Matters of Life and Death

192 Episodes

1. Baby loss 2: Rising abortion numbers, pills by post, ‘the pregnancy remains’, and Schrodinger’s fetus

   Published: 25/10/2023
2. Baby loss 1: Elsie’s story, one in five pregnancies, names missing from the family tree, and the power of ultrasound

   Published: 18/10/2023
3. Women and Christianity: Purity culture, beyond complementarianism, baggy t-shirts over swimming costumes, and recovering Tamar’s voice

   Published: 11/10/2023
4. Origins of covid: Gain of function research, zoonosis, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and truth over tribe

   Published: 4/10/2023
5. Q&A: Should Christians use homeopathic medicine and why are climate scientists self-censoring in academic journal articles?

   Published: 27/09/2023
6. Creation: The Brethren’s suspicion of the ‘world’, an explosion of joy, Eric Liddell’s sprinting epiphany, and celebrating beauty

   Published: 20/09/2023
7. Q&A: The science of the billions-of-years-old Earth, has God deceived us, and are philosophers so useless after all?

   Published: 13/09/2023
8. Lucy Letby: Murder on the neonatal ward, Munchausen’s by proxy, doctors versus nurses, and the banality of evil

   Published: 6/09/2023
9. Q&A: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, psychosomatic disorders, AI acing exams, and the limitations of true creativity

   Published: 30/08/2023
10. Space: The James Webb Telescope, hobbits of the universe, astrobiology, and 16 billion billion Earth-like planets

    Published: 23/08/2023
11. Evolution: The cosmic watchmaker, a 6,000-year-old Earth, the immorality of mutation, and intelligent uncertainty

    Published: 16/08/2023
12. Abusive leadership: Mike Pilavachi and Soul Survivor, The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, Sigmund Freud's chaise longue, and Paul-Timothy relationships

    Published: 9/08/2023
13. Suffering: Mystery and presence, the lamb slain from the foundation of the world, rediscovering lament and the Gethsemane prayer

    Published: 2/08/2023
14. Q&A: Karl Barth’s complicated home life, and single Christians considering adoption

    Published: 26/07/2023
15. Covid reconsidered 2: Empty Nightingale hospitals, difficult triage decisions, a failure of Christian leadership, and reconsidering lockdown

    Published: 19/07/2023
16. Covid reconsidered 1: Pandemic amnesia, ‘Stay at home, Protect the NHS, Save lives’, lingering Long Covid, and 13.47 billion vaccine doses

    Published: 12/07/2023
17. Dementia: Listening to our bodies, 72 unique behaviours, multi-dimensional personhood, and the sacramental ministry of touch

    Published: 5/07/2023
18. Surrogacy: The intended parents, altruistic versus commercial, ancient Christians saving abandoned babies, and a post-genetic community

    Published: 28/06/2023
19. Digital church: Worship on Zoom, pandemic revival, time-shifting and Gnosticism (Replay)

    Published: 21/06/2023
20. Trans children: Gender dysphoria, diagnostic overshadowing, boy Lego versus girl Lego, and the non-replicated Dutch Protocol

    Published: 14/06/2023