Northern Ireland

Different and the Same

1 Mar 2025
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     There hasn't ever been a generation which didn't quite understand its young people, nor a group of teenagers who didn't roll their eyes at their parents.  They're different.  And they're just the same.  Will and Kerry welcome Jose Cummings of Ex...

Freed to Flourish

31 Jan 2025
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      A sadly all-too-common news story - a police raid on a property, and people rescued from their abusers.  People who'd been trafficked to Northern Ireland and forced into sex work.  But what happens after the story is largely forgotten? How does...

Storymakers

29 Dec 2024
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      Three guests join Kerry and Will in the Commission studios they know very well already.  Commission's Head of Programmes Colm Flanagan accompanies  Hilary Jewhurst and Drew Gibson.  All three are Commission actors, presenters, producers and wri...

Mama Lacey

1 Dec 2024
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      Music, chat and laughter in this special Christmas episode where Kerry and Will meet Marie Lacey, founder and director of Belfast Community Gospel Choir.  She describes the choir as a way of helping people from all walks of life sing truths abo...

Everything and All to Me.

31 Oct 2024
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      The Christian author and speaker, Lyndall Bywater, joins Kerry and Will to talk about her life and work.  She explains how she's never let her blindness interfere with any aspect of her life.  Known for uniting prayer groups across the UK and I...

Pastoring the Politician

27 Sep 2024
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     In a time of weariness and cynicism about politics - locally and nationally - can Christians afford not to get involved?  In a special episode, Kerry and Will welcome three guests with a lot of insight on politics and their faith, including one...

No Superhero Cape...

30 Aug 2024
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      Light and hope in great darkness.  Kerry and Will welcome Ben McMechan, the Northern Ireland lead for IJM, International Justice Mission.  In partnership with organisations and authorities across the world, they tackle slavery, violence and exp...

Seeing the World Through Different Eyes

29 Jul 2024
2519

      Kerry and Will meet Chris Thompson, the Director of Tearfund NI and Lois Baillie, their Church and Supporter Engagement team Leader.  Talking about Church Partnerships.  How you can play your part to help train and equip local churches  abroad...

Pastor to the People.

28 Jun 2024
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     Meet one of the finest story-tellers you'll ever hear.  A talented broadcaster,  author and newspaper columnist, Rev Jim Rea is many more things besides.  A former Methodist President in Ireland, a pastor in both countryside and city alike, Jim...

Settled, Adjusted, Equipped, and Befriended

24 May 2024
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     Settled, adjusted, equipped and befriended.  That's the hope Avril Edgar has for every person in the Refugee and Asylum Community  in Northern Ireland.  It's why she joined a few friends to found Acacia Path which helps the Christian community b...

Helping Your Community Thrive

29 Apr 2024
2674

      Kerry and Will chat with Diane Holt of Thrive Ireland.  Last time we heard about a church which was reaching out to its community, in that particular case, to a local prison.  But most of us don't live near one!  What could other churches do in...

"A Part, but not Apart."

29 Mar 2024
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     With a prison on its doorstep, one church in south Belfast decided it would build relationships with it.  No small task, given that Hydebank College and Female Prison - like any other - sometimes appears in the news in anything but a positive li...

"Good News People"

27 Feb 2024
2831

     Is Northern Ireland a place apart?  More "religious" than Great Britain?  Here's a remarkable snapshot of current Christian faith in Northern Ireland.  David Smyth, the head of Evangelical Alliance here, joins Kerry and Will to discuss his chari...

Never Just a Holy Huddle.

29 Jan 2024
2508

     In a triumph of diary matching, Kerry and Will meet David Montgomery, known as "Monty" to his friends and associates. He works as the Regional Director for IFES Europe.  IFES is the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students.   In other wo...

"Standing in the Gap".

18 Dec 2023
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     Cost of Living Part 2.Kerry Greig and Will Leitch dig deeper into the issues surrounding the cost of living crisis, and the response of Christians to it.  Who is "standing in the gap"?   Last time they heard from three groups that are really mak...