Matters of Life & Death

AI scepticism and the end of creativity, with Caleb Woodbridge

30 Jul 2025
00:58:45

For a technology that only really hit the public consciousness barely three years ago, AI is everywhere. Clearly it is useful, maybe even addictive, but can it also be harmful? Should we be concerned, as Christians, as creatives, as human beings even...

The Enhanced Games: Should we all want to become superhumans?

23 Jul 2025
00:45:22

Today’s discussion begins with a maverick rival to the Olympics – The Enhanced Games – which will allow all its athletes to use whatever drugs or technology they want to try and boost their performance. It’s garnered a lot of support and investment f...

Can Christians work in the arms industry?

16 Jul 2025
00:42:30

In this Q&A episode we begin with a query from a listener who is agonising over whether to apply for work at a defence research institution. Can believers, even those who hold to just war theory, spend their careers helping create better ways for...

The new Pope, Catholic Social Teaching and a second industrial revolution

9 Jul 2025
00:57:57

In just his second day in the job, the new Pope Leo XIV dropped a fascinating hint as to what his priorities may be in the Vatican. It turns out he chose his name to honour the last Pope Leo XIII, who issued a famous and highly significant teaching d...

Abortion decriminalised, part 2

2 Jul 2025
00:45:01

Last week we set the historical context of abortion law in the UK and how a sudden imposition of decriminalised abortion in 2019 in Northern Ireland set a precedent for what happened here in England a few weeks ago. But it’s hard to imagine the situa...

Abortion decriminalised, part 1

25 Jun 2025
00:50:17

Without basically any public debate or meaningful legislative scrutiny, MPs in parliament passed a major reform to Britain’s abortion laws last week. Decriminalisation now means mothers cannot be prosecuted for aborting their unborn children all the...

Elizabeth Oldfield: Intriguing non-believers and life in intentional community

18 Jun 2025
00:49:03

This week we’re joined by the writer and podcaster Elizabeth Oldfield. Her new book Fully Alive is a series of essays trying to introduce riches of the Christian tradition and its wisdom on everything from feminism to loneliness to non-believers who...

WhatsApp, social media and smart devices: Persecution of Christians goes digital

11 Jun 2025
00:46:27

Tim is on holiday, so today we’re bringing you a classic episode from the MOLAD archive. The persecuted church today lives as it always has under the threat of arrest, imprisonment, physical attack, verbal threats and harassment, and even death. Bu...

Is Christianity bad news for women?

4 Jun 2025
00:57:05

Christianity is sometimes described as ‘bad news for women’. Clearly we would all disagree with this epithet, but why does it have cultural currency right now for a growing number of particularly younger women? In this episode we’re joined by Ellidh...

Apocalypse: Why do so many feel like the world is coming to an end?

21 May 2025
00:55:04

It’s hard to escape the fact that we live in gloomy, despairing times. Whether it is economic stagnation, pandemics, democracy under attack, unending wars or the climate crisis, more and more people feel like things are falling apart. That maybe even...

Sex, dinosaurs, bodies and climate change: Parenting children in our confusing and confused world

21 May 2025
00:46:09

Today we’re sharing an episode of the Faith in Parenting podcast, run by the Faith in Kids team, which we took part in some months ago. We were kindly asked on to chat about being Christians and being parents, and in particular how we handle sometime...

Can we treat Parkinson’s disease without destroying embryos?

14 May 2025
00:55:42

In the first part of today’s episode we look at some exciting new research into treatments for the degenerative brain condition Parkinsons’s disease. We’ve known since the 1980s that transplants of brain tissue can slow the disease, but the only sour...

Shame, honour & the gospel: Recovering what we’ve missed

7 May 2025
00:56:58

Is there an element of the gospel which we’ve forgotten about? That Jesus came not to just to deal with the guilt of our sin and forgive that, but to deal with the shame of being sinners and to cover that too. In this episode we dig into the differen...

What is a woman?

30 Apr 2025
00:57:54

Two major Supreme Court rulings here in the UK have given us plenty to chew over in this episode. In the first half we explore a judgement about doctors caught up in controversial and tragic life support legal disputes with the parents of deeply ill...

Dementia: Listening to bodies and the sacramental ministry of touch

23 Apr 2025
00:44:49

‘Granny’s body remains, but she is gone’. The public narrative around dementia often presumes that as our ability to talk, move and think gradually withers away, so does our personhood and sense of self. But if we believe as Christians that our human...

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