Life Issues

What are you looking for when you watch a film? Is it Entertainment, emotional engagement or escapism? Do you enjoy being scared? With the horror genre increasing in popularity we’re exploring why we engage with horror - and whether it can actually help us understand our need for God’s grace...

This week's Life Issues - Horror : helpful or harmful?
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Sixty years ago Ken Loach directed the landmark BBC drama - 'Cathy Come Home'. It highlighted the realities of homelessness in Britain.
The broadcast had a huge impact on public opinion and gave significant momentum to the newly launched charity Shelter, which was founded the same year.
So, six decades on, why have we not ended homelessness? What role has the church played and is playing in all of this? And what does the Bible say about homelessness?
In this episode of Life Issues, Rob Westall speaks to the Dr. Reverend Isaac Phubalan, the Provost of St. Andrew's Cathedral in Aberdeen and Miriam Morris, Chief Executive at Church Homeless Charity.

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What do you turn to the Bible for? To anchor you in the storms of life. To find wisdom in a moral crisis. To experience God’s love and faithfulness. Imagine getting a copy of one of the world’s best-selling books and not being able to read it. In this week’s Life Issues, Vicky Gibbens speaks to Robin Peake the Deputy CEO of Wycliffe Bible Translators about how the Bible can still be inaccessible for so many today because of a lack of translation.

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Content warning: References to claims of misconduct, which include emotional, spiritual and physical abuse.

Soul Survivor festivals in the UK attracted thousands of young people during the nineties and noughties. What is it like to be an adult today looking back to when you were a kid in the crowd? How do you reflect on those experiences after both a Church of England review and an independent report commissioned by trustees of Soul Survivor substantiated claims of misconduct by its founder Mike Pilavachi? In this Life Issues episode, Vicky Gibbens is joined by Dr Lucy Sixsmith, a Cambridge academic who attended those youth festivals as a teenager. She has been considering the ongoing influence of them in adulthood and the personal questions about her faith which have been prompted by this scandal. Her book is called ‘When the music fades: power, surrender and the Soul Survivor generation’.

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There are many ideologies and differing opinions in society placing expectations on young boys of what it means to be a man.

Whether that's defined as "toxic masculinity," by some, or shaped by their upbringing, environment, experience and how their culture expects them to carry out their role, it can be a confusing world to grow up in with so many competing views - even in church circles.
And more recently they are bombarded by controversial social media influencers in the so called 'Manosphere.'

But what does it mean to be a man in today's society according to the Bible?
In this week's edition of Life Issues, Dave Newton from Scripture Union joined Rob Westall to discuss - The manosphere: challenging views and behaviour.