Today, the Proost lent journey begins with a daily post. The first is a lovely selection of poems read by Emily MaGrath and Steve Page.
As ever, you can connect with this via Spotify, Youtube or Apple podcasts, or click below;
After a couple of months silence, the main Proost podcast feed has another offering, this time with Josie Gwin, whose day job is with a charity working to support recovery and resilience in communities, particuarly after major events and disasters. You can read more about the Resilience Resource here;
Josie has crammed a lot of things into her life – fire fighter, equine therapist, Police chaplain – and most recently has been undertaing a Phd at Edinburgh University using the Iona Community as material for a deep dive into how faith spaces might support – or hinder – resilience in members.
I really enjoyed this conversation and think that you will too. Josie is a great communicator and has a breadth of knowledge that plugs directly into our hopes for Proost, and how informal, non-hierarchical organisations (particularly in the arts) might have important things to offer as we continue to navigate instability and change.
You can listen on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube – just search for Proost Podcast
Here is the spotify link
Lent is almost upon us once again.
Like last year, Proost will be marking the lent journey with a daily piece of creativity- a poem, a song, a video, a prayer, a dance, a piece of music, a piece of art. We have a wonderful back catalogue that we will dip into once again, but even more, we love to connect with creatives who might want to take part.
We are looking for pieces that help us all make connections between our faith story and the times we are living through. At Proost, we think we need our artists more than ever to challenge us, to disturb those colonial hierarchies and places where we have too often been complicit with powers that are anything but benign. Let this Lent journey be part of a conspiracy towards goodness, for the sake of our human and non human neighbours.
If you are considering contributing (and we really hope you do!) then email it to us at hello@proost.community! Please feel free to attach whatever images, audio files, or video you would like to offer and we will do our best to include them.
If your files are too big, we’d recommend using WeTransfer!
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