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Mid-faith Crisis 357: Sitting on an enormous grace hill
We talk about self-understanding (and our apparent lack of it), and reflect on whether you can have seasons of spirituality. And, in the light of revelations about another major Christian teacher, we discuss how you can never fall from grace, you can only fall into it.
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Mid-faith Crisis 356: No, you can’t get an Amen
New year, new podcast. But same old us, sadly. Anyway, good to be back with you. This week we visit some old emails and talk about the ‘right’ way to grieve, how names for God are a bit like old streets, and why Jesus might be a dance teacher. Normal service has resumed, then.
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Mid-faith Crisis 355:so, what have we learned?
In our final (probably) podcast for 2025, we look back on the three things we’ve learned this year. Which doesn’t, apparently, include (a) watching the Ashes and (b) not eating mince pies while recording. Happy Christmas everyone and a massive thank you to everyone who has supported the podcast this year.
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Mid-faith Crisis 354: Who do you say you are?
Joe is back from Mexico and Nick has recovered from man flu. So we talk about who we really are as individuals, and how that affects our relationship with others. Also, we think about what we really need to prepare for Christmas, and the difference between entertaining people and hospitality.
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Mid-faith Crisis 353: The birds and the bees with Ros Gleadow
Joe talks to Professor Ros Gleadow, Emerita Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University, Australia. They discuss the scale and impact of the climate crisis and, crucially, what we can do to make a difference.
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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.