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Ben and Craig talk to Rachael Gamble, Discipleship Facilitator in Sloan Street Presbyterian Church in the Presbytery of Dromore. Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @rookieminister, follow our guest Rachael @RachaelGamble4 and Sloan Street Presbyterian Church @SloanStreetPC. Rachael is studying her MA in Theology at Union Theological College, PCI's denomination college in the heart of Belfast. You can find out more about Union and the courses available there by clicking here and you can follow Union College on Twitter @UnionTCollege.

Ben and Craig review Wednesday's business at the General Assembly with Jonathan Boyd, minister of Hydepark and Lylehill Presbyterian Churches in the Templepatrick Presbytery. Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @rookieminister, follow Jonny @jonny_boyd and follow the Presbyterian Church in Ireland @pciassembly. Visit the General Assembly resources page on the PCI website for a guide to assembly procedure, details of the business being discussed each day, PDFs of the annual reports (aka the Blue Book) and supplementary reports. Videos from the Listening to the Global Church slot today: Rev. Sevatt Kabaghe, General Secretary Church of Central Africa Presbyterian, Zambia Synod; Rev. Mery Kolimon, Moderator, Evangelical Christian Church of Timor (GMIT); Sat7, Mikaél Tuner, a producer for Sat7, interviewed by Dave Mann Partnerships Executive, Sat7; Iranian children praying for Afghanistan.

Ben and Craig review Tuesday's business at the General Assembly with Alan McQuade, minister of 1st Monaghan and Smithborough Presbyterian Churches in the Monaghan Presbytery. Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @rookieminister, follow Alan @MonaghanMinist1 and follow the Presbyterian Church in Ireland @pciassembly. Visit the General Assembly resources page on the PCI website for a guide to assembly procedure, details of the business being discussed each day, PDFs of the annual reports (aka the Blue Book) and supplementary reports. The General Assembly is live streamed on the PCI website each day.

Ben and Craig review Monday's business at the General Assembly with Joanne Smith, minister of Caledon and Minterburn Presbyterian Churches in the Armagh Presbytery. Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @rookieminister, follow Joanne @joanneinchicore and follow the Presbyterian Church in Ireland @pciassembly. Visit the General Assembly resources page on the PCI website for a guide to assembly procedure, details of the business being discussed each day, PDFs of the annual reports (aka the Blue Book) and supplementary reports. The General Assembly is live streamed on the PCI website each day.

Ben and Craig talk preview the General Assembly special episodes PCIcast will be releasing each night next week at the end each day's business at the Presbyterian Church in Ireland's General Assembly 2021. We'll be joined by a guest each evening (hopefully!) and we'll have a quick round-up of the day's business. Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @rookieminister and follow the Presbyterian Church in Ireland @pciassembly. Visit the General Assembly resources page on the PCI website for a guide to assembly procedure, details of the business being discussed each day, PDFs of the annual reports (aka the Blue Book) and supplementary reports. The General Assembly will also be live streamed on the PCI website each day.

Ben and Craig talk to Saško Nezamutdinov, who is church planting in Kraków, Poland. Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @rookieminister and follow Saško @ Nezamutdinov. You can find out more about and donate to Saško by clicking here. You can also find out more about the church he serves, Kościół Chrystusa Zbawiciela (Christ the Saviour Presbyterian Church) by visiting their website kosciolzbawiciela.pl/en. You can find out about their mission partners, European Christian Mission International by visiting their website ecmi.org.

Ben and Craig talk to Gareth Keaveney, assistant minister of Gardenmore Presbyterian Church in the Carrickfergus Presbytery. Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @rookieminister and follow our guest Gareth @GKeaveney and Gardenmore Presbyterian Church @GardenmorePCI.

Ben and Craig talk to The Very Rev. Dr. Stafford Carson, the recently-retired executive principal and professor of ministry of Union Theological College. He was moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland from June 2009 to June 2010. Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @rookieminister and follow our guest Stafford @staffordcarson and Union Theological College @UnionTCollege. You can read Stafford's paper, Recovering Reformed Catholicity, here. You can read the Church of Scotland Theological Forum’s report to their General assembly here.

Ben and Craig talk to Ben Preston, minister of Craigy Hill Presbyterian Church in the Carrickfergus Presbytery, and Craig Lynn, minister of Rathcoole Presbyterian Church in the North Belfast Presbytery, about the genesis of PCIcast. Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston and follow Craig @rookieminister and Rathcoole Presbyterian Church @rathcoole_pci. You can also listen to PCI's Refined podcast, RPC Ramblings, This We Confess: A journey through the Westminster Confession of Faith from Edengrove Presbyterian Church and The Pilgrim’s Podcast from within PCI and White Horse Inn, Mortification of Spin and Presbycast from without. (Other PCI and non-PCI podcasts are available, drop us a line if you know of any!)

Ben and Craig talk to The Very Rev. Dr. Norman Hamilton OBE, former minister of Ballysillan Presbyterian Church in the North Belfast Presbytery. He was moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland from June 2010 to June 2011. Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston and follow Craig @rookieminister.

Ben and Craig talk to Craig Jackson, minister of Ballygilbert Presbyterian Church in the Ards Presbytery. (Sorry for the poor quality in the first few minutes. Blame COVID.) Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @rookieminister and follow our guest Craig Jackson @CraigJackso of @Ballygilbert.

Episode Notes Ben and Craig talk to Ruth Dalzell, Scripture Union NI's E3 Schools' Worker for North Belfast and Newtownabbey and member of Second Comber Presbyterian Church in the Down Presbytery. Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @rookieminister, follow our guest Ruth Dalzell @RuthDalzell5817 and Scripture Union NI @SUNIinfo.

Episode Notes Craig and Ben talk about technology, digital content, privacy, data collection and the future. Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston and follow Craig @rookieminister.

Episode Notes Ben and Craig talk to Dave Clawson and Peter Burke, minister and assistant minister of West Kirk Presbyterian Church in the North Belfast Presbytery.  Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @rookieminister, follow our guest Dave Clawson @dudabides.

In our season 2 opener, Ben and Craig talk to John T. Graham, assistant minister of Hill Street Presbyterian Church of the Armagh Presbytery in Lurgan. Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @rookieminister, follow our guest John T. Graham @JohnTGraham1, Hill Street Presbyterian Church @hillstchurch and the Northern Ireland Ministry Assembly @nimapreaching.

Ben and Craig talk to Gordon Lyons, MLA for East Antrim and Junior Minister in the Northern Ireland Executive, about his life, his road into politics, how his faith and Coronavirus affects his role as a government minister and the return to activities for churches as of this week (w/c Monday 29th June 2020). Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @rookieminister and follow Gordon @gordonlyons1.

Ben and Craig talk to Lesley-Anne Wilkinson (Women's Discipleship Coordinator at Richhill Presbyterian Church) and Chris "Chunk" Gardiner (non-professional Christian and dentist) about family, life, faith and church during lockdown. Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @rookieminister and follow our guests Leslie-Anne @lawilkinson4 of @Richhill_PC fame and Chris @chunkdrumbo.

Ben and Craig talk to Gareth Keaveney (assistant minister of Gardenmore Presbyterian Church in Larne) and Stephen Cairns (Youth & Children's Ministry Co-ordinator in Whiteabbey Presbyterian Church in Newtownabbey). We talk about their calls to ministry, ministry training at Union Theological College and what life is like for them during the ongoing Coronavirus lockdown.Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @rookieminister and follow our guests Gareth @GKeaveney of @GardenmorePCI fame and Stephen @stephencairnsjr of @whiteabbeypres fame.Stephen is also the co-host of The Pilgrim's Podcast, a podcast where we pilgrimage our way through the allegorical classic by John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress. Listen along with them by clicking here or by searching "The Pilgrim's Podcast" wherever you get your podcasts. You can also follow them on Twitter @pilgrimspod

Ben and Craig talk to Rev. Dr. Harrison Perkins (assistant pastor of London City Presbyterian Church, a congregation of the Free Church of Scotland) about his own life and faith, about ministry in London during the ongoing Coronavirus lockdown and about his new book, Catholicity and the Covenant of Works: James Ussher and the Reformed Tradition.Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @rookieminister and follow our guest Harrison Perkins @HarrisonP87 and London City Presbyterian Church @londoncitypresYou can view Harrison's video series on Covenant Theology by going to LCPC's website or their YouTube channel. You can also pre-order Harrison's book on the Evangelical Bookshop's website. Have a browse while you're there.

Ben and Craig talk to Rev. Dave Clawson (minister of West Kirk Presbyterian Church in the presbytery of North Belfast) and Rev. Jonathan Boyd (minister of Hydepark and Lylehill Presbyterian Churches in the presbytery of Templepatrick) about life and faith in their churches now that we're unable to gather for worship due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @rookieminister and follow our guests Rev. Dave Clawson @dudabides and Rev. Jonny Boyd @jonny_boyd.

Ben and Craig talk to Dr. Jennifer Preston (NI-based psychiatry registrar) and Rev. Dr. Marty McNeely (minister of Ballykeel Presbyterian Church in the Ballymena Presbytery) talking about the high rates of mental illnesses, self harm and suicide in Ireland, north and south, and how we, as Christians, can begin to think about and respond to that well.Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @rookieminister and follow Dr. McNeely @martinmcneely. Dr. Preston, on the other hand, is far too cool for Twitter.

Ben and Craig talk to Callum Webster, Northern Ireland officer for The Christian Institute, about the foundational, universal and beneficial nature of marriage and why it's important for believers to stand up for the institution of marriage, as it's been historically and traditionally understood in the church and society. Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @rookie_minister and follow The Christian Institute on Twitter @christianorguk or by visiting their website christian.org.uk.The NIO consultation on "same-sex religious marriage in Northern Ireland" can be accessed here and the consultation on "marriage and civil partnership conversion entitlements in Northern Ireland" can be accessed here.This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Whilst Ben knocks around the Craigy Hill manse, Craig is in The Philippines

Ben and Craig have a really interesting chat with Rev. Richie Cronin, minister of Trinity Cork and Aghada Presbyterian Churches in the presbytery of Dublin and Munster. We chat about how drugs, theology and the role of the church in society played their part in Richie's journey from Donoughmore in rural County Cork, to Holland, to South Dublin, to Northern Ireland and now back to full time ministry in Cork city, Co. Cork aka "the Texas of Ireland".Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @rookie_minister and follow Richie @Corkpresbytery (if he allows you

Ben and Craig talk to Dr. Darryl Hart (ruling elder in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and Distinguished Associate Professor of History as Hillsdale College, Michigan) about J. Gresham Machen, Irish Presbyterian history, confessional Presbyterianism and evangelicalism.Dr Hart formerly taught at Westminster Seminary California, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, and Wheaton College, Illinois. He is the author of a number of works, including Recovering Mother Kirk: A Case for Liturgy in the Reformed Tradition, Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America and Deconstructing Evangelicalism: Conservative Protestantism in the Age of Billy Graham.Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @rookie_minister and Dr. Hart @oldlifeThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Ben and Craig talk to David Fulton (ruling elder and organist in Craigy Hill Presbyterian Church) and Jamie Maguire (currently assistant minister in Railway Street Presbyterian Church and soon to be ordained and installed as minister of Kingsmills and Jerrettspass Presbyterian Churches) about congregational Psalm singing and why it's important.Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @rookie_minister and follow our guests David @davidrfulton and Jamie @magui84Some resources that we mentioned...The Free Church of Scotland's Sing PsalmsSeedbed PsalterThe Psalms Sungand a picture of David Fulton's lovely mug (make of that what you will)This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Ben and Craig pay a visit to Trinity Belfast to have a chat with Rev. Dr. Lee Eagleson about the work and ministry he's involved with on Berry Street, in the heart of Belfast city centre, and about his PhD in American church planting.Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @rookie_minister and follow our guest Lee @lheaglesonThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Ben and Craig have a chat with Rachel "Cube" Cubitt. Rachel serves as deaconess in Whiteabbey Presbyterian Church.What is the collective noun for a group of deaconesses? Do people really time Cube with a calendar? What will our book giveaway be this week? Have a listen and find out...Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @rookie_minister and follow our guest Rachel @RachCubeThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Ben and Craig launch their very unofficial podcast and interview Mr Dave Curran, a final year PCI licentiate. Apologies for audio quality but we'll get there! Answers on a postcard or twitter for the episode's title paragraph in the Code.The Moderator's Room, Windsor Presbyterian Church Craig, Dave and BenThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.