
New York City Cathedral Dean, St John The Divine, The Very Rev. Winnie Varghese - The God Cast.
18/12/2025 | 36 mins.
The Very Rev. Winnie Sara Varghese (born May 28, 1972) is the 12th dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. She is the first woman and person of color to hold this position in the Cathedral’s 133-year history.Rev. Varghese is a widely recognized leader in the Episcopal Church. She was called “the future of our church,” by the Rev. Kelly Brown Douglas, the canon theologian at the Washington National Cathedral and visiting professor at Harvard Divinity School. Union Theological Seminary said that “Varghese has become one of the most prominent religious voices for justice and inclusion in our time.”Early life and educationVarghese was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, to parents who immigrated from India in 1970. Her brother is the comic Paul Varghese.Varghese lived in India during part of her early childhood. She completed undergraduate studies at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia and Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. She earned a Masters of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in 1999 and was ordained to the transitional diaconate in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles in the same year. She was ordinated into the priesthood on January 8, 2000.The Episcopal Church USAVarghese served as the Rector of St. Luke’s Atlanta from 2021 to 2024.Prior to St. Luke’s Atlanta, Varghese served at Trinity Church NYC where she held several roles, including leading the domestic grants and service programs and peer leadership development for Anglican Communion leaders.Prior to joining Trinity Wall Street, Varghese served as the first female Rector of the historic St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery. The Rt. Rev. Barbara C. Harris, the first woman ordained bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion, preached at the installation. [3]Prior to St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery, Varghese served as Episcopal Chaplain at Columbia University, and before that, at UCLA.Varghese helped the Diocese of New York develop a credit union that serves New Yorkers with a goal of expanding access to financial services for low income households and others that may struggle to be welcomed by traditional banks. [4]She is currently a member of the Committee for Corporate Social Responsibility, Executive Council of the Episcopal Church, 2023-present. She previously served as Chair of the Committee on the State of the Church, the General Convention of the Episcopal Church, 2015-2018 and Voting Secretary and Deputy to the General Convention of The Episcopal Church (New York), in 2015 and 2018.She was elected to the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church from 2006 - 2012.

Protests to Promotion | Burnley 1989–92 In Pictures with Clive Lawrence & Low Block - The God Cast
16/12/2025 | 27 mins.
Order the book here https://lowerblock.com/articles/protests-to-promotion-burnley-1989-92/Find out more about Clive ehre https://www.clivelawrencephotography.com/about-meFollow Fr Alex on X here @alexdjfrostPlease Subscribe to The God Cast Between 1989 and 1992, Burnley FC stood on the edge of despair and rebirth. Those years – captured through the lens of lifelong supporter and photographer Clive Lawrence – tell a story of frustration, defiance, and redemption. His photo series charts the club’s journey from the depths of Division Four to champions of the same division, sealing a long-awaited return to the third tier.

Lisa McKenzie - Poverty - Working Class - Injustice - The God Cast Podcast #poverty #injustice
11/12/2025 | 34 mins.
Lisa Louise McKenzie (born March 1968) is a British anarchist and senior lecturer at the University of Bedfordshire whose work relates to class inequality, social justice, and British working class culture. She was active in the Class War party.Dr Lisa McKenzieSenior Lecturer in SociologyLisa McKenzieAs a researcher and an educator I am keen to develop research proposals, community collaborations and student projects focusing upon class inequality using a collaborative ethnographic approach. I am particularly interested in how research, teaching and community engagement can collaborate in paradigms of social justice through the use of higher education, and innovative research methodology.My research interests are the continuation and development of research proposals focusing upon class inequality and council estates within the UK. This especially relates to those communities who are presently living through a period of adversity, as the consequences of the UK’s austerity measures have major impacts upon public services, housing and welfare entitlements.QualificationsPhD Sociology - University of NottinghamMA Research methods – University of NottinghamBSc Hons Sociology and Social Policy – University of NottinghamTeaching Expertise2019- Date – University of Durham – Assistant ProfessorConvener of Undergraduate modules – Self and Identity – Community Placement ModuleDissertation SupervisorPost-Graduate Supervisor Masters and PhDExternal Examiner: Limerick University Ireland Masters in Youth and Community Service.2017-2019 Middlesex University: Lecturer in Practical SociologyConvener of 1st Year Undergraduate Module ‘Doing Things Together’Convener of 3rd Year Undergraduate module ‘Social Movements, Social Change’2013- 2017: London School of EconomicsConvener of MSC Class, Politics, CultureConvener of PhD Working Group, teaching on Under-Graduate and Masters programmes2005 -2013 : School of Sociology, University of NottinghamLecturer in SociologyUnder-graduate personal tutor, promoting and safeguarding the health welfare and safety of students2008- 2010: Part time lecture and tutor School of Social sciences, The Nottingham Trent University: Collaborated with module convener in devising, and writing lectures for ‘Youth Transitions and Education’, wrote and gave four out of ten lectures, and lead weekly seminar groups.Part-Time Tutor; Access to Nursing, and Social Science at The Castle College Nottingham; Lecture, and teach sociology on the Access to Nursing course, marking essays, giving one to one tutorials. Lesson planning around the OCN guidelines for National Access Courses.Research InterestsCurrent Project: Lockdown Diaries of the Working Class – Interdisciplinary project funded through Kickstarter – self publishing a graphic novel working with a diverse team academics/non academics

Canterbury Cathedral Dean - The Very Reverend Dr David Monteith - The God Cast Podcast.
04/12/2025 | 38 mins.
Dean of CanterburyDavid was installed in December 2022 as the 40th Dean of Canterbury (post Reformation) heading up a staff of 250 and over 500 volunteers; leading the mother church of the Anglican Communion.He chairs the College of Deans for the Church of England. Prior to this he was Dean of Leicester in the East Midlands where he was responsible for the re-interment of King Richard III after his find in a ‘car park’ and the redevelopment of the cathedral in one of Britain’s most diverse cities where he also chaired the inter-faith ministry of the diocese. He also served as Associate Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London and as an Area Dean in Wimbledon, first being ordained in the Diocese of Birmingham in 1993. His interests focus on faith in the public realm, change, culture and the arts.He grew up in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland and shares his life in a Civil Partnership with David Hamilton and their lurcher dog Barney.

Burnley Football Club - Gillingham FC- Northampton FC - Former Player Phil Cavener -The God Cast
28/11/2025 | 30 mins.
Other Burnley Player Interviews Ron Futcher https://youtu.be/eKqN9ywuutMMartin Dobson https://youtu.be/hKvLE8v-8rM?si=J7Hq_5AIpVRe6QroTrevor Steven https://youtu.be/m2zPFpzK1Xs?si=MFwmMLIn8A2vVzPGDerek Scott https://youtu.be/ZVaB34fc_5o?si=NUMRxQYU6G72FoquWinston White https://youtu.be/3f2GRjYDVwc?si=x3rl3GBk4rZOegaZPaul Stewart https://youtu.be/jwC2M6YWCm4?si=STLycErEl0aZI0wKGraham Branch https://youtu.be/6_8Qqci_eBI?si=7rm32oPBmyFPq_YqFull Playlist here https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXJbQwP9mIn-dUDjjrOAhTQJecfRo5wKo&si=dMImNrfoHtkIv1rMPhilip Cavener (born 2 June 1961) is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger. He played in the Football League for Burnley, Bradford City, Gillingham, Northampton Town and Peterborough United, in Sweden for Karlskrona, and in the National League for Kettering Town. He was joint manager of Arlesey Town winning the FA Vase at Wembley 95/96, and is now Vice Chairman.



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