Leaving Egypt Podcast

Our work is only possible with your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to enable us to continue with the podcast. Alan Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair talk with Sally Mann about her life in community in the East End of London in the UK, where her family has lived for six generations. Sally tells the story of Bonny Downs Baptist Church where she is one of the pastoral team of five, all...

Our work is only possible with your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to enable us to continue with the podcast. Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair talk with John van Sloten about his experience of God’s “common grace” after more than twenty-five years as a pastor in Calgary, Canada.  John shares how the dyslexia he was born with has been used by the Spirit to help him recognize and...

Our work is only possible with your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to enable us to continue with the podcast. Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair talk with Phillip Ullmann about his insights into how our economic systems need to be reordered for the common good. Phillip shares his own personal journey as a business entrepreneur and how “the Bible has opened up to me in the last thr...

Our work is only possible with your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to enable us to continue with the podcast. Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair begin their conversation with Xenia Chan by talking about her experience of growing up in an “ethnoburb” of Toronto, Canada. Speaking both Cantonese and English, Xenia then reflects on the unravelling taking place across our societies fro...

Our work is only possible with your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to enable us to continue with the podcast. Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair talk with Bill Cavanaugh about how, as Christians, we might understand the shifting and disruption of our times. Bill proposes that rather than reading the signs through the lens of secularisation, we should think in terms of “the migrati...

Our work is only possible with your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to enable us to continue with the podcast. Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair talk with Roy Searle about his work in leading Christian communities over many decades. From anabaptist communities to monastic movements like the Northumbria community, Roy has witnessed most of the dynamic shifts in churches across the...

Our work is only possible with your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to enable us to continue with the podcast. Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair talk with Matt Petrusek about the cultural challenges confronting Christian life. At a time when the culture of Self is so dominant and notions of truth are dissolving,  Matt makes a clear analysis of the tragedy unfolding, but also gives...

Our work is only possible with your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to enable us to continue with the podcast. Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair talk with Tim Wray about the social, economic and personal challenges of farming and being a person of kingdom commitment. Tim is in his early forties. He is a bi-vocational Lutheran pastor and farmer in Alberta, Canada.  Along with his w...

At the end of the year, Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair review the Leaving Egypt podcast since its launch in August 2023. They recall the fascinating range of guests and highlights from some of the conversations across the first episodes. They also look ahead to how the podcast will develop in 2024 and introduce their monthly discussion Forum, where paid subscribers can join with them in deeper ref...

Our work is only possible with your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to enable us to continue with the podcast. Hannah Vaughan-Spruce shares with Jenny and Al what she’s seeing across Catholic parishes in the UK as they join with one another and friends from Divine Renovation in looking at questions of renewal and mission. In these partnerships, local congregations are exploring...

Our work is only possible with your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to enable us to continue with the podcast. Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair talk with Karen Reed. Karen lives in Vancouver, Canada. After fulfilling a range of senior leadership positions, Karen took the risk twelve years ago to live as an urban worker in East Vancouver,. She lives an intentionally shared life in...

Our work is only possible with your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to enable us to continue with the podcast. Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair talk with Edward Hadas about the effects of modern economic systems on the societies of the West and, particularly on our moral behaviour. He points out how the things that really matter about our relationships as human beings are dissolv...

Our work is only possible with your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to enable us to continue with the podcast. Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair talk with Graham and Mairi McBain about their ministry in Hartlepool, UK. Graham and Mairi are Community Ministers, based out of Headland Baptist Church. Rather than pastors in the sense of leading congregations, they are “joining in” wit...

Our work is only possible with your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to enable us to continue with the podcast. In this episode Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair are in conversation with Avril Baigent , from Northampton in the UK. Avril works with parishes and leaders as they adjust to deep change in the church. Sometimes it's too easy to characterize what's going on in local congr...

Our work is only possible with your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to enable us to continue with the podcast. Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair meet with Nick Graves , pastor of Old Lodge Lane Baptist Church, in Purley, South London (UK). Nick talks about his experience of the unraveling in his local community and his church, and how becoming more attentive to the movement of the...

Our work is only possible with your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to enable us to continue with the podcast. Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair meet Mark Lau Branson (Pasadena, California USA) to reflect on the concrete ways he has borne witness to the Gospel in his community and multi-ethnic church in a disruptive society. Mark has a unique gift of connecting the local with the...

Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair talk with Mary Publicover and Barry Jung about their experiences of the unraveling in their local communities and explore their stories about how genuine community is being formed where they live. Mary lives in Birmingham (UK) where she is deeply involved with Rowheath Pavilion Church, Bournville. With several others, she’s established and co-hosts a Place of Welcome...

Our work is only possible with your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to enable us to continue with the podcast. Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair meet with Maurice Glasman , a life peer in the House of Lords in the UK. Lord Glasman talks about how he came to understand the unraveling that lies before us and the disintegration of our social life. He lays out a compelling description...

Alan J Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair introduce and discuss their vision for Leaving Egypt and what brought them to start this podcast together. Al talks about his own formation growing up in a non-religious environment then seeking to shape church life as a pastor, a teacher and a consultant to churches, leaders and denominations around the world. Jenny recounts her own growing up within the church,...

Alan J Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair introduce Leaving Egypt and discuss what brought them to start this podcast together. Seeking to make sense of this moment of cultural unravelling for communities of Christians in North America and the UK, Jenny and Al look forward to engaging with fascinating guests, reading the signs of the times together and hearing stories of how local expressions of God’s pe...