The Outskirts of Faith

Joining Elliott this week is a teams pastor from the Audacious Church, Julie Wilson, who throughout the podcast talks about the importance of being obedient to God. Alongside plenty of laughs, Julie also shares with Elliott her time of feeling on the outskirts of faith, a miraculous moment while trying to get pregnant, and talks about authenticity too.

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Dr Richard Pile is a GP specialising in lifestyle medicine and cardiology, an author, TEDx speaker, blogger, podcaster, mentor and coach. He's also a Christian and in this episode he chats with Elliott about how he balances his work as a doctor, his faith and family life, as well as openly talking about the medical struggles his own family have experienced and the impact they've had on his life.

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Our Outskirts of Faith Podcast guest this week turns the phrase 'Whistle while you work' on its head - Lisa Drabble works with Jen Baker ministries and when she's not with Jen, she's out and about blessing people's homes while she cleans them, so altogether now...."Blessing while you work!"

Lisa shares with Elliott about the moment God spoke to her and chats to him about her journey finding faith and a prayer life too. She also sha...

Lady T is an award winning radio and TV presenter, a podcaster and an international event host. She joins Elliott this week on the Outskirts of Faith Podcast to chat about how she lives out her life for Christ and making sure that's she's authentic in the eyes of God in everything that she does and whoever she's with.

Elliott will also be asking Tolu to share with her favourite piece of scripture and getting her to explain the idea...

What does your mind jump to when you hear the word 'Religion'? Well, author and conversational evangelist Rev Ted Pike is attempting to explain it to us this week in 'What Does It Mean'! He'll also be jumping into the book of Proverbs to share with us some scripture, as well as talking about love, being offended and stories of how he chats about his faith with others using conversational evangelism.

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On the Outskirts of Faith this week Elliott's guest is John Wyatt, who is a a doctor, author, speaker and research scientist - and that doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of what he has achieved in his life and career!

In this moving conversation John shares his journey of faith with Elliott, talks about working as a doctor, and also how he overcame a devastating psychiatric breakdown where he found himself in a locked psych...

This week's Outskirts of Faith guest is an Entrepreneur, Coach, Mentor, Pastor... and if that isn't enough, then you might also want to know that he's been the keyboard player for the band OMD, Stone Roses and Ian Brown, to name just a few of the artists he's worked with.

Nigel is chatting to Elliott about his life in music, his journey as a coach and entrepreneur, dipping into the book of Hebrews for some scripture and talking to ...

Joining to chat about their faith journey with Elliott this week is close friend and business analyst Graham Shankland, who gives us his thoughts on wearing a cross, chats about High Church, and takes on the Bible Quiz, Splat the Gnat and shares with us his favourite piece of scripture from the Bible too. 

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Phil Knox is an evangelism and missiology senior specialist at the Evangelical Alliance and this week he talks to Elliott about the importance of friendship and just why he's so passionate about making sure we have good friends.

As well as sharing his testimony with us, including about how he lost his parents during his twenties, he'll also deep dive into 'What Does It Mean', Splat The Gnat, take on the Bible Quiz, and tell us abou...

Chatting with Elliott this week on the Outskirts of Faith is NT Wright, but you can call him Tom! In this very special edition of the Outskirts of Faith podcast, Elliott and Tom sit down and explore the Lord's Prayer together, working through it and discussing what different parts of it mean.

Tom is an English New Testament scholar, Pauline theologian and was the former bishop of Durham from 2003 to 2010. He's written over 70 books...

How would you describe 'Forgiveness'? That's the task of Cliff McClelland in this week's Outskirts of Faith Podcast, who also shares with Elliott his favourite piece of Biblical scripture from the book of Psalms. Cliff is a prison chaplain and prior to that served in the army and see's it as a calling on his life to support young men who are up against it.

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In this week's Outskirts of Faith Podcast Elliott is chatting to Canadian born Jil Webber, who as well as being an author is also a prayer director with 24/7 Prayer International, the global convenor of the Order of The Mustard Seed, the head of the house of Prayer at Waverley Abbey, a spiritual director, and a fabulous story teller too!

Jil talks openly about her journey with God and faith, and shares with us her favourite Bible p...

What do you think when you hear the word 'Repent'? Well, author and marine biologist Steve Holloway is attempting to explain it to us this week in 'What Does It Mean'! He'll also be jumping into the book of Deuteronomy from the Old Testament to share with us some scripture, as well as talking about his life in marine biology and his journey of faith too.

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On this week's Outskirts of Faith podcast Elliott's guest is Lauren Windle, a journalist, presenter, author, editor and addiction specialist who has been sober since 2014. Lauren shares with us her faith and recovery journey all while growing up in the emotional mixing pot of the church community.

As well as sharing her testimony with us, she'll also be exploring in 'What Does It Mean' the phrase 'A Calling', chatting about idolatr...

In this week's bumper episode of The Outskirts of Faith, Elliott is joined by the broadcaster, speaker and founder of UKGospel.com, Yinka Awojobi.

Not only do Elliott and Yinka tackle this week's word (Blessed) in 'What Does It Mean', the Bible Quiz, visit some scripture from the book of Romans and of course Splat The Gnat; but they take some time to chat about church culture, race, doubts, music, and how Yinka ended up with 14 nam...

In this week's Outskirts of Faith Podcast, Elliott is chatting with the inspirational speaker Jen Baker - an author and mentor, who has the mission of seeing a global movement of Christian women living with courageous faith creating kingdom impact!

Jen talks candidly about her faith journey and shares with us her favourite Bible passages from the book of Proverbs, as well as trying to describe what a 'calling' on our lives is in 'W...

To start the New Year, Elliott is joined by not one but TWO guests on this week's Outskirts of Faith podcast - the Rev Sarah McClelland, who became a minister following her life as a GP, and the award winning story teller and author Bob Hartman!

Sarah and Bob chat to Elliott about their faith journey and both share verses from the book of Isaiah as their chosen passages from the Bible;  plus we'll also hear Bob read to us an exclus...

How would you describe the word 'Hope'? Well that's what the Award-winning Producer and Publishing Executive Gabe Wicks is attempting to do this week in 'What Does It Mean'!

Gabe was the Vice President of Harper Collins' Creative Services for over 20 years, and part of the team that produced thousands of books and audiobooks. He'll be be chatting with Elliott this week about his life in publishing, faith and opening the Bible for a...

We're joined this week on The Outskirts of Faith by the writer, speaker and Spiritual Director, Amy Boucher Pye!

Elliott will be chatting with Amy about moving to the UK from America, and about what her work entails as a Spiritual Director. We'll also be dipping into the book of Isaiah for this week's Bible passage, and in 'What Does It Mean' Amy takes on not one but TWO Christian words and phrases - 'Abide' and 'God Of Israel'; an...