Episode 79: with Rev. Lucy Berry for Sunday 5th March

This week on Politics in the Pulpit, Geoffrey is chatting to Rev. Lucy Berry.

Lucy is an ex-advertising writer, art therapist and performance poet. She was poet in residence for 4 years on BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine Show before training for ordination in the United Reformed Church. She's a Mum in a mixed heritage family, currently writing a book about preaching. She has worked with prisoners wives and taught in prison and although "straight' she is a founding trustee of The Open Table Network - a charity that helps establish, within welcoming host churches, safe, loving, LGBTQIA-led worship communities.

They discuss the lectionary readings for Sunday 5th March:
Genesis 12:1-4a

Romans 4: 1-5, 13-17

John 3: 1-17

Psalm 121

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