Christian Concern Podcasts

Roger Kiska, Legal Counsel to the Christian Legal Centre, spoke with Martin Stanford about the high-profile and seminal legal case of sacked Christian school assistant, Kristie Higgs. They discussed just before the Court of Appeal handed down its judgment on Wednesday, 12 February. Culminating a six-year legal battle, supported from the beginning by the Christian Legal Centre, the judgment would s...

VICTORY FOR FREEDOM - KRISTIE HIGGS WINS The Court of Appeal has reversed a ruling which defended the dismissal of Kristie Higgs from Farmor’s School in Gloucestershire for raising concern on Facebook about extreme sex education and transgender ideology being taught in her son's Church of England primary school. Roger Kiska, Legal Counsel at the Christian Legal Centre, was on LBC with Tom Swarbric...

Tim Dieppe spoke with Ben Kentish on LBC about Kristie Higgs' win after a dramatic six-year legal battle supported by the Christian Legal Centre. He argued that biblical teaching of marriage is worth defending especially in schools, and that respecting views which contradict God's word does not necessarily mean agreeing with them.

Becki Bruneau is a Christian psychotherapist, county councillor, wife and mother, who has overcome life-threatening illnesses as a child and adult. And Becki is against the government’s proposed assisted suicide bill. Becki, from Kent, spoke to United Christian Broadcast on 31 January 2025, highlighting the risks of coercion in the bill, and how, if made law, assisted suicide would prey on vulnera...

Stephen White, 40, shares on Premier Christian Radio about the many sacrifices made in order to provide his son Josiah, 14, with a Christian education. He is one of 13 claimants supported by the Christian Legal Centre who have launched an application for a judicial review over the government’s VAT tax raid on private and independent schools. Those bringing the challenge include the award-winning E...

Tim Dieppe, head of public policy at Christian Concern, was on Premier Christian Radio speaking about Gozen Soydag, a social media influencer and education behavioural specialist whose case will be heard at an employment tribunal this week. Gozen's social media accounts, which champion Biblical marriage and purity, were censored by St Anne’s Catholic High School for Girls before she was sacked on...

Andrea Williams was on LBC speaking to Tom Swarbrick about the Christian footballer, Marc Guéhi who was criticised, pressurised and punished for loving Jesus and expressing Christian beliefs in public. What he is facing is not a new theme for us and gets to the heart of many of the biggest legal cases the Christian Legal Centre supports. Find out more: https://x.com/CConcern/status/186433442391258...

Tim Dieppe talked to Premier Christian Radio to explain the ramifications of Kim Leadbeater's assisted suicide Bill and discuss the conflict between creating a culture of death and enabling people to live well.

Becki Bruneau, a Christian psychotherapist, county councillor, wife and mother, who has overcome life-threatening illnesses as a child and adult, was on Premier Christian Radio sharing her remarkable life testimony. Having said to her husband "Let me die" during a time of deep pain, she now speaks out against the government’s proposed assisted suicide bill, which would 'prey on the vulnerable'. Th...

Church of England chaplain Rev. Dr Bernard Randall spoke to Martin Stanford on LBC this morning. He is pursuing a judicial review of a decision not to allow a disciplinary case to proceed against the Bishop Libby Lane, who was found to have wrongly blacklisted him as a safeguarding risk for giving a sermon on identity politics. Before seeking permission for a judicial review, Dr Randall also hande...

'Parents feel such pressure to be friends with their children and to just go along with them. Actually it's healthy to discipline them for things they do wrong - they appreciate it. They need clear boundaries of right and wrong.' Three schools in Scotland are officially recognising 'species dysphoria' in children who identify as wolves and other animals. Tim Dieppe was on Premier Christian Radio w...

Steve Beegoo was in conversation with former Labour MP Stephen Pound and Esther Higham about the overlooked problems in Labour's proposed tax on private schools, and how it would disproportionally penalise faith-based, special needs and small private schools. Christian schools, parents and pupils, being supported by Christian Legal Centre, say they will pursue a judicial review as opposition to La...

"We don't legalise to kill in this country. It would be devastating not just for those who are saying they want it, but for those who are in difficult situations and need to be told: You are beautiful, you are dignified, there is hope." Ahead of the first reading of Kim Leadbeater's bill to legalise assisted suicide on Wednesday 16 October, our Chief Executive Andrea Williams speaks with LBC about...

Residents have been told that being on private property is no bar to prosecution under the new abortion law in Scotland. A letter sent to residents in an Edinburgh “safe access zone,” seen by The Telegraph, warned they could face criminal prosecution if they do “anything” that “would cause harassment, alarm, or distress” to staff and women seeking abortions. Andrea Williams tells Premier Christian...

Christian schools, parents and pupils, being supported by Christian Legal Centre, say they will pursue a Judicial Review as opposition to Labour’s policy grows. Caroline Santer, Headteacher at The King’s School in Hampshire, was on Times Radio Breakfast this morning to discuss with Aasmah Mir and Stig Abell. Find out more on our website: https://christianconcern.com/news/labours-vat-policy-to-face...

Andrea Williams, Chief Executive of Christian Concern and the Christian Legal Centre speaks to Martin Stanford live on LBC outside the Court of Appeal as Kristie Higgs prepares to enter for a precedent-setting challenge for the expression of Christian belief and free speech at large. The Court will determine whether it is lawful for an employer to punish employees for private social media posts ex...

"There are people who are alive today because volunteers kindly offered an alternative to women who were desperate and saw abortion as the only option. "Why should it be a criminal offence in anywhere in the UK to pray about anything you like in your mind?" Censorship zones around abortion facilities will come into force at the end of October 2024. Tim Dieppe was on LBC with Nick Ferrari to talk a...

Our head of public policy Tim Dieppe was on BBC Radio 4 with Edward Stourton, commenting on the use of cathedrals and places of worship for God's glory alone.

Rev. Dr Bernard Randall spoke with Lembit Öpik about the Church of England's safeguarding case blacklisting and barring him from ministry for almost five years now, which a legal advisor described as "egregious and the error gross”. Sign this petition calling on Archbishop Justin Welby to publicly apologise and give Bernard his life back: https://citizengo.org/en-gb/fr/13759-apologise-to-wrongly-b...

'They saved my daughter's life. If a buffer zone was in place I would not have my best friend today,' said 'Sarah'. In 2017 she came across pro-life campaigners while visiting an abortion facility and accepted their offer of accommodation and financial support in order to keep her baby. “The implementation of buffer zones around the country is a step backwards for freedom of movement, freedom of s...

In a landmark ruling handed down yesterday, Lady Justice King, Lord Justice Singh and Lord Justice Baker overturned the decision of the Court of Protection which declared that 19-year-old Sudiksha Thirumalesh lacked mental capacity to make decisions about her medical treatment. Tragically, Sudiksha passed away in September last year. The Court of Appeal’s important judgment now reaffirms the right...

"If this judgment stands, teachers could lose their job or be banned from the profession indefinitely if they refuse to lie about who a pupil is legally and biologically." Our Head of Public Policy Tim Dieppe spoke to Premier Christian Radio about yesterday's High Court ruling which upheld the banning of Christian maths teacher Joshua Sutcliffe, who refused to use the wrong pronouns of a girl iden...

"Professor Louis Appleby who leads the National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England has said there is no evidence that suicide has risen since the High Court decision to restrict puberty blockers in 2020. "Dr Jordan Peterson has described transgender ideology as the worst medical and psychological practice he has seen anywhere, including eugenics and frontal lobotomies." Tim Dieppe and Donna B...

Tim Dieppe speaks to Donna Birrell about the phenomenon of cultural Christianity after Elon Musk confessed to Jordan Peterson that he is a cultural Christian. Like Richard Dawkins, these men praise and endorse the fruit of Christian values in society, but don't yet claim to worship the person of Jesus Christ - the root and way to eternal life. Premier Christian Radio 24 July 2024

Join Tim Dieppe, Andrea Williams and Ben John as we react to the general election results and discuss how Christians should respond in the years ahead.