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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
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #2
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
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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
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39mins
Ranked #4
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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31mins