Big Church Festival, Andy Burnham's Style, and JD Vance's End Times
How do we reconcile tragedy at Christian events? When is style too much over substance? Does the Antichrist walk among us?
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In this episode, Phil Topham (Executive Director), John Stevens (National Director), and Adrian Reynolds (Associate National Director) discuss stories in the news over the past weeks and lessons we can learn from them for church leadership.
00:00 - FIEC update
06:57 - Big Church Festival tragedy
13:29 - Andy Burnham and style or substance
19:07 - Keir Starmer and moving on
23:16 - JD Vance and the end times
Show notes
- FIEC Leaders' Conference 2026 (FIEC)
- Rising Lights 2027 (Rising Lights)
- Planters conference (FIEC)
- Journeys conference (FIEC)
- Church leads tributes for man killed at festival (BBC)
- Burnham's PMQs debut shows the challenge of delivering new style of politics (BBC)
- Keir Starmer announces he is standing down as MP (BBC)
- JD Vance says he’s doing ‘God’s work – and if that leads to the end times, OK’ (The Guardian)
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Podcast music: Drifting by Future Infinite.
