Matters of Life and Death

192 Episodes

1. Q&A: Why have anti-abortion activists accidentally banned fertility treatment in Alabama?

   Published: 13/03/2024
2. How can Christian doctors approach medical-assisted dying (euthanasia)?

   Published: 6/03/2024
3. Psychedelics, spirits and the philosophy of Harry Potter

   Published: 28/02/2024
4. Q&A: Should single Christians use dating apps if they strike out at church?

   Published: 21/02/2024
5. New Creation: Reading the Bible backwards, the ‘opiate of the masses’, Physics 2.0, and the resurrected yet scarred body

   Published: 14/02/2024
6. Egg freezing revisited: What about the ‘surplus’ eggs, and is better contraception part of the solution?

   Published: 7/02/2024
7. Gender gap in church: Onward Christian Soldiers, the only man in a room full of women, Bonhoeffer’s ‘cheap grace’ and Christian dating apps

   Published: 31/01/2024
8. 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?

   Published: 24/01/2024
9. Egg freezing: The ticking biological clock, prosecco and cheese evenings, the culture war over maternal age, and living with wisdom and contentment

   Published: 17/01/2024
10. Genetics: Libraries of recipe books, BRCA1, Gattaca, and Big Data Towers of Babel

    Published: 10/01/2024
11. Pregnancy crisis: A constructive Christian response, heads versus hearts, paternalistic gynaecologists, and ambiguity in the ultrasound clinic

    Published: 3/01/2024
12. Climate anxiety: ’Delay means death’, Extinction Rebellion, throwing pebbles into God’s river, and rediscovering lament

    Published: 27/12/2023
13. 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?

    Published: 20/12/2023
14. Redemption: Always Plan A, sharing in Christ’s sufferings, a Disney fairy story, and the offensive incarnation

    Published: 13/12/2023
15. Palliative care: Dogs and Guinness on the wards, complicated grief, DNAR discussions, and resisting assisted dying

    Published: 6/12/2023
16. 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?

    Published: 28/11/2023
17. Science and religion: The myth of conflict, Charles Darwin’s beetle research, epistemic humility, and English country churchyard or Californian fridge?

    Published: 22/11/2023
18. Q&A: The ‘myths’ leading women to choose abortion, and is digital slavery underpinning breakthroughs in AI?

    Published: 15/11/2023
19. Friendship 3: Ruth and Naomi, ‘chesed’, trips to the theatre with John Stott, and an unorthodox rabbi

    Published: 8/11/2023
20. The Fall: Bad actor theory, a malevolent voice in the Garden, Total Depravity and Original Sin, and the ‘Christian heresy’ of liberal humanism

    Published: 1/11/2023