back thousands of years. But has this “lockdown year” encouraged us to do new things? For example – more exercise, or building more relationships, or…
Mark Helvadjian | 10 Jan 2021By Mark Helvadjian
Ashley Strickland Freeman, an award-winning food stylist, recipe developer, and cookbook author based in Charleston, SC, swears by Duke's Mayonnaise. So much so that she's written a cookbook devoted to this staple found in so many Southern kitchens. Listen to her talk about the unexpected ways mayonnaise can be used in recipes beyond the customary …
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Why do people stop attending church? Robin Stockitt on the 'Donewiths'
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Growing numbers of Christians say that they are “done with” attending church. What are their reasons for doing so, and what can churches learn from it?In Leaving Church: What can we learn from those who are done with church? (Grove Books), Robin Stockitt and S John Dawson tell the stories of those who have moved away from traditional forms of churc…
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Buying or Selling Property During Lockdown? Plus Local News
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On this week’s edition of the St Albans Podcast, we hear from our legal correspondent Michael Labrum. He discusses buying and selling property during the latest lockdown and the issue of wrongful trading for company directors. Michael is from Labrums Solicitors and to find out more, check out his law firm www.labrums.co.uk Also on the show we hear …
In this Just Elspeth podcast, she explores exactly what we mean by beauty but finds that it is a concept that be applied to so many different aspects of life. There is beauty in a child’s smile, but also in the design of a new car. There is beauty in the countryside, but also in a kind act of compassion. There is beauty in the skill and care of hos…
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Listen again: Madeleine Davies on her book Lights for the Path
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This week, we have one of the podcast highlights of 2020: an interview with Madeleine Davies about her book Lights for the Path: a guide through grief, pain, and loss (SPCK). It’s available to buy from the Church Times Bookshop.At the end of the interview, Malcolm Guite reads his sonnet “Pilgrimage”.Read an extract from the Lights for the Path on t…
The Charlotte Symphony will celebrate the arrival of 2021 with a New Year’s Day concert featuring Baroque music. Resident Conductor Christopher James Lees explains how the lively and joyful sounds of Baroque music may be the unexpected, but perfect, way to turn a new page after the tumult of 2020. He also reflects on what performing arts organizati…
Today, in a season when Covid 19 has brought up so much hardship for so many people, not only in illness and death but in businesses closing with the consequence of many made redundant, the word “forgiveness” is hard to live out in reality. Elspeth looks a little at its history, centres on the words of Jesus, discovers poetry and films that feature…
In this strange time of dislocation, the Rev'd Hoare suggests that our worship can give us a renewed sense of location - a home in our hearts.By The Rev'd Geoffrey M. St J. Hoare
And what a different Christmas this year, as we all struggle to bring the same joy and festivity to the festival ! Elspeth chats about some local Christmas events, about past Christmases, and reads a somewhat humorous poem based on a famous early 19thcentury rhyme…”Twas the night before Christmas”, and manages to make a point at the same time. The …
Christmas is firstly about God.... but secondly its about you! It is God telling us he likes us, gets us, has a way of forgiveness and loves us. Don't listen to the devils lies... listen to God. He is for you.By St Albans Baptist Church
During this time of preparation Rev'd Yoimel reflects on the many gifts that God presents us with at Christmas.By The Rev'd Yoimel Gonzalez Hernandez
Christopher James Lees, Resident Conductor of the Charlotte Symphony, talks about the CSO's special, virtual Baroque New Year's concert. He explains why Baroque music may be the right way to provide an optimistic welcome to 2021. And he shares the quarantine breakfast routine he has with his five-year-old.…
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Malcolm Guite: O Come, O Come: A journey through the Advent antiphons
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On this week’s podcast, Malcolm Guite takes us on a journey through the “Great O Antiphons”: seven prayers which the Church prayed during the first centuries, which called afresh for Christ to come.Malcolm reads each of the seven prayers and reflects on them, and offers his own poetic response to each one, taken from his collection Sounding the Sea…
We welcome back Alan Bellinger as our health correspondent, with his feature ‘Health Matters’. He is talking to us about the latest on COVID, follow along with the details on his blog post: Health Matters. Matt and Laura from the Herts Ad bring us a smattering of local news stories. Get the details as well as many more stories on the Herts Ad webpa…
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'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens ~ Chapter one. Read by Antonia
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Join us for some Christmas festivities as Antonia reads from the first chapter of 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens. It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas and this story in particular helps remind you of the spirit of Christmas and the time of goodwill. We hope you enjoy and have a wonderful Christmas. Take care.…
In a Christmas season like no other, Bach Akademie Charlotte will be making merry on Zoom with their “Familie Christmas Partie”. The musical centerpiece of the gathering will be J.S. Bach’s Magnificat in D recorded during the 2019 Charlotte Bach Festival. Artistic Director Scott Allen Jarrett talks about Bach Akademie Charlotte’s unusual season and…
Mary is hardly ever spoken about, except at this time of year. It's like she is a 2 dimensional person. We will be exploring how thoroughly 3 dimensional she is. You will be inspired to be like her.... whether you're male or female.By St Albans Baptist Church
In this podcast, Elspeth faces the problem that comes to most of us, at some time, and particularly so during this pandemic. Anxiety. She doesn’t think most of us worry about contracting the virus as much as worrying about the inevitable constraints that need to be in place to halt its spread. There’s the agony of not allowing contact with an agein…
Rev'd Emily's prayer for us this year: May we take the time to discern what we really want this Christmas. May we let the ancient words of our hymns and our Scriptures shape what we want – and may those yearnings shape who we are and what...By The Rev'd Emily Griffin
Denise Gray | 12 Dec 2020By Denise Gray
Opera Carolina teams up with D9 Brewing to bring holiday cheer with an event called Tinsel Town. The festivities happen throughout the day at D9 Brewing Company in Cornelius, NC, and will feature Opera Carolina Carolers with singers from the Opera Carolina Kids Academy. Hear Megan Miller talk about this event as well as how Opera Carolina and indiv…
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Susanna Clarke on 'Piranesi', illness, and faith
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Piranesi, the long-awaited second novel by Susanna Clarke, has been published to critical acclaim. Last month, it was shortlisted for the 2020 Costa Book Awards.Clarke’s 2004 novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, has sold more than four million copies worldwide and been adapted into a BBC television series. After its publication, Clarke suffered fr…
Clare Hobba brings us a couple of winter themed books to get us through the cold, dark, maybe even snowy nights! She has picked The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall (2015) and Pine by Francine Toon (2020) which was shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year. One more suggestion is Under a Pole Star by Stef Penney (also The Tenderness of W…
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2020-12-06 Sandra Alpe: Room at the Table
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Who is welcome at God's Table? Is the table laid and prepared for all??Am I allowed to come just as I am? Let's take look to see whether there is room at the table for you, for me.By St Albans Baptist Church
The Rev'd Quigley calls on us all to prepare God room in this season of anticipation.By The Rev'd Jim Quigley
Mark Helvadjian | 6 Dec 2020By Mark Helvadjian
Thriving is a great word to describe the kind of life God wants us to live. The sense of thriving comes as we live with others in mind. Serving and witnessing to them about Jesus love. We can all grow in doing this as a lifestyle.By St Albans Baptist Church
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Hannah Malcolm on Words for a Dying World: Stories of grief and courage from the global Church
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On this week’s podcast, Ed Thornton talks to Hannah Malcolm about a new book that she has edited, Words for a Dying World: Stories of grief and courage from the global Church. “I wanted to help people to think about the ways that grief over the world isn’t about death in abstraction. . . The ways that we grieve the world will be particular to the p…
On this week’s edition of the St Albans Podcast, we hear from our legal correspondent Michael Labrum. He explains the concept of negligence, from a legal perspective. Michael is from Labrums solicitors and to find out more, check out his law firm www.labrums.co.uk Also on the show we hear from Matt Adams and Laura Bill from the Herts Advertiser. Th…
In this Just Elspeth Podcast, she wonders if saying “thank you” has gone out of fashion. Are people oblivious to the fact that just a sincere word of thanks has a real warming effect on a person? Of course, the way you say the word might give the opposite effect. She reminds us that the way we receive a present, can bring even more pleasure than th…
The Rev'd Hoare wonders if Jesus' resurrection is the Second Coming that Jesus talks about in this Gospel passage - a Second Coming that we experience every time we let God break into our lives.By The Rev'd Geoffrey M. St J. Hoare
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Forest Town Church Podcasts
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A Portrait Of Jesus - Part 45 - The Second Coming of Jesus
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A message from Anthony Rist at Forest Town Church (UK). In this message, Ant continues our series on the book of Mark - "A Portrait of Jesus". This message is titled "The Second Coming of Jesus" Mark 13: 28-37.By Ant Rist
Chris Lane | 29 Nov 2020By Chris Lane
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Mixed-faith marriage and the search for spiritual community: Stina Kielsmeier-Cook interviewed
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Seven years after marrying a Christian, Stina Kielsmeier-Cook’s husband decided that he didn’t believe anymore.On this week’s podcast, Vicky Walker interviews Stina about what happened next, and how a group of nuns helped her to navigate her own beliefs.Stina recounts her experiences in a new book, Blessed Are The Nones (IVP, £11.99 (Church Times B…
Get that sated feeling with this weeks podcast. We have regular local food & drink expert Becky Alexander talking to us all about delivery services other local food solutions. Try plant-based dishes straight to your door by Plantopia and visit Seed & Grain cafe (or get takeaway) located at the Hertfordshire Garden Centre. Find out more from Becky o…
WDAV’s annual broadcast of Charlotte Lessons and Carols from St. John’s celebrates its tenth anniversary with a two-hour retrospective . Hear music director David Tang, and other event partners from St. John’s and the McClatchy Foundation, speak about what the community celebration means to them, and how it will be different this year. Learn more a…
You must agree that this is an unusual job for one of our St Albans residents. However, skills in puppetry, juggling, story telling and even the art of writing and acting out his own stories, has brought Neil, with his wife Hazel to regularly “go on the road” to perform. However there is an added twist to this story. Neil and Hazel are Christians, …
Rev'd Gonzalez asks to reflect on who is God for us and how we live and serve God, whose will it is to restore all things in his son, Christ, the King of kings.
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A Portrait Of Jesus - Part 44 - Be on Your Guard, part 2
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A message from Anthony Rist at Forest Town Church (UK). In this message, Ant continues our series on the book of Mark - "A Portrait of Jesus". This message is titled "Be on your guard, part 2" Mark 13: 9-22By Ant Rist
Mark Helvadjian | 22 Nov 2020By Mark Helvadjian
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Mark Oakley: How to preach when you haven't got anything to say
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On this week’s podcast, Canon Mark Oakley speaks about how to preach when you haven’t got anything to say. This talk was given at the 2020 Church Times Festival of Preaching, which took place virtually in late September (News, 9 October).“A good sermon is not ultimately about information, but formation. It’s not a river of argument we have to follo…
