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Preaching Well

Rt Rev Saju Varghese Muthalaly, Diocese of Leicester

Preaching Well is where the art of preaching meets the pulse of the world. Hosted by Bishop Saju Muthalaly, Bishop of Loughborough in the Diocese of Leicester, this podcast explores how Christians can speak Scripture with power and precision—across cultures, contexts, and generations.
You’ll hear from world-class voices:
Rowan Williams, Kelly Brown Douglas, Martyn Snow, Stephen Cottrell, Mark Oakley, Guli Francis-Dehqani, Jared Alcántara and more - bringing wisdom, wit, and wonder.
Wherever you preach, this is your space to grow as a preacher who speaks with clarity, compassion, and courage.

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  • Avg 38 min
  • English

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  • January 10 · 45 min

    Episode 8: Mark Oakley - Preaching as Poetry: The Nearness in Singing Theology into Life

    What happens when a preacher treats language like a sacrament and poetry like oxygen? In this episode of Preaching Well, Dean Mark Oakley invites us into a world where sermons breathe, words stretch, and faith grows in the tension between doubt and delight. He moves from John Donne’s “nearness of the preacher” to the postcards of Nazareth; from poetry that startles the soul to taxi cab grace in Dresden; from the war with cliché to the courage of sermons that shake us awake. This is preaching as craft, honesty, imagination, and hope - told with Mark’s trademark wit, depth, and gentle fire. Quietly electric. Thoughtful. Full of resonance.

  • January 10 · 40 min

    Episode 7: Hueston Finlay - Preaching as a sacramental act and being faithful to the Scriptures

    What happens when a preacher treats Scripture like a flame—something to break open, not decorate? In this episode of Preaching Well, Canon Dr. Hueston Finlay takes us inside a life shaped by Ireland, engineering, Cambridge, Windsor, and the fierce conviction that sermons should breathe, not perform. Hueston speaks of listening as prayer, imagination as obedience, and preaching as a kind of sacrament—breaking the Word the way bread is broken. He pushes back against relevance, trendiness, and preacher-centric sermons. He returns us - again and again - to the text, the tradition, the silence, the Hebrew, the Greek, the Church Fathers, the lectionary, and the God who still speaks through them. This is preaching stripped back to its bones: honest, meticulous, reverent, daring with astonishing clarity.

  • Nov 25, 2025 · 1 hr 20 min

    Episode 6: Ram Gidoomal CBE - Preaching with Courage, Influence and Cultural Humility

    ⚠️ Content Notice This episode contains sensitive discussions about suicide, extreme poverty, and honour based violence. These themes may be distressing for some listeners. If anything in this episode affects you, reach out to trusted friends, family, or professional helplines in your area. You’re not alone. A refugee boy from Kenya walks into a London pub… and meets Jesus. That moment sparks a life that races across continents, boardrooms, slums, and sanctuaries. In this episode of Preaching Well, Ram Gidoomal takes us from the Silk Road to Southall corner shops, from first class flights to the heartbreak of the Dharavi slum, from helping build a £130 million business to walking away because God broke his heart open. Ram talks about home and homesickness, honour and courage, food and faith, preaching across cultures, and the one sermon that rewired his life forever. It’s raw. It’s global. It’s full of fire, humour, surprise, and hope.

  • Aug 30, 2025 · 59 min

    Episode 5: Revd Dr Kelly Brown Douglas - Preaching Justice and Hope: Faith, Resiliance & Theology

    What happens when a preacher carries a whole people’s story into the pulpit? In this episode of Preaching Well, the Revd Dr Kelly Brown Douglas—trailblazing priest, womanist theologian, and voice of moral fire—opens her heart and her history. She takes us from a rainy Dayton street to Harlem classrooms, from enslaved ancestors to vigils, from lectionary wrestling to preaching with butterflies in her stomach and a cloud of witnesses at her back. Kelly reveals the truth she brings to every sermon: God’s justice breathes in every life, and hope rises from stories the world tried to silence. Bold. Tender. Unfiltered. Hit play.

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