Relationary

Pursuing Purpose Alongside Others

How do you find others to pursue a purpose with?
Long-time friends, Phil Stokes and Andy, explore the lessons they have learnt, finding other people to build together with, for lasting impact.
This episode explores how to identify and explore core values within a community setting.
Phil Stokes, avid jazz fan, and founder of REACH London, has 38 years of urban pastoral ministry. 
You can connect with REACH London via https://www.instagram.com/reachlondon/ 
Find out more on https://www.reachlondon.org/
 
Robin, Phil and Andy are friends and family, with combined training and working experience in medicine, theology, law, community formation, and leadership. Relationary is a joint project to promote and enable healthy relationships between individuals and communities.
 
Find out more on our website: https://relationary.org.uk/audio/
And get in touch via Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/relationary.org.uk/
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Edited by: Yishak Haile

How Does Wisdom for Relationships Help?

Why should I bother developing relational skills?
Phil and Andy discuss with Robin about whether it is possible for anyone to learn how to have better emotional intelligence.
This episode explores how the Biblical wisdom tradition helps in the quest for community.
Robin Plummer is the Pastor of New River Baptist Church. 
You can connect with New River Baptist Church via https://www.instagram.com/newriverbaptistchurch/Find out more on https://www.newriverbaptist.net/
Robin, Phil and Andy are friends and family, with combined training and working experience in medicine, theology, law, community formation, and leadership. Relationary is a joint project to promote and enable healthy relationships between individuals and communities, with a Christian ethos. 
We explore the community implications of relational theology across our podcast and blogs.
Find out more on our website: https://relationary.org.uk/audio/And get in touch via Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/relationary.org.uk/
Follow us to hear about upcoming events.
Edited by: Yishak Haile

Why Relationary?

What are the parameters for seeking successful relationships?
Robin and Andy discuss with Phil about the opportunities and traps that come with trying to make relationships central to your worldview, and your faith.
This episode dives into the inherent tensions in trying to do right by others, while having living from a sense of right and wrong.
Phil is a specialist in supported housing (exempt accommodation) and a self-professed relational theology nerd. See if you can still hear a faint, Germanic twang – he went to school in the Köln/Bonn area.
Robin, Phil and Andy are friends and family, with combined training and working experience in medicine, theology, law, community formation, and leadership. Relationary is a joint project to promote and enable healthy relationships between individuals and communities, with a Christian ethos. 
We explore the community implications of relational theology across our podcast and blogs.
Find out more on our website: https://relationary.org.uk/audio/And get in touch via Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/relationary.org.uk/
Follow us to hear about upcoming events.
Edited by: Yishak Haile

Wired for Relationship

What do healthy relationships, happiness and the Bible have to do with each other?
Robin and Phil discuss with Andy about why he feels it's so important to talk about relationships that he was up for starting a podcast with them.
This episode explores the evidence of how relationships drive happiness, and how they are at the heart of the Biblical story.
Andy Parnham, after years working as a doctor, turned to community work in inner London, during which time he and his family moved for a while to live in the Middle East. He went on to train as a Life Coach and now works as a wellbeing coach, trainer and advisor in many contexts.
His book is 'Lasting Happiness: In Search of Deeper Meaning and Fulfilment'.
Robin, Phil and Andy are friends and family, with combined training and working experience in medicine, theology, law, community formation, and leadership. Relationary is a joint project to promote and enable healthy relationships between individuals and communities.
Find out more on our website: https://relationary.org.uk/audio/And get in touch via Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/relationary.org.uk/Follow us to hear about upcoming events.Edited by: Yishak Haile