Matters of Life and Death

192 Episodes

1. Palliative care 2: Resisting assisted dying, the ‘superskill’ of listening, DNAR discussions, and euthanasia-free-zones

   Published: 13/04/2022
2. Palliative care 1: Dogs and Guinness on the wards, ‘living until you die’, deathbed prayers, and complicated grief

   Published: 6/04/2022
3. Climate anxiety 2: Listening to the Global South, alienation from creation, throwing pebbles into God’s river, and rediscovering lament

   Published: 28/03/2022
4. Climate anxiety 1: ’Delay means death’, media apathy, Extinction Rebellion, and fatalism among the young

   Published: 22/03/2022
5. Human enhancement 2: Techno-optimism returns, the yuck factor, cultivating our bodies, and the divinisation of humanity

   Published: 15/03/2022
6. Human enhancement 1: Calico, the dragon tyrant, transhumanism, and monkeys playing Pong

   Published: 9/03/2022
7. Relaunch: How we started, baby boomers and millennials, the pandemic as catalyst, and the signal to noise ratio

   Published: 2/03/2022
8. Coronavirus: The Omicron variant, mandatory vaccination, pandemic solidarity, and memories of authoritarianism

   Published: 17/12/2021
9. Reproductive technologies: the ’Google baby’, Oliver O’Donovan, 14-day-old embryos, and techno-optimism

   Published: 9/12/2021
10. Infertility and IVF: Hidden wounds, premature quintuplets, embryo donation and the procreative-unitive bond

    Published: 10/11/2021
11. Assisted dying: The Meacher Bill, radicals in the Lords, Canada’s slippery slope and fragile conscience protections

    Published: 8/10/2021
12. Abusive leadership: Mark Driscoll, the hermeneutic of suspicion, Sigmund Freud’s chaise longue, and Paul-Timothy relationships

    Published: 30/08/2021
13. The Robot Will See You Now: Human uniqueness, AI musicians, surveillance capitalism and ditching Google

    Published: 20/07/2021
14. Coronavirus: Miscounting deaths, the Sun’s front page, key workers with long covid and vaccine generosity

    Published: 26/05/2021
15. John Stott: Double listening, salt as preservative, incarnational mission, and the challenge of evangelical hagiography

    Published: 4/05/2021
16. Simulation: Deep fakes, image as sacrament, David Beckham in Mandarin and therapy chatbots

    Published: 15/03/2021
17. Digital church: Worship on Zoom, pandemic revival, time-shifting and Gnosticism

    Published: 24/02/2021
18. Social media and free speech: Fake news, Facebook’s ’Supreme Court’, the Capitol riot and YouTube algorithms

    Published: 22/01/2021
19. Coronavirus: Misinformation

    Published: 16/12/2020
20. Coronavirus: Vaccines - part 3

    Published: 11/12/2020