Episode 240: Combining Word and Deed to Provide Belonging (w/ Dr. Krish Kandiah)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
You may have seen us talking about our brand new podcast Just Neighbors. Well today, we're sharing one of those conversations right here on The Forgotten Podcast! This was such a powerful episode, with challenging and honest takeaways for those who follow Christ in our complex world.
Just Neighbors is a podcast for every believer who desires to live as Jesus lived – to act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God and neighbor. My co-host, Ryan MacDonald, and I are joined by Dr. Krish Kandiah for this conversation about how to combine word and deed to provide belonging for our neighbors.
Krish is the founder of The Sanctuary Foundation, a charity supporting refugees to find welcome, work, and worthwhile housing in the UK. His mission is to help solve some of society’s seemingly intractable problems through partnerships across civil society, faith communities, government, and philanthropy.
In this episode, Krish helps us understand the important work they are doing, the largest challenges he sees for people who are removed from their homes, and how Christ followers should respond to the complex conflicts happening across our world. Beyond that, he guides us in seeing that displacement is happening all around us, as children are placed in foster care, people move to a new city for their jobs, and people feel like they don’t belong.
Listen in!
Find resources mentioned and more in the show notes: https://theforgotteninitiative.org/krish-kandiah-240/
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| 0:00.0 | Sharing the stories of the foster care community. |
| 0:04.0 | This is The Forgotten Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | The church from every denomination you could imagine has got involved. |
| 0:14.0 | I thought it might just be the kind of justice warriors who kind of, you know, they're all about justice on their website, justice in their singing, |
| 0:21.7 | but it's been people that kind of the other end of the spectrum that don't normally talk |
| 0:24.8 | about justice because hospitality I found cuts through. It doesn't belong to a tribe. |
| 0:32.0 | You know, if you're Christian, you've got to take hospitality seriously. |
| 0:37.0 | Hey friends, today is a special day, one that is a little bit different than the norm, |
| 0:42.6 | but I believe it will be well worth your time. |
| 0:46.3 | You may have heard us talk about our new podcast called Just Neighbors. |
| 0:50.5 | Today, you are going to hear a full episode from Just Neighbors right here, right now, and oh my goodness, it is powerful. |
| 1:00.3 | Just Neighbors is a podcast for every believer who desires to live as Jesus lived, to act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God and neighbor. |
| 1:10.6 | In every episode, you'll hear my good friend |
| 1:13.9 | Ryan McDonald and I interview leaders, pastors, and practitioners to learn how we can practice |
| 1:20.9 | biblical justice and compassion. Here's the deal. You can be just a neighbor, living next to people you barely know, never really interacting with the vulnerable, or even having conversations with those who are different than you. |
| 1:35.1 | Or you can be a just neighbor, someone who sees their neighbors in need and is propelled by the gospel to lean in rather than walk away. Learn more about this podcast |
| 1:47.7 | at TFIPodcastnetwork.org. And now let's go to this very special episode of Just Neighbors. |
| 2:08.3 | Well, Dr. Kandaya, thank you so much for joining us on the Just Neighbors podcast. |
| 2:19.5 | Personally, I've been following your work for several years now, and I just have such a great appreciation for the way that you are helping the church, people of faith, but also people in the political sphere, be aware of refugees and those who have been displaced. |
| 2:25.9 | And I am so excited to have a conversation about that today. |
| 2:29.4 | Thanks, Ryan. |
| 2:30.1 | Looking forward to it. |
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