More Tea, Vicar?

This week James is joined by Matt Southcombe from St Nick's, Bristol, to talk about how we live well as disciples in a world of non-stop media.

On Monday night, thousands of football fans stayed behind to cheer their team after a 4-1 defeat. Why? This week Wendy and James talk about 'vision and values' and how they can make for flourishing or perishing.

Following Matthew Perry’s death, James and Wendy talk about light and darkness, addiction and hope in Jesus. What affects who we are becoming as we journey through life and how to alter that trajectory.

What happens when you lose confidence and trust in others? Can you get it back? How can you begin to rebuild it?

Following the shocking news from Israel and Gaza, James and Wayne talk about the conflict, the history of tension in the region and what it tells us about the human heart and our need for a home.

James and Wayne discuss football, referee controversies and what sort of cultures create fear, shame and the need to hid failures.

It seems shots are being fired in the next general election. All political parties are trying out new policies and ideas in order to win your vote next year. But is this how we should build a better world? How does our culture do it? How should Christians do it?

In their new series of More Tea, Vicar, B&A Church’s Wayne Massey and James Stevenson welcome listeners back following their summer break.  This week the news has been filled with human suffering on a mass scale; the death toll from floods in Derna stands at nearly 4000 and Morocco’s earthquake has so far claimed 3000 lives. How can we understand who God is and what He is like in a world where...

James and Wayne talk about a recent cricket controversy and why this is really about our hearts and not just what happened on a cricket pitch.

What do the England Cricket Board and Russian politics have in common? This week James and Wayne discuss systems and what makes them choose impunity or scapegoating and how Christians can respond to the wrongs of the systems we find ourselves in.

James has visited Sudan and describes it as a country that had a deep impact on him. He was shocked to learn from Sudanese friends in the UK that Darfur is back in the news, as reminders of what some called the 21st century’s first genocide circulate. More Tea, Vicar? this week considers a Christian perspective on the concept of impunity, defined as “exemption from punishment or freedom from the i...

Why We Cancel People - Lessons from This Morning.. When ITV announced on May 20, that Phillip Schofield would be leaving flagship daytime show, This Morning, after more than 20 years, it lifted the lid on a supposedly “toxic” culture and sparked the spectacle of a chain of celebrities “cancelling” the former presenter and the story exploding daily with revelations. But why as a culture, as people,...

Wayne and James talk about music, creativity and artificial intelligence. Musician Sting, animal rights philosopher Peter Singer and the bible have different things to say about humanity’s place in the world. In Genesis, God creates man in his own image and humanity is made last; what does this tell us about God’s purpose for humanity?  Is there something distinct about humans as compared to the r...

This week we felt it was the right thing to share our vision for our new building at 279 Gloucester Road with you, and talk about where we are headed as a church family. With our new building, we now have 24,000 square feet of faith ! We plan to share it with our community, with the Gloucester Road and with our whole city, Bristol. The next era of B&A is one church, one parish, one building….a...

This week our discussion is around the news that Canon Mike Pilavachi, founder of Christian youth festival Soul Survivor, has stepped down from his role as Associate Pastor of Soul Survivor Church, St. Albans, as safe-guarding concerns against him are investigated. We look at individuals, at systems, at King David's Old Testament transgressions and how God would like us to respond and how we a...

Why Do We Do More Tea, Vicar? This week we are definitely not talking about ducks in the font, currently causing a storm on Anglican Twitter. What we are talking about is why we do this podcast; how, through More Tea, Vicar, we hope to bring a Christian understanding to contemporary issues in culture, and apply this to life as we are living it.

This week we take our discussion right into the heart of the Bristol communities where we live and work. As a church we're about to move buildings and we wanted to share the extraordinary story of how we came to our new home through God's grace. To find out more details about the move visit babristol.org/279 .

This week we discussed Matt Hancock's leaked WhatsApp messages and why in culture and in life this happens again and again - our pasts always seem to catch up with us. We asked the question how does post-Christian culture handle the past and how do we, as followers of Jesus, see it differently?

In the final part of our series on human sexuality we look at the story of the woman at the well in John’s gospel and ask the questions do we need sexual intimacy for a full life? And what is the life that Jesus offers and is He enough?

This week we’re talking about inclusion and welcome, two words that come up again and again in debates and discussion around the church and human sexuality. Both are expected of the church by culture and society but can we actually offer both and do they mean the same thing?

This week we’re talking about Identity. One of the questions that often comes up when we talk about sexuality is that if your identity is that you’re same-sex attracted, are you inherently sinful in a way that someone who is heterosexual isn’t? We discuss the turn inward since the enlightenment, the history of desire, what sin actually is and where we find our true identity. The book that Wayne me...

This is the fourth episode in our series seeking to understand the issues and controversy surrounding human sexuality and same-sex marriage going on in Church and culture at the moment. This week we read an article in the Guardian arguing that those who are pro same-sex marriage think that God's love and grace is for everyone and that those who are against same-sex marriage believe that God's love...

We're in the middle of a series seeking to understand the issues and controversy surrounding human sexuality and same-sex marriage going on in Church and culture at the moment. Speaking in Parliament this week, Labour MP Chris Bryant said "Did Jesus say a single word about same-sex relationships or marriage? I do not think he did" and so we wanted to answer the question What does Jesus have to say...

We're in the middle of a series seeking to understand the issues and controversy surrounding human sexuality and same-sex marriage going on in Church and culture at the moment. This week we're asking the question What is marriage?  The Church of England lawyers have been asking how it's permissible for an atheist couple to get married in a church, but not a same-sex Christian couple. We look...

Following the Bishops' announcement this week proposing that the Church of England offer prayers of blessing to same-sex couples, a proposal that will be debated at General Synod next month, James and Wayne discuss some of the issues behind the issue: how can we have an established church in post-Christian culture? And what happens when a faith-group that is increasingly marginalised still has a s...