192 Episodes

  1. Shame, honour & the gospel: Recovering what we’ve missed

    Published: 7/05/2025

  2. What is a woman?

    Published: 30/04/2025

  3. Dementia: Listening to bodies and the sacramental ministry of touch

    Published: 23/04/2025

  4. Cultural witness and the purpose of theology, with Graham Tomlin

    Published: 16/04/2025

  5. Antinatalism: Should we all stop having children?

    Published: 9/04/2025

  6. Is this the end? Plummeting birth rates, the future of humanity and the meaning of children

    Published: 2/04/2025

  7. Spiritual, but not religious: What do people actually believe these days?

    Published: 26/03/2025

  8. Arrested for praying in your head? Abortion clinic buffer zones and 21st century thoughtcrime

    Published: 19/03/2025

  9. What is the Trump government doing to medical research and international aid, and why should we care?

    Published: 12/03/2025

  10. What are chatbots doing to us? Personhood in an age of AI

    Published: 5/03/2025

  11. Co-operation with evil

    Published: 26/02/2025

  12. Cryptocurrency: Financial liberation for the masses or pyramid schemes for the gullible?

    Published: 19/02/2025

  13. Should we fear our new social media overlords in the age of Trump?

    Published: 12/02/2025

  14. Knowing our own bodies: Fertility apps and the pill, with Dawn McAvoy

    Published: 5/02/2025

  15. Should we try to save every one? Ethical dilemmas and Christian values when treating very premature babies

    Published: 29/01/2025

  16. Who do children belong to in an era of surrogacy and reproductive technology?

    Published: 22/01/2025

  17. An anxious generation: Are social media and smartphones ruining children’s mental health?

    Published: 15/01/2025

  18. Giving, data and compassion: Should Christians all be ‘effective altruists’?

    Published: 8/01/2025

  19. Surveillance capitalism: Is privacy dead and should we care?

    Published: 1/01/2025

  20. The ethics of embryology: ‘Ensoulment’, the 14-day limit and co-operation with evil

    Published: 25/12/2024

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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 doctor, professor of ethics, and writer and speaker on these topics, while Tim is a religion and social affairs journalist. We talk about how Christians can better engage with a particular question of life, death or something else in between. For more resources to help you explore faith and the big questions, visit: http://www.premierunbelievable.com If you want to go deeper into some of the topics we discuss, find more resources to read, listen to and watch at John’s website: http://www.johnwyatt.com

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