Meet the podcast guests

Glen Scrivener is a speaker, writer and ordained minister. He serves as the Director of Speak Life while in the UK, an evangelistic ministry that seeks, through preaching and media, to captivate both church and world with the love of Jesus. He is a YouTuber, podcaster, the author of ten books including the award-winning The Air We Breathe, and he is the creator and presenter of the digital evangelism course 321.

Through her work, Esther seeks to equip people to think deeply about life’s big questions. She loves spending time with people and engaging in real, honest conversations about faith, meaning, and the stories that shape our lives. She finds great joy in music and the outdoors, particularly exploring how beauty and creativity point us towards a good Creator.

Esther studied Mathematics and Philosophy at the University of Bristol. After university, Esther completed the one year programme in Apologetics at the OCCA before qualifying as a Chartered Accountant.

Andy is a Christian speaker, writer, and broadcaster. From universities to churches, cafes to pubs, schools to workplaces, Andy regularly addresses diverse audiences on issues relating to faith, culture, politics and society. He was co-editor and a contributing writer for Have You Ever Wondered? – a book for the spiritually curious – and authored Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God? and The Atheist Who Didn’t Exist. Andy has a PhD in Islamic Studies, and – when not travelling, speaking or writing – loves hiking in the Lake District fells! You can find him on Substack at https://www.andybannister.net/ 

From dancing to coding, belaying to poetry writing, Naomi’s found life in all kinds of places but the best kind of life in knowing Jesus. She studied a Masters in Physics, trained in Apologetics, and now spends her time speaking, writing and having conversations to help others engage creatively with his compelling character and story. She works as an Evangelist for Speak Life, co-hosting the Speak Life Podcast working towards a Graduate Diploma with Union School of Theology. Naomi lives in East Sussex, where you’ll mostly find her swimming in the sea or getting lost in a forest.

Mark is a writer and teacher who has done all kinds of random things (like teaching in East Africa, being a vicar in England, and living in Maidenhead). He is a frequent podcaster on ideas and the arts – see triptychpod.com), writes for websites like Seen and Unseen (https://www.seenandunseen.com/contributors/mark-meynell) and has been trying to write a novel set in communist East Germany for the last 10 years!

Niv is one of the ministers at a church in Cambridge, which would have been a gigantic surprise to him just over 20 years ago, when he was pretty sure there wasn’t a God at all. He loves exploring the impact of Jesus on history, the world and everyday lives.