Rich Gower and Abigail Thomas
The Hopeful Activists' Podcast
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Grace Hills has been digging up the grass verges, planting fruit trees and increasing the biodiversity on her street, with the help of her neighbours and their children. Abi met two of the children who are part of her Flower Fairies group, wher
Rachel and Rich (authors of The Hopeful Activist) listen to Abi's interview with Dr Andy Knox, author of Sick Society.Dr Andy Knox argues that our society is broken because we have built it on values that are not working for too many people. Sh
Laura Young has been leading a campaign with groups supporting health and the environment and at the end of January their campaign to have disposable vapes banned in the UK was successful!The campaign is just 16 months old, and has made a huge
Thanks so much to Sarah Edwards and Rosie Venner from the Just Money Movement for answering some tricky questions in today’s episode. If you’ve ever asked questions of capitalism, if you’ve thought about whether direct action or becoming a shar
A great interview with the Rev Dr Ash Barker today! For over 30 years Ash has lived on the front line of urban poverty with his family, and Ash is the founder of Seedbeds, which is all about growing the capacities of urban leaders where they li
A special episode about faith and mental health. Please be aware that this episode includes reference to sexual assault, suicide and self-harm. Today we hear from three brilliant contributors. Aaron Shah from Worship on the Streets shares his p
Pete Portal was born in the UK but has lived in Cape Town, South Africa for the last 15 years. We all have feelings of failure and disappointment, in this conversation we learn to reframe our view of success within Jesus' framework.Pete shares
Abi and Rich get together to discuss deep interviews with artist Barbara Keal and liturgist and author Cole Arthur Riley. They delve into embodied and contemplative activism and creative responses to injustice and trauma.We hear all about the C
What if 9 sayings from Jesus could change the way we see and act in the world? The Nine Beats Collective have been creating music based on The Beatitudes and Abi went to meet some of the musicians ahead of an evening of their music in Leeds. Ab
Huge congratulations to Ben Lindsay, founder and CEO of Power the Fight and all the staff for their award of charity of the year at the Charity Times Awards 2023. And Ben also won Social Media Leader of the Year!We thought a great way to celebr
We are revisiting an archive episode this week, whilst Abi puts together some exciting new episodes over the next few weeks!In this episode Abi and Sarah Small, from Proximity Network and the Message Trust dive into the controversial area of w
John White from Hazelnut Farm in Bristol tells Abi about his own climate conversion, and his church which is connecting people with both creation and our creator. He also has some great challenges around Net Zero and growing vegetables. Plus th
Vanessa Nakate is a renowned Ugandan climate activist, Abi talks to her about her faith , feminism, her brilliant book, A Bigger Picture and the importance of listening to activists from countries in Africa. Of course this makes the infamous in
Pastor Dewey Williams is a man who has endured a lot of grief, but who has found great joy in Jesus, and through his encounters with men and women on death row in the American justice system. An incredibly joy filled man and a challenging inter
Mekdes Haddis is with Abi to speak about mission trips, charity and hospitality. Mekdes was born and lived in Ethiopia until she went to college in the US and her book called A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality is a challe
Three incredible young people from Bradford share the interviews they have created especially for us. Ryan, Faith and Julia are from an incredible local youth project called e:merge. Abi has loved working with them to gain the technical and int
Chris Ward is a speaker on the experience of homelessness and works at The Daytime Hub in Gravesend (see below) for people experiencing homelessness in Kent. He shares his story of addiction, homelessness, friendship, church and choosing life e
A huge Happy Easter to you from Abi and all the Praxis team! A short Easter episode for you today, to celebrate the joy of Jesus’ resurrection. We are going to delve back into the archives to one of our earliest episodes, back in 2019 when Rich
Amar D. Peterman is an author and constructive theologian working around faith and public life, including his work at Interfaith America.Amar has a regular column in Sojourners, including this article on Good Friday as well as a newsletter This
Is prayer a form of activism? Can we pray in hope when we are feeling weighed down or weary of injustice? What can other cultures teach us about how to pray?Abi spoke to Philip Powell from The Justice Conference and Lynne Paterson from Tearfund
Abi is joined by Elaine Storkey, philosopher, sociologist and theologian and author of “Meeting God in Matthew”. Also Helen Syrop, founder of Hope Housing and homelessness expert and Jen, an adoptive parent and currently researching faith group
Can churches really change communities? Where is Jesus in the permacrisis? Where are the signs of hope?Abi had a special treat a few weeks ago...to visit the Jubilee+ Churches That Change Communities Conference. Abi interviewed several of the c
Questioning allegiance outside St Paul's Cathedral and worship that changes a government: powerful interviews today from Jon Swales and Andy Flannagan and we hear about Rich's work with waste pickers: Fair Circularity Initiative. Jon Swales sha
Straight from COP27, the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt this week two climate campaigners help us to pray for good outcomes:Jessica Bwali, climate campaigner at TearfundLaura Young, climate campaigner an
We'd love you to join us on our next Praxis Labs 1. You can hear the experience of two people who have done Praxis Labs 1 in this episode and then sign up here!Thanks to Lau Ciocan and Jen Horne!Lau Ciocan is the Director of Mentoring Advocacy
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