Radio Scotland

Tony’s This Spiritual Life Guest is the journalist and Loose Women panellist Janet Street-Porter. She shares her spiritual ubringing, her life as a journalist on Fleet Street and a commissioner for BBC and Channel 4, as well as some personal tragedies, and how her faith supported her. The criminalisation of conversion therapy – the practise of attempting to forcibly change a person's sexual orientation or identity – is being debated in Westminster. Tony speaks to Dr Harry Tanner, whose own experience of conversion therapy was the catalyst for a new book. And Tony speaks to the Hebridean artist Scott C Park, who through his music explores his time as a committed teen Christian, church band player and the questions that followed. The week’s headlines and the themes behind them will be debated by Tony’s Faith Forum panel who this week are: Ruth Weller – a Christian, digital content creator and leader of an online ministry; Very Reverend Sally Foster Fulton – UK and Global Churches ambassador for Christian Aid and former moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland; and Rabbi Pete Tobias of the Glasgow Reform Synagogue. They’ll discuss newly elected MP Andy Burnham’s ideas for devolution across the UK, the United States' 250th anniversary – is the American Dream still alive? And as the US Supreme Court decides to uphold the right to birthright citizenship, does where you are born equate to belonging?