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Mid-faith Crisis 350: Jesus has gone all yoke
This week, we spend a lot of time discussing the spiritual lessons to be learned from Traitors. Also, we talk about heavily paraphrased Bible verses and Joe has had a near-death experience in the toilet.
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Mid-faith Crisis 349: One of our least worst episodes
Joe is not very well this week. So I posted something we recorded some years ago on my book The Badly Behaved Bible. We talk about the inspiration of scripture and how many of our problems with the Bible are not with the book itself, so much as the things people say about it.
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Mid-faith Crisis 348: Boshing the Bible
This week we mainly talk about the Bible. We touch on how it was put together and we share with listeners the Bible verses and stories which mean the most to us. Along the way, Nick does a quick history lesson and Joe reckons that Jesus spoke like a market trader.
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Mid-faith Crisis 347: Happy birthdays and hard questions
It’s our ninth anniversary! So, for a nice, relaxed, party-like topic we talk about Israel. Why is it that so many Christians support modern Israel so strongly? How can we respond when there is so much violence and hatred on all sides? Where is the Kingdom of God in all this? Also Nick has discovered some scriptural golf balls and Joe has been rewriting the Bible. Again.
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Mid-faith Crisis 346: You’ve got five minutes on the problem of evil
In a packed feedback episode, we consider time, baptism, re-writing scripture, the omniscience of God and the problem of evil. Among other things. Also Nick has his nerd buttons pressed, and Joe has a new heretical disorder.
In the upcoming episode of The Mid-faith Crisis Podcast, Joe and I talk briefly about whether it’s OK for people to get baptised twice. I alluded to the founder of the Baptists, John Smith, a man who was actually baptised three times. Once by himself.
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Mid-faith Crisis 345:The uncontrolling God – An interview with Thomas Jay Oord
Joe interviews Thomas Jay Oord. Theologian, philosopher and, it seems, Joe’s new BFF, Tom directs the Center for Open and Relational Theology. He share his faith journey with us and discusses the idea of an uncontrolling God, the limits of both science and religion, and how the idea of love shapes everything around us.
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Mid-faith Crisis 344:Anger, and what to do with it
In a follow up to last week’s episode we think more about how to process anger. Joe interviews psychotherapist Becky Francis and we talk about the need for reflective practice, and digging into the anger produced by grief and loss. And in a shock move, Joe ends with a Bible passage.
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Mid-faith Crisis 343: Being a person of peace
In what has been a brutal week we think again about what it means to be a peaceful presence in our world. What practises will help us? What actions should we take? How do we stand up for what is right, without demonising our opponents?
Also, we have a great poem from a listener.
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Mid-faith Crisis 342: An interview with a very famous author
Yes, we’re back. And this week Joe interviews a surprise special guest on the podcast who tells us all about an article wot he wrote.
Also we have BIG NEWS about the Mid-faith Crisis Church Away Weekend 2026! Join us in the Lake District for a weekend of conversation, relaxation and reflection.