WelshRev's Podcast

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…

A Saturday morning in Capernaum.An ordinary synagogue.An ordinary Sabbath.And then Jesus walked in.What happened next left the entire congregation 'struck out of themselves', using a word Mark chooses carefully: cognitively dislocated, categories broken.Not impressed. Not entertained.…