Adventurer Simon Reeve, Where There's A Will, There's A Wake podcast, and is empathy a sin?
Cathy Macdonald speaks to adventurer and broadcaster Simon Reeve about his new BBC Two series on Scandinavia, how faith shaped his childhood and what fuelled his ion for globetrotting.
Writer Lamorna Ash’s latest book, Don’t Forget We Are Here Forever: A New Generation’s Search For Religion, explores the uptake of Christianity amongst Generation Z as she meets with young Christians around the UK to understand their relationship with their faith.
With the film The Salt Path launching in cinemas this week, BBC Radio Scotland’s Out of Doors presenters have been having a journey of their own, biking from Glasgow Cathedral to St Ninian Priory in Newton Stewart, a pilgrimage known as the Whithorn Way.
Cathy is ed by Rev Dr Jared Stacy, theologian Eve Poole, and Rabbi Pete Tobias to discuss some of the topics in the ether this week.
They explore the recent merger of the UK’s Reform and Liberal Jewish movements into a single entity, Progressive Judaism. What can this marrying of traditions and values bring to faith communities?
Is empathy a sin? That’s a question that has been emerging from Christian nationalists in the US of late. The discuss what role the skill plays in their faiths and whether it is an asset.
In podcast Where There’s A Will, There’s A Wake, Mel Giedroyc and her celebrity guests delve in to their dream deaths, funerals and final words. Cathy asks how society continues to change its relationship with this taboo subject, including the value of humour in dark times.
