Faith at the Frontiers
By Barnabas Aspray and Austin Stevenson
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Episodes: 103
Description
A podcast that confronts challenges to the Christian faith with hope. Hosted by Dr Barnabas Aspray & Dr Austin Stevenson.
Current series: Faith and the Challenges of History
Previous series: Refugees, Climate Change, Science & Religion, Faith & Economics.
Anticipated future series:
- Religious pluralism
- Christianity & Racism
- The problem of evil/suffering
- Exvangelicalism
- Violence in the Bible
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#102 The Witness of Friendship & Community - with Elizabeth Oldfield
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Sep 21, 2026 |
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#101 Public Theology - with Christine Schliesser
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Aug 31, 2026 |
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#100 Cultural Witness - with Graham Tomlin & Belle Tindall-Riley
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Aug 10, 2026 |
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#99 A.I. Wrap-Up and Returning to Hope
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Jul 13, 2026 |
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#98 Hope in the age of A.I. - with Michael Burdett
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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#97 Will the Pope’s Wisdom on A.I. Be heard? - with Nicholas Hayes-Mota & Silvianne Aspray
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May 28, 2026 |
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#96 How Faith Can Help A.I. - with Lyndon Drake
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May 25, 2026 |
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#95 Navigating the Digital Empire with Autumn Ridenour
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May 06, 2026 |
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#94 A.I. is a big moment for Humanity! - with Katherine Schmidt
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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#93 The Real Significance of A.I. with Carmody Grey
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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#92 Theological Anthropology and A.I. with Ollie Wright and Marie van Emerick
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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#91 Mythbusting AI & its true potential - with Josh Lawman
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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#90 Thinking with wisdom about AI - with Ruth Okediji
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#89 - What is Political Power For? with Nick Townsend
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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#88 Faith, Nationalism & Immigration - Barney’s (& David’s) new book!
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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#87 ‘A Gift to be Shared’ - Faith & National Identity with Rowan Williams
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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#86 The BIG DEBATE - Barney vs. Austin on Christian Nationalism!
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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#85 - Christian Nationalism in Russia - with Cyril Hovorun
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Thick & Thin Types of Nationalism - with Nick Spencer
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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#83 Balancing Local & Universal: What Catholic Nationalism Teaches Us - with Colt Anderson
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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#82 Cruciform Political Power - with Mike Gorman
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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#81 Faith & National Politics w/ Stanley Hauerwas
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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#80 Christian Patriotism is not Nationalism - with James Walters
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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#79 Whose Christianity? Which Nationalism? - with Elizabeth Bruenig
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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#78 Nationalism is its own religion - with William Cavanaugh
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May 14, 2025 |
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#77 - European Nationalism & Constitutions w/ Marietta van der Tol
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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#76 - Wrap-up the last series & introduce the next!
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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#75 The E(x)vangelical Imagination - with Karen Swallow Prior
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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#74 Loving & leaving Evangelicalism - with Sarah McCammon
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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#73 What is EXvangelicalism? - with Emma Feyas
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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#72 What is Evangelicalism? - with Mark Noll
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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#71 What is Exvangelicalism?
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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#70 A Greater Challenge to Faith?
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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#69 Tradition with Anne Carpenter
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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#68 Colonialism with Willie James Jennings
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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#67 Religious apathy and religious violence - with Matthew Rowley
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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#66 Religious Violence - with William Cavanaugh
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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#65 Improvising church to face challenges of today - with Mark Glanville
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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#64 The challenge of the INQUISITION - with Dr. Dennis Castillo
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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#63 The challenge of the CRUSADES! - with Dr. Mike Horswell
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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#62 Austin's NEW BOOK! - and the final episode on biblical history
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May 13, 2024 |
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#61 The history of the biblical text - w/ Dr Jesse Grenz
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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#60 Women and the challenge of history - with Dr. Amy Peeler
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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#59 Reading the New Testament Historically with Michael J. Gorman
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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#58 Lessons so far: insights and takeaways from our Bible scholar interviewees
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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#57 Historically-sensitive Bible reading: A taxonomy with Matthew J Thomas
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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#56 Theology and the Historical Method - w/ Dr Seth Heringer
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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#55 Challenging the challengers: on reasons to trust the biblical witness - with Prof. Iain Provan
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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#54 Faith and Old Testament historicity - with Prof. Hugh Williamson
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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#53 History and the Old Testament - with Professor John Goldingay
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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#52 Taking the conversation global: science and theology narratives in non-Western contexts
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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#51 Mitres and Microscopes: How church leaders think of science - with Dr. Thoko Kamwendo
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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#50 What it means to be human: the faith-enhancing power of science fiction
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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#49 Where Science and Politics Collide: Black Majority Churches and the Covid Vaccine
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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#48 ‘A scientist and a priest walk into a church’: how churches lead on science engagement
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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#47 Angels, Demons, and Scientists: How Charismatic & Pentecostal Churches engage with Science
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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#46 Why teach science in seminaries? - with Revd Dr Lucas Mix & Revd Dr Katy Hinman
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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#45 The True Story of the Science-Faith ‘Conflict’, from the Galileo affair to Draper and White
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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#44 How Christianity transforms the most fundamental economic principles - with Prof. Paul Williams
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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#43 What we really think about capitalism and other things - a reflection on recent episodes
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May 29, 2023 |
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#42 Christian Finance: Creating a Virtuous Circle - with Pete Gladwell
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May 15, 2023 |
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#41 God, Mammon, and Ethical Investing - with Robert Netzly
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May 03, 2023 |
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#40 The power of the free market to create wealth - with Dylan Pahman
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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#39 Transforming economic theory through the Christian tradition - with Helen Alford
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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#38 Freedom and Loneliness: Reflecting on recent episodes
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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#37 Investing in your success: Islamic economics and the role of community - with Professor Adeel Malik
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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#36 Is capitalism the only fair system? - a debate
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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#35 Is veganism impossible? - a response to listener feedback
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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#34 Economy as gift: beyond the capitalist-socialist dichotomy - with Edward Hadas
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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#33 Can we really choose how we spend our money?
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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#32 Is Viktor Orbán a Genuine Christian? - Faith & Politics in Hungary, with Alex Faludy
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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#31 Science & Religion - What we learned
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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#30 Witnessing to the trauma of the earth - with Tim Middleton
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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#29 Artificial Intelligence: Threat or Opportunity? - with Beth Singler
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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#28 Does evolution debunk religious beliefs? - with Christopher Bennett
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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#27 Doing science as a Christian Platonist - with Prof. Andrew Davison
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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#26 What if the quantum multiverse is real? - with Emily Qureshi-Hurst
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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#25 Suffering and death before Adam and Eve? - with Bethany Sollereder
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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#24 Do ‘science’ and ‘religion’ even exist?
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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#23 Science & Religion: Mapping the Terrain - with Prof. Alister McGrath
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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#22 Rescuing refugees at the Ukraine border - with Rev Ryan Cook
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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#21 Climate change denial and the politics of science - with Dr Ondrej Dyck
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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#20 Populism, Elitism, and healing the divide - Part 2 with Dr Tobias Cremer
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May 19, 2022 |
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#19 What has right-wing populism to do with Christianity?
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May 03, 2022 |
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#18 Western culture is not relativist & the Ukraine War proves it
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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#17 Putin’s Crusade: the religious side of the Ukraine War
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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#16 Climate refugees in a climate of fear: why catastrophizing makes things worse
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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#15 The Limits of Freedom: or, Why it's So Hard to Act on Climate Change
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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#14 Are we thinking about climate change all wrong?
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Refugees: Opening our eyes to the vulnerable people around us - with Cardinal Michael Czerny
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Refugees: Welcoming the Stranger as Family in the Old Testament - with Mark Glanville
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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Refugees: Are churches helping asylum seekers ‘game’ the system? Emad Al Swealmeen & the Liverpool bombing - with Anna Rowlands and Dave Smith
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Refugees: ‘Love the legal immigrant as yourself’: borders, checkpoints, and visas in the Bible & the modern West - with James Hoffmeier
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Refugees: State sovereignty, open borders, and national responsibility for refugees - with Prof. Luke Glanville
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Refugees: Action and Contemplation in the Sermon on the Mount
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Refugees: How can churches be effective in welcoming refugees? - with Emily Holden
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Refugees: Refused Asylum Seekers and the Nationality & Borders Bill - with Dave Smith
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Refugees: Focusing on the Future, the Afghanistan Crisis, and avoiding the ‘Savior Mentality’
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Refugees: Listening to refugees themselves & the struggle to find an identity - with Professor Peter Rona
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Refugees: Why should any Christian care? With Matthew Soerens
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Sep 27, 2021 |