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We often talk about growing in faith, but what does that actually mean? Is the faith we have at 50 or 60 supposed to look different from the faith we had at 20? What happens when growth involves not simply learning more, but questioning or even letting go of things we once thought were certain?

And for pastors, how do we navigate our own growing and changing faith alongside that of our congregation?

In this episode, Vic Francis talks with Alan Jamieson — Baptist leader, author, researcher and explorer of spiritual formation, who has spent considerable time thinking about how souls grow, and how faith changes and develops over a lifetime.

For more information on Vic and Solace, check out our website or search for us on Facebook or Instagram. And if you would like to support this podcast, please become a member at https://www.patreon.com/c/forpastors

Meanwhile, here are some links to people referred to in this podcast:

James Fowler

• Faith Development and Pastoral care (1987)
• Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the quest for Meaning (1981)

Janet O. Hagberg & Robert A. Guelich

• The Critical Journey: Stages in the Life of Faith (1995)

Alan Jamieson

• A Churchless Faith (2000 Garside Publishing in NZ) Published internationally by SPCK, 2002.

• Called Again (2004 Garside Publishing in NZ). Titled ‘Journeying in Faith' – published internationally by SPCK – 2004. Printed copies available from Alan (email aj@portland.org.nz)

• Five years On (published in NZ April 2006 and internationally by SPCK under the title ‘Church Leaving' –Aug 2006). Printed copies available from Alan (email aj@portland.org.nz)

• Chrysalis: The hidden transformation in the journey of faith (2008 Paternoster).

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Vic

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What is a Christian activist? Should Christians be involved in politics, protests and picket lines? If so, which fights should we choose and which should we avoid? And where does the Holy Spirit fit in?

In this episode, Vic Francis talks to Wellington vicars Alison and Martin Robinson, who have been ministering at the margins of society for over three decades alongside refugees, prisoners and the urban poor. And then in more recent years, they have led the replanting and renewal of St David's Church in Naenae.

Martin and Alison are proudly activist, but they're also proudly Holy Spirit.

If you would like to connect with the Robinsons, you can do so through the St David's Naenae website. Or click here for Catch Network Aotearoa or Common Grace Aotearoa.

Meanwhile, for more information on Vic and Solace, check out our website or search for us on Facebook or Instagram. And if you would like to support this podcast, please become a member at https://www.patreon.com/c/forpastors

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Welcome to For Pastors, a podcast which "champions pastors and their holy calling in an uncertain world".

In this episode, we go beyond the intensity of the joys and challenges of local church ministry and lift our eyes to explore the possibilities of churches working together on behalf of the "capital C" Church and of the towns and cities in which they're ministering.

We hope you'll enjoy For Pastors, Heart for a City.