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Conspiracy theories, mRNA, covid and autism: Why do so many struggle to get on board with vaccines?

13 augusti | 68 min

One in five pregnancies: How we’re talking differently about miscarriage, and what that may mean for abortion

6 augusti | 83 min

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

11 juni | 46 min

Is Christianity bad news for women?

4 juni | 57 min

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

21 maj | 55 min

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

21 maj | 46 min

Can we treat Parkinson’s disease without destroying embryos?

14 maj | 56 min

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

7 maj | 57 min

What is a woman?

30 april | 58 min

Dementia: Listening to bodies and the sacramental ministry of touch

23 april | 45 min

Cultural witness and the purpose of theology, with Graham Tomlin

16 april | 57 min

Antinatalism: Should we all stop having children?

9 april | 53 min

Is this the end? Plummeting birth rates, the future of humanity and the meaning of children

2 april | 67 min

Spiritual, but not religious: What do people actually believe these days?

26 mars | 51 min

Arrested for praying in your head? Abortion clinic buffer zones and 21st century thoughtcrime

19 mars | 49 min

What is the Trump government doing to medical research and international aid, and why should we care?

12 mars | 49 min

What are chatbots doing to us? Personhood in an age of AI

5 mars | 68 min

Co-operation with evil

26 februari | 48 min

Cryptocurrency: Financial liberation for the masses or pyramid schemes for the gullible?

19 februari | 64 min

Should we fear our new social media overlords in the age of Trump?

12 februari | 61 min

Knowing our own bodies: Fertility apps and the pill, with Dawn McAvoy

5 februari | 61 min

Should we try to save every one? Ethical dilemmas and Christian values when treating very premature babies

29 januari | 63 min

Who do children belong to in an era of surrogacy and reproductive technology?

22 januari | 46 min

An anxious generation: Are social media and smartphones ruining children’s mental health?

15 januari | 61 min

Giving, data and compassion: Should Christians all be ‘effective altruists’?

8 januari | 60 min

Surveillance capitalism: Is privacy dead and should we care?

1 januari | 63 min

The ethics of embryology: ‘Ensoulment’, the 14-day limit and co-operation with evil

25 december 2024 | 69 min

The powers of the age: Spiritual warfare, evil and technology in the 21st century

18 december 2024 | 62 min

The future of gender medicine and transgender children, with Dr Julie Maxwell

11 december 2024 | 60 min

The assisted suicide bill has been passed by parliament. What comes next?

4 december 2024 | 54 min

Should Christians abandon contraception?

27 november 2024 | 58 min

Earthquakes and cancer: Why is God’s good world so full of suffering? with Sharon Dirckx

20 november 2024 | 65 min

Vaccine conspiracies, mistrust and catastrophism: How the church lost its way, with Dr Francis Collins

13 november 2024 | 46 min

DNA, parenthood and selecting for IQ: The surprising return of eugenics

6 november 2024 | 60 min

Near death experiences

30 oktober 2024 | 49 min

Prenatal screening: Is all knowledge a good thing?

23 oktober 2024 | 69 min

Same-sex attraction and friendship in church, with Ed Shaw

16 oktober 2024 | 64 min

Yoga, mindfulness and truly Christian meditation

9 oktober 2024 | 50 min

Remembrance and forgetting: Why is nobody talking about covid any more?

2 oktober 2024 | 53 min

Will anti-obesity wonder drugs save our broken NHS?

25 september 2024 | 48 min

Stigma, anti-depressants and emotional resilience: Rethinking mental health and the church

18 september 2024 | 56 min

Assisted suicide: Euthanasia tourism takes off in the US amid fresh push to change law in Britain

11 september 2024 | 55 min

Should robots be given human rights?

4 september 2024 | 62 min

Lucy Letby reconsidered: Innocence and guilt, partial evidence, and living with unknowns

28 augusti 2024 | 57 min

What does it mean to be made in the image of God?

21 augusti 2024 | 62 min

The infected blood scandal

14 augusti 2024 | 51 min

Autonomous killer drones and the future of warfare

7 augusti 2024 | 56 min

Should Christians break the law? Civil disobedience, climate protest and heavy-handed policing

31 juli 2024 | 48 min

The unintended consequences of sperm donation

24 juli 2024 | 50 min

Neo-Luddism and the ‘myth’ of progress: Should Christians be pro or anti technology?

17 juli 2024 | 34 min

Energy abundance: Is the coming solar power revolution a blessing from God?

10 juli 2024 | 56 min

Julian Assange, whistleblowers, and the Christian case for journalism

3 juli 2024 | 48 min

Physics and the gospel: Richard Cheetham on how churches can embrace science once more

26 juni 2024 | 57 min

Dependence: Should Christians embrace ‘being a burden’ on others as we get old?

19 juni 2024 | 59 min

Are smartphones damaging our children? with Andy Crouch

12 juni 2024 | 57 min

How much is too much to genetically screen your children?

5 juni 2024 | 63 min

Elections, the church and threats to democracy

29 maj 2024 | 55 min

Autism: Disability or superpower?

23 maj 2024 | 62 min

Two is the loneliest number: Can AI friends stop us feeling alone?

15 maj 2024 | 42 min

‘Playing God’: Science and religion in the 21st century

8 maj 2024 | 63 min

Assisted dying in Scotland: A bad law but also an inevitable one?

1 maj 2024 | 72 min

Abusive relationships and coercive control in church

24 april 2024 | 64 min

Q&A: Did ending Roe v Wade actually save unborn children’s lives?

17 april 2024 | 38 min

ADHD, over-diagnosis and should Christians try to enhance our brains with stimulants?

10 april 2024 | 51 min

Tim Farron, toxic social media, and how to navigate the ‘mucky business’ of politics

3 april 2024 | 46 min

New obesity drugs, the morality of food, and has neuroscience killed off free will?

27 mars 2024 | 54 min

Tech hype: Should Christians resist or lean into AI?

20 mars 2024 | 58 min

Q&A: Why have anti-abortion activists accidentally banned fertility treatment in Alabama?

13 mars 2024 | 43 min

How can Christian doctors approach medical-assisted dying (euthanasia)?

6 mars 2024 | 64 min

Psychedelics, spirits and the philosophy of Harry Potter

28 februari 2024 | 54 min

Q&A: Should single Christians use dating apps if they strike out at church?

21 februari 2024 | 35 min

New Creation: Reading the Bible backwards, the ‘opiate of the masses’, Physics 2.0, and the resurrected yet scarred body

14 februari 2024 | 57 min

Egg freezing revisited: What about the ‘surplus’ eggs, and is better contraception part of the solution?

7 februari 2024 | 52 min

Gender gap in church: Onward Christian Soldiers, the only man in a room full of women, Bonhoeffer’s ‘cheap grace’ and Christian dating apps

31 januari 2024 | 40 min

Q&A: The contradictions which underpin anti-suicide efforts in an era of euthanasia, and are there any honest and unbiased journalists left these days?

24 januari 2024 | 43 min

Egg freezing: The ticking biological clock, prosecco and cheese evenings, the culture war over maternal age, and living with wisdom and contentment

17 januari 2024 | 57 min

Genetics: Libraries of recipe books, BRCA1, Gattaca, and Big Data Towers of Babel

10 januari 2024 | 59 min

Pregnancy crisis: A constructive Christian response, heads versus hearts, paternalistic gynaecologists, and ambiguity in the ultrasound clinic

3 januari 2024 | 64 min

Climate anxiety: ’Delay means death’, Extinction Rebellion, throwing pebbles into God’s river, and rediscovering lament

27 december 2023 | 58 min

Q&A: Should we welcome the coming wave of anti-obesity drugs, and what’s at stake in the argument over the 14-day limit on embryo research?

20 december 2023 | 43 min

Redemption: Always Plan A, sharing in Christ’s sufferings, a Disney fairy story, and the offensive incarnation

13 december 2023 | 41 min

Palliative care: Dogs and Guinness on the wards, complicated grief, DNAR discussions, and resisting assisted dying

6 december 2023 | 63 min

Q&A: Why are we ignoring rising death rates among poorer ethnic minority children, and will the flesh-and-blood girlfriend become a thing of the past?

28 november 2023 | 37 min

Science and religion: The myth of conflict, Charles Darwin’s beetle research, epistemic humility, and English country churchyard or Californian fridge?

22 november 2023 | 57 min

Q&A: The ‘myths’ leading women to choose abortion, and is digital slavery underpinning breakthroughs in AI?

15 november 2023 | 39 min

Friendship 3: Ruth and Naomi, ‘chesed’, trips to the theatre with John Stott, and an unorthodox rabbi

8 november 2023 | 54 min

The Fall: Bad actor theory, a malevolent voice in the Garden, Total Depravity and Original Sin, and the ‘Christian heresy’ of liberal humanism

1 november 2023 | 47 min

Baby loss 2: Rising abortion numbers, pills by post, ‘the pregnancy remains’, and Schrodinger’s fetus

25 oktober 2023 | 49 min

Baby loss 1: Elsie’s story, one in five pregnancies, names missing from the family tree, and the power of ultrasound

18 oktober 2023 | 37 min

Women and Christianity: Purity culture, beyond complementarianism, baggy t-shirts over swimming costumes, and recovering Tamar’s voice

11 oktober 2023 | 57 min

Origins of covid: Gain of function research, zoonosis, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and truth over tribe

4 oktober 2023 | 57 min

Q&A: Should Christians use homeopathic medicine and why are climate scientists self-censoring in academic journal articles?

27 september 2023 | 38 min

Creation: The Brethren’s suspicion of the ‘world’, an explosion of joy, Eric Liddell’s sprinting epiphany, and celebrating beauty

20 september 2023 | 52 min

Q&A: The science of the billions-of-years-old Earth, has God deceived us, and are philosophers so useless after all?

13 september 2023 | 26 min

Lucy Letby: Murder on the neonatal ward, Munchausen’s by proxy, doctors versus nurses, and the banality of evil

6 september 2023 | 50 min

Q&A: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, psychosomatic disorders, AI acing exams, and the limitations of true creativity

30 augusti 2023 | 44 min

Space: The James Webb Telescope, hobbits of the universe, astrobiology, and 16 billion billion Earth-like planets

23 augusti 2023 | 71 min

Evolution: The cosmic watchmaker, a 6,000-year-old Earth, the immorality of mutation, and intelligent uncertainty

16 augusti 2023 | 63 min

Abusive leadership: Mike Pilavachi and Soul Survivor, The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, Sigmund Freud's chaise longue, and Paul-Timothy relationships

9 augusti 2023 | 63 min

Suffering: Mystery and presence, the lamb slain from the foundation of the world, rediscovering lament and the Gethsemane prayer

2 augusti 2023 | 65 min

Q&A: Karl Barth’s complicated home life, and single Christians considering adoption

26 juli 2023 | 39 min

Covid reconsidered 2: Empty Nightingale hospitals, difficult triage decisions, a failure of Christian leadership, and reconsidering lockdown

19 juli 2023 | 50 min

Covid reconsidered 1: Pandemic amnesia, ‘Stay at home, Protect the NHS, Save lives’, lingering Long Covid, and 13.47 billion vaccine doses

12 juli 2023 | 57 min

Dementia: Listening to our bodies, 72 unique behaviours, multi-dimensional personhood, and the sacramental ministry of touch

5 juli 2023 | 45 min

Surrogacy: The intended parents, altruistic versus commercial, ancient Christians saving abandoned babies, and a post-genetic community

28 juni 2023 | 55 min

Digital church: Worship on Zoom, pandemic revival, time-shifting and Gnosticism (Replay)

21 juni 2023 | 34 min

Trans children: Gender dysphoria, diagnostic overshadowing, boy Lego versus girl Lego, and the non-replicated Dutch Protocol

14 juni 2023 | 55 min

Q&A: Christian pacifism in times of war and the Tower of Babel reconsidered

7 juni 2023 | 31 min

Digital persecution: Deadly rumours on WhatsApp, a ‘Panopticon’ of censorship, the corrosion of trust, and China’s spreading surveillance state

31 maj 2023 | 46 min

Q&A: Helping unmarried couples have children and court-ordered blood transfusions

24 maj 2023 | 43 min

Generative AI: Second Contact, avoiding the fate of Nokia, hacking the human operating system, and the resilience of Western democracy

17 maj 2023 | 42 min

Q&A: Introverts versus extroverts, faith in the consultation room, and a moratorium on AI research

10 maj 2023 | 40 min

Contemporary spiritualities: Nominal atheism, New Age prayers for £25, moving on from Empty Tomb evangelism, and the church of social justice

3 maj 2023 | 51 min

Effective altruism 2: Tithing, second-hand stuffed toys in Turkey, the Parable of the Lost Sheep, and one-hundredth of a guide dog

26 april 2023 | 34 min

Effective altruism 1: QALYs, longtermism, Jeremy Bentham’s embalmed corpse, and ethical elitism

19 april 2023 | 28 min

Webinar 2: Totalitarian regimes, the tobacco regulation lag, eternal life for materialists, and ‘Don’t be afraid’

12 april 2023 | min

Webinar 1: Redefining human-ness, testing for consciousness, hoodwinked by ChatGPT, and a black box

5 april 2023 | 26 min

Friendship 2: Walks in the Garden of Eden, David and Jonathan, covenantal clarity, and red flags

29 mars 2023 | 39 min

Friendship 1: The hermeneutic of suspicion, Classical ideals, scandalising middle-class Vienna, and the ‘mysticism of materialism’

22 mars 2023 | 33 min

Listener questions: Polarised culture wars, the challenge of elder care, and childlike sexbots

15 mars 2023 | 39 min

Public sector strikes 2: Taking patients hostage, employment as service, slaves and masters, and Christian peacemaking

8 mars 2023 | 32 min

Public sector strikes 1: The Winter of Discontent, austerity-era pay freezes, Christian socialist solidarity, and continuity of patient care

1 mars 2023 | 32 min

Surveillance capitalism 2: QR codes in China, privacy, the manipulation of desire, and a neo-Benedictine Rule of Life

22 februari 2023 | 33 min

Surveillance capitalism 1: Trillions of data points, clickbait, an advertising arms race, and BF Skinner’s pigeons

15 februari 2023 | 33 min

Cryptocurrency 2: Technicism, the Parable of the Talents, get-rich-quick schemes, and the wheat and the weeds

8 februari 2023 | 35 min

Cryptocurrency 1: Bitcoin, warehouses of computers solving maths puzzles, the dot.com bubble, and FOMO

1 februari 2023 | 33 min

Medical Assistance in Dying 2: Suicidal ideation, no crystal balls, conscientious objection, and Hippocrates’ successful medical practice

25 januari 2023 | 34 min

Medical Assistance in Dying 1: Judicial activism, a ‘reasonably foreseeable’ death, the unacceptability of suffering, and reasons to stay alive

18 januari 2023 | 33 min

Martin Rees 3: Pre-emptive science fiction, the morality-reality gap, adventurers on Mars, and the mind of the Creator

11 januari 2023 | 25 min

Martin Rees 2: Blurred humanity, re-dignifying care work, algorithms reading lung X-rays, and the risks of virtual life

4 januari 2023 | 32 min

Martin Rees 1: Advances in artificial intelligence, the Eliza effect, passing the Turing Test, and the problem of other minds

28 december 2022 | 28 min

Social media and politics 2: A mucky business, the ultimate conspiracy theory, ‘showbiz for ugly people’, and and atomised individuals

21 december 2022 | 22 min

Social media and politics 1: The judgemental society, 3,000 offensive tweets a day, freedom from vs freedom to, and Elon Musk’s Twitter

14 december 2022 | 25 min

Mental health 2: Emotional resilience, the bio-psycho-social model, the power of story, and depression in the Psalms

7 december 2022 | 29 min

Mental health 1: Power dynamics, the psychiatrist as brick wall, casualties of social media, and over-pathologising distress

30 november 2022 | 30 min

Dependence 2: The Panopticon at home, evangelising to retirees, existential angst in the House of Lords, and rejecting self-sufficiency

23 november 2022 | 32 min

Dependence 1: Isolated elderly people, altruistic suicide, a second childhood, and a crucified hero

16 november 2022 | 31 min

Protestant Social Teaching 2: The ars moriendi, open casket funerals in Derry Girls, the end of Christendom and ethical quietism

9 november 2022 | 33 min

Protestant Social Teaching 1: Overlap with Catholicism, chronological snobbery, rejecting one-size-fits-all ethics, and ‘worldly’ versus ‘spiritual’ matters

2 november 2022 | 33 min

AI sentience 2: I-Thou relationships, talking to stuffed animals, thanking Alexa, and Turing red flag laws

26 oktober 2022 | 32 min

AI sentience 1: Blake Lemoine and LaMDA, trillions of words, mute idols, and the God who speaks

19 oktober 2022 | 30 min

Matters of Life and Death: The book reconsidered, the Moscow State University reading list, audiobooks, and the decline of the reading Christian

12 oktober 2022 | 36 min

Embryology 2: Psalm 139, reconsidering ‘ensoulment’, the language of right and wrong, and co-operation with evil

5 oktober 2022 | 33 min

Embryology 1: A stem cell ‘Mini Me’, CRISPR, Brave New World, and extending the 14-day limit

28 september 2022 | 38 min

Evolution 2: Tracking coronavirus variants, the immorality of mutation, roughly one thousand hominids, and intelligent uncertainty

21 september 2022 | 33 min

The Queen: Monarchy as service, astonishing the President of Ireland, the changing Christmas Speech, and a testimonial faith

14 september 2022 | 33 min

Evolution 1: Finding common ground, the cosmic watchmaker, interpreting Genesis, and a 6,000-year-old Earth?

7 september 2022 | 33 min

Archie Battersbee 2: Doubts over the brain scans, the end of ‘doctor knows best’, sucked into the culture wars and protective power of attorney

31 augusti 2022 | 31 min

Archie Battersbee 1: The invention of ‘brain death’, a breakdown in trust, the child’s best interests, and how to turn off life support

24 augusti 2022 | 39 min

Genetics 2: Whole genome sequencing, Gattaca, de-identification versus anonymity, and Big Data Towers of Babel

17 augusti 2022 | 32 min

Genetics 1: Rare diseases, libraries of recipe books, BRCA1, and precision medicine

10 augusti 2022 | 30 min

Suffering 2: Rediscovering lament, reciting psalms in bomb shelters, the Gethsemane prayer, and the realism of Christian hope

3 augusti 2022 | 32 min

Suffering 1: ’Adamah’, mystery and presence, the ever-smiling Buddha, and the lamb slain from the creation of the world

27 juli 2022 | 34 min

Space 2: Astrobiology, 16 billion billion Earth-like planets, LUCA and the non-competitive Imago Dei

20 juli 2022 | 34 min

Space 1: The James Webb telescope, extra-terrestrial life, hobbits of the universe and the doctrine of creation

13 juli 2022 | 32 min

Simulation 2: Zoom’s face-smoothing, chatbot therapists, Trinitarianism, and evil as counterfeit

6 juli 2022 | 25 min

Simulation 1: Deep fakes, David Beckham speaking Mandarin, Jean Baudrillard’s four phases, and image as sacrament

29 juni 2022 | 27 min

Prenatal screening 2: The prohibition on soothsaying, transcending genetic determinism, a client-technician relationship and Heidi Crowter’s joyful self-advocacy

22 juni 2022 | 35 min

Prenatal screening 1: Peering into the unknown, less than 1/150, blood tests over the internet, and disability doublethink

15 juni 2022 | 36 min

Old people 2: Aging congregations, transcendence at the Arsenal, understanding life backwards, and honouring prayer warriors

8 juni 2022 | 31 min

Old people 1: The demographic transition, Reverend Thomas Malthus, Hasidic Jewish outliers, and the grey vote

1 juni 2022 | 30 min

Robot rights 2: Rejecting self-definition, the citadel of human uniqueness, rehashing ‘God of the gaps’, and evangelising at androids

25 maj 2022 | 33 min

Robot rights 1: Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws, fauxbots, whimpering miniature dinosaurs, and inherent or conferred personhood

18 maj 2022 | 31 min

Pregnancy crisis 2: Paternalistic gynaecologists, holding truth with grace, ambiguity in the ultrasound clinic, and refusing the culture war

11 maj 2022 | 33 min

Pregnancy crisis 1: A constructive Christian response, heads versus hearts, feeling like a ‘bad feminist’, and the three options

4 maj 2022 | 33 min

John Stott 2: Christians in the public square, an untried ideal, talking and living like Jesus, and the challenge of evangelical hagiography

27 april 2022 | 29 min

John Stott 1: Double listening, a conservative radical, redefining ‘the ministry’ and salt as preservative

20 april 2022 | 24 min

Palliative care 2: Resisting assisted dying, the ‘superskill’ of listening, DNAR discussions, and euthanasia-free-zones

13 april 2022 | 33 min

Palliative care 1: Dogs and Guinness on the wards, ‘living until you die’, deathbed prayers, and complicated grief

6 april 2022 | 33 min

Climate anxiety 2: Listening to the Global South, alienation from creation, throwing pebbles into God’s river, and rediscovering lament

28 mars 2022 | 32 min

Climate anxiety 1: ’Delay means death’, media apathy, Extinction Rebellion, and fatalism among the young

22 mars 2022 | 30 min

Human enhancement 2: Techno-optimism returns, the yuck factor, cultivating our bodies, and the divinisation of humanity

15 mars 2022 | 31 min

Human enhancement 1: Calico, the dragon tyrant, transhumanism, and monkeys playing Pong

9 mars 2022 | 28 min

Relaunch: How we started, baby boomers and millennials, the pandemic as catalyst, and the signal to noise ratio

2 mars 2022 | 32 min

Coronavirus: The Omicron variant, mandatory vaccination, pandemic solidarity, and memories of authoritarianism

17 december 2021 | 35 min

Reproductive technologies: the ’Google baby’, Oliver O’Donovan, 14-day-old embryos, and techno-optimism

9 december 2021 | 55 min

Infertility and IVF: Hidden wounds, premature quintuplets, embryo donation and the procreative-unitive bond

10 november 2021 | 41 min

Assisted dying: The Meacher Bill, radicals in the Lords, Canada’s slippery slope and fragile conscience protections

8 oktober 2021 | 39 min

Abusive leadership: Mark Driscoll, the hermeneutic of suspicion, Sigmund Freud’s chaise longue, and Paul-Timothy relationships

30 augusti 2021 | 46 min

The Robot Will See You Now: Human uniqueness, AI musicians, surveillance capitalism and ditching Google

20 juli 2021 | 54 min

Coronavirus: Miscounting deaths, the Sun’s front page, key workers with long covid and vaccine generosity

26 maj 2021 | 56 min

John Stott: Double listening, salt as preservative, incarnational mission, and the challenge of evangelical hagiography

4 maj 2021 | 53 min

Simulation: Deep fakes, image as sacrament, David Beckham in Mandarin and therapy chatbots

15 mars 2021 | 52 min

Digital church: Worship on Zoom, pandemic revival, time-shifting and Gnosticism

24 februari 2021 | 35 min

Social media and free speech: Fake news, Facebook’s ’Supreme Court’, the Capitol riot and YouTube algorithms

22 januari 2021 | 36 min

Coronavirus: Misinformation

16 december 2020 | 37 min

Coronavirus: Vaccines - part 3

11 december 2020 | 36 min

Coronavirus: The second lockdown

11 november 2020 | 44 min

Coronavirus: Vaccines - part 2

9 november 2020 | 19 min

Coronavirus: Vaccines - part 1

8 oktober 2020 | 42 min

Coronavirus: Mental health, anxiety and hope

10 september 2020 | 37 min

Coronavirus: Technology - part 2

24 juni 2020 | 28 min

Coronavirus: Technology - part 1

19 juni 2020 | 40 min

Coronavirus: Death and spirituality during a pandemic

26 maj 2020 | 38 min

Coronavirus: Life in the NHS

16 maj 2020 | 35 min

Coronavirus: The ethics of triage

13 maj 2020 | 34 min

Coronavirus: Thinking as a Christian during Covid-19

29 april 2020 | 37 min

Coronavirus: How this pandemic is unlike anything before

27 april 2020 | 33 min

Coronavirus: Christians in times of plague

23 april 2020 | 34 min

Evolution 1: Finding common ground, the cosmic watchmaker, interpreting Genesis, and a 6,000-year-old Earth?

Senaste avsnitt

Conspiracy theories, mRNA, covid and autism: Why do so many struggle to get on board with vaccines?

One in five pregnancies: How we’re talking differently about miscarriage, and what that may mean for abortion

AI scepticism and the end of creativity, with Caleb Woodbridge

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

Can Christians work in the arms industry?

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

Abortion decriminalised, part 2

Abortion decriminalised, part 1

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

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

Is Christianity bad news for women?

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

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

Can we treat Parkinson’s disease without destroying embryos?

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

What is a woman?

Dementia: Listening to bodies and the sacramental ministry of touch

Cultural witness and the purpose of theology, with Graham Tomlin

Antinatalism: Should we all stop having children?

Is this the end? Plummeting birth rates, the future of humanity and the meaning of children

Spiritual, but not religious: What do people actually believe these days?

Arrested for praying in your head? Abortion clinic buffer zones and 21st century thoughtcrime

What is the Trump government doing to medical research and international aid, and why should we care?

What are chatbots doing to us? Personhood in an age of AI

Co-operation with evil

Cryptocurrency: Financial liberation for the masses or pyramid schemes for the gullible?

Should we fear our new social media overlords in the age of Trump?

Knowing our own bodies: Fertility apps and the pill, with Dawn McAvoy

Should we try to save every one? Ethical dilemmas and Christian values when treating very premature babies

Who do children belong to in an era of surrogacy and reproductive technology?

An anxious generation: Are social media and smartphones ruining children’s mental health?

Giving, data and compassion: Should Christians all be ‘effective altruists’?

Surveillance capitalism: Is privacy dead and should we care?

The ethics of embryology: ‘Ensoulment’, the 14-day limit and co-operation with evil

The powers of the age: Spiritual warfare, evil and technology in the 21st century

The future of gender medicine and transgender children, with Dr Julie Maxwell

The assisted suicide bill has been passed by parliament. What comes next?

Should Christians abandon contraception?

Earthquakes and cancer: Why is God’s good world so full of suffering? with Sharon Dirckx

Vaccine conspiracies, mistrust and catastrophism: How the church lost its way, with Dr Francis Collins

DNA, parenthood and selecting for IQ: The surprising return of eugenics

Near death experiences

Prenatal screening: Is all knowledge a good thing?

Same-sex attraction and friendship in church, with Ed Shaw

Yoga, mindfulness and truly Christian meditation

Remembrance and forgetting: Why is nobody talking about covid any more?

Will anti-obesity wonder drugs save our broken NHS?

Stigma, anti-depressants and emotional resilience: Rethinking mental health and the church

Assisted suicide: Euthanasia tourism takes off in the US amid fresh push to change law in Britain

Should robots be given human rights?

Lucy Letby reconsidered: Innocence and guilt, partial evidence, and living with unknowns

What does it mean to be made in the image of God?

The infected blood scandal

Autonomous killer drones and the future of warfare

Should Christians break the law? Civil disobedience, climate protest and heavy-handed policing

The unintended consequences of sperm donation

Neo-Luddism and the ‘myth’ of progress: Should Christians be pro or anti technology?

Energy abundance: Is the coming solar power revolution a blessing from God?

Julian Assange, whistleblowers, and the Christian case for journalism

Physics and the gospel: Richard Cheetham on how churches can embrace science once more

Dependence: Should Christians embrace ‘being a burden’ on others as we get old?

Are smartphones damaging our children? with Andy Crouch

How much is too much to genetically screen your children?

Elections, the church and threats to democracy

Autism: Disability or superpower?

Two is the loneliest number: Can AI friends stop us feeling alone?

‘Playing God’: Science and religion in the 21st century

Assisted dying in Scotland: A bad law but also an inevitable one?

Abusive relationships and coercive control in church

Q&A: Did ending Roe v Wade actually save unborn children’s lives?

ADHD, over-diagnosis and should Christians try to enhance our brains with stimulants?

Tim Farron, toxic social media, and how to navigate the ‘mucky business’ of politics

New obesity drugs, the morality of food, and has neuroscience killed off free will?

Tech hype: Should Christians resist or lean into AI?

Q&A: Why have anti-abortion activists accidentally banned fertility treatment in Alabama?

How can Christian doctors approach medical-assisted dying (euthanasia)?

Psychedelics, spirits and the philosophy of Harry Potter

Q&A: Should single Christians use dating apps if they strike out at church?