The Venture 12 Podcast: Recent Episodes
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We speak to Angela Lam, founder of Hagar's Voice about abuse and the environments that enable them in the church but also how we can find routes to healing and safe spaces of transformation in the movement that Jesus started.
HagarsVoice.com
ClergySexualMisconduct.com
Infinitum's True Self Check In
Book Recommendation: Faith in the Face of Empire by Mitri Raheb
Hagar's Voice on Socials @HagarsVoice (Facebook and Instagram
In this episode we talk to Rickard Cruz, missional leader and co-founder of Katalysator Sweden which has vision to plant the good news of Jesus in every place, in every ethnic group and in every subculture. In this conversation Rickard shares his experience and helps us reflect upon how we can meet our muslim neighbors and friends with a heart to learn and posture of curiosity to see what the spirit is already doing in their lives and attuning to loving ways we can speak about Jesus.
https://www.rickardcruz.se
www.katalysator.net
In this episode we meet Guillermo Navarrete and Seth Clark, who share with us the powerful story of Border Church and La Iglesia Fronteriza. This remarkable expression of the body of Christ at the San Diego-Tijuana border demonstrates its love for Christ through serving suffering humanity, pursuing justice for migrants and using their pinkies to pass the peace through the mesh metal walls between U.S and Mexico as part of their distinct and profound expression of worship.Church at the WallSeth David ClarkChurch at the Wall: Stories of Hope Along the San Diego-Tijuana Borderhttps://www.amazon.com/Church-Wall-Stories-Diego-Tijuana-Border/dp/0817018301
In this episode we talk to Hugh Halter, missional leader and author, about what it really means to bring our kids up in faith. Is our goal to raise religious kids, or are we hoping for something more? Hugh gives us great insight into what it could look like making the mission of God a family story.
In this episode, Bree Mills shares with us some foundational thoughts and wisdom around empowering micro church movements to emerge and flourish. She is an ordained Anglican Minister and director of Micro Movements Australia . ENJOYhttps://www.breemills.com.au/about
In this episode we share some prayers, poems and reflections for this unique Advent Season. We'd like to extend a big thank you to friends of the podcast; poets Sarah Bourns Crosby and Will Small for their inspiring and powerful words and contributions. Finally we'd also like to thank you all for listening to and supporting the podcast during 2023. We hope this reflective episode will give you something to ponder, perhaps give you something to discuss with others but ultimately draw you closer into the presence of Christ. May God bless you richly this Advent season and Merry Christmas!
Contributions
In Violence and Travail. Words by Walter Brueggemann, Voice Ashely Bowles, Music by Mark Cotterill
Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals. Notes on Advent: Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Blessed Is She: Words by Sarah Bourns Crosby (Advent Guide, Poems, Passages and Prompts)
The Other Story by Will Small
The Venture 12 Podcast Team
Alex Gibson - Host -Editor
Mark Cotterill - Host, Music and Art
Hanna Mingay -Host
Chris Mingay - Host
Kris Halliday - Host
Emma Cotterill - Host
Bethany Gibson - Host
In this episode Will Small challenges us to rethink inclusion for the marginalised and the creation of safe spaces to explore life and faith. In this joint Venture 12 & Included: The Podcast chat, Will shares some of his journey of evolving faith, finding God in unexpected places and processing it through poetry along the way.
To learn more about Will's work do check out the podcast and his website. Links are below!Spiritual misfits welcome here. - Spiritual MisfitsWILL SMALL. - Home
In this episode we have great conversation with Mike Frost about his new book 'Mission is the Shape of Water: Learning From the Past to Inform Our Role in the World'.
Join us as traverse through the rich tapestry of Christian history revealing how context shapes mission, just as a bottle shapes water. You'll encounter some well known and perhaps some unexpected voices, people and movements who have been loyal to the soil of their time and announced the universal reign of God's good news in profoundly transformative and beautiful ways.
Where will the water flow next? What might the shape of mission be for our time and place, and how can we play our part today?
The Book
We talk to Jessie Cruickshank about her new book; Ordinary Discipleship. Jessie learned how to be a disciplemaker in the wilderness. When she connected her training in outdoor adventure ministry with her Harvard degree in neuroeducation, God showed her a pathway for ordinary disciples of Jesus to experience profound spiritual growth.
Pete Enns is an author, scholar and professor. This podcast takes some of those Christian ideas that usually scare, intimidate or worry us, and then make those very places a meeting place with a God who is bigger and more wonderful, mysterious and trustworthy than we ever could have guessed.
The Gathering Network - Micro churches in an European context
In this episode we have a conversation with Charlotte and Adam Penketh, the leaders of the Gathering Network in Glasgow. They invite us into a conversation about small missional communities, activating the whole body of Christ and what’s it’s like leading a network in Europe with its unique opportunities and challenges.
In this episode we meet Alan Hirsch award winning author of numerous books on missional spirituality, leadership and organisation and Rob Kelly who serves as a catalyst for city networks that unite the church for the flourishing of cities. Together they have just co-authored and released a book titled 'Metanoia". In this conversation we talk about the profound gift embedded in these first words of Jesus and explore with new eyes and new language this ancient call to realign our hearts and minds to Christ sparking the deep rooted transformation in people, churches and organisations that we so desperately desire.
Rev. René August is an Anglican Priest from South Africa who was mentored by and served alongside the great Bishop Desmond Tutu. A veteran of the anti-apartheid movement, René currently works for Tearfund and serves as a peacebuilding specialist walking alongside communities and churches as they seek to respond to the issues of poverty, injustice, and division. This episode firstly calls us to interrogate the narratives that we hold around scripture, power and privilege and religious authority, and secondly inspires us to contemplate once more what happens to the movement of power in any context as a result of the presence of Jesus.
Reflection Questions
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What does this conversation reveal to you about your own community or context?
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What do you need to question in the power structures around you?
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Which one piece of wisdom can you learn, share or apply from this conversation?
True Privilege | Tearfund Australia
In this episode we talk to Brian Sanders founder of the Underground Network about his book The 6 seasons of Calling in which he invites us to see 'calling' as something dynamic and ongoing rather than something that is static or a one-time only experience.
This is 1 of 5 episodes of the Venture 12 podcast brought to you in collaboration with the Movement Leaders Collective featuring one contemporary apostolic woman sharing the story of a historic apostolic woman in this mini-series seeking to broaden our understanding of the apostolic gifting given to the Church.
In this episode Emma Cotterill speaks to Keri Ladouceur about Prisca.
Find out more about Keri’s work at: https://www.newgroundnetwork.org/
Who do you think most deserves her place in the ‘Apostolic Hall of Fame’?
VOTE in our V12 poll using the link below:
https://7qvreyxc737.typeform.com/to/Y0EyhseE
This is 1 of 5 episodes of the Venture 12 podcast brought to you in collaboration with the Movement Leaders Collective featuring one contemporary apostolic woman sharing the story of a historic apostolic woman in this mini-series seeking to broaden our understanding of the apostolic gifting given to the Church.
In this episode Emma Cotterill speaks to Tracy Mathews about Lydia.
Find out more about Tracy’s work at: http://attunetogrow.org/
Who do you think most deserves her place in the ‘Apostolic Hall of Fame’?
VOTE in our V12 poll using the link below:
https://7qvreyxc737.typeform.com/to/Y0EyhseE
This is 1 of 5 episodes of the Venture 12 podcast brought to you in collaboration with the Movement Leaders Collective featuring one contemporary apostolic woman sharing the story of a historic apostolic woman in this mini-series seeking to broaden our understanding of the apostolic gifting given to the Church.
In this episode Emma Cotterill speaks to Christie Lothamer about Photini.
Find out more about Photeni at: https://orthochristian.com/79178.html, https://romans1015.com/sychar-samaria/
Find out more about Christie’s work at: http://www.microchurchnetwork.co.uk/, https://kairosconnexion.org/, http://www.journeycommunities.co.uk/
Who do you think most deserves her place in the ‘Apostolic Hall of Fame’?
VOTE in our V12 poll using the link below:
This is 1 of 5 episodes of the Venture 12 podcast brought to you in collaboration with the Movement Leaders Collective featuring one contemporary apostolic woman sharing the story of a historic apostolic woman in this mini-series seeking to broaden our understanding of the apostolic gifting given to the Church.
In this episode Emma Cotterill speaks to Ellen Rupp about Marcella.
Find out more about Marcella through: Lynn Cohick and Amy Brown Hughes's Christian Women in the Patristic World
Who do you think most deserves her place in the ‘Apostolic Hall of Fame’?
VOTE in our V12 poll using the link below:
https://7qvreyxc737.typeform.com/to/Y0EyhseE
This is 1 of 5 episodes of the Venture 12 podcast brought to you in collaboration with the Movement Leaders Collective featuring one contemporary apostolic woman sharing the story of a historic apostolic woman in this mini-series seeking to broaden our understanding of the apostolic gifting given to the Church.
In this episode Emma Cotterill speaks to Jessie Cruickshank about Aimee Semple-McPearson
Find out more about Aimee through: This is That and Aimee: The Life Story of Aimee in her own - Aimee Semple-McPearson, Sister Aimee by Daniep Epstein
Find Jessie at: http://whoology.co/
Who do you think most deserves her place in the ‘Apostolic Hall of Fame’?
VOTE in our V12 poll using the link below:
https://7qvreyxc737.typeform.com/to/Y0EyhseE
In this episode we talk Dr Michael Adam Beck, Pastor, Author and Director for Re-missioning Fresh Expressions U.S about the missional imperative to cultivate contextual intelligence that leads to appropriate forms of disciple-making and church. Reflection Questions
Has this episode brought up anything that needs to change at the core of your community's cultural DNA?
What is dwelling deeply in your mind/soul/spirit from today's episode?
Which one piece of wisdom can I learn/share and apply from this?
Michael Adam Beck – Missional Innovation
In this episode we chat to Sarah Bourns Crosby who writes both poetry and prose around themes of waiting, hope, mission, justice, lament, love, and most recently, motherhood. This is a reflective conversation, so get comfortable, sit back and join us as we explore how poetry can help awaken our often dry and rigid imaginations moving us to new places and new ways of seeing in our spiritual journey and experience as church.
Sarah Bourns Crosby
sarahbournscorsby.com
Reflection Questions
What has God placed on your heart or highlighted to you from this episode?
Which one piece of wisdom can I learn/share and apply from this?
Which 1-3 people can you share this episode with?
In this episode we talk to The Rev. Prof. Sarah Coakley about her book God, Sexuality and the Self. We explore human desire in light of ancient understandings of the Trinity and how reform is needed in the church not least for the sake of women.
Reflection Questions
What feelings surfaced for you during this interview?
How does what you’ve heard impact your relationship with God and the world?
How is this good news for me/ others?
How can I learn more about this/ is there anything that needs clarifying, or I don’t understand?
https://www.sarahcoakley.com
In this episode we talk to Ruth Hayley Barton about discernment. Ruth states that "discernment is what distinguishes spiritual leadership from any other kind of leadership". In this chat we dig deeper into what discernment is and what it could look like to pursue God's will as a team and community. What is dwelling deeply in your mind, soul and spirit after today’s episode? How does that you’ve just heard impact your relationship with God?What from today’s episode is particularly relevant for your culture today?
In this episode we're back talking to Brad Brisco again. This time we delve deeper into co-vocational ministry, what it is, why it's important for the future of the church and we find out about some of the details of how it really works.
1)What from today's episode is particularly relevant for your culture right now?
2)How can I learn more/ is there anything that needs clarifying or I don't understand?
If you want to join us for our online conversation event on 1st Dec 7:15pm (UK) 8:15pm (CET) here is the zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84915906699
In this episode we talk to Brad Brisco about the importance of incorporating the fivefold ministry gifts into all of our efforts to plant and start new Kingdom initiatives. We also hear about the critical importance and potential for people and movements to embrace and create more opportunities for co-vocational ministry and mission. 1)Has this episode brought up anything that needs to change at the core of your community's cultural DNA? 2)What feelings surfaced for you during this interview? 3)How can what you’ve heard be a resource to grow the kingdom?
Kicking off season 3 is an interview with Jessie Cruickshank. God wired our brains for transformation! This adventurous neuroscientist shares her experience and research around discipleship and how our unique personalities and individual stories are the basis for our faith journeys rather than the knowledge we possess or the theology we gravitate towards.
yourbrainbyjess.com
whoology.co
Emma, Chris and Mark take a look back at season 2, selecting highlights from the past year and revisiting the wisdom of some of the many guests that have appeared on the show; namely Shaine Claiborne, Dr Fran Porter and Rich Robinson. Thanks for your engagement and support, and we will see you again in August when we will kick off season 3!
Kaleidoscope with Megan Batz and Elizabeth Black. We talk to the founders of Kaleidoscope New York about what it can look like to pioneer tangible expressions of the Kingdom of God together with the LGBTQ plus community.
Find out more here:
https://www.kaleidoscopeusa.org/
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Author, theologian and teaching pastor at Woodland Hills Community Church, Greg Boyd lays down some of the foundational ideas behind 'Openness Theology' and the implication and inspiration this has on personal calling and the mission of the body of Christ.
Check out Reknew.
https://reknew.org/
- Resourcing the Revolution
Seeking to inspire, educate and expand the Kingdom Revolution centered around the beautiful God we find in Jesus
Tracy Mathews, pioneer, entrepreneur and shepherd of the spiritual journey joins us in this episode to take us on a journey towards greater spiritual attunement. She founded the organisation Attune which offers tools and training to help people and teams slow down, listen deeply, and tap into more of God's wisdom and guidance for the decision making, problem-solving, wayfinding, risk-taking and team-building of organizational leadership. We try it out in this episode!
Please find Attune's guided exercises here
https://attunetogrow.org/practice
In this episode Rich Robinson shares some of his ideas, experience and understanding of what kind of leadership is needed today and paints a picture of how we get there. For more information and resources on this topic please visit: For organisations: https://movementleaderscollective.com/ For individuals/leaders: https://www.themxplatform.com/ For entrepreneurs: https://creoventures.co/
Shane Claiborne is a prominent speaker, activist, and best-selling author. Shane worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, and founded The Simple Way in Philadelphia. He heads up Red Letter Christians, a movement of folks who are committed to living "as if Jesus meant the things he said." Shane is a champion for grace which has led him to jail advocating for the homeless, and to places like Iraq and Afghanistan to stand against war. Now grace fuels his passion to end the death penalty and help stop gun violence.
In this episode, Shane speaks prophetically in to the current global climate surrounding war, and how we can strive to become forgers of peace and unity.
Over the last couple of years there has been lots of talk across the world about micro-churches and returning to more movemental forms of ecclesia. In todays podcast we explore this a little further as Tim Burr shares with us the lessons learnt along the road in Ivy Church's (Manchester) journey in promoting and establishing micro-churches. Tim Burr is Regional Director for New Thing Europe and is on team at Ivy Church Manchester
Phil Wall shares his experiences of pioneering and innovating both in the market place and through the emergence of new expressions of church. He is a leadership coach helping leaders across the world to become the best version of themselves they can possibly be. His heart however lies with 'We see Hope'; the organisation he founded together with his wife, Wendy, which seeks to empower children and communities in Sub-Saharan Africa. Recently, Phil and Wendy have recently been awarded MBEs from The Queen in recognition of the incredible impact of this work. This podcast is about being a catalyst of Good News in the world.
In the final episode of 2021, Dr. Miguel De La Torre shares stories and experiences of how intentionally shifting our perspectives to the margins when reading the Bible can help bring us closer to Jesus, truth and justice.
What if the word “homosexual” was never meant to be in the Bible?
In this conversation with Author and LGBTQ Activist Kathy Baldock we explore how the word "homosexual" came to be in the Bible as a result of translation error in work towards releasing 1946 Revised Standard Version of the Bible. This was the first time the "word" ever appeared in scripture in any language! In this fascinating episode Kathy also helps us understand the far ranging impact this mistranslation had in shaping the widespread anti-Gay culture in many Christian communities across the world.
Interview by Kris Halliday and Brad Watson
In this episode, doulas Vanessa Power and Jessica Becton Stephens share how they serve through their gifts and callings by leading a missional micro church aimed at supporting women through pregnancy and child birth.
In this podcast Dr Fran Porter compellingly shares how the story and paradigm of Christendom shapes the story of the church and crucial human relationships. Those between men and women.
Join us for a whirlwind tour of the world you thought you knew, but that you're only just discovering!
There are so many feelings, ideas and traditions surrounding the bible. How to read it, how to use it and how to understand it. In this episode we talk to Bradley Jersak about the scriptures, authority and WHO the Word is. (Spoiler: The Word grew a beard, when he was 18).
How do we avoid on the one hand modern literalism and on the other hand throwing out the Bible all together as irrelevant or outdated?
The conversation revolves around his book “A More Christlike Word”, where he explores the ancient ways of reading and interpreting the bible.
In the second episode of our miniseries on the fivefold, we welcome Nathan Brewer who is a church planter in Austria, a 5Q coach and the Author of The Pulse of Christ: A fivefold Training Manual. Nathan talks to us about why the fivefold is important for the health and maturity of the church and also helps us move forward from just concepts and awareness to how the fivefold gifts can actually be practiced to help equip disciples and leaders.
To contact Nathan Nathan@fivefoldtraining.com
You can order The Pulse of Christ: A Fivefold Training Manual directly from his website at https://www.fivefoldtraining.com/eng/
In this episode part of the core leadership team in Helsingborg Salvation Army share stories of what it looks like when the diverse APEST callings and functions (Eph. 4) collaborate to release the potential in one another, in discipleship and mission.
The Starfish and The Spirit is about creating a culture where leaders view themselves as curators of a community in mission, not as a source of certainty for every question and problem.
Imagine a church led by a team whose gifts and talents are completely unleashed, enabling everyone to show up and step up with all they are. What would it look like to see this kind of healthy leadership for generations?
In this episode we welcome Emma Scott, church leader in Mitcham, to share her thoughts on the New Monastic practice of “sharing a common rule of life”. A practical conversation on how sharing common practices can help shape our walk with Jesus as well as the communities we live in.
Jonny Baker inspires imagination and creativity in this conversation about how the church and acts of worship could look post pandemic.
"The challenge facing Christianity today is not a lack of motivation or resources, but a failure of imagination." - Skye Jethani.
This time we interview Paula Gooder who is a Pauline Scholar, writer, speaker and more. Join us on a journey back in time to the early church to encounter one of the key catalysts and leaders in the expansion of Christianity.
"Very few people are as expert as Paula Gooder in communicating biblical scholarship clearly and creatively". - Rowan Williams
What is the Bible? Who is it for? How have we been using it? How should we use it? How should we teach it? Where does it fit in the future of the church?
Dr. Peter Enns shares his wisdom on how to handle the Bible by letting it be exactly what it is.
"The Bible deconstructs from within what the church has made of it." P. Enns
A conversation with Alan Hirsch.
We have become so over reliant on particular ways of being and doing church. The challenge of leadership now is to lead – and not just get through it but come through into what the Lord has been telling us and many of us have been dreaming of for so long? An adaptive ecclesiology for the 21st Century.
“The restoration of the church will surely come from a new kind of monasticism, which will have nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising adherence to the Sermon on the Mount in imitation of Christ.” Dietrich Bohnhoffer
Mark Scott from The UK Salvation Army joins us to talk about the growing interest in New Monasticism and its role in the future Church, and how this has shaped the community he lives in.
Dave Ferguson is an award-winning author, founding and lead pastor of Chicago’s Community Christian Church, a missional multi-site community considered one of the most influential churches in America. Dave is also the visionary for the international church-planting movement NewThing and president of the Exponential Conference. He joins us to share practices and tools for apprenticing, multiplying and discipling in our world today.
The church that we have inherited has been bound by a patriarchal model which has deprived the mission of Jesus of its explosive impact.
Enabling the re-emergence of female apostolic voices in the design and shaping of the future church is critical for such a culturally defining moment as this.
Emma Cotterill shares examples and insight in to the central role of women in the early church as we explore why it is vital that the female apostolic voice is re found and re released in the shaping of the future.
(Artwork taken from the book Mary and Early Christian Women: Hidden Leadership by Ally Kateusz, 2019)
In preparation for the next V12 Network gathering, Mark Cotterill shares the incredible story of St Patrick and how his story impacted the culture and church of the time, but how it also can teach us about the importance of apostolic listening and acting today.
In Episode 2 we discuss the theology behind APEST - the fivefold ministry giftings found in Ephesians 4. Join with Diane and Penny as they take us in to the depths of this letter.
The first episode welcomes Jonny Smith to take us to a deeper level of understanding about intercultural mission. Justice, beauty, mutual inconvenience and more.
...on earth as it is in Heaven.