
Life & Leadership
Welcome to the New Ground Life & Leadership podcast bringing you inspiring conversations with Christian leaders and thinkers from around the world, designed to help you thrive as a follower of Jesus wherever you are and in whatever you’re going through.
Latest episodes

Oct 7, 2024 • 1h 8min
Mission & Ministry in the Workplace - Mark Greene
Season 5 | Episode 3
In this episode Jez Field & Siji Kolajo speak to Mark Greene about his book 'Thank God it's Monday'. they discuss the importance and need for greater discipleship for Christians within the workplace and the importance of working well as workers for God, who aim to witness about God.
Mark is the Missions Director for the London Institue for Contemporary Christianity: https://licc.org.uk/ and the author of several books including:
Thank God it's Monday & Fruitfulness on the Frontline

Sep 23, 2024 • 1h 8min
The 5 Most Common Questions About Sexuality - Andrew Bunt
Season 4 | Episode 2
In this episode Jez speaks to Andrew Bunt about the five most common questions he gets asked about sexuality. Andrew is a same sex attracted Christian who works for Living Out, an organisation that exists to help Christians, churches and society talk about sexuality. (www.livingout.org).
Links to some of the resources mentioned can be found below:
https://link.livingout.org/kaleidoscope
https://www.livingout.org/resources/articles/90/lgbtq-suicide
https://grovebooks.co.uk/product/e-214-three-or-more-reflections-on-polyamory-and-consensual-non-monogamy/
And a few other relevant resources:
https://www.livingout.org/resources/podcasts/64/misstep-3-if-youre-born-gay-it-cant-be-wrong-to-be-gay-the-plausibility-problem-3
https://www.livingout.org/resources/articles/49/evaluating-the-top-biblical-affirming-arguments
https://www.livingout.org/resources/articles/48/evaluating-the-top-affirming-arguments
https://www.livingout.org/resources/articles/41/isnt-the-christian-sexual-ethic-harmful-and-repressive
https://www.livingout.org/resources/podcasts/26/isnt-the-christian-sexual-ethic-harmful-and-repressive-explore-questions-2
https://www.livingout.org/resources/articles/7/does-living-out-support-gay-cure-or-reparative-therapy
Books:
Glynn Harrison 'A Better Story': https://www.amazon.co.uk/Better-Story-Glynn-Harrison/dp/1783594462/ref=sr_1_1? dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.f8uJsL5JuA3Tka22ctpWz_QoT3dLHQO6ARzCZ1LTiXw.-P7pfa-QtqV-RQ2rAnj6m3dhCD-iUFZokph9HwFcJJY&dib_tag=se&keywords=glynn+better&qid=1726042399&sr=8-1
Mary Harrington 'Feminism Against Progress' : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Feminism-Against-Progress-Mary-Harrington/dp/1800752040/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.bNRuKObB5d9sL95Y28_faZThif8BT4SQh2IE1XPBiEZp-Oo_HsIFBO9QOc7bODJqgwg7JdQoHwehPwidr3gTEFJ8rsn2WohC19m9EEWKdG2tur3S-wLQlNqKhAMz4uLSofJVbg7T12OvEpnIA5cmjizPQEDCV8jAaSASUPzsuGfrmbAM30SacWwRR820KrSQwJLR2qnWceAJRdO6coWHT8PvDHgnZ_ydY51oUwr1L64.oO25DRvx6tc6cXR66DNJG8NQ4zo1eVvw9nqrpdAWRbs&qid=1726042444&sr=8-1

Sep 9, 2024 • 1h 21min
An Honest Conversation About Healing - Chris Siggs
Season 5 | Episode 1
In this episode Jez speaks to Chris Siggs, elder at Kings Church Heathfield (https://www.kcheathfield.org.uk/) about the subject of healing and his experience of seeing God at work.
One of the books Chris recommended was 'Power Healing' by John Wimber, available here

Jul 22, 2024 • 1h 13min
The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God - Justin Brierley
Season 4 | Episode 23
For the final episode of the season Jez spoke to Justin Brierley about his work at the intersection of faith and atheism.
You can check out Justin's work here: https://justinbrierley.com/
His latest podcast: https://justinbrierley.com/surprisingrebirth/
and his books:https://justinbrierley.com/the-surprising-rebirth-of-belief-in-god/

Jul 8, 2024 • 56min
A Brief Theology of Periods - Rachel Jones
Season 4 | Episode 22
In this episode Jez speaks to Rachel Jones and Katherine Brown about the rarely discussed subject of periods and the Christian life.
Buy Rachel's book here: shorturl.at/WEklL

Jun 24, 2024 • 1h 6min
Discovering Delight Through Darkness - Katherine Brown
Season 4 | Episode 21
In this episode Jez speaks to Katherine Brown about her journey to faith along with the work she's doing for the Evangelical Alliance and as an evangelist with a passion to see the church engage with Gen z.

Jun 10, 2024 • 35min
Shorts | Urban Centres & Innovative Mission - Lex Loizides
Season 4 | Episode 20
The latest in our Shorts series 'mission in the modern age' features a conversation between Lex Loizides and Jez on the subject of establishing church in urban centres. It features practical insights into all that the team at Jubilee have been up to at their Kloof Street congregation.
Check out their youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@JubileeKloof/videos

May 27, 2024 • 1h 6min
How to Develop a Prophetic Culture in Church - Charlene Frammingham
Season 4 | Episode 19
In this episode Jez caught up with Charlene Frammingham from the Kings Arms Church in Bedford.
They discuss the nature of prophecy, it's value within church life and for mission as well as exploring how we might better develop prophetic ministry within our churches.
To contact Charlene or find out more about her upcoming ministry school you can get in touch with her via email here: charlene.frammingham@kingsarms.org

May 13, 2024 • 32min
SHORTS | Digital Mission - Sam Arnold
Season 4 | Episode 18
In this episode Jez speaks to Sam Arnold about how to make effective use of digital space to share the gospel.

Apr 15, 2024 • 36min
SHORTS| Where Adventure Takes You - Kate Sycamore
Season 4 | Episode 16
Mission in the Modern Age.
For this episode Jez spoke to Kate Sycamore (not her real name) someone, who for the past 6 years has been on mission in the middle east hoping to share the gospel with muslims.
Kate shares some of the lessons she's learnt along the way as well as some encouragements from things God has done.