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Matters of Life and Death

In each episode of Matters of Life and Death, brought to you by Premier Unbelievable?, John Wyatt and his son Tim discuss issues in healthcare, ethics, technology, science, faith and more. John is a d... Read more

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Abusive leadership: Mike Pilavachi and Soul Survivor, The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, Sigmund Freud's chaise longue, and Paul-Timothy relationships

Abusive leadership: Mike Pilavachi and Soul Survivor, The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, Sigmund Freud's chaise longue, and Paul-Timothy relationships

It’s been almost two years since we recorded an episode about abusive church leadership inspired by the downfall of Mark... Read more

9 Aug 2023

1hr 2mins

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Suffering: Mystery and presence, the lamb slain from the foundation of the world, rediscovering lament and the Gethsemane prayer

Suffering: Mystery and presence, the lamb slain from the foundation of the world, rediscovering lament and the Gethsemane prayer

We’re bringing you a classic episode of Matters of Life and Death from the archive today, all about suffering. The probl... Read more

2 Aug 2023

1hr 5mins

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Q&A: Karl Barth’s complicated home life, and single Christians considering adoption

Q&A: Karl Barth’s complicated home life, and single Christians considering adoption

In our latest episode tackling some questions from listeners, we begin by thinking about whether it should matter if inf... Read more

26 Jul 2023

39mins

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Covid reconsidered 2: Empty Nightingale hospitals, difficult triage decisions, a failure of Christian leadership, and reconsidering lockdown

Covid reconsidered 2: Empty Nightingale hospitals, difficult triage decisions, a failure of Christian leadership, and reconsidering lockdown

Our second ‘lessons learned’ episode looking back at the covid pandemic tackles how our healthcare systems coped, or fai... Read more

19 Jul 2023

50mins

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Covid reconsidered 1: Pandemic amnesia, ‘Stay at home, Protect the NHS, Save lives’, lingering Long Covid, and 13.47 billion vaccine doses

Covid reconsidered 1: Pandemic amnesia, ‘Stay at home, Protect the NHS, Save lives’, lingering Long Covid, and 13.47 billion vaccine doses

This podcast happened to launch a week or two into the first lockdown in spring 2020, and so for the first year almost a... Read more

12 Jul 2023

56mins

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Dementia: Listening to our bodies, 72 unique behaviours, multi-dimensional personhood, and the sacramental ministry of touch

Dementia: Listening to our bodies, 72 unique behaviours, multi-dimensional personhood, and the sacramental ministry of touch

‘Granny’s body remains, but she was gone’. The public narrative around dementia often presumes that as our ability to ta... Read more

5 Jul 2023

44mins

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Surrogacy: The intended parents, altruistic versus commercial, ancient Christians saving abandoned babies, and a post-genetic community

Surrogacy: The intended parents, altruistic versus commercial, ancient Christians saving abandoned babies, and a post-genetic community

The numbers of couples choosing to have children via surrogate mothers has been steadily rising in recent years. Now, th... Read more

28 Jun 2023

55mins

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Digital church: Worship on Zoom, pandemic revival, time-shifting and Gnosticism

Digital church: Worship on Zoom, pandemic revival, time-shifting and Gnosticism

We're both on holiday this week so we're bringing you an episode we first recorded in 2021 during the covid pandemic. It... Read more

21 Jun 2023

34mins

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Trans children: Gender dysphoria, diagnostic overshadowing, boy Lego versus girl Lego, and the non-replicated Dutch Protocol

Trans children: Gender dysphoria, diagnostic overshadowing, boy Lego versus girl Lego, and the non-replicated Dutch Protocol

Perhaps the most contentious political, medical and social issue of the day is how to treat and care for young people wh... Read more

14 Jun 2023

54mins

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Q&A: Christian pacifism in times of war and the Tower of Babel reconsidered

Q&A: Christian pacifism in times of war and the Tower of Babel reconsidered

In this episode we tackle two questions from listeners. The first asks in the light of the conflict in Ukraine whether i... Read more

7 Jun 2023

31mins

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