GoHealth Podcast

By: Guild of Health and St Raphael
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  • How have you experienced healing in your life? What does healing mean to you? Where do you find healing? How do we talk about healing having lived through a global pandemic? What do we mean by Christian healing? The GoHealth Podcast explores these questions and more through the stories of lived experiences, generously shared. Gillian Straine, director of GoHealth, guides us through deep conversations about personal experiences of the many understandings of healing.
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  • S7 Ep2: Luigi Gioia on praying for healing

    S7 Ep2: Luigi Gioia on praying for healing
    Feb 21 2025
    We continue our 2025 season on Belonging and Healing with an inspiring conversation between Gillian and Anglican priest, Father Luigi Gioia. This is a rich and profound episode where they go deep into lived experience and the reality of what it means to pray for healing.

    The Rev. Dr. Luigi Gioia is the Theologian in Residence at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York City, and Research Associate at the Von Hügel Institute at the University of Cambridge (UK). He is the author of Say It To God. In Search of Prayer. The Archbishop of Canterbury Lent Book 2018 (Bloomsbury 2017), and The Wisdom of St Benedict. Monastic Spirituality And The Life Of The Church (Canterbury Press 2021). His books have been translated in six languages.

    TW: Mentions suicide.

    Together they discuss:

    • Why pray for healing?
    • The difference between being cured and being healed.
    • What is happening for people at Lourdes.
    • The healing sacraments.
    • The place of death in prayers for healing.
    • The difference between acceptance and resignation.
    • The importance of community in healing experiences.
    • Father Luigi's own very personal current experience of praying for healing.
    Links:
    Transcript for this episode is available on our website.
    Join The GoHealth Community
    Share your requests for prayers for healing.

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    38 mins
  • S7 Ep1: John Swinton - Presence and Belonging

    S7 Ep1: John Swinton - Presence and Belonging
    Jan 17 2025
    Gillian begins our 2025 season on Belonging by talking with Prof John Swinton, Professor of Practical and pastoral theology at aberdeen university. John is an registered mental health nurse, ordained minister and noted theologian, researching particularly in areas of mental health and dementia. He is also President of GoHealth, and a musician, recently releasing an album Beautiful songs about difficult things.

    Together they explore:

    • Countercultural presence
    • Absence because of mobile phone use
    • Getting comfortable with disruption in church
    • Mental health in terms of discipleship and vocation
    • Moving from ‘fixing’ to friendship.
    • Theology of the Psalms of lament.
    • Spirituality of darkness.
    • Helpful and harmful anger.
    • Solastalgia.
    • Belonging as being missed.
    • Learning to be kind.
    • The Denis Duncan Lecture 2025
    Links

    Join The GoHealth Community Here

    Beautiful Songs about Difficult Things by John Swinton

    Register here for the Denis Duncan Lecture

    Full transcript available here.

    Follow the GoHealth Community on our socials @guildofhealth
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    27 mins
  • S6 Ep3: Creation Cares - Taking Action

    S6 Ep3: Creation Cares - Taking Action
    Nov 8 2024
    What is ours to do? We've been deep in this theme of Creation Cares for a number of weeks as a GoHealth Community. In this episode Gillian talks with Clare Fussell from Operation Noah about what we can do in response, and what we can leave undone!

    Clare Fussell joined Operation Noah in January 2024. Clare has a background in coordinating environmental campaigns, with experience leading The Climate Coalition, managing Christian Aid’s Campaign Team, and being Environmental Adviser for Bristol Diocese. She is passionate about linking Christian faith with environmental action, and enjoys learning about permaculture and biodiversity through her role as trustee of Hazelnut Community Farm in Bristol, as well as through the eco work at her church. Clare is married to Luke, a renewable energy engineer, and they have two young children.

    In their conversation together Gillian and Clare explore:

    • Would Clare's teenage self imagine she would be doing what she is doing now
    • Responding to the Climate crisis by balancing the big scene with small actions
    • How Operation Noah has been supporting churches through the Bright Now campaign.
    • What churches can do in response to climate change and biodiversity loss.
    • Why climate change and environmental concerns are not a side show to the main purpose of the church.
    • Clare's three tips for avoiding activist burnout as a Christian engaged in climate justice.
    Links:
    Operation Noah
    The Hazelnut Community
    Burning Down the House Report - Tearfund
    The Lost Words by Robert McFarlane and Jackie Morris
    Borrowed Time - A Green Christian project
    The Loss and Damage Campaign - Christian Aid
    COP29 - United Nations Conference of the Parties
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    33 mins

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