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#28 – Professor Max Watson MBE

Ben and Craig talk to Professor Max Watson, consultant in Palliative Medicine in the Western Health and Social Care Trust in Omagh. He has played a pivotal role in developing the European Certificate in Essential Palliative Care, which has trained over 20,000 clinicians worldwide. Max also directs Project ECHO at Hospice UK, facilitating collaborative networks to enhance care quality. An accomplished author and editor of the Oxford Handbook of Palliative and End of Life Care, he was recognised with an MBE in 2024 for his contributions to palliative care medicine. He is a member of Dungannon Presbyterian Church in the Presbytery of Tyrone. The Living and Dying Well Hub is now available on the Presbyterian Church in Ireland website. It includes a variety of resources, such as articles to read, a link to the Northern Ireland Assembly's Committee for Health consultation on assisted dying, podcast episodes from the Church in the Public Square series, as well as public statements and news articles from the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. Follow us on X (formerly known as Twitter) @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @revcraiglynn and follow Professor Watson @drmaxwatson.

#27 – Professor Stephen Williams

Ben and Craig talk to Professor Stephen Williams, retired professor of systematic theology in Union Theological College and honorary professor of theology at Queen's University Belfast.   Follow us on X (formerly known as Twitter) @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @revcraiglynn. Follow Union Theological College @UnionTCollege and Queens University Belfast @QUBelfast

#26 – Lewis McKelvey

Ben and Craig talk to Lewis McKelvey who is training to be a mission pioneer in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland and is the retreat centre manager at the Boardwalk Collective, a ministry of the Methodist Church in Ireland Follow us on X (formerly known as Twitter) @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @revcraiglynn. Find out more about PCI's Mission Pioneers here and check out Boardwalk Collective here.

#25 – David Curran

Ben and Craig talk to Rev. David Curran, minister in the Wexford Church Development in Wexford, Co. Wexford, in the Presbytery of Dublin and Munster (even though Wexford is in Leinster, but hey...) Follow us on X (formerly known as Twitter) @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @revcraiglynn. Also, follow Dave and the Wexford Church Development on their Facebook Page.

#24 – Rachael Gamble

Ben and Craig talk to Rachael Gamble, Discipleship Facilitator in Sloan Street Presbyterian Church in the Presbytery of Dromore. Follow us on Twitter @PCIcast. Follow Ben @benspreston, follow Craig @rookieminister, follow our guest Rachael @RachaelGamble4 and Sloan Street Presbyterian Church @SloanStreetPC. Rachael is studying her MA in Theology at Union Theological College, PCI's denomination college in the heart of Belfast. You can find out more about Union and the courses available there by clicking here and you can follow Union College on Twitter @UnionTCollege.