Leaving Egypt is a series of conversations with Jenny Sinclair, Al Roxburgh and guests exploring the vocation of the church in a context of cultural unravelling. Leaving Egypt seeks to make sense of this moment for communities of Christians in North America and the UK. In dialogue with guests, they read the signs of the times and share stories of how local expressions of God’s people are contributing to the reweaving of hope in our common life.
EP#26 Being Church in the Age of the Machine with Paul Kingsnorth
jeudi 12 septembre 2024 • Durée 01:15:38
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Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair talk with Paul Kingsnorth about his spiritual journey from agnosticism, gnostic experimentation and Buddhism, to Christianity. He describes the ways in which the Orthodox tradition is shaping his engagement with the modern world and especially that of the “Machine”, the term he uses to describe the overarching colonization of modern life by technology. He describes how becoming a Christian has called him beyond the intellectual posture of his past writing to somewhere completely different, to a connection with spiritual reality and to right relationship with God. From these new centerings, Paul finds himself on a new path of discovery, recognising he is not in control. He believes that Christians need to regain what has been lost, namely the sense that we already know from our tradition what to do. He senses that the Orthodox Church has held onto an authenticity that will become increasingly compelling as the unravelling of our societies rolls on, and this gives him cause for optimism.
Originally from London, Paul Kingsnorth is a writer and thinker whose spiritual journey has become very public. His experience has brought him from agnosticism to Christian conversion, culminating in his baptism into the Romanian Orthodox Church in 2021. Before that, as an environmentalist, novelist and a poet, he had written many books. Since his encounter with Christ, Paul has been compelled to write and speak about the reality of God and the threat to human life of what he calls “the machine”. His message has gathered a huge following, with some describing him as a secular prophet. Paul is a smallholder in rural Ireland living on the land with his family.
EP#25 - Economics, Modernity and the Wisdom of Catholic Tradition - with Sr Helen Alford OP
jeudi 25 juillet 2024 • Durée 01:19:07
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Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair talk with Sr Helen Alford about her Damascus Road experience as an engineering student and how it led her to discover Catholic Social Teaching and subsequently to take orders as a Dominican nun. Out of this intellectual vocation, she shares in easy-to-understand language the story of modernity and the changes it has brought to society and the church. She explores the meaning of human freedom, the exercise of personal choice and how this has given rise to the phenomenon of widespread loneliness. Addressing the significance of economics and its impact on society and relationships, she notices the beginnings of a reconstruction of economic thought centered around the flourishing of human beings. Echoing Pope Francis’s assertion that we’re not in an era of change but in a change of era, she says there are opportunities now for us to recognise that God uses “the little people” to change society for the common good.
Sr Helen Alford OP is Dean of Social Sciences at the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas - known as the Angelicum - the Dominican Order’s centre of Thomist theology and philosophy in Rome. Last year she was appointed by Pope Francis as President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences in the Vatican. Sr Helen teaches economic ethics, the history of technology, labour politics, and Catholic social thought. Originally from London, Sr Helen is a sister of the Dominican Sisters of Saint Catherine of Siena of Newcastle, Natal. She is the author of numerous publications on management theory and corporate social responsibility and has been an advisor to Blueprint for a Better Business since 2012.
EP#15 Discerning God’s Life with Jeremiah - with Xenia Chan
jeudi 7 mars 2024 • Durée 01:15:39
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Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair begin their conversation with Xenia Chan by talking about her experience of growing up in an “ethnoburb” of Toronto, Canada. Speaking both Cantonese and English, Xenia then reflects on the unravelling taking place across our societies from the perspective of a Chinese-Canadian doing doctoral studies in Jeremiah and Lamentations. Her PhD is addressing a kind of pastoral angst alongside Jeremiah as she explores the upheaval happening in the Canadian churches. Xenia talks about her experience as a pastor, her personal prayer life, and how she is trying to “restitch” her neighbourhood.
Xenia Chan is the daughter of diaspora settlers from Hong Kong. Having been raised in a Chinese Canadian Protestant church, she has also ministered in different, multi-ethnic contexts in five urban areas. A doctoral student at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, she is studying the Old Testament. The church plant she is part of, Selah Community Church, brings her much joy and hope. Along with Shu, Bernard, and Jon, Xenia also co-hosts the Canadian Asian Missional Podcast (C.A.M.P.) and some of her writing can be found at her blog, The Space Between (see links below).
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Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair talk with Bill Cavanaugh about how, as Christians, we might understand the shifting and disruption of our times. Bill proposes that rather than reading the signs through the lens of secularisation, we should think in terms of “the migration of the holy”. He contends that the holy has migrated to the immanent categories of contemporary life in, for example, our captivity by money, consumerism, or the big tech oligarchs. In doing so, he gives us a helpful way of engaging the unravelling and understanding the nature of our modern “Egypt”.
William T. Cavanaugh is Professor of Catholic Studies and Director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology at DePaul University in Chicago. A widely-published theologian specialising in political theology and ecclesiology, he is the recipient of the 2023 Cortelyou-Lowery Award. Heavily influenced by working in the slums of Santiago, Chile under the military dictatorship, his work involves mentoring and support for under-resourced scholars and practitioners across the Global South. His work is concerned with the social implications of Catholic social doctrine and the Church’s social and political presence in situations of violence and economic injustice.
EP#13 Places Of Hope In The Unravelling With Roy Searle
jeudi 8 février 2024 • Durée 01:15:53
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Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair talk with Roy Searle about his work in leading Christian communities over many decades. From anabaptist communities to monastic movements like the Northumbria community, Roy has witnessed most of the dynamic shifts in churches across the UK. He is equally at home with existing congregations and pioneers experimenting with ways of participating in the mission of God as current systems of church are going through a time of rapid change. In this wide ranging conversation Roy addresses the unravelling of the churches but, more importantly, points to places where he sees the Spirit is gestating fresh movements of God’s life.
Roy Searle is a companion, andone of the founders, of the Northumbria Community. He also serves as a mentor, spiritual director and worship leader and has worked as a consultant, associate and adviser. His interests include leadership, missiology, new monasticism, Celtic spirituality, and post-Christendom culture. He works ecumenically and has served in various aspects of denominational ministry and is a former President of the Baptist Union of Great Britain. Roy teaches at several colleges and specialises in pioneering and spiritual formation. Roy lives in Northumberland, UK.
EP#12 Confronting the powers of Egypt with Matthew Petrusek
jeudi 25 janvier 2024 • Durée 01:21:26
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Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair talk with Matt Petrusek about the cultural challenges confronting Christian life. At a time when the culture of Self is so dominant and notions of truth are dissolving, Matt makes a clear analysis of the tragedy unfolding, but also gives profound reasons for hope in the alternative story rooted in God’s Word. Drawing on the Catholic intellectual tradition, his incisive scholarship and deep humanism models a form of evangelical apologetics that can shape a radical new kind of Christian life in the “Egypt” in which we find ourselves.
Professor Matthew Petrusekis the Senior Director and Professor of Catholic Ethics at the Word on Fire Institute in the US, Bishop Robert Barron's evangelisation ministry. He writes and lectures on philosophical and theological ethics, Christian theology, politics, social issues and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition. His work is dedicated to show the relevance and prophetic nature of Catholic thought to a wide audience in as much clarity as possible, and in the context of a society that has lost its way.
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EP#11 An Economy of Land Rooted in the Local - With Tim Wray
jeudi 11 janvier 2024 • Durée 01:08:45
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Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair talk with Tim Wray about the social, economic and personal challenges of farming and being a person of kingdom commitment.Tim is in his early forties. He is a bi-vocational Lutheran pastor and farmer in Alberta, Canada. Along with his wife, Joanne and their three children they manage a cattle herd and a small flock of sheep. Coming from a family of farmers, Tim is dedicated to a deep relationship with land. As a Christian, he is involved in regenerative practices and is a member of Alberta’s Regenerative Agriculture Lab. As part of his formation as a Christian leader, Tim has been influenced by Catholic Social Teaching. He is part of a generation of farmers who see how human relationships with the land are being profoundly changed by land financialization. As large agglomerations take over land ownership, the family farm is threatened with extinction. The conversation with Tim explores ways in which he is acting to overcome this Egypt and imagine an alternative to the commodification of land.
EP#10 End of Year Review With Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair
jeudi 21 décembre 2023 • Durée 34:22
At the end of the year, Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair review the Leaving Egypt podcast since its launch in August 2023. They recall the fascinating range of guests and highlights from some of the conversations across the first episodes. They also look ahead to how the podcast will develop in 2024 and introduce their monthly discussion Forum, where paid subscribers can join with them in deeper reflection.
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EP#09 Renewing the Parish with Divine Renovation - with Hannah Vaughan-Spruce
jeudi 7 décembre 2023 • Durée 01:04:41
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Hannah Vaughan-Spruce shares with Jenny and Al what she’s seeing across Catholic parishes in the UK as they join with one another and friends from Divine Renovation in looking at questions of renewal and mission. In these partnerships, local congregations are exploring ways the Holy Spirit wants to weave new life and mission amongst them. We encounter Hannah’s genuine enthusiasm for what she is seeing, along with her wisdom in assisting leaders to listen well to their people and the Spirit.
Hannah is the national coordinator of the Divine Renovation movement in the UK and her ministry involves helping Catholic parishes, priests and lay leaders move from maintenance to mission. She is currently undertaking PhD research on parish culture and evangelisation and is an experienced catechist. Hannah is a consecrated virgin of the Archdiocese of Southwark and is sensitive to the delicate balance between respecting hierarchy and empowering lay leaders, unity in the Church, the role of the local parish, and the importance of community.
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Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair talk with Karen Reed. Karen lives in Vancouver, Canada. After fulfilling a range of senior leadership positions, Karen took the risk twelve years ago to live as an urban worker in East Vancouver,. She lives an intentionally shared life in a 100 year old, six bedroom house, as a base to seek the flourishing of her community.
Jenny and Al talk with Karen about her deliberate choice to reorder her life, to becoming centred in her neighbourhood. Karen shares how this move came about and her commitment to radical hospitality. Together, Al, Jenny and Karen explore what it means to be a neighbour and what she is discovering through building local relationships.
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Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World: The New Shape of the Church in Our Time https://www.amazon.ca/Joining-Remaking-Church-Changing-World/dp/0819232114/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2NHGW8KB7L0SQ&keywords=Alan+J+Roxburgh&qid=1687098960&s=books&sprefix=alan+j+roxburgh%2Cstripbooks%2C130&sr=1-3
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