The in Context Podcast will be returning in November. Until then you can listen to The Ragged Podcast. You can find out more about the Ragged Podcast by visiting www.raggedpodcast.com
Tim Farron’s article on patriotism and idolatry prompted Ian to write Before You Diagnose Idolatry, Listen to the Working Class. In this episode of The Ragged Podcast, Ian and Mez pick up that conversation.
Why do some working-class people feel that Tommy Robinson hears their concerns more readily than church leaders do? The conversation takes in flags, migration, cultural loss and the difference between challenging those who think differently to you and assuming you know what is in someone’s heart.
Ian and Mez ask whether Christians have spent enough time listening to the communities they hope to reach. If we want to speak faithfully about Jesus, we need to understand what people mean before we tell them what they’ve got wrong.
17 Sept 2026
S5 Ep13: Coming Soon: The Ragged Podcast
In this weeks episode, Mez and Ian introduce The Ragged Podcast — a collaboration between 20schemes and Medhurst Ministries, bringing honest, gospel-centred conversations about life and ministry in some of the UK’s poorest and most overlooked communities.
They explain why the podcast exists, what listeners can expect, and why reaching working-class and deprived communities with the gospel matters.
25 Jul 2026
S5 Ep12: The Fullness of God: A sermon by Mez Mc Connell
In this episode of the In Context podcast, Mez McConnell—Pastor of Grace Church Orkney and Director of 20schemes—opens up Ephesians 3 and explores what it means for the church to know and experience the fullness of God.
Mez reminds us that true Christian unity is not built on personality, background or shared preferences, but on a deepening knowledge of Christ and his love. In the midst of the pressures, disappointments and trials of life and ministry, our greatest need is not simply greater comfort, visible success or easier circumstances. It is to be strengthened by God in our inner being.
This encouraging message calls us to become increasingly rooted and established in the love of Christ, to grow in our understanding of the gospel, and to seek spiritual depth before outward success. Mez challenges us to pray for more than relief from difficulty: to pray that God would fill us with his presence, deepen our faith and enable us to grasp more fully the immeasurable love of Christ.
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