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Think about the last time you bought an illustrated book. What percentage of the royalties do you think the illustrator got? Nope, not 50/50 with the author – most publishers only offer 3%–5%, even though illustrations often sell the book. Why do we...
It's not exactly a vintage time for politics in the West. Our prospective leaders either leave us apathetic or drive us into feral tribes.Perhaps the reason we're left so cold or scared by so many of today's political class is that we've let the impo...
''Christianity is outdated. A cultural relic from a less enlightened time. Superstition for the masses – not the kind of thing intelligent people believe in nowadays.'That's the general message New Atheism put out into the world in the noughties. And...
It's the 18th Century. Slavery has been a fact of life for millennia, and a new, racialised form is now powering the wealth and expansion of the British Empire. Faced with that reality, the British abolition movement should have been doomed to fail....
No buzzword is buzzier than 'AI'. Depending on who you talk to, it's either going to deliver the perfect utopia we've always dreamed of, take over the world and wipe us off the face of the earth – or simply fail to take off altogether.Whichever of th...
Comedy is one of God's great gifts to us. Not much feels better or connects people faster than a good, proper laugh. But for some reason, we don't often think of God and humour having much to do with each other. It's time to change that!In this epis...
If you were going to rank 'stuff people do' on a godliness scale, you'd probably put fighting for justice above painting, right? Stopping injustice in its tracks, saving people from exploitation – surely that's more valuable to God than making art, h...
We all know praying is important in theory. But we also have those days (or months) when prayer feels more like a check-box than a conversation with the Creator. Life is packed full of stresses and joys, to-do lists and Netflix binges, unpleasant mee...
'Be your best self. Live your best life. Don't hurt anyone else.' Sounds pretty good. But is that really all being a human is about? Our culture is fixated on the self and the idea that meaning, purpose, and truth can all be found inside ourselves. I...
Your imagination isn't just a mental screensaver, spooling out randomly when you're not using your brain. It's the bit of you that reflects the Creator, the God who spoke everything out of nothing. When you imagine things, you mimic your heavenly Fat...
Parliament's supposed to be the home of reasoned debate – where crucial issues are hashed out and the people's representatives shape policy for the good of all. So why does a quick glance at BBC Parliament so often feel like being back in the school...
Your hosts Grace Fielding and Paul Woolley welcome you to The Whole Life Podcast! Listen to find out what it's all about, what's coming up, and why you should tune in.
