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Talking Faith: two priests in the Scottish Borders talk about faith, doubt, and God
Talking Faith: Fr Philip Blackledge, Rev Lesley Penny
Frequency: 1 episode/17d. Total Eps: 12
Two Episcopal clergy working in the Scottish Borders talk with wit, humour and depth about the challenge of twenty-first century living, and the faith that helps them navigate it.
If you have questions about Spirituality, God and life, but don’t often find yourself in church, this podcast is for you. Coming from very different church traditions, Lesley and Pip often meet non-churchgoing folk with deep questions, and this podcast aims to talk about them, and explore how we can live good and authentic lives within the complexities of the modern world. Expect wit, warmth, honesty, and genuinely awful puns.
Have a question? Email us on talkingthefaith@gmail.com
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How can you possibly believe in the Resurrection?
Season 1 · Episode 3
dimanche 3 mai 2026 • Duration 43:49
Have a question? email us at talkingthefaith@gmail.com ooh, let's start with the big one. It is still the season of Easter, the FORTY days of unremitting joy, as they say. In this podcast, we deal with a question that people who are honest enough to talk to us often ask - why on earth do we believe that a man was dead, and then wasn't?
Talking Faith - a brief introduction
Season 1
mardi 28 avril 2026 • Duration 02:59
Our new podcast, Talking Faith, will begin in the first week of May 2026. This is just a wee taster to introduce ourselves, and to apologise in advance how very amateur we are... if you have any questions or thoughts about the podcast, music for us to listen to and subjects for us to cover, email us at talkingthefaith@gmail.com and we'll be delighted to hear from you. Well that's our aim...
Introduction
Season 1
dimanche 26 avril 2026 • Duration 04:29
Welcome to the first of a new series! Talking faith, where two Episcopal priests in the Scottish Borders, discuss the questions that matter to you, whether you are an atheist, believer, or anything in between.
Reaction Pod - The Lord's Prayer in Aramaic.
Season 1 · Episode 4
dimanche 10 mai 2026 • Duration 07:35
Lesley and Pip come from very different musical traditions, so they like to surprise each other with some music from their tradition. Here Pip shares a version of the Lord's prayer in Aramaic, sung in the presence of Pope Francis of blessed memory.
Reaction Video - What happens when your bible has more pages in it that you think...
mardi 12 mai 2026 • Duration 07:54
In this reaction video (the sound quality is very poor, our apologies, it was recorded outside on microphones not fit for purpose) we listen to a very squirmy incident where a certain new convert finds that biblical knowledge is not quite as encyclopedic as he thought...
If you have anything you would like us to react to, email us at talkingthefaith@gmail.com
Your church was the least attractive...
dimanche 17 mai 2026 • Duration 43:49
In this episode of Talking Faith, we discuss why people who believe in God don't go to church, and why sometimes dull churches might end up being hte right place for someone.
Winter is coming! An interview with the Bishop-elect of Edinburgh, Dagmar Winter. (apologies for poor sound in places)
Season 1 · Episode 5
dimanche 24 mai 2026 • Duration 29:22
In this episode Pip speaks with Bishop Dagmar, currently acting Bishop of Ely and Bishop or Huntingdon, as she prepares to pack up her theology books and make the great trek north to the sunlit uplands of the Scottish Episocopal church. Dagmar talks about her upbringing in the faith, her love of the border lands, and what led her to the glory that we call the 'piscy church.
This was our first foray into online meetings, so apologies for the poor sound quality in places.
Have thoughts, questions, queries or complaints? email us on talkingthefaith@gmail.com
Our second music reaction video- this time it's Lesley's turn to choose the choones
mercredi 27 mai 2026 • Duration 13:57
Got something you want us to listen to? Email us on talkingthefaith @gmail.com
We have very very different tastes in music, so this is our opportunity of sharing things we like with each other.
This video is from Lesley and to say more than that will steal some of the joy that it brings...
Here's the original - and see if you are not singing along https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-CCxYR80mU
What has God got to do with it?
Season 1 · Episode 2
dimanche 31 mai 2026 • Duration 53:47
In this, our second episode of our podcast, we discuss one of the bigger issues
Josquin Des Prez - no realation to Jaqueline.
dimanche 7 juin 2026 • Duration 14:01
Our latest reaction video features one of Pip's choices - which will be immediately apparent when we learn that the composer died over five hundred years ago. The phrase used of Josquin Des Prez by Martin Luther was "Other composers must do as the notes will. Josquin is the master of the notes and they do as he wills".
Amazing stuff.
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