Stay Salty with Bec Oates
Stay Salty with Bec Oates explores the awkward, complicated, and uncomfortable parts of faith that church conversations often avoid. Bec Oates talks with guests about justice, power, gender, leadership, culture, and following Jesus beyond the usual Sunday script. The show rejects tidy or beige answers and invites listeners to stay curious and courageous.
Episodes
5. "Find Your Voice" (Kerry Hilton // Part Two)
Kerry Hilton returns for another salty conversation with Bec, this time tackling poverty, injustice, power, privilege, and the extraordinary leadership of women.Drawing on decades of experience alongside women in Kolkata's red-light district, Kerry shares how the people he thought he was there to help became the very people who taught him what leadership, generosity, and the Kingdom of God rea
4. "Have Your Life Disrupted" (Kerry Hilton // Part One)
In 1999, Kerry Hilton and his wife Annie packed up their lives in New Zealand, took their four young children, and moved to Kolkata, India. Little did they know that their new neighbours would change their lives forever.Kerry joins Bec for a wonderfully challenging conversation about following Jesus, loving our neighbours, welcoming the stranger, and discovering the heart of God in the most unexpe
3. "Dream Something New" (Prabu Deepan)
CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains discussion of domestic violence. If this is triggering, please listen with care and caution.From growing up amid conflict and displacement in Sri Lanka to leading Tearfund's global work addressing gender-based violence, Prabu Deepan has a powerful story to tell.Prabu joins Bec for a deeply personal, challenging, and hopeful conversation about poverty, gen
2. "God's Story, you're in it" (Graeme Anderson // Part Two)
Graeme Anderson returns for another crunchy, uncomfortable, salty conversation with Bec, this time to discuss topics as wide ranging as the Gospel, leadership, taking sin seriously, and poverty. After all, should the Gospel not drive Christian leaders to take the sin of poverty seriously?But most importantly, that God is with us and is for us. We are participating in a story that is so much bigger
1. "God is with You" (Graeme Anderson // Part One)
Pastor, author, missionary kid, opera singer, and marathon completer (completer thank you very much), Graeme Anderson plays the story teller with Bec. The stories we embody and teach are fundamental to how we view God. But the story we should be telling is one of liberation. God is with you and God is here to relieve you of your heavy burdens.I am known.I am loved.Thank you.Let's walk together
Welcome Trailer
Welcome to Stay Salty with Bec Oates — a podcast for the conversations that don’t always make it into church.We’re talking faith, justice, culture, power, leadership, and the messy questions that don’t come with neat answers.So if you’ve ever thought, “My church doesn’t talk about this stuff,” you’re in the right place.Stay curious. Stay courageous. Stay salty.
