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Tuesday May 16, 2023
Episode 87: with Rev. Philip Brooks for Sunday 21st May
Tuesday May 16, 2023
Tuesday May 16, 2023
This week on Politics in the Pulpit, Ali is chatting to Rev. Philip Brooks.
Revd Philip Brooks was ordained in 2007, following a career in the motor and finance industry. He now serves as the URC’s Deputy General Secretary with responsibility for Mission, which includes the denomination’s ecumenical relations and its involvement with JPIT. Philip is the URC General Secretariat representative on the denomination’s Faith & Order Committee. Previously he was minister to two Methodist/URC LEPs in Bolton and Salford and Bolton Town Centre Chaplain. He was a trustee of Greater Manchester Industrial Mission, which had oversight of several workplace chaplaincies, including Manchester Airport. During his time in Bolton, he represented the churches on Bolton Council’s Local Strategic Partnership, which brought together leaders from the education, health, police, commercial and charity sectors. Philip now lives in Coulsdon with wife Debs, who is a primary school teacher. They have a grown-up son and two grandsons, who live in Germany, as well as a daughter who lives at home and works for the NHS in the field of mental health.
They discuss the lectionary readings for Sunday 21st May:
Acts 1: 6-14
1 peter 4: 12-14, 5: 6-11
John 17: 1-11
Psalm 68: 1-10, 32-35
‘Politics in the Pulpit’ is JPIT’s weekly lectionary resource, helping to equip preachers, Ministers and worship leaders to unpack justice and peace issues in the pulpit. You can join in the conversation on Twitter @pulpit_politics or using #PoliticsInThePulpit, or on our Facebook community - find the group from the Joint Public Issues Team's Facebook page.
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