ARL Talking Point

Talking Point: Best of 2020

Ray Patrick, Claudia, Zenya, and Angela discuss the highlights of the show's year.

The Church's Role in the Community during Covid-19

The Talking Point team, Ray Patrick, Claudia, Zenya and Angela with special guest Pastor McKenzie-Cook discuss the SEC Community Service during the Coronavirus 1. The SDA Church – what we have done well in this pandemic 2. Our end-time message – why does this hold particular relevance in these COVID times? 3. Our numbers – what are the positives of being part of a large community? 4. Our radio station and schools – what key roles have and can these institutions play in these last days?...

Disability and the Church

The Talking Point team, Ray Patrick and panellists Zenya, Angela and Claudia, and special guest Joseph Tucker discuss disability and the church: Is the church serious about disability ministry? Disability and evangelism

Is there Power in Prayer?

The Talking Point Team, host Ray Patrick with panellists Zenya, Claudia and Angela and special guests discuss: Does prayer still have power? Is it still potent? Do we need to add something else to it?

Mental Health and Lockdown

Join your host Ray Patrick with panellists Zenya, Claudia and Angela with special guest Stewart White, Instructor Member of Mental Health First Aid England. This week’s Talking Points: Mental Health and lockdown 1.Why are so many young men struggling with mental health? 2.How can churches assist the community with mental health?

International Women's Day

Joining the Talking Point team - Zenya Greenaway, Claudia Welsh and Angela Robinson are special guests Sherry Augustus from the Ontario Conference and Verina Robinson from Southern Caribbean Conference, Jacqueline Otopka - Sec Women's Ministries Director and many others, hosted by Talking Point presenter Ray Patrick. On International Women’s Day, the Talking Point team discuss: •Does Women’s Ministry separate or divide? •How come there are no young women in Women’s Ministry? •Is Women’s Ministry...

What's Love Got to Do with it - Part 4

Today's discussion with Ray Patrick, Zenya Greenaway, Claudia Welsh and Angela Robinson and with special guests counsellor Alison Auwku and social worker Joanna Daniel is the final instalment in the ‘What’s Love Got to do with It’ series. The Talking Point team will talk about: •Does love guarantee a happy home? •How important is love to a family’s emotional well-being? •What are some powerful practical parenting tips?

What's Love Got to Do with it - Part 3: What Holds a Marriage Together?

The 'Talking Point' team with special guests Dean & Jody Jones, Pastor Terry & Lynette Messenger talk about: •What Holds a Marriage Together •Interracial marriages •How to get through the tough times

What's Love Got to do With it - Part 2 - Singledom, Dating and Relationships

In today's Talking Point, Ray Patrick, Zenya Greenaway, Angela Robinson and Claudia Walsh with special guests Karen Maxwell, Taryll Viviers and counsellor Fay Lindo discuss being single, dating and relationships!

What's Love Got to Do with it - Part 1

In the first of a four-part series on 'Talking Point', Ray Patrick, Zenya Greenaway, Angela Robinson and Claudia Walsh and special guest Fay Lindo discuss: •God’s Love •Singleness •Dating tips •Marriage and divorce •And much more

What Now: Where Do We Go from Here?

Ray Patrick and the Talking Point team host the final programme with guests from Trinidad, Bermuda, New York and the UK and special guest Pilot Asher Mckenzie. Also here a special testimony from Sis Diane Boyd from Jamaica who can testify that the words '...before they call, I will answer'(Isaiah 65:24) took all a whole new meaning when her family was attacked.

Relationships

Today's show is al about ‘Relationships' and how to follow your dreams when you have setbacks.

Abstinence and Celibacy

The Talking Point team join young people in Trinidad with special guest Clarence Jackson to discuss this subject and to explore whether abstinence and celibacy are out of date.

Talking Point: Christianity and Gambling

Today's show continues with the theme of addiction. Host Ray Patrick and team Zenya, Angela and Claudia and the team live from Trinidad discuss Christianity and gambling with special guest Darrell Alexander from the USA.

Talking Point 7th Nov - Addiction to Porn

In today's Talking Point, Ray and team join up with young people from Trinidad, Bermuda, New York to talk about overcoming the addiction to porn.

Talking Point 31st October - Black History

Ray Patrick with friends, Claudia, Zenya and Angela with special guests - educator Laura Osei, authors Micheal Williams and Annette Bodden Whisker discuss Black History & the Church and explore the following talking Points: 1.Are there black people in the scripture? 2.Why don’t more Christian churches celebrate black history? 3.How can we include more black history in our national educational curriculum? 4.How can Christianity help enhance the identity of its black youth? 5.What’s the deal w...

Talking Point 3rd October

This week’s Talking Points with Ray Patrick and guests: 1.Should churches celebrate Black History Month during the Sabbath? 2.Is it ok to omit a special needs child from any function or should you always try to include them? 3.Christ in Russia - can it be true? If so, why not? 4.Ellen White’s estate and the GC President’s message pray for the California fires. How come there wasn’t the same approach to the lives of SDAs in the Black Lives Movement marches?

Talking Point 29th August

Ray Patrick and panellists discuss this week's talking points: 1.Jacob Blake – what happened? Why has there not been more of a public outcry here in the UK Christian community as with George Floyd? Are we tired, numb or are we just not serious? 2.A continuation of the youth and church debate. We will be joined by some youth to discuss their feelings on church and its relevance. 3.With the strange things happening with elections across the world from Belarus to Washington, are secular election id...

Talking Point 22nd August

Ray Patrick with guests Trevor Johnson, Angela Robinson, Claudia Walsh and Zenya Greenaway discuss this week's talking points: 1.In the light of the sentencing of the Manchester bombing, some say we should bring back the death penalty. Where do Christian’s stand on this? Is it biblical? 2.With our churches not opening for the foreseeable future, should we turn our churches into wellness and community churches instead of the buildings just standing dormant and inactive? 3.With the death of the yo...

Talking Point 26th September

This week’s ‘Talking Points’: 1.Is being a Pastor’s wife a ‘calling’ just like the Pastor? 2.Should Pastors’ wives be treated any different because their husband is the Pastor? 3.Abortion: should a Christian ever be ‘pro- choice’? 4.When is it ok for Christians to lie? Ray and guests tackle these questions.

Talking Point 19th September

Ray Patrick and guests Zenya, Angela, Claudia with special guest Victoria from Reading Central SDA, a new Eastern European Adventist, discuss: 1.How Claudia feels in ‘all black’ church 2.How can we reach the English and other Europeans for Christ? 3.Witnessed to by Pastor Andrew Davis, how did his death affect her and was her faith shaken?

Talking Point 5th September

In today's Talking Point, Pastor Ray Patrick with panellists talk about: 1.Their role in the church 2.After Covid, how would they like the church to look? 3.Is Christianity currently meeting their needs? 4.What are some of the biggest temptations for young people?

Abigail's Intervention

The Creative Writing cohort discusses the case of Nabal and Abigail and how she intervened to prevent bloodshed.

NAZ_Testing Faith Interview

Mike Johnson speaks with Christabel Kunda from the Sexual Health charity, NAZ about their programme, "Testing Faith." Testing Faith, is a programme to help faith leaders support their congregations sexual and social health needs, particularly around HIV prevention, treatment and care aimed specifically at black and minority ethnic communities.

Dr Valerie Bernard Allan_ Single women in the church

Dr Valerie Bernard Allan continues her conversation with Mike Johnson and Kallie Wheeler as they speak about singleness in the church.

Fusion Rise and Go Launch

A report on the launch of a faith-based community project to arrest the rise in death and injury from gun and knife crime in the London Borough of Lewisham.

Amanda Mukwashi, Part 2_Worklife

Fusion Launch_Black Police Association interview

Mike Johnson speaks with Det. Sgt. Loy Hartwell & Det. Sgt. Janet Hills from the Black Police Association at the launch of the Fusion, Rise & Go initiative in Lewisham.

Amanda Mukwashi_personal profile

In the first of a two-part interview in "Talking Point" from Adventist Radio London, Christian Aid's new CEO Amanda Mukwashi speaks with Mike Johnson about the alignment of her faith and work. @christina_aid

Valerie Bernard-Allan_Pt 1

In the first of a two-part interview in "Talking Point" from Adventist Radio London, Sociologist, Dr Valerie Bernard-Allan, speaks about her love for this form of sociology and, in particular, how it relates to church life.