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Beer Christianity — 117 episodes

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Episode 116: Jeremy Steele - How To Not Suck As a Christian

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Episode 115: Gianmarco Soresi - comedy, creativity and Jewish identity

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Episode 114 - Greenbelt Festival 2025 review

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Episode 113: Sim Kern, author of Genocide Bad - Jewishness and antizionism

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Episode 112: The uncontrolling God - Simon Cross and Thomas Oord

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Episode 111 - Dan McClellan - the Bible, TikTok and right-wing identity politics

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Episode 110 - Naomi Nixon of the Student Christian Movement

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Episode 109- The true meaning of Christmas - Yuletide, Luigi and our new magazine: S(h)ibboleth

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Episode 108 - Tony Campolo: remembering the man with archive interview

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Episode 107 - Religion and the Right: Helen Paynter on the Bible and fighting fascism

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Episode 106: Brian McLaren - hope in uncertain futures - plus S(h)ibboleth announcement

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Episode 105 - SHORT - October 8th and everything after - with Christians for Palestine

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Episode 104 - David Benjamin Blower - Art, anarchism and not deconstructing

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Episode 103 - Steve Chalke: th eonly Oasis interview you need

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Episode 102: Flamy Grant - Drag, Christian music and authenticity

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Episode 101 Greenbelt festival 2024 review

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Episode 100 - Greenbelt, reconstructing and deconstructing with Paul Northup

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Episode 99: Election special with Bella Cross, queer Christian political educator

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Episode 98: Jürgen Moltmann (1926-2024) - Archive interview with the theologian of hope

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Episode 97: Deconstruction (Part I) - Deconstructing and reconstructing our faith (with special guests)

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Episode 96: SHO(R)T - Christians and Palestine: Why it matters and why you should care

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Episode 95: Nakba Day at the Oxford Palestine solidarity encampment

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Episode 94: The Devil's Passion with playwright, activist and actor Justin Butcher

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Episode 93: Belonging - feeling at home, finding your people

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Leonard Cohen and Saint Paul - Matthew Anderson, Pauline scholar

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Episode 91: AI, ethics and dangers with JL Ecochard

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Episode 90: Socialism Q&A with Matt McManus

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Episode 89: Congo crisis explained - Maurice Carney, Friends of the Congo

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Episode 88: Jolyon Maugham - Good Law, better world

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Episode 87: Nice, Churchy Patriarchy - Liz Cooledge Jenkins

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Episode 86: Post-march clarity - reflections on a Palestine protest

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Episode 85: Beer, hymns, refugees and Gaza

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Episode 84: Stand with Gaza - Palestine, Israel and justice with peace

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Episode 83: Greenbelt 2023 Review - beer, hymns, thems and us

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Episode 82: Trans and Christian: Alex Clare-Young, Minister in the United Reformed Church

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Episode 81: Trans people in sport - Cleo Madeleine of Gendered Intelligence

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Episode 80: Paul Northup on 50 years and the future of Greenbelt Festival

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Episode 79: Too Big to Fall (Part II): the Celebrity Christian Halo Principle & the love of kings

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Episode 78: Too big to fall (Part I): Mike Pilavachi, Ravi Zacharias and broken icons

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Episode 77 - the billionaire submarine disaster - our reactions to it and what they say about us

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Episode 76: Memento Mitford - graveyard hopping with Beer Christianity

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Episode 75: Coronation check-in

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Episode 74: Brian McLaren - Should I stay Christian?

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Episode 73: New Year's resolutions

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Episode 72: War on Christmas (Happy Xmas / Holidays 2022)

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Episode 71: Dr Leroy Logan - policing, ACAB and defunding

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Episode 70: "Who elected him?" Symon Hill on protesting against monarchy

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Episode 69 (nice): The Queen - Monarchy, Mourning and Dissent

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Episode 68: Good news: bad start? Questions for the man on the mountaintop (Brian McLaren's 4 stages explored)

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Episode 67: In the Jesus Arms - Greenbelt 2022 Review (part-recorded live at Greenbelt festival)

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Episode 66: Paul Northup, Creative Director of Greenbelt Festival (and reluctant rock star)

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Episode 65: SHO(R)T - All creation yeets - special report from the Kruger National Park

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Episode 64: Christian vs Muslim - battle of the podcast hosts (lol jk we love each other)

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Episode 63 - SHO(R)T - Ukraine crisis: Love during wartime (the propaganda episode)

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Episode 62: Partygate scandal: politicians' perfidy and listeners' letters

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Episode 61: SHO(R)T: Law (uhuh UH), what/who is it good for?

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Episode 60: Sad prayer, patriotism and theodicy - listeners' letters and Laura's TIYAHD

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Episode 59: SHO(R)T - What makes a 'real Christian'?

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Episode 58: SHO(R)T: Happy Halloween from Beer Christianity

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Episode 57: Horror and the Bible with Brandon Grafius

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Episode 56: SHO(R)T - Baptism, sin and loving sinners

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Episode 55: SHO(R)T - Faith in Healing

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Episode 54: SHO(R)T - Toilet paper, petrol and judging our neighbours

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Episode 53: Arab, Muslim and American - Ehab Jalal of The Amreekies podcast

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Episode 52: God is not a White Man, redeeming evangelicalism with Chine McDonald

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Episode 51: Resisting injustice, breaking the law and violence, with Wale Hudson Roberts and Symon Hill

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Episode 50! HArry and Chris (Plus: Reunion, Retrospective and Reasonable Religion)

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Episode 49: Martin Accad - Christian-Muslim relations and kerygma in Lebanon

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Beer Christianity 48: The Fight, with Ryanhood

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Episode 47: Football and Filthy Lucre - Super League Controversy, Communist American Football and Sportz!

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Episode 46: Richard Rohr interview, nuclear weapons and does God change?

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Episode 45: Alcohol-free Styling (a meander through the minds of Beer Christianity hosts and listeners)

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Episode 44: Israel-Palestine with Ilan Pappe - an Israeli historian's analysis

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Episode 43: Should Covid close churches? (plus: the attack on the Capitol) with Amie Aitken

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Episode 42 - Christus Victor v Penal Substitution (with Helen Paynter and Tom Wright)

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Episode 41: Annihilationism, judgement and the afterlife (featuring Tom Wright)(briefly)

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Episode 40: Mental health, American Christian college and SPORTS

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Episode 39: Thanksgiving 2020

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Episode 38: A list of things we love (plus Donald Trump and the Democratic Party)

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Episode 37: Talking to Atheists with Justin Brierley of Unbelievable?

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Episode 36 - Is Patriotism a sin? Stephen Backhouse

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Episode 35: Should Christians protest?

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Beer Christianity: THE TRAILER

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Episode 34: Justin Welby Archbishop of Canterbury

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Episode 33: The weaponised Bible with Helen Paynter

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Episode 32: Beer birthday & Greenbelt Festival, featuring Harry and Chris (briefly)

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Episode 31: Death, WAP and taxes

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Episode 30: Christians = Republicans? Linda Seger on why so many Christians are Democrats

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Episode 29: Genocide in the Bible with Helen Paynter

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Episode 28: George Floyd, race and us - in conversation with Pearl Mashabane

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Episode 27: The blessing of plurality with Simon Cross

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Episode 26: Brian McLaren Interview - a new kind of liberal

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Episode 25: Science and faith with Mario Russo

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Episode 24: Singleness with A Tale of Two Singles

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Episode 23: Holly-Anna Petersen of Extinction Rebellion and Christian Climate Action

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Episode 22: Guest 'conservative', Sam Hailes, Magazine Editor

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Beer Christianity episode 21: Covid-19 Top 19 - podcasts, series, films and activities for surviving lockdown

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Episode 20: Coronavirus special

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Episode 19: Queer Christianity - LGBTQ faith with Grace

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Beer Christianity episode 18: Kalle Lasn and Consumerism

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Episode 17: Eagle and mild - CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and moderate Christians

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Episode 16: New beer, new you - New Year's resolutions, Iran & conservative friends

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Episode 15: Philip Yancey on suffering, Jonty on Cornish porter

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Episode 14: Jingle Balls

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Episode 13: Literature - Graham Greene, Prof David Jasper and broken priests

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Episode 12: Mistletoe and beer - It's Christmas!

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Episode 11: Shane Claiborne - pacifism, politics, power & poverty

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Episode 10: Halloween 3 - The Pilsner of Azkaban (more horror recoms)

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Episode 9: Halloween part 2 (Horror movies for Christians)

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Episode 8: Hell-ish - Peter Laws on Christians, Halloween and Hell

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Episode 7: Amie Aitken - women in leadership, shame, healing and planning a worship tour before writing your album

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Episode 6: Doug Van Pelt on Christian Rock and Metal, Downton Abbey: a socialist review

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Episode 4 part 2: How dare Greta Thunberg (and rhino poachers)

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Episode 4: Going EnvironMENTAL Part 1 - Picket Chabwedzeka

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3: Beer Mess. Power: an interview with Andrew Graystone

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2: Ginesis: Greenbelt festival, Harry and Chris

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Episode 1: About Beer Christianity - interview: Noam Chomsky