The Scargill Podcast

In this edition of The Scargill Podcast exploring leadership,host Shaun Lambert is joined by Annie Naish, Chaplain, and Director of Scargill, Phil Stone, who reflect on their personal journeys into leading within Christian community. Drawing on a wide range of experiences, they exploredifferent leadership styles - from reluctant and behind‑the‑scenes leadership to more instinctive, visible roles -...

In this third edition of the second series of The Scargill Podcast, host Jo Penn is joined by Phil and Diane Stone, community leaders, to explore the rich relationship between life, faith, and visual art. Drawing on their fifteen years of leadership at Scargill, Phil and Diane reflect on how paintings, sculpture, landscape, and everyday creativity can open the heart to God in ways that go beyond w...

In this edition of the Scargill Podcast, Shaun Lambert is joined by Phil Stone, community leader and Margi Walker, part of the extended community.  Our conversation turns to lament – a vital yet often neglected part of Christian faith.  The conversation explores how lament gives permission to be honest about grief, anger, and loss before God. Drawing on personal experience and the Psalms, the edit...

What does it really mean to care for creation as part of Christian discipleship? In the first edition of Series 2 of The Scargill Podcast, Martha Tredwell is joined by Phil Stone, community leader, and John Richards, head of the estate team, to explore why care for creation sits at the heart of life at Scargill.  Drawing on Scripture, lived experience, and the beauty of the Yorkshire Dales, they r...

Scargill is intentionally diverse as a community - multi-ethnic, different ages demographically, and inter-denominational in its approach.  The central emphasis on "lives shared, lives transformed – with Jesus at the centre" enables the community to hold a range of theological views without falling out.  In a world where separating out from those we disagree with is common, Scargill’s experience i...

Part of the community wisdom at Scargill is "relationships before task", which includes prayer, and the relationship with God.  The community prays three times a day - morning prayer, midday and evening prayers.  With the prayers led by different members of community there is a richness of expression; and guests and friends of Scargill benefit from the rhythm of prayer the community has establishe...

We live in a world where chronic widespread anxiety in our culture can lead to an over-serious approach to life, where we miss the ordinary everyday moments of joy and pleasure. One of the distinctives of the Scargill Movement is the permission to be playful, to laugh often and the cultivation of joy. In this relaxed and happy – and occasionally hilarious - fourth edition of The Scargill Podcast,...

Every Christian community has a common demanding task, a reason for being other than being a community. Scargill as a retreat centre offers the hospitality of God to its guests. In this third edition of The Scargill Podcast community member and leader Jo Penn talks with Phil Stone (Director) and Ruth Meyer (Kitchen Team Leader) about this hospitality. The youngest community member, Martha Tredwell...

The number one piece of wisdom to come out of the monastic movement is that human beings cannot live together without a rule of life. Scargill’s rule of life as an intentional community is called a pathway and is written in accessible language and shaped by experience. In this second edition of The Scargill Podcast, chaplain Annie Naish talks with director Phil Stone about the Scargill Pathway and...

There's a widespread restlessness and dissatisfaction with the individualistic and consumerist world we live in.  Many are stressed and lonely.  One of the hidden pathways out of this gilded cage is intentional community. In this edition of The Scargill Podcast we ask the question, Why Community?  Phil and Diane Stone, the leaders of Scargill, are in conversation with Rosy Fairhurst, a longstandin...