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Hilary Mantel and Diarmaid MacCulloch at Launde Abbey: Remembering Thomas Cromwell - Part 1
Hilary Mantel and Diarmaid MacCulloch at Launde Abbey: Remembering Thomas Cromwell - Part 1
At Launde Abbey last month, Dame Hilary Mantel and Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch reflected on the life of Thomas Cromwel... Read more
1 Aug 2019
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37mins
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James K. A. Smith: On the Road with St Augustine
James K. A. Smith: On the Road with St Augustine
This week, Madeleine Davies talks to Dr James K. A. Smith about his new book On the Road with St Augustine, published by... Read more
10 Oct 2019
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26mins
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Rob Bell on life after Love Wins, preaching and comedy, Trump - and more
Rob Bell on life after Love Wins, preaching and comedy, Trump - and more
Rob Bell was once the pastor of a megachurch in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and was saluted by one newspaper as “the next Bi... Read more
14 Jun 2018
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Brian McLaren at the Festival Of Preaching: Worship that destroys (and saves) the world
Brian McLaren at the Festival Of Preaching: Worship that destroys (and saves) the world
The second Festival of Preaching took place at Christ Church, Oxford this week, organised by the Church Times and Canter... Read more
12 Sep 2019
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Part 2: Hilary Mantel and Diarmaid MacCulloch at Launde Abbey: Remembering Thomas Cromwell
Part 2: Hilary Mantel and Diarmaid MacCulloch at Launde Abbey: Remembering Thomas Cromwell
At Launde Abbey last month, Dame Hilary Mantel and Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch reflected on the life of Thomas Cromwel... Read more
1 Aug 2019
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1hr
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Steve Chalke on The Lost Message of Paul
Steve Chalke on The Lost Message of Paul
“The Church has misunderstood Paul badly.” So Steve Chalke argues in his new book, The Lost Message of Paul, which will ... Read more
7 Jun 2019
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46mins
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George Orwell and God: Alexander Faludy on the writer's complex relationship with Christianity
George Orwell and God: Alexander Faludy on the writer's complex relationship with Christianity
This week, Ed Thornton talks to the Revd Alexander Faludy about George Orwell’s relationship with Christianity. Orwell d... Read more
24 Jan 2020
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Marcus Green and Stanley Underhill, two gay priests of different generations, in conversation
Marcus Green and Stanley Underhill, two gay priests of different generations, in conversation
This week, two gay priests of different generations talk about the challenges they've faced in the Church. They have bot... Read more
15 Feb 2019
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24mins
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What causes a person to lose their faith? Interview with "deconversion" expert Dr John Marriott
What causes a person to lose their faith? Interview with "deconversion" expert Dr John Marriott
What causes someone to go from being a committed Christian to a convinced non-believer? On this week’s podcast, Ed Thorn... Read more
28 Feb 2019
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Rachel Mann: Advent and Christmas with Christina Rossetti
Rachel Mann: Advent and Christmas with Christina Rossetti
This week, Madeleine Davies interviews Rachel Mann about her new book In the Bleak Midwinter: Advent and Christmas with ... Read more
24 Oct 2019
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Rebecca Stott on her Costa Biography Prize-winning book In the Days of Rain
Rebecca Stott on her Costa Biography Prize-winning book In the Days of Rain
Rebecca Stott’s book In the Days of Rain tells the story of her family’s membership of and escape from the Exclusive Bre... Read more
24 Aug 2018
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Outgrowing Richard Dawkins: Rupert Shortt on the missionary of atheism
Outgrowing Richard Dawkins: Rupert Shortt on the missionary of atheism
“Richard Dawkins is the most outstanding missionary of atheism in Britain today”, Hugh Montefiore wrote in the Church Ti... Read more
28 Nov 2019
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Micheal O'Siadhail reads from The Five Quintets
Micheal O'Siadhail reads from The Five Quintets
The Irish poet Micheal O’Siadhail is admired and quoted by leading theologians. He has published 16 collections of poetr... Read more
5 Dec 2019
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John Swinton: God walks at three miles an hour
John Swinton: God walks at three miles an hour
This week, Professor John Swinton speaks on why in a culture that prioritises speed, efficiency, and productivity, we sh... Read more
4 Apr 2019
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Taking the steam out of Brexit; Wales's first HTB-supported resource church; TAP Fund
Taking the steam out of Brexit; Wales's first HTB-supported resource church; TAP Fund
Adam Becket brings us the latest on Brexit - and how the C of E hopes that "tea and prayer drop-ins" next weekend will f... Read more
22 Mar 2019
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Meg Munn, first independent chair of the National Safeguarding Panel, talks to Hattie Williams
Meg Munn, first independent chair of the National Safeguarding Panel, talks to Hattie Williams
Meg Munn was appointed first independent chair of the Church of England’s National Safeguarding Panel in September. She ... Read more
25 Jan 2019
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37mins
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Archbishop Justin Welby's William Temple Foundation lecture
Archbishop Justin Welby's William Temple Foundation lecture
The Archbishop of Canterbury delivered the William Temple Foundation’s annual lecture on Monday, at Lambeth Palace. It w... Read more
16 May 2019
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Shakespeare's Dimensions of Love: Paul Edmondson at the Church Times Festival of Faith & Literature
Shakespeare's Dimensions of Love: Paul Edmondson at the Church Times Festival of Faith & Literature
Paul Edmondson, Head of Research at The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, considers some of the different kinds of love whic... Read more
5 Mar 2020
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Dr Eve Poole on consumerism and theology
Dr Eve Poole on consumerism and theology
"We are gripped by the power of consumerism – but it doesn’t have to be that way," says theologian Dr Eve Poole.In her n... Read more
17 Aug 2018
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20mins
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The C of E's mission to turn around numerical decline: SDF Funding and resource churches
The C of E's mission to turn around numerical decline: SDF Funding and resource churches
The Strategic Development Fund has so far allocated £136m of Church Commissioners money to projects that it is hoped wil... Read more
22 Nov 2019
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19mins