Podcast appearances and mentions of claire foster gilbert

A special compilation Easter episode sharing nuggets from previous episodes on the theme of resurrection: Bishop Jan McFarlane on her breast cancer experience. Dr Claire Foster-Gilbert on her incurable cancer and repeated resurrections. Dr Paula Gooder helps us find hope in the resurrection. Bishop Adrian Newman reflects on the significance of the stone being rolled away from the tomb. Very Reverend Martin Fair shares his passion and the need for radical resurrection today. All episodes of the GoHealth Podcast along with most of their transcripts can be found here. Find out more and join the GoHealth Community here. Photo credit: Photo by Zac Durant on Unsplash

In this episode, Jeff and Susan get to introduce you to the lovely Dr. Claire Foster-Gilbert who is the (founding and current) Director of the Westminster Abbey Institute in London. She has published many books on ethics, but very recently published her own letters (Miles To Go Before I Sleep: Letters on Hope, Death, and Learning To Live) that she wrote to friends and family as she was dealing with her diagnosis and treatment of terminal cancer. Enjoy the episode. P.S. - The music in this episode can be found here.

In this episode Gillian talks with Claire Foster-Gilbert, director of Westminster Abbey Institute, about her experience of living with Myeloma.  Claire gives an overview of the work of Westminster Abbey Institute. Claire describes how the Myeloma was found and the experience of diagnosis. The detail of treatment is shared including the experience of having a stem cell transplant.  How unhelpful the war metaphor is for someone with an incurable cancer. Gillian and Claire discuss the complete act of faith it is to put trust in the medical process. Claire shares some of the practices she found helpful during treatment. Gillian and Claire discuss the helpful influence and insights of Julian of Norwich when going through suffering. They discuss what the right thing to say is to someone living with cancer. Claire shares how much she appreciates people praying for her. Claire describes how writing is itself a healing experience. They discuss the importance of humour. Claire reads an incredible extract from her book about getting her hair shaved off. Claire shares how her treatment is an ongoing Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Resurrection experience. Claire finishes the podcast with a prayer she wrote at the beginning of lockdown and included in the end of her book. Links: Myeloma UK website Miles to go before I sleep by Claire Foster-Gilbert GoHealth community review of Claire's book Caroline Chartres review of Claire's book on the Church Times website Waiting well - the GoHealth Advent Journey Join the GoHealth community Find us: Twitter: @guildofhealth Facebook: @GuildofHealth Instagram: @GuildofHealth Website: gohealth.org.uk Music: Return by Lane King from Upbeat Music Podcast produced in-house by the GoHealth team.

Dr Claire Foster-Gilbert in conversation with Baroness Butler-Sloss. Part of the Westminster Abbey Institute's Justice season, Spring 2019. #justice #westminsterabbeyinstitute

David Nott's holiday plans are not like most. For 25 years the surgeon has used unpaid leave to volunteer as a war doctor. His work has taken him from Sarajevo under siege to rebel-held Aleppo, and to the aftermath of natural disasters in Haiti and Nepal. He tells Kirsty Wark how a combination of bravery, compassion and the thrill of danger inspired him to risk his life helping others. Azad Cudi had war forced upon him as a conscript in the Iranian army. A decade later he volunteered in the fight for an independent Kurdistan: as a sniper fighting against so-called Islamic State. His memoir, Long Shot, describes the fighters, activists and intellectuals he worked alongside. He asks what will happen to the Kurdish cause as Western powers look to pull out of Syria and Iraq. Men are not the only volunteers in the Middle East - and the causes that influence people are not always positive. Joana Cook from the International Centre for Radicalisation Studies has examined the large number of women and teenagers who have become "affiliates" of the so-called Islamic State. Some women were inspired by the healthcare, education and job opportunities offered to volunteers. Others became powerful agents of radicalisation. Cook urges politicians to consider these nuances when they decide what to do with volunteers who now wish to return home. The morality of public duty and public service is the topic of an upcoming lecture by Claire Foster-Gilbert, director of the Westminster Abbey Institute. She argues that public servants in politics and beyond make moral choices every day; but that if we fail to scrutinise these properly, we could fail prey to anger, vengeance and injustice. Producer: Hannah Sander

This Sunday is the first day of Hanukkah - the Jewish festival of light. It is also the first Sunday in Advent on which Christingle services will be held in many Christian churches. We look at the significance of both festivals. The competition regulator has issued a report highlighting the rising costs of funerals. We discuss whether this will lead to transparency and lower funeral costs. The Charity Commission has launched an inquiry into the Buddhist group, the Rigpa Foundation. The founder and former Spiritual Director Sogyal Rinpoche faces accusations of sexual abuse and assault. Harry Farley reports. Continuing our series on public servants and the moral dilemmas they face, Dr Claire Foster-Gilbert talks to Sir David Normington, former permanent secretary at the Department of Education and the Home Office and first civil service commissioner. 80 years ago today the first Kinder transport arrived in Harwich bringing 196 children from a Jewish orphanage in Berlin. Rosie Wright hears from Kinder who made that journey to the UK and examines the political debates that took place to allow child immigration into Britain. Producers: Carmel Lonergan and Harry Farley Editor: Amanda Hancox

Michael McCarthy gives the first in a series of three Westminster Dialogues, part of the Embracing Global Challenges season from the Westminster Abbey Institute. Speaker: Michael McCarthy is a British writer with a special interest in nature and the natural world. He is the former environment correspondent of both The Times and The Independent. Chair and interlocutor: Dr Claire Foster-Gilbert, Director, Westminster Abbey Institute Recording date: 23rd October 2018 #westminsterabbey #westminsterabbeyinstitute #michaelmccarthy #environment #nature

Speaker: Claire Foster-Gilbert, Director, Westminster Abbey Institute Chair: The Right Honourable The Baroness D’Souza CMG, Lord Speaker Even if we know what is the right thing to do, and we want very much to do it, what then gives us the courage to act? What reminds those in public office of their vocation to serve? Powerful stories of journeys that resonate with the stories in our own lives can waken the giant within and remind us that the best, most interesting lives are lived for others. In this lecture, Claire Foster-Gilbert described the ‘hero’s journey’ as a map for lives of public service.

Speaker: Claire Foster-Gilbert, Director, Westminster Abbey Institute. Why should we be moral? What motivates public servants to keep serving the common good? Claire Foster-Gilbert argues that our moral sensibilities arise from the way we perceive the world around us. She suggests perceptions that can refresh our vison and evoke a will to be good, describing the spheres of interdependent life in which all participate; the sacredness of creation; the priesthood of all humanity; and the Sabbath principle.

Speaker: Claire Foster-Gilbert, Director, Westminster Abbey Institute. A robust moral decision is one that clearly identifies the moral issues at stake and takes them into account. For those in public office, being able to explain how they came to make such decisions is also critical. In this lecture, Claire Foster-Gilbert offers a framework for making comprehensive and comprehendable moral decisions by describing goal-based, duty-based and right-based thinking processes.

The debate was part of the Institute’s inaugural events season, Telling the Truth. Speakers Wendy Cope, Sir Max Hastings, the Right Honourable Jack Straw MP and Lord Winston addressed the joys, limits and liabilities of truthfulness, in a discussion chaired by the Institute’s Director, Claire Foster-Gilbert.