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Podcast: Synod preview - evangelism top of the agenda. Plus, Rose Hudson-Wilkin on prayers in Parliament

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08 February 2019

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Transforming the one million who regularly attend Church of England services into “agents of mission” is crucial to the Church’s multi-million-pound evangelism push, the General Synod will hear next week. Ed Thornton talks to Madeleine Davies about the drive to give the laity confidence to evangelise - and whether English reticence stops them from doing so.

Plus, Adam Becket catches up with the Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons, Prebendary Rose Hudson-Wilkin, at the C of E's National Education Conference. He asks her about Crispin Blunt MP’s call for prayers in parliament to be scrapped.

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