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Mid-faith Crisis 335: A senior pair likely in their golden years
People have sent in limericks about the Trinity. Joe is wondering what to do about the climate crisis. Nick is very grumpy about AI, a mood not improved by the AI-generated description of their photo on Facebook. We talk about the need to be people who care, who live lives of both gratitude and action. So join our long-term partnership, as we prioritise our relationship and spend quality time together.
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Mid-faith Crisis 334: An interview with climate activist Rev Tim Hewes
Tim Hewes is the author of Finding Beauty Behind Bars - A Climate Activist’s Enforced Retreat, a book he wrote after being arrested during Extinction Rebellion protests. He tells us about how he became so concerned, why he got involved with non-violent protest and the remarkable story of the day that eight Met policemen were sent to arrest a highly dangerous clergyman.
Given the episode number, how could we not talk about the Trinity? It is, perhaps, the core doctrine of Christianity, yet also incredibly contested, and remarkably opaque. Its centrality is undisputed. Christians believe in the triune God – one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. From the first century, Christians were baptised in the name of the Father, son and Holy Spirit, as per Jesus' instructions (Matthew 28.19). New Testament theology clearly reflects a growing sense of it in their Christology (e.
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Mid-faith Crisis 333: The return of Father, Son and Floaty thing
We celebrate an episode with all the threes by totally solving the issue of the Trinity. I mean, we absolutely nailed it. Completely sorted. You’re welcome.
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In Mid-faith Crisis 330, Joe and I – together in the same room for once – talk about getting older, about becoming an ‘adult of God’, and what our new roles might be in the future years. [Mid-faith Crisis Episode 330: Growing old disgracefully] I’ve been thinking a lot about the concept of ‘elders’ recently. Mainly because I am one now. Or, at least, I aspire to being one. In our society today the idea of elders is rather looked down.
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Mid-faith Crisis 330: Growing old disgracefully
This is a bit of a curious episode, because we’re revisiting material that we recorded and wrote almost eight years ago. Following on from my recent article on the Council of Nicea, Joe suggested that we come up with our own creeds, forgetting that we’d done it in August 2017. In Mid-faith Crisis episode 22, ‘The schism starts here’ we actually listed our personal statements of faith. So I thought, eight years on, it would be interesting to return to those, have a look at what we wrote and talk about whether we still agree with it.
It’s one of those episodes this week, where we talk about everything from the ethics of slug control, to the 1700th anniversary the council of Nicea, to Ezekiel’s advice on how to live during times of exile (basically Keep Holy and Carry On). In one, apparently random bit I talked about how the big story of the Bible is made up of loads of little stories of exactly the same shape.