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Should robots be given human rights?
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Sep 04, 2024 |
Lucy Letby reconsidered: Innocence and guilt, partial evidence, and living with unknowns
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Aug 28, 2024 |
What does it mean to be made in the image of God?
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Aug 21, 2024 |
The infected blood scandal
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Aug 14, 2024 |
Autonomous killer drones and the future of warfare
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Aug 07, 2024 |
Should Christians break the law? Civil disobedience, climate protest and heavy-handed policing
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Jul 31, 2024 |
The unintended consequences of sperm donation
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Jul 24, 2024 |
Neo-Luddism and the ‘myth’ of progress: Should Christians be pro or anti technology?
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Jul 17, 2024 |
Energy abundance: Is the coming solar power revolution a blessing from God?
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Jul 10, 2024 |
Julian Assange, whistleblowers, and the Christian case for journalism
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Jul 03, 2024 |
Physics and the gospel: Richard Cheetham on how churches can embrace science once more
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Jun 26, 2024 |
Dependence: Should Christians embrace ‘being a burden’ on others as we get old?
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Jun 19, 2024 |
Are smartphones damaging our children? with Andy Crouch
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Jun 12, 2024 |
How much is too much to genetically screen your children?
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Jun 05, 2024 |
Elections, the church and threats to democracy
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May 29, 2024 |
Autism: Disability or superpower?
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May 23, 2024 |
Two is the loneliest number: Can AI friends stop us feeling alone?
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May 15, 2024 |
‘Playing God’: Science and religion in the 21st century
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May 08, 2024 |
Assisted dying in Scotland: A bad law but also an inevitable one?
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May 01, 2024 |
Abusive relationships and coercive control in church
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Apr 24, 2024 |
Q&A: Did ending Roe v Wade actually save unborn children’s lives?
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Apr 17, 2024 |
ADHD, over-diagnosis and should Christians try to enhance our brains with stimulants?
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Apr 10, 2024 |
Tim Farron, toxic social media, and how to navigate the ‘mucky business’ of politics
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Apr 03, 2024 |
New obesity drugs, the morality of food, and has neuroscience killed off free will?
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Mar 27, 2024 |
Tech hype: Should Christians resist or lean into AI?
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Mar 20, 2024 |
Q&A: Why have anti-abortion activists accidentally banned fertility treatment in Alabama?
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Mar 13, 2024 |
How can Christian doctors approach medical-assisted dying (euthanasia)?
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Mar 06, 2024 |
Psychedelics, spirits and the philosophy of Harry Potter
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Feb 28, 2024 |
Q&A: Should single Christians use dating apps if they strike out at church?
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Feb 21, 2024 |
New Creation: Reading the Bible backwards, the ‘opiate of the masses’, Physics 2.0, and the resurrected yet scarred body
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Feb 14, 2024 |
Egg freezing revisited: What about the ‘surplus’ eggs, and is better contraception part of the solution?
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Feb 07, 2024 |
Gender gap in church: Onward Christian Soldiers, the only man in a room full of women, Bonhoeffer’s ‘cheap grace’ and Christian dating apps
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Jan 31, 2024 |
Q&A: The contradictions which underpin anti-suicide efforts in an era of euthanasia, and are there any honest and unbiased journalists left these days?
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Jan 24, 2024 |
Egg freezing: The ticking biological clock, prosecco and cheese evenings, the culture war over maternal age, and living with wisdom and contentment
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Jan 17, 2024 |
Genetics: Libraries of recipe books, BRCA1, Gattaca, and Big Data Towers of Babel
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Jan 10, 2024 |
Pregnancy crisis: A constructive Christian response, heads versus hearts, paternalistic gynaecologists, and ambiguity in the ultrasound clinic
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Jan 03, 2024 |
Climate anxiety: ’Delay means death’, Extinction Rebellion, throwing pebbles into God’s river, and rediscovering lament
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Dec 27, 2023 |
Q&A: Should we welcome the coming wave of anti-obesity drugs, and what’s at stake in the argument over the 14-day limit on embryo research?
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Dec 20, 2023 |
Redemption: Always Plan A, sharing in Christ’s sufferings, a Disney fairy story, and the offensive incarnation
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Dec 13, 2023 |
Palliative care: Dogs and Guinness on the wards, complicated grief, DNAR discussions, and resisting assisted dying
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Dec 06, 2023 |
Q&A: Why are we ignoring rising death rates among poorer ethnic minority children, and will the flesh-and-blood girlfriend become a thing of the past?
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Nov 28, 2023 |
Science and religion 1: The myth of conflict, Charles Darwin’s beetle research, epistemic humility, and English country churchyard or Californian fridge?
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Nov 22, 2023 |
Q&A: The ‘myths’ leading women to choose abortion, and is digital slavery underpinning breakthroughs in AI?
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Nov 15, 2023 |
Friendship 3: Ruth and Naomi, ‘chesed’, trips to the theatre with John Stott, and an unorthodox rabbi
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Nov 08, 2023 |
The Fall: Bad actor theory, a malevolent voice in the Garden, Total Depravity and Original Sin, and the ‘Christian heresy’ of liberal humanism
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Nov 01, 2023 |
Baby loss 2: Rising abortion numbers, pills by post, ‘the pregnancy remains’, and Schrodinger’s fetus
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Oct 25, 2023 |
Baby loss 1: Elsie’s story, one in five pregnancies, names missing from the family tree, and the power of ultrasound
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Oct 18, 2023 |
Women and Christianity: Purity culture, beyond complementarianism, baggy t-shirts over swimming costumes, and recovering Tamar’s voice
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Oct 11, 2023 |
Origins of covid: Gain of function research, zoonosis, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and truth over tribe
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Oct 04, 2023 |
Q&A: Should Christians use homeopathic medicine and why are climate scientists self-censoring in academic journal articles?
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Sep 27, 2023 |
Creation: The Brethren’s suspicion of the ‘world’, an explosion of joy, Eric Liddell’s sprinting epiphany, and celebrating beauty
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Sep 20, 2023 |
Q&A: The science of the billions-of-years-old Earth, has God deceived us, and are philosophers so useless after all?
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Sep 13, 2023 |
Lucy Letby: Murder on the neonatal ward, Munchausen’s by proxy, doctors versus nurses, and the banality of evil
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Sep 06, 2023 |
Q&A: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, psychosomatic disorders, AI acing exams, and the limitations of true creativity
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Aug 30, 2023 |
Space: The James Webb Telescope, hobbits of the universe, astrobiology, and 16 billion billion Earth-like planets
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Aug 23, 2023 |
Evolution: The cosmic watchmaker, a 6,000-year-old Earth, the immorality of mutation, and intelligent uncertainty
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Aug 16, 2023 |
Abusive leadership: Mike Pilavachi and Soul Survivor, The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, Sigmund Freud's chaise longue, and Paul-Timothy relationships
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Aug 09, 2023 |
Suffering: Mystery and presence, the lamb slain from the foundation of the world, rediscovering lament and the Gethsemane prayer
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Aug 02, 2023 |
Q&A: Karl Barth’s complicated home life, and single Christians considering adoption
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Jul 26, 2023 |
Covid reconsidered 2: Empty Nightingale hospitals, difficult triage decisions, a failure of Christian leadership, and reconsidering lockdown
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Jul 19, 2023 |
Covid reconsidered 1: Pandemic amnesia, ‘Stay at home, Protect the NHS, Save lives’, lingering Long Covid, and 13.47 billion vaccine doses
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Jul 12, 2023 |
Dementia: Listening to our bodies, 72 unique behaviours, multi-dimensional personhood, and the sacramental ministry of touch
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Jul 05, 2023 |
Surrogacy: The intended parents, altruistic versus commercial, ancient Christians saving abandoned babies, and a post-genetic community
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Jun 28, 2023 |
Digital church: Worship on Zoom, pandemic revival, time-shifting and Gnosticism (Replay)
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Jun 21, 2023 |
Trans children: Gender dysphoria, diagnostic overshadowing, boy Lego versus girl Lego, and the non-replicated Dutch Protocol
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Jun 14, 2023 |
Q&A: Christian pacifism in times of war and the Tower of Babel reconsidered
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Jun 07, 2023 |
Digital persecution: Deadly rumours on WhatsApp, a ‘Panopticon’ of censorship, the corrosion of trust, and China’s spreading surveillance state
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May 31, 2023 |
Q&A: Helping unmarried couples have children and court-ordered blood transfusions
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May 24, 2023 |
Generative AI: Second Contact, avoiding the fate of Nokia, hacking the human operating system, and the resilience of Western democracy
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May 17, 2023 |
Q&A: Introverts versus extroverts, faith in the consultation room, and a moratorium on AI research
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May 10, 2023 |
Contemporary spiritualities: Nominal atheism, New Age prayers for £25, moving on from Empty Tomb evangelism, and the church of social justice
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May 03, 2023 |
Effective altruism 2: Tithing, second-hand stuffed toys in Turkey, the Parable of the Lost Sheep, and one-hundredth of a guide dog
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Apr 26, 2023 |
Effective altruism 1: QALYs, longtermism, Jeremy Bentham’s embalmed corpse, and ethical elitism
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Apr 19, 2023 |
Webinar 2: Totalitarian regimes, the tobacco regulation lag, eternal life for materialists, and ‘Don’t be afraid’
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Apr 12, 2023 |
Webinar 1: Redefining human-ness, testing for consciousness, hoodwinked by ChatGPT, and a black box
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Apr 05, 2023 |
Friendship 2: Walks in the Garden of Eden, David and Jonathan, covenantal clarity, and red flags
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Mar 29, 2023 |
Friendship 1: The hermeneutic of suspicion, Classical ideals, scandalising middle-class Vienna, and the ‘mysticism of materialism’
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Mar 22, 2023 |
Listener questions: Polarised culture wars, the challenge of elder care, and childlike sexbots
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Mar 15, 2023 |
Public sector strikes 2: Taking patients hostage, employment as service, slaves and masters, and Christian peacemaking
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Mar 08, 2023 |
Public sector strikes 1: The Winter of Discontent, austerity-era pay freezes, Christian socialist solidarity, and continuity of patient care
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Mar 01, 2023 |
Surveillance capitalism 2: QR codes in China, privacy, the manipulation of desire, and a neo-Benedictine Rule of Life
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Feb 22, 2023 |
Surveillance capitalism 1: Trillions of data points, clickbait, an advertising arms race, and BF Skinner’s pigeons
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Feb 15, 2023 |
Cryptocurrency 2: Technicism, the Parable of the Talents, get-rich-quick schemes, and the wheat and the weeds
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Feb 08, 2023 |
Cryptocurrency 1: Bitcoin, warehouses of computers solving maths puzzles, the dot.com bubble, and FOMO
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Feb 01, 2023 |
Medical Assistance in Dying 2: Suicidal ideation, no crystal balls, conscientious objection, and Hippocrates’ successful medical practice
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Jan 25, 2023 |
Medical Assistance in Dying 1: Judicial activism, a ‘reasonably foreseeable’ death, the unacceptability of suffering, and reasons to stay alive
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Jan 18, 2023 |
Martin Rees 3: Pre-emptive science fiction, the morality-reality gap, adventurers on Mars, and the mind of the Creator
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Jan 11, 2023 |
Martin Rees 2: Blurred humanity, re-dignifying care work, algorithms reading lung X-rays, and the risks of virtual life
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Jan 04, 2023 |
Martin Rees 1: Advances in artificial intelligence, the Eliza effect, passing the Turing Test, and the problem of other minds
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Dec 28, 2022 |
Social media and politics 2: A mucky business, the ultimate conspiracy theory, ‘showbiz for ugly people’, and and atomised individuals
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Dec 21, 2022 |
Social media and politics 1: The judgemental society, 3,000 offensive tweets a day, freedom from vs freedom to, and Elon Musk’s Twitter
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Dec 14, 2022 |
Mental health 2: Emotional resilience, the bio-psycho-social model, the power of story, and depression in the Psalms
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Dec 07, 2022 |
Mental health 1: Power dynamics, the psychiatrist as brick wall, casualties of social media, and over-pathologising distress
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Nov 30, 2022 |
Dependence 2: The Panopticon at home, evangelising to retirees, existential angst in the House of Lords, and rejecting self-sufficiency
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Nov 23, 2022 |
Dependence 1: Isolated elderly people, altruistic suicide, a second childhood, and a crucified hero
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Nov 16, 2022 |
Protestant Social Teaching 2: The ars moriendi, open casket funerals in Derry Girls, the end of Christendom and ethical quietism
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Nov 09, 2022 |
Protestant Social Teaching 1: Overlap with Catholicism, chronological snobbery, rejecting one-size-fits-all ethics, and ‘worldly’ versus ‘spiritual’ matters
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Nov 02, 2022 |
AI sentience 2: I-Thou relationships, talking to stuffed animals, thanking Alexa, and Turing red flag laws
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Oct 26, 2022 |
AI sentience 1: Blake Lemoine and LaMDA, trillions of words, mute idols, and the God who speaks
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Oct 19, 2022 |
Matters of Life and Death: The book reconsidered, the Moscow State University reading list, audiobooks, and the decline of the reading Christian
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Oct 12, 2022 |
Embryology 2: Psalm 139, reconsidering ‘ensoulment’, the language of right and wrong, and co-operation with evil
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Oct 05, 2022 |
Embryology 1: A stem cell ‘Mini Me’, CRISPR, Brave New World, and extending the 14-day limit
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Sep 28, 2022 |
Evolution 2: Tracking coronavirus variants, the immorality of mutation, roughly one thousand hominids, and intelligent uncertainty
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Sep 21, 2022 |
The Queen: Monarchy as service, astonishing the President of Ireland, the changing Christmas Speech, and a testimonial faith
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Sep 14, 2022 |
Evolution 1: Finding common ground, the cosmic watchmaker, interpreting Genesis, and a 6,000-year-old Earth?
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Sep 07, 2022 |
Archie Battersbee 2: Doubts over the brain scans, the end of ‘doctor knows best’, sucked into the culture wars and protective power of attorney
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Aug 31, 2022 |
Archie Battersbee 1: The invention of ‘brain death’, a breakdown in trust, the child’s best interests, and how to turn off life support
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Aug 24, 2022 |
Genetics 2: Whole genome sequencing, Gattaca, de-identification versus anonymity, and Big Data Towers of Babel
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Aug 17, 2022 |
Genetics 1: Rare diseases, libraries of recipe books, BRCA1, and precision medicine
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Aug 10, 2022 |
Suffering 2: Rediscovering lament, reciting psalms in bomb shelters, the Gethsemane prayer, and the realism of Christian hope
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Aug 03, 2022 |
Suffering 1: ’Adamah’, mystery and presence, the ever-smiling Buddha, and the lamb slain from the creation of the world
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Jul 27, 2022 |
Space 2: Astrobiology, 16 billion billion Earth-like planets, LUCA and the non-competitive Imago Dei
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Jul 20, 2022 |
Space 1: The James Webb telescope, extra-terrestrial life, hobbits of the universe and the doctrine of creation
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Jul 13, 2022 |
Simulation 2: Zoom’s face-smoothing, chatbot therapists, Trinitarianism, and evil as counterfeit
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Jul 06, 2022 |
Simulation 1: Deep fakes, David Beckham speaking Mandarin, Jean Baudrillard’s four phases, and image as sacrament
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Jun 29, 2022 |
Prenatal screening 2: The prohibition on soothsaying, transcending genetic determinism, a client-technician relationship and Heidi Crowter’s joyful self-advocacy
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Jun 22, 2022 |
Prenatal screening 1: Peering into the unknown, less than 1/150, blood tests over the internet, and disability doublethink
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Jun 15, 2022 |
Old people 2: Aging congregations, transcendence at the Arsenal, understanding life backwards, and honouring prayer warriors
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Jun 08, 2022 |
Old people 1: The demographic transition, Reverend Thomas Malthus, Hasidic Jewish outliers, and the grey vote
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Jun 01, 2022 |
Robot rights 2: Rejecting self-definition, the citadel of human uniqueness, rehashing ‘God of the gaps’, and evangelising at androids
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May 25, 2022 |
Robot rights 1: Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws, fauxbots, whimpering miniature dinosaurs, and inherent or conferred personhood
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May 18, 2022 |
Pregnancy crisis 2: Paternalistic gynaecologists, holding truth with grace, ambiguity in the ultrasound clinic, and refusing the culture war
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May 11, 2022 |
Pregnancy crisis 1: A constructive Christian response, heads versus hearts, feeling like a ‘bad feminist’, and the three options
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May 04, 2022 |
John Stott 2: Christians in the public square, an untried ideal, talking and living like Jesus, and the challenge of evangelical hagiography
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Apr 27, 2022 |
John Stott 1: Double listening, a conservative radical, redefining ‘the ministry’ and salt as preservative
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Apr 20, 2022 |
Palliative care 2: Resisting assisted dying, the ‘superskill’ of listening, DNAR discussions, and euthanasia-free-zones
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Apr 13, 2022 |
Palliative care 1: Dogs and Guinness on the wards, ‘living until you die’, deathbed prayers, and complicated grief
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Apr 06, 2022 |
Climate anxiety 2: Listening to the Global South, alienation from creation, throwing pebbles into God’s river, and rediscovering lament
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Mar 28, 2022 |
Climate anxiety 1: ’Delay means death’, media apathy, Extinction Rebellion, and fatalism among the young
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Mar 22, 2022 |
Human enhancement 2: Techno-optimism returns, the yuck factor, cultivating our bodies, and the divinisation of humanity
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Mar 15, 2022 |
Human enhancement 1: Calico, the dragon tyrant, transhumanism, and monkeys playing Pong
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Mar 09, 2022 |
Relaunch: How we started, baby boomers and millennials, the pandemic as catalyst, and the signal to noise ratio
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Mar 02, 2022 |
Coronavirus: The Omicron variant, mandatory vaccination, pandemic solidarity, and memories of authoritarianism
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Dec 17, 2021 |
Reproductive technologies: the ’Google baby’, Oliver O’Donovan, 14-day-old embryos, and techno-optimism
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Dec 09, 2021 |
Infertility and IVF: Hidden wounds, premature quintuplets, embryo donation and the procreative-unitive bond
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Nov 10, 2021 |
Assisted dying: The Meacher Bill, radicals in the Lords, Canada’s slippery slope and fragile conscience protections
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Oct 08, 2021 |
Abusive leadership: Mark Driscoll, the hermeneutic of suspicion, Sigmund Freud’s chaise longue, and Paul-Timothy relationships
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Aug 30, 2021 |
The Robot Will See You Now: Human uniqueness, AI musicians, surveillance capitalism and ditching Google
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Jul 20, 2021 |
Coronavirus: Miscounting deaths, the Sun’s front page, key workers with long covid and vaccine generosity
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May 26, 2021 |
John Stott: Double listening, salt as preservative, incarnational mission, and the challenge of evangelical hagiography
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May 04, 2021 |
Simulation: Deep fakes, image as sacrament, David Beckham in Mandarin and therapy chatbots
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Mar 15, 2021 |
Digital church: Worship on Zoom, pandemic revival, time-shifting and Gnosticism
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Feb 24, 2021 |
Social media and free speech: Fake news, Facebook’s ’Supreme Court’, the Capitol riot and YouTube algorithms
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Jan 22, 2021 |
Coronavirus: Misinformation
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Dec 16, 2020 |
Coronavirus: Vaccines - part 3
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Dec 11, 2020 |
Coronavirus: The second lockdown
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Nov 11, 2020 |
Coronavirus: Vaccines - part 2
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Nov 09, 2020 |
Coronavirus: Vaccines - part 1
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Oct 08, 2020 |
Coronavirus: Mental health, anxiety and hope
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Sep 10, 2020 |
Coronavirus: Technology - part 2
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Jun 24, 2020 |
Coronavirus: Technology - part 1
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Jun 19, 2020 |
Coronavirus: Death and spirituality during a pandemic
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May 26, 2020 |
Coronavirus: Life in the NHS
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May 16, 2020 |
Coronavirus: The ethics of triage
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May 13, 2020 |
Coronavirus: Thinking as a Christian during Covid-19
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Apr 29, 2020 |
Coronavirus: How this pandemic is unlike anything before
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Apr 27, 2020 |
Coronavirus: Christians in times of plague
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Apr 23, 2020 |