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EP#05 Listening with the Spirit in our neighbourhoods - with Avril Baigent

Leaving Egypt Podcast

Our work is only possible with your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to enable us to continue with the podcast. In this episode Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair are in conversation with Avril Baigent, from Northampton in the UK. Avril works with parishes and leaders as they adjust to deep change in the church. Sometimes it's too easy to characterize what's going on in local congregations in terms of struggle and decline. But much more is happening. Across many churches there’s something stirring - Christians coming together to listen and discern the activity of the Spirit in their communities. Avril shares stories about the synodality* movement in the Catholic Church, what she sees happening on the ground and what it is that makes this new energy so significant.  Avril is Pastoral Ministry Advisor for the Diocese of Northampton in the UK, developing chaplaincy and new forms of lay ministry. She is also co-director of the School for Synodality, which promotes *synodality (an ancient Catholic practice; meaning 'walking together with the Holy Spirit'), a posture of listening, currently being re-introduced as a new practice across the Catholic Church globally. Avril is studying for a PhD at Durham University in youth ministry and helps out in her parish as a musician and children’s liturgy leader.  - Links - For Alan J Roxburgh: http://alanroxburgh.com/about https://www.themissionalnetwork.com/author/alan-roxburgh/ https://journalofmissionalpractice.com/alan-roxburgh Twitter: https://twitter.com/alanjroxburgh?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alan.roxburgh.127/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thecommonsnetwork Joining God in the Great Unravelling https://www.amazon.ca/Joining-God-Great-Unraveling-Learned/dp/1725288508/ref=sr_1_ Leadership, God’s Agency and Disruptions https://www.amazon.ca/Leadership-Gods-Agency-Disruptions-Confronting/dp/1725271745/ref Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World: The New Shape of the Church in Our Time https://www.amazon.ca/Joining-Remaking-Church-Changing-World/dp/0819232114/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2NHGW8KB7L0SQ&keywords=Alan+J+Roxburgh&qid=1687098960&s=books&sprefix=alan+j+roxburgh%2Cstripbooks%2C130&sr=1-3 For Jenny Sinclair: Website: https://togetherforthecommongood.co.uk/from-jenny-sinclair LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenny-sinclair-0589783b/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/T4CG Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TogetherForTheCommonGoodUK Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/t4cg_insta/ For Avril Baigent: https://www.schoolforsynodality.org.uk/ https://pastoralministryoffice.org/home-copy/staff/ https://northamptondiocese.org/chaplaincy/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/avrilbaigent/?originalSubdomain=uk Get full access to Leaving Egypt at leavingegyptpodcast.substack.com/subscribe