Measured Anglican theology for church life.
Church Society podcast is a steady, interview-led series for listeners who want Anglican theology with pastoral weight. Recent episodes move between Bible commentary, Anglican figures, journal discussions, conference talks, and questions of moral thinking in contemporary culture.
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Church Society podcast is a substantial Anglican theology series shaped by conversation, teaching, and historical memory. It rarely rushes. Recent episodes show a steady editorial instinct: begin with a clear question, let the guest frame the larger issue, then draw the discussion toward church life, preaching, devotion, and ministry. The show has a warm but serious temperament. Lee Gatiss appears in commentary conversations tied to the Hodder Bible Commentary, including Philippians with Dr Jonathan Moore and 1 and 2 Kings with Dr Nathan Lovell. Those episodes treat biblical books as whole arguments rather than loose collections of favorite passages. Philippians becomes a letter of gospel partnership, Christ-centered thought, and faithful obedience in an inhospitable world. Kings becomes more than a run of dramatic royal stories. It is presented as a book about the kingdom of God, worship, exile, power, glory, and the hope that God has not finished with his people. The show also looks backward with purpose. Ros Clark’s conversations about Anglican heroes bring figures such as Lady Mary Vere and Hugh Latimer into view without reducing them to trivia or legend. Lady Mary Vere is remembered through quiet seriousness, perseverance, household devotion, biblical instruction, psalm singing, and encouragement of ministers. Hugh Latimer is approached from the familiar fact of his death toward the harder question of why his life deserves attention. The journal episodes widen the scope. A conversation with Peter Jensen and Kirsten Burkett about The Global Anglican connects academic theology, book reviews, ethics, and the continuing need for pastors to keep reading and thinking. The archive and conference material gives the feed a second texture. Arthur Bennett’s talk on Reformed spirituality presses older language such as sanctification, godliness, the spiritual life, and practical godliness. A conference session on moral thinking considers identity, ethical method, Oliver O'Donovan, Charles Taylor, and the pressures of Western culture. A pastoral charge on 1 Timothy 6 adds the sound of ministry gathered around Scripture and prayer. Across these strands, the podcast feels designed for listeners who want theological depth that still belongs in sermons, households, parish life, and patient Christian service.
Made for: Suited to clergy, lay people, theological students, and thoughtful Christians interested in Reformed Anglican teaching, biblical commentary, church history, and pastoral application.
What sets it apart: It connects scholarly material to the ordinary work of ministry with unusual patience, moving from biblical structure and historical detail toward preaching, devotion, and church formation.
Church Society is a fellowship contending to reform and renew the Church of England in biblical faith. The podcast is a weekly discussion featuring news and issues of interest to clergy and lay people, especially in the Church of England. Our channel also includes lectures and talks from our conferences and other events.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Church Society podcast makes Anglican theology accessible through careful interviews on scripture, ministry, ethics, and the tradition's overlooked history.
Church Society podcast brings Anglican theology into conversation through interviews, historical profiles, and recorded teaching. Lee Gatiss and Ros Clark favor direct questions that let a subject develop: how biblical books address exile and obedience, how ministers continue…
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A warm, grounded introduction to Philippians as a letter of Christ-centred partnership and faithful obedience.
Lee Gatiss and Jonathan Moore approach Philippians as warm correspondence shaped by Paul's close bond with his mission partners. Their discussion places the letter in its Greco-Roman setting while tracing the Christ-centred thought that runs through Paul's message to its…
A thoughtful portrait of Lady Mary Vere as a quiet force for Christian formation in a Stuart household.
Lady Mary Vere comes through as a quietly consequential figure in Stuart England, not because she held office, preached, or published theological works, but because she treated Christian formation as the work of a household.
A steady, thoughtful conversation on Kings, exile, Elijah, and the kingdom of God.
Kings comes through as more than a record of royal failure and prophetic confrontation in this Church Society conversation. Lee Gatiss speaks with Dr. Nathan Lovell about the book's vision of God's kingdom, and the strongest thread is Lovell's reading of Elijah at Mount Carmel.
A Christian account of identity, freedom, and moral certainty in Western culture.
This episode follows the shift in Western moral thought through a deceptively simple question: what it means to be who you are. It tracks changing answers across time, but also changing ways of arriving at those answers, before drawing Protestant philosopher Oliver O'Donovan and…
A careful Ecclesiastes discussion on Kohelet, authorship, and receiving brief life as God's gift.
Ecclesiastes lands here as a book unwilling to comfort too fast. The episode follows Kohelet as a possibly crafted, Solomon-like voice, one that lowers the reader's guard long enough to face how brief and hard to control life can be.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
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The episode explores modern ethical thinking, contrasting it with Christian perspectives through philosophers Oliver O'Donovan and Charles Taylor.
Greg Prior introduces himself and his background before preaching on 2 Timothy 1 at the JAEC 2024 conference.
James Robson introduces himself and begins a talk on loving your enemies at the JAEC 2025 conference.
Lee Gatiss delivers a pastoral charge on 1 Timothy 6 at the JAEC 2024 conference, focusing on contentment and ministry.
Church Society director Lee Gatiss, back from a sabbatical in Egypt where he gave 40 lectures in Alexandria, presents his nearly 380-page book 'Reforming and Renewing the Church' to host Roz Clark.
Lee Gatiss interviews Dr Jonathan Moore on the Church Society podcast about Moore’s 160-page Hodder Bible Commentary on Philippians, due in November 2025.
Church Society podcast S1910 profiles Lady Mary Vere (1581-1671), whom Lee Gatiss calls an "unsung hero" of English Protestantism.
Church Society podcast episode Podcast S19E08: The Global Anglican has Ros Clark speaking with Peter Jensen from Sydney and Kirsten Burkett from Glasgow about The Global Anglican journal.
Ros Clark and James Carey examine Hugh Latimer's movement from a staunch Roman Catholic position at Cambridge to a prominent English Reformation preacher.
Lee Gatiss interviews Nathan Lovell, director of research and senior lecturer in Old Testament at George Whitfield College, about his Hodder Bible Commentary on 1 and 2 Kings.
Arthur Bennett discusses the meaning of true spirituality, contrasting it with modern evangelical trends and advocating for traditional terms like sanctification and practical godliness.
A Christian speaker discusses the shift in ethical thinking in Western culture, contrasting traditional Christian views with modern methods of determining identity and morality.