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Mid-faith Crisis 352: Repairing the world with Dave Tomlinson
We have an interview with Dave Tomlinson. Dave and Joe discuss some of the difficult questions people have about God and faith and talk about how we, as Christians, can be part of the repair of the world.
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Mid-faith Crisis 351: Fact-checking Christmas
Jesus gives us a crucial challenge: ‘Who do you say that I am?’ We discuss our answers to that question. Meanwhile, Joe launches MFC verify to examine some claims about Christmas and Nick talks about Bible translation and why there are unicorns in the King James Version.
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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.