Matters of Life and Death

192 Episodes

1. Q&A: Christian pacifism in times of war and the Tower of Babel reconsidered

   Published: 7/06/2023
2. Digital persecution: Deadly rumours on WhatsApp, a ‘Panopticon’ of censorship, the corrosion of trust, and China’s spreading surveillance state

   Published: 31/05/2023
3. Q&A: Helping unmarried couples have children and court-ordered blood transfusions

   Published: 24/05/2023
4. Generative AI: Second Contact, avoiding the fate of Nokia, hacking the human operating system, and the resilience of Western democracy

   Published: 17/05/2023
5. Q&A: Introverts versus extroverts, faith in the consultation room, and a moratorium on AI research

   Published: 10/05/2023
6. Contemporary spiritualities: Nominal atheism, New Age prayers for £25, moving on from Empty Tomb evangelism, and the church of social justice

   Published: 3/05/2023
7. Effective altruism 2: Tithing, second-hand stuffed toys in Turkey, the Parable of the Lost Sheep, and one-hundredth of a guide dog

   Published: 26/04/2023
8. Effective altruism 1: QALYs, longtermism, Jeremy Bentham’s embalmed corpse, and ethical elitism

   Published: 19/04/2023
9. Webinar 2: Totalitarian regimes, the tobacco regulation lag, eternal life for materialists, and ‘Don’t be afraid’

   Published: 12/04/2023
10. Webinar 1: Redefining human-ness, testing for consciousness, hoodwinked by ChatGPT, and a black box

    Published: 5/04/2023
11. Friendship 2: Walks in the Garden of Eden, David and Jonathan, covenantal clarity, and red flags

    Published: 29/03/2023
12. Friendship 1: The hermeneutic of suspicion, Classical ideals, scandalising middle-class Vienna, and the ‘mysticism of materialism’

    Published: 22/03/2023
13. Listener questions: Polarised culture wars, the challenge of elder care, and childlike sexbots

    Published: 15/03/2023
14. Public sector strikes 2: Taking patients hostage, employment as service, slaves and masters, and Christian peacemaking

    Published: 8/03/2023
15. Public sector strikes 1: The Winter of Discontent, austerity-era pay freezes, Christian socialist solidarity, and continuity of patient care

    Published: 1/03/2023
16. Surveillance capitalism 2: QR codes in China, privacy, the manipulation of desire, and a neo-Benedictine Rule of Life

    Published: 22/02/2023
17. Surveillance capitalism 1: Trillions of data points, clickbait, an advertising arms race, and BF Skinner’s pigeons

    Published: 15/02/2023
18. Cryptocurrency 2: Technicism, the Parable of the Talents, get-rich-quick schemes, and the wheat and the weeds

    Published: 8/02/2023
19. Cryptocurrency 1: Bitcoin, warehouses of computers solving maths puzzles, the dot.com bubble, and FOMO

    Published: 1/02/2023
20. Medical Assistance in Dying 2: Suicidal ideation, no crystal balls, conscientious objection, and Hippocrates’ successful medical practice

    Published: 25/01/2023