This episode of Politics in the Pulpit is hosted by Eddie Boon, and features our special guest Denise Dobie!

Denise worked in the NHS for 30 years, 27 years of that as a GP and was involved in educating and training medical students and GPs. She met her husband Donald at Medical School, and they have raised three, now grown up, children together.

In 2017, Denise stepped back from medicine as her primary vocation to train as a Baptist minister and worked bi-vocationally until 2023. She was ordained in the car park of Darkhouse Baptist Church during the COVID19 pandemic and serves that church as half-time minister.

Denise is a half-time Regional Minister for Heart of England Baptist Association (HEBA) serving the Baptist churches in Staffordshire and Shropshire and with a remit to lead in supporting HEBA in responding to and implementing the commitments to action resulting from Project Violet, (a multi co-researcher, practical theological piece of research into the experience of women in Baptist Ministry in the UK.) Denise chairs the HEBA Justice Hub core team, having been a member of the HEBA Justice Hub since its inauguration in 2020. Denise enjoys walking, singing, cooking and visiting coffee shops whenever she can!

This week, Eddie, Denise, and Adam explore the lectionary readings for Sunday 23rd August.

Timestamps

• 00:00 – Intro
• 08:40 - Exodus 1: 8-2: 10
• 24:10 - Romans 12: 1-8
• 33:50 - Psalm 124: 1-8 and Matthew 16: 13-20

Mentions

Baptist Union’s Project Violet - https://www.baptist.org.uk/Groups/363245/Project_Violet.aspx

A Nazareth Manifesto: Being with God by Sam Wells

Christ and Culture by H. Richard Niebuhr

Praying Through the Psalms by Yohanna Katanacho

The Message translation by Eugene Peterson (Romans 12) - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%2012&version=MSG