WelshRev's Podcast

Standing in a field close to the site of the 13th-century Battle of Llandeilo Fawr, Simon Bowkett opens Revelation 5:9 and asks a question that cuts right to the heart of contemporary debate: where is the line between loving your nation and making an idol of it?In this Word for the Week, Simon wo…

Filming outside the RNLI lifeboat station in Penarth, with their flag flying behind me, a question came to mind.What would Jesus make of Y Ddraig Goch, the Welsh Red Dragon?What does He think about national identity, language, culture, and the fierce pride people feel about where they are from?J…

Standing on Penarth esplanade, beside an Italian Garden that marks a century of welcome, WelshRev asks one of the most pressing questions facing Wales today: can a nation be both genuinely open and genuinely honest?Wales has declared itself a Nation of Sanctuary. That is a noble instinct. But good…

Is it actually okay to be a patriot ... to love your country, your people, your language?Yes.Absolutely, yes.The Bible is full of it: Jesus weeping over Jerusalem, Paul saying he could almost wish himself cut off from God if it would save his people, Nehemiah in tears over a broken city.Passion…

There's a song in heaven celebrating a Lamb who was killed, who purchased people for God from every tribe, every language, every people, every nation. But that word "from" matters more than you might think.It doesn't mean every single person from every nation automatically ends up in God's story. …

Standing on Penarth seafront, Simon asks a simple question: what does God think of Wales?Revelation 5:9 describes a heavenly scene where people are gathered "from every tribe and language and people and nation" before God's throne, every language included, every nation kept distinct, not erased in…