Off Grid Christianity is a podcast for Christians who feel disconnected from Church…whether they attend one or not! Hosted by Martin Purnell, former ‘Drivetime’ presenter on the UK’s first FM Christian Radio station, ‘Cross Rhythms City’, in Stoke-on-Trent. Martin also pioneered the legendary lunchtime discussion programme ‘The Soapbox’ on national Christian radio station ‘UCB’.
In recent years, Martin took a step back from direct involvement in broadcasting to focus on family life in his adopted home of Northern Ireland. However, throughout that time, the concept behind OGC has been developing on the ‘back burner’ and we’re excited to bring that to fruition, through this regular podcast.
Graham was a professional footballer in the mid 1980’s. Having become a Christian, he completed his theology degree in 1989 and his PHD just a few years ago. He is now the General Director of Christians In Sport and still maintains his football links as a boardroom director with Cambridge United. Graham is an author […]
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We celebrated our 100th episode, musically based. To celebrate this our 150th episode, we are going with the written word. To represent this art form are two well known Christian authors and who are previous guests. One is a 2025 award winner, the other is Andy Chamberlain! Andy and Ruth Leigh joined me for a
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Sara is based in Oklahoma and is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, trained to diagnose and treat mental health disorders for an individual or couple and family systems. Sara is based in a Christian counselling centre. In 2020 she had her first book published Tasting Dirt: When You’re Disappointed With God. I did not
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Malcolm is the founder of Malcolm Down Publishing. Why did he want to start his own publishing company in 2015? In this honest and open podcast, Malcolm shares the emotions of losing his wife to cancer 15 years ago. How did he get involved with Sarah Grace publishing and the new dyslexic font? At the
Howard was a Barrister and then the leader at Westminster Chapel for seven years before stepping away from this role mainly due to exhaustion. Why did his poem go viral? He is a published author of Hold On To Hope. Why did he go to Kansas on a placement and deal in laws regarding the
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Shane is an author, founder of Red Letter Christians and the press like to label him as an activist! Shane studied Sociology at Eastern University in the mid 90’s. He also worked in Calcutta for several weeks in Calcutta with Mother Teresa. Shane worked with the Iraq Peace Team in Baghdad for 3 weeks witnessing
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Rachael is head of Mission at Evangelical Alliance. She has a passion for developing leaders and teams to flourish. Rachael has a positive history of working in the youth and charity sectors, using her skills to develop strategy and vision by facilitating and establishing unity. What is Evangelical Alliance? What does her job role cover?
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Susie has been an accredited therapeutic coach for over 20 years, helping business organisations as well as individuals. She is also the author of two books, At Therapy’s End (a novel about domestic abuse, the damage caused to all concerned) plus Potholes And Belly Flops (autobiographical). What was it like being a face for advertising
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Peter Lawry (Episodes 122 and 123) returns to share his knowledge regarding today’s title. How many of us have heard about so and so being a prophetic leader? Does this mean that they can tell us who is going to win next year’s Grand National? How can we tell if they have genuinely have this
Sheila is an editor, award winning author and has been part of the UK publishing industry for several years. Sheila became a Christian when she was 25, having seen her life fall apart. A few years later she was diagnosed with Meniere’s Disease which affects balance and hearing. Together with Agoraphobia, she was unable to
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