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The Church Times Podcast

News, interviews, book reviews, and discussion each week from the Church Times - the world's leading newspaper on faith and the Church.

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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

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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

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

34mins

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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

49mins

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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

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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

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

13mins

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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

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

32mins

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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

22mins

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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

25mins

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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

25mins

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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

1hr 6mins

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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

10mins

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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

19mins

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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

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

44mins

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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

54mins

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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

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

19mins

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