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Election special | Tim Farron | The Lib Dems: a Christian perspective

7 Jun 2024
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If they hear the phrase 'UK Christian politician', a lot of people will think 'Tim Farron'. The former leader of the Liberal Democrats and incumbent MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale knows exactly what it takes to live distinctively for Jesus in frontl...

Election special | Cat Smith | Labour: a Christian perspective

7 Jun 2024
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As the general election campaign ramps up, all eyes are on the Labour Party. Will this be the moment they take power for the first time since 2010? And what – if anything – has the Christian faith got to do with Labour politics?Continuing our four-pa...

Election special | John Mason | The SNP: a Christian perspective

7 Jun 2024
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As an MSP, John Mason has the luxury of not being up for election on 4 July. But the fortunes of his party, the SNP, will be crucial to the outcome of the general election – and the future makeup of the UK itself. In the third instalment of our elect...

Election special | John Glen | The Conservatives: a Christian perspective

7 Jun 2024
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With the 2024 general election underway, The Whole Life Podcastbrings you a four-part election special! Christian politicians from four major UK parties discuss how the Christian story connects to both their own work and their parties' unique charact...

Season 1 wrap-up: What we loved and what we've learned

4 Jun 2024
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It's all flown by so fast! As we close out season 1 of The Whole Life Podcast, Paul and Grace chat about their favourite moments from the first 13 episodes, what surprised them, and the wisdom that'll stay with them. Stay tuned – we've got lots of ex...

Nick Spencer: Why playing God isn't actually a bad thing

3 Jun 2024
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Scientific advances have been rewriting our understanding of reality for centuries. Now, in the 2020s, the pace is rapidly accelerating. Whether it's the quest for immortality or the search for alien life, the treatment of pandemics or animal personh...

Christina Abbott: Dressing Tom Cruise, Tina Turner, and the Royal Family

29 Apr 2024
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Fashion is the UK's biggest creative industry, worth over £26 billion a year. If we wear clothes, it affects us, whether we care about it or not. Our clothes aren't just functional – they communicate who we are and what we care about.Despite all that...

Martha Ratcliff: How illustrators shape everyone's minds

15 Apr 2024
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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...

Michael Wear: If we don't care about character, we get bad leaders

1 Apr 2024
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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...

Justin Brierley and Tom Holland: Are we witnessing a rebirth of belief in God?

18 Mar 2024
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''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...

John Coffey: Christianity and the abolition of the slave trade

11 Mar 2024
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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....

Eve Poole: Is AI created in the image of God?

26 Feb 2024
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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...

Paul Kerensa: Is God funny?

12 Feb 2024
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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...

Makoto & Haejin Shim Fujimura: Why fighting for justice and creating beauty are basically the same thing

29 Jan 2024
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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...

Pete Greig: Does prayer really change anything? (Live episode)

15 Jan 2024
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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...