Episode 138: Challenge Poverty Week with Hannah, Simon and Jay for Sunday 20th October

A Challenge Poverty Week special episode!

In this week’s episode of Politics in the Pulpit, Nathan McGuire chats to Hannah Fremont-Brown, Revd. Simon Jay and Niall Cooper.

Niall Cooper has been Director of Church Action on Poverty since 1997, and has been responsible for piloting new approaches to tackling poverty in the UK that enable people and communities struggling against poverty to reclaim dignity, agency and power together. He is also co-chair of Let’s End Poverty and convenor of the URC Manchester and Salford Urban Mission Partnership.

Hannah coordinates Let’s End Poverty, a movement of people united behind a vision of the future where poverty can’t keep anyone down. She is passionate about supporting churches and Christians to campaign and walk alongside our communities for justice. She is a member of Hinde Street Methodist Church, and currently completing an MA in Theology, Mission and Ministry.

Simon is a Pioneer Baptist minister based in Birmingham. In 2003 his wife Rachel and him set up a local charity that focuses on projects that aim to tackle poverty and injustice issues. The charity several projects including the  ‘Quinton Food Pantry’. Both him and the project believe in ‘supporting people out of poverty with dignity’.

Nathan, Hannah, Simon and Niall discuss preaching on the lectionary readings for Sunday 20th October, which are: Job 23:1-9, 16-17 Psalm 22:1-15 Hebrews 4:12-16 Mark 10:17-31

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