Welcome back to the Little Breakfast Podcast. This episode was recorded live at Kirkliston Community Church on 4 August 2024 and features a conversation between Clive Parnell and Zack Eswine. Zack is lead pastor of Riverside Church in St Louis and an award winning author of books such as “The Imperfect Pastor “ and “The […]

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As followers of Jesus, we know that the good news is deeply attractive. But we often fear that to those on “the outside”, it comes across as irrelevant or even repellent. Sometimes the Christian worldview feels so out of step with everything else going on that we don’t know how to share our faith. How […]

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The Little Breakfast returns to explore Autism and the church. In this episode, Clive Parnell chats with Dr Leon Van Ommen – lecturer in Practical Theology at Aberdeen University. Leon is also involved in a unique centre for Autism and Theology on campus. Their conversation covers a range of questions including – what is Autism? Why […]

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In Episode 15, we shared the first part of Clive’s conversation with Jim Paul exploring what on earth Heaven is like. This second part sees the guys continue to talk about Heaven and what we can learn about it from the Bible. Jim Paul is the director of the English L’abri and is the author of […]

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What is heaven like? Have you thought about this much? Is Heaven a place we go up to? A place of fluffy clouds and harps? Is Heaven a place on earth? What will we be doing in heaven? How do answers to these questions affect how we live now? Will there be breakfast in heaven? […]

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Clive is joined by Tara Devlin, a charity worker living and working in Edinburgh supporting those living with HIV and Hepatitis C. In 2018 after 16 years with Tearfund in Scotland Tara and her husband Adrian went to work in Jamaica in an inner city youth and community project. They returned home earlier than planned last […]

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Our second helping of the Little Breakfast in 2021 sees Clive joined by Matt Oliver. They discuss discipleship, why it matters in these days, and of course; breakfast! Matt is a pastor at Hardwick Baptist Church and is a presenter of the “What Now?” Podcast. You can also watch this episode on the Kirkliston Community […]

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In our first episode of season 2, Clive chats with Dr Dan Strange about how we understand film, music, TV and the Bible. How do christians engage with contemporary culture? Are we tempted to be consumers of culture? Are we able inform culture? How can we exercise imagination? Dan Strange is College Director at […]

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