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At Your Service
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Manx Radio is 'At Your Service' - with a space for people of all faiths and none to share thoughts, prayers, music and conversations - offering a little spiritual strength for challenging times.
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Rev’d Liz Crumlish is a priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church, She is also an author, a poet and has a blog. She’s going to be on the Island next Saturday to lead a day exploring a different way of church leadership. On today’s programme she explains more. Details of. the day - 18th October - can be found on the Thie Dy Vea website - retreathouse.im
Neil Rees of The Bible Society talks about celebrating the 250th anniversary of the printing of the first complete Bible in Manx, with the creation of a brand new app which will put the complete Bible in Manx on any smart phone or suitable device - and a new printed edition of the Bible will follow next year. There's music - including a Canticle for the Feast of St Francis of Assisi - and a notice board packed with news of Harvest services.
Rev'd David Halliwell is the Team Rector of St Luke in the City and Priest in Charge of the church of St Margaret of Antioch in Liverpool - he's also blind. Rev'd Kate Jacobs is also an Anglican priest, caring for two very different churches near John Lennon Airport. Listen to their fascinating faith-filled stories here! Plus music and a packed notice board
Prayers and music for this - World Peace Day - plus a conversation with Stephen Hoyland, a spiritual director with the Jesuit Institute - about his work leading retreats and preparing on line resources - see jesuitinstitute.org for more details.
Retired Baptist Minister, author, teacher and regular contributor to the Daily Service on BBC Radio 4 Extra, and BBC Radio Wales, Richard Littledale is back today - talking about the power of podcasting, and his brand new book - What Happened Next? - exploring the ripple effects of stories from the Bible.
Rev'd Dr Janet Corlett - Chair of Isle of Man District of the Methodist Church, and Dr Tim Grass, academic and reader in the Anglican church, talk about the 250th anniversary of the Bible in Manx which will be celebrated through a variety of events later this year. There's Manx music from Caarjyn Cooidjagh, and David Winter shares a story about 7th Century Saint Cuthbert, whose feast was on 4 September.
Monsignor John Devine is preparing to retire to Liverpool, after 10 years as senior Roman Catholic priest on the Island. Retirement is his 'one last adventure' but on today's programme he reflects on some of the other adventures that have made up over 50 years of priestly ministry - and he chooses our hymns.
We're dipping into the archives again, to explore the history of Santan Parish Church in a recording made nearly 40 years ago - and featuring churchwarden Donald Gelling! And we've news of a new appointment to the Island's churches - not just a new face, but a completely new role too - we have all the details - plus music and our usual notice board.
We mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day with a poignant story from an 11-year old girl, and Anna Pitt, Executive Director of the Association of English Cathedrals, presents The Big Table team at Peel Cathedral with the Cathedral Volunteers of the Year Team Award, national recognition of their voluntary work producing a 3-course community lunch each Monday.
Kiran Wimberly is a Presbyterian minister living and working in Ireland where her husband leads the Corrymeela Community - Ireland's oldest peace and reconciliation organisation. She's developed a valuable music ministry blending the Psalms with traditional Celtic tunes - assisted by The McGraths - and their story is here!
Why is Manx-born Robert Burdett living and working in Illinois ? What has drawn him and his wife Kathleen back to the Island ? What are the benefits of 'twinning' two churches? And why does Bishop Tom Demby from Sierra Leone believe he's found his spiritual home on the Isle of Man? All the answers are in this week's programme!
Rev'd Dr Inderjit Bhogal OBE is a minister in the Methodist church and a leading theologian and campaigner for peace and reconciliation. He was the first person from a minority ethnic background to be appointed President of the Methodist Conference and it was in that capacity he first visited the Isle of Man in 2000. 25 years later he's back on the Island with very definite views on the real path to peace.
26 July to 30 August is St Maughold's Week - with a huge programme of different events to celebrate the heritage of the Isle of Man's patron saint. Historian and Anglican Priest, Rev'd Dr Ian Faulds, explains why he's organising this - plus it's Beach Mission time in Peel and Port St Mary - and we've got the details!
An interview with Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York, who visited the Island recently as part of his Lord's Prayer Tour - and the Alpha Course raises its game - to meet the needs of the quiet revival!
One church but two vicars for St Ninian's in Douglas; Scripture Union invite you to a family-friendly thanksgiving and we visit a major flower festival at St Andrew's United Reformed Church in Douglas.
AFD Software - the Ramsey-based Postcode People - are famous for their high level of support for local and global charities, including the purchase of an aircraft for Mission Aviation Fellowship, the world's largest humanitarian air operator. David Dorricott - Managing Director of AFD Software, talks about the new plane and the difference it will make to some of the world's most disadvantaged people.Matt and Katrina Baptist are based in Peel, and are planting a Vineyard Church on the Island - the full story is here! And there's music too - and another packed notice board.
Sam Stockhill is the Community Partnership Manager for The Leprosy Mission in the North of England, and the Isle of Man. The Leprosy Mission on the Isle of Man is a separate Manx-registered charity, but benefits from visits from Sam to support their fundraising projects. In this first conversation with Sam, be prepared for an amazing display of true faith in God - as well as moving stories about his work in Nepal.And two more people take a deeper look at some familiar words from The Lord's Prayer - anticipating the visit of the Archbishop of York to the Cathedral in Peel on 6 July at 6pm - all are welcome!Plus there's music - and another packed notice board
This week - we celebrate The Big Table community outreach, based in the Cathedral in Peel, winning a national award for Cathedral volunteeers; Roman Catholic Archbishop John Sherrington comes to take his seat in the Co-Cathedral of St Mary of the Isle in Douglas, and Rev'd Alex Brown looks again at the Lord's Prayer and finds a new message in its familiar words. Plus music - and the usual notice board
The Archbishop of York has launched a movement called Faith in the North, with The Lord's Prayer at its core - he explains more about it on today's programme. Plus - Very Rev'd John Mann talks about his new book "Be Still, Be Silent" about the priest and poet David Scott - and there's an invitation to meet Kiran Wimberly and The McGraths of the Corrymeela Community who will be visiting the Island on 14th June offering two sessions of conversation and music with a strong Celtic influence. And there's our regular notice board, too.
A first chance to hear from Archbishop John Sherrington who has now been installed as the head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool - and Cardinal Vincent Nichols - Archbishop of Westminster and head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales - reflects on the experience of being in a REAL Conclave. Plus music, and our usual notice board.