In our bonus episodes, we speak to women from our Women's Interfaith Network (WIN) community to share their stories and give their own unique perspectives on keeping faith.

In our third bonus episode, Lucy Calcott from WIN’s East Sussex Group shares what interfaith means to her, how she keeps faith in dark times and her advice for someone thinking of getting involved with interfaith work.

You can find out more about Lucy's artwork and writing here, or listen to her poetry reading shared as part of WIN's 2020 Interfaith Week commemorations, 'Unexpected Connections'. You can also find out more about Compass Community Arts here.

Read our blog about East Sussex WIN’s 10th Anniversary Celebrations.
Find out more about our grassroots women's groups and our wide-ranging projects.

Keeping Faith: A How-To Guide is part of Women’s Interfaith Network's 2024 Keeping Faith Programme. Read more about the programme here and be the first to hear about upcoming events and ways to get involved by signing up to our newsletter. Views expressed on this podcast are the speaker’s own and may not reflect the views of Women’s Interfaith Network.

Hosted by Maeve Carlin

Produced by Maeve Carlin and Adam Brichto

Edited by Adam Brichto

Executive Produced by Lady Gilda Levy

Theme music composed by Jamie Payne

Logo and Artwork designed by Jasey Finesilver

Support from Tara Corry

Why do so many women and marginalised communities feel silenced in medical settings? How do we keep faith in ourselves when we feel we aren’t being heard? Can we empower patients and providers to make sure everyone feels listened to in healthcare?

In this episode we speak to NHS consultant and researcher Dr. Rageshri Dhairyawan, author of the new book 'Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing', which unpacks why patients are so often disbelieved by their doctors and her hopes for a future where listening is at the heart of healthcare.

Follow Dr. Rageshri Dhairyawan on Twitter/X, Instagram or via her website. Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing is available now as a hardback, ebook and audiobook.

Listen to WIN's 2022 panel bridging secular and faith-based perspectives on mental health, Time to Talk: Mental Health.

If you've been affected by the issues in this episode, you can find support through the networks and organisations below:

• Endometriosis UK
• Pain UK
• National Voices UK

Find out more about patient advocacy options near you and ways to support the NHS.

Find out more about our upcoming event in partnership with Women's Environmental Network (WEN), Keeping Faith in Climate Action here.

Keeping Faith: A How-To Guide is part of Women’s Interfaith Network's 2024 Keeping Faith Programme. Read more about the programme here and be the first to hear about upcoming events and ways to get involved by signing up to our newsletter. Views expressed on this podcast are the speaker’s own and may not reflect the views of Women’s Interfaith Network.

Hosted by Maeve Carlin

Produced by Maeve Carlin and Adam Brichto

Edited by Adam Brichto

Executive Produced by Lady Gilda Levy

Theme music composed by Jamie Payne

Logo and Artwork designed by Jasey Finesilver

Support from Tara Corry

Can we keep faith in meaningful institutional change, even when we can't see the way forward? How can we shift the narrative around migration to one that centres compassion? And what does it look like to really live our values?

We unpack these questions in this uplifting conversation with the Bishop of Dover, Rose Hudson-Wilkin: the first Black woman to be ordained as a Bishop in the Church of England as well as the first woman and person of colour to become Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons.

You can follow Bishop Rose's work with the Diocese of Canterbury on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. Listen to Bishop Rose's recent address at Women and The Church (WATCH)'s recent Not Equal Yet conference here.

Support some of the organisations helping migrants and refugees in Dover:

• The Samphire Project
• Kent Refugee Action Network
• Migrant Help UK

You can also get involved with City of Sanctuary and Borough of Sanctuary networks near you.

Keeping Faith: A How-To Guide is part of Women’s Interfaith Network's 2024 Keeping Faith Programme. Read more about the programme here and be the first to hear about upcoming events and ways to get involved by signing up to our newsletter. Views expressed on this podcast are the speaker’s own and may not reflect the views of Women’s Interfaith Network.

Hosted by Maeve Carlin

Produced by Maeve Carlin and Adam Brichto

Edited by Adam Brichto

Executive Produced by Lady Gilda Levy

Theme music composed by Jamie Payne

Logo and Artwork designed by Jasey Finesilver

Support from Tara Corry

How do you keep faith in yourself as a leader while balancing the high expectations and intense media scrutiny that come with being ‘first’? What do we mean by ‘systemic Islamophobia’ and where does it lead? Can we still find reasons to laugh, even when faced with hate and divisive rhetoric?

We spoke to Zara Mohammed - the first woman, first Scot and youngest leader to be elected Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain – about what leadership means to her, how she keeps faith in times of crisis, and her thoughts on the future of interfaith in the UK.

The Muslim Council of Britain is the umbrella body representing 500 Muslim member organisations across the UK. Find out more about their work here and read their latest reports and initiatives around Black Muslim identity in Britain, representation of Muslims in the media and analysing recent census data on the British Muslim community.

Follow the Muslim Council of Britain on Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Follow Zara on Twitter and LinkedIn.

This episode contains descriptions of hate crime. If you’re affected by the issues discussed in this episode then support is available, including from Tell MAMA and Stop Hate UK.

Keeping Faith: A How-To Guide is part of Women’s Interfaith Network's 2024 Keeping Faith Programme. Read more about the programme here and be the first to hear about upcoming events and ways to get involved by signing up to our newsletter. Views expressed on this podcast are the speaker’s own and may not reflect the views of Women’s Interfaith Network.

Hosted by Maeve Carlin

Produced by Maeve Carlin and Adam Brichto

Edited by Adam Brichto

Executive Produced by Lady Gilda Levy

Theme music composed by Jamie Payne

Logo and Artwork designed by Jasey Finesilver

Support from Tara Corry

In our bonus episodes, we speak to women from our Women's Interfaith Network (WIN) community to share their stories and give their own unique perspectives on keeping faith.

In our second bonus episode, WIN's CEO Marion Waruguru shares her journey with WIN since joining in 2005, the changes she’s seen in the interfaith space and her advice for aspiring leaders.

Find out more about our team, our grassroots women's groups, and our shared meal project Food and Friendship with asylum seekers, refugees, and women from migrant backgrounds.

Keeping Faith: A How-To Guide is part of Women’s Interfaith Network's 2024 Keeping Faith Programme. Read more about the programme here and be the first to hear about upcoming events and ways to get involved by signing up to our newsletter. Views expressed on this podcast are the speaker’s own and may not reflect the views of Women’s Interfaith Network.

Hosted by Maeve Carlin

Produced by Maeve Carlin and Adam Brichto

Edited by Adam Brichto

Executive Produced by Lady Gilda Levy

Theme music composed by Jamie Payne

Logo and Artwork designed by Jasey Finesilver

Support from Tara Corry

How has magic become such a mainstream part of our spiritual landscape, from #WitchTok to astrology apps? Can these practices offer safe spaces for women and young people who feel that established faith institutions have left them behind? What does all this tell us about what ‘keeping faith’ really means in 2024?

In this conversation, Dr. Linda Woodhead - F.D Maurice Professor of Moral and Social Theology at Kings College London and head of the department of Theology and Religious Studies - helps us decode the contemporary religious landscape of the UK and how young women are "keeping faith" on the margins of established religion.

Follow Dr. Linda Woodhead on X (formerly twitter).
Watch the Religion Media Centre's 2022 Annual Lecture: Professor Linda Woodhead - The Future of Religion in Britain

Find Dr. Woodhead's published work online, including:
Gen Z Explained, The Art of Living in a Digital Age
The Spiritual Revolution: Why Religion is Giving Way to Spirituality

Keeping Faith: A How-To Guide is part of Women’s Interfaith Network's 2024 Keeping Faith Programme. Read more about the programme here and be the first to hear about upcoming events and ways to get involved by signing up to our newsletter. Views expressed on this podcast are the speaker’s own and may not reflect the views of Women’s Interfaith Network.

Hosted by Maeve Carlin

Produced by Maeve Carlin and Adam Brichto

Edited by Adam Brichto

Executive Produced by Lady Gilda Levy

Theme music composed by Jamie Payne

Logo and Artwork designed by Jasey Finesilver

Support from Tara Corry

As crisis after crisis demands our attention, how can we hold onto our compassion and find meaningful ways to make a difference? Who do we trust when ‘fake news’ can travel the world through a tweet or WhatsApp chain? And how do we keep faith in humanitarianism, under attack from competing political agendas?

In this episode, we speak to Sandrine Tiller – Strategic Adviser to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders – about what she’s learnt from decades working in the humanitarian sector and the small ways we can all be humanitarians in our everyday lives.

Find out more about Sandrine's work on Mis-/Dis-information:

• 2020 MSF 'Let's Talk Covid-19' Panel on Fighting Misinformation
• ICRC Blog: 'The Fog of War...and Information'

Follow Sandrine on X (formerly Twitter).
Follow MSF UK on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter/X.

Keeping Faith: A How-To Guide is part of Women’s Interfaith Network's 2024 Keeping Faith Programme. Read more about the programme here and be the first to hear about upcoming events and ways to get involved by signing up to our newsletter. Views expressed on this podcast are the speaker’s own and may not reflect the views of Women’s Interfaith Network.

Hosted by Maeve Carlin

Produced by Maeve Carlin and Adam Brichto

Edited by Adam Brichto

Executive Produced by Lady Gilda Levy

Theme music composed by Jamie Payne

Logo and Artwork designed by Jasey Finesilver

Support from Tara Corry

In our bonus episodes, we speak to women from our Women's Interfaith Network (WIN) community to share their stories and give their own unique perspectives on keeping faith.

In our first bonus episode, we spoke to WIN's chair and co founder Lady Gilda Levy about the last 20 years leading WIN, the importance of interfaith in 2024, and how she's keeping faith in challenging times.

Read more about the WIN Team and our organisation's origin story.

Keeping Faith: A How-To Guide is part of Women’s Interfaith Network's 2024 Keeping Faith Programme. Read more about the programme here and be the first to hear about upcoming events and ways to get involved by signing up to our newsletter. Views expressed on this podcast are the speaker’s own and may not reflect the views of Women’s Interfaith Network.

Hosted by Maeve Carlin

Produced by Maeve Carlin and Adam Brichto

Edited by Adam Brichto

Executive Produced by Lady Gilda Levy

Theme music composed by Jamie Payne

Logo and Artwork designed by Jasey Finesilver

Support from Tara Corry