The Stott Legacy

Prof John Wyatt - Part 1

John Wyatt is Professor of Ethics and Perinatology at University College London and also Emeritus Professor of Neonatal Paediatrics, Ethics & Perinatology at University College London.

 

As a paediatrician, he specialised and led an intensive care unit for premature babies in London for 25 years. But alongside his medical practice, he has been a frequent contributor to the major medical ethical debates of our time, enabling him to play a significant part in updating John Stott’s Issues Facing Christians Today. He first joined All Souls, Langham Place as a medical student in the 1970s and was invited by Uncle John to become one of the initial members of his books and culture discussion group. Having spent the last 50 years at All Souls, he got to know Stott well, becoming one of his key medical advisers. It was John Wyatt who convinced Stott to include two very personal chapters in his very last book, Radical Disciple, under the titles of Dependence and Death.

 

John has written several books of his own, particularly focused on the major ethical dilemmas surrounding the beginning and end of life. Most recently, he has researched the implications and challenges raised by Artificial Intelligence for medical ethics. He is also a much sought-after speaker and lecturer all over the world.

This episode is Part 1 of 2.

• John’s Website and Blog for details of his books, articles and other resources
• Find some of his seminars at the Faraday Institute

Produced by Langham Partnership UKI

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John Stott holds a unique place in 20th-century Church history, both in Britain and across the globe. From 2020 to 2022, Mark Meynell recorded conversations with a range of people who have been impacted by John Stott’s legacy. His thoughts, life and example represent many challenges to our own generation. Join us by listening to these remastered episodes, as we explore inspiration, challenges and insights from the life of Uncle John.

Dr Elaine Storkey

Elaine Storkey is a philosopher and sociologist who has worked for many years at the interface of the Church and the Academy. Her postgraduate studies were on Wittgenstein after which she has taught in many universities and colleges around the world, particularly in the UK and North America (with various posts in Oxford and Cambridge). She has published several books, many of which are concerned with issues of evangelicalism, gender and feminism, justice and Christian social action.

 

In the 1980s, John Stott invited her to teach at The London Institute for Contemporary Christianity, where she developed courses in Christian Worldview amongst other things. Then in 1991 she succeeded him as director and led the institution until 1999. Since then she has continued to write and be involved in all kinds of ministries around the world, including stints as A Rocha, the Micah Challenge, the University of Gloucester, Restored and Tearfund (becoming its president in 1997).

 

• Elaine Storkey’s website and information on her books
• More on LICC
• More on Tearfund
• More on Restored: Ending violence against Women 

Produced by Langham Partnership UKI.

 

Visit https://uk.langham.org/get-involved/the-stott-legacy-podcast/ for more info about this episode.
John Stott holds a unique place in 20th-century Church history, both in Britain and across the globe. From 2020 to 2022, Mark Meynell recorded conversations with a range of people who have been impacted by John Stott’s legacy. His thoughts, life and example represent many challenges to our own generation. Join us by listening to these remastered episodes, as we explore inspiration, challenges and insights from the life of Uncle John.

 

 

Bp Timothy Dudley-Smith - Part 2

Timothy Dudley-Smith is known to English-speaking Christians for the hundreds of hymns, with around 400 published, included in over 250 hymnals globally. But his ministry has extended far beyond writing verse for he was ordained in the Church of England in 1950 (after graduating from Cambridge in 1947), served in Rochester and London, then for many years writing and editing for the Church Pastoral Aid Society (CPAS). In 1973 he was appointed Archdeacon of Norwich, and then Bishop of Thetford (assistant to the Bishop of Norwich). 

 

Throughout his life, he long life, John Stott was a central figure, which is why he was the perfect choice to work on Stott’s biography in his retirement. This ended up being two volumes, and aimed to set down an historical record of Stott’s life but leave much of the evaluation to subsequent historians who had the benefit of distance and greater perspective.

 

My conversation with him and his daughter Sarah Walter, in January 2022, was remarkable - he is 95 but his memory is sparkling and only needed the odd prompt from Sarah!

 

This episode is Part 2 of 2. 

• Bishop Timothy’s website with details of his publications and hymnwriting
• Details of the biography 
  • Volume 1: The Making of a Leader
  • Volume 2: A Global Ministry
• Current site of CPAS

Visit https://uk.langham.org/get-involved/the-stott-legacy-podcast/ for more info about this episode.
John Stott holds a unique place in 20th-century Church history, both in Britain and across the globe. From 2020 to 2022, Mark Meynell recorded conversations with a range of people who have been impacted by John Stott’s legacy. His thoughts, life and example represent many challenges to our own generation. Join us by listening to these remastered episodes, as we explore inspiration, challenges and insights from the life of Uncle John.

Bp Timothy Dudley-Smith - Part 1

Bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith

 

Since the time of recording, Bp Timothy Dudley-Smith died aged 97.

 

Timothy Dudley-Smith is known to English-speaking Christians for the hundreds of hymns, with around 400 published, included in over 250 hymnals globally. But his ministry has extended far beyond writing verse for he was ordained in the Church of England in 1950 (after graduating from Cambridge in 1947), served in Rochester and London, then for many years writing and editing for the Church Pastoral Aid Society (CPAS). In 1973 he was appointed Archdeacon of Norwich, and then Bishop of Thetford (assistant to the Bishop of Norwich). 

 

Throughout his life, John Stott was a central figure, which is why he was the perfect choice to work on Stott’s biography in his retirement. This ended up being two volumes, and aimed to set down an historical record of Stott’s life but leave much of the evaluation to subsequent historians who had the benefit of distance and greater perspective.

 

My conversation with him and his daughter Sarah Walter, in January 2022, was remarkable - he is 95 but his memory is sparkling and only needed the odd prompt from Sarah!

 

This episode is Part 1 of 2.

• Bishop Timothy’s website with details of his publications and hymnwriting
• Details of the biography 
  • Volume 1: The Making of a Leader
  • Volume 2: A Global Ministry
• Current site of CPAS

Visit https://uk.langham.org/get-involved/the-stott-legacy-podcast/ for more info about this episode.
John Stott holds a unique place in 20th-century Church history, both in Britain and across the globe. From 2020 to 2022, Mark Meynell recorded conversations with a range of people who have been impacted by John Stott’s legacy. His thoughts, life and example represent many challenges to our own generation. Join us by listening to these remastered episodes, as we explore inspiration, challenges and insights from the life of Uncle John.

José de Segovia

José de Segovia is a Spanish journalist based in Madrid with a particular interest in arts and culture. But that is not the only string to his bow, as he has also pursued theological studies at various points in Spain, the Netherlands and the UK. In 1982, he spent six months at the London Institute of Contemporary Christianity and as a result, got to know John Stott as a teacher, mentor and friend. Since then, he has felt Uncle John’s influence keenly, not least because he has spent his entire professional life taking Stott’s principle of double listening seriously. Along side his journalism, he has taught theology in several institutions and is a pastor at the Reformed Church in Madrid. He has also been very involved in the Spanish Evangelical Alliance, and at John Stott’s recommendation, was one of the World Evangelical Alliance’s representatives in its theological dialogues with the Vatican.

 

• More on LICC
• José’s blog (in Spanish) - including many posts about John Stott
• José’s podcast series about John Stott (in Spanish)
• Reformed Church of Madrid (where José pastors)

Visit https://uk.langham.org/get-involved/the-stott-legacy-podcast/ for more info about this episode.
John Stott holds a unique place in 20th-century Church history, both in Britain and across the globe. From 2020 to 2022, Mark Meynell recorded conversations with a range of people who have been impacted by John Stott’s legacy. His thoughts, life and example represent many challenges to our own generation. Join us by listening to these remastered episodes, as we explore inspiration, challenges and insights from the life of Uncle John.

Dr Laura Yoder

Laura Meitzner Yoder is a Professor of Environmental Studies at Wheaton College in the US, and holds the John Stott Chair of Human Needs and Global Resources. She did a PhD at Yale in Forestry and Environmental Studies and has years of experience involved in environmental projects in South East Asia and Latin America. This includes work in Indonesia in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami and teaching in Thailand and Bhutan. As it happens, she was a member of All Souls Langham Place as an older teenager, because her parents sent her to London to study for A levels. So she had several encounters with John Stott as a young woman. Little did she know then that she would end up working on the manuscript of a major work undertaken by Prof Sam Berry and left unfinished when he died. This was a compilation of everything his long-standing friend John Stott had written or taught about the environment and natural world, from a surprisingly extensive archive of material. The result of Berry’s and Yoder’s work was published in October 2021 with the title John Stott on Creation Care.

• Laura’s home page at Wheaton College
• More on John Stott on Creation Care
• More on A Rocha, the Christian conservation movement that Stott was involved in.

Visit https://uk.langham.org/get-involved/the-stott-legacy-podcast/ for more info about this episode.
John Stott holds a unique place in 20th-century Church history, both in Britain and across the globe. From 2020 to 2022, Mark Meynell recorded conversations with a range of people who have been impacted by John Stott’s legacy. His thoughts, life and example represent many challenges to our own generation. Join us by listening to these remastered episodes, as we explore inspiration, challenges and insights from the life of Uncle John.

Ted Schroder

Ted Schroder was the last of a very select group of people - curates at All Souls Langham Place appointed by John Stott. He started in 1967, and it was while he was there, that Michael Baughen was appointed as Vicar in anticipation of him taking over from Stott as Rector in 1975. Originally from New Zealand, he came to study in Durham and was identified by John as someone who could break the cultural mould at All Souls. Since moving on in 1971, Ted served as Chaplain at Gordon College in Massachusetts and subsequently in several churches in the USA. Married to Antoinette, they have two daughters and four grandchildren. He retired in 2018 and has dedicated his time to writing and blogging.

 

He has recently published an introduction to Stott’s theology called John Stott - a summary of his teaching (published by Piquant Editions)

 

Visit https://uk.langham.org/get-involved/the-stott-legacy-podcast/ for more info about this episode.
John Stott holds a unique place in 20th-century Church history, both in Britain and across the globe. From 2020 to 2022, Mark Meynell recorded conversations with a range of people who have been impacted by John Stott’s legacy. His thoughts, life and example represent many challenges to our own generation. Join us by listening to these remastered episodes, as we explore inspiration, challenges and insights from the life of Uncle John.

Bp Robert Aboagye-Mensah

Dr Robert Aboagye-Mensah is a theologian and scholar, pastor and leader, a thinker for the church and the public square. His career culminated in his being appointed as the Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church in his native Ghana in 2003, a post he held until 2009. But he has vast experience of ministry in various parts of the world, including seasons in The Gambia, and teaching at All Nations in the UK, and being a research Fellow at Yale Divinity School in the US. He has served in various roles with the World Council of Churches and has published several works. But through it all, a constant thread has been that of John Stott.

Visit https://uk.langham.org/get-involved/the-stott-legacy-podcast/ for more info about this episode.
John Stott holds a unique place in 20th-century Church history, both in Britain and across the globe. From 2020 to 2022, Mark Meynell recorded conversations with a range of people who have been impacted by John Stott’s legacy. His thoughts, life and example represent many challenges to our own generation. Join us by listening to these remastered episodes, as we explore inspiration, challenges and insights from the life of Uncle John.

Prof Jerram Barrs

Jerram Barrs has taught apologetics at Covenant Theological Seminary in St Louis since 1989 and just a few years ago was made the inaugural holder of the Francis Schaeffer Chair of Christian Studies and Contemporary Culture. He was born in the UK and studied at Manchester University.

He was involved in the original L'Abri Fellowship in Huémoz in Switzerland with the Schaeffer family and in 1971 was one of the founding members of the English L'Abri and founding pastor of the International Presbyterian Church in Liphook, Hamphshire, nearby. He has written and taught widely ever since, and in particular, got to know John Stott through their public debates and discussions on Just War and Pacifism.

Stott asked him to be one of the first board members of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC, formerly known as Christian Impact) in the 1980s.

Visit https://uk.langham.org/get-involved/the-stott-legacy-podcast/ for more info about this episode.
John Stott holds a unique place in 20th-century Church history, both in Britain and across the globe. From 2020 to 2022, Mark Meynell recorded conversations with a range of people who have been impacted by John Stott’s legacy. His thoughts, life and example represent many challenges to our own generation. Join us by listening to these remastered episodes, as we explore inspiration, challenges and insights from the life of Uncle John.

Dr Corey Widmer

Mark Meynell chats to Corey Widmer, from Virginia USA, who was John Stott’s study assistant for three years in the late 90s. For many years, John had a study assistant, usually a young university graduate, and often they were from the states.

Corey is now the lead pastor of a church and recently completed a PhD. He sees Stott as having a great impact on not just his preaching but also his engagement with current social issues.

Listen to the episode for many stories and reflections from someone who worked extremely closely with John Stott and saw different aspects of his life and ministry.

 

Links:

• Book reviewed this episode: The Radical Disciple
• Article Corey wrote to commemorate John Stott’s centenary (Missio Alliance)

Produced by Langham Partnership UKI. For more about John Stott's centenary visit the dedicated website.

Visit https://uk.langham.org/get-involved/the-stott-legacy-podcast/ for more info about this episode.
John Stott holds a unique place in 20th-century Church history, both in Britain and across the globe. From 2020 to 2022, Mark Meynell recorded conversations with a range of people who have been impacted by John Stott’s legacy. His thoughts, life and example represent many challenges to our own generation. Join us by listening to these remastered episodes, as we explore inspiration, challenges and insights from the life of Uncle John.