All Episodes
Holy Smoke — 242 episodes
Michael Nazir-Ali: Pakistani Christians fear backlash over Lambeth Palace award
Catholic Burnham barred: should the law change?
Are you having a 'nun girl summer'?
Plastic Parsons: why Quentin Letts fears for the parish church
Wandering bishops, rival popes & schismatic churches
How Project Spire will hurt England's parishes
Coffee House Shots: Britain's first Catholic PM
When Mary Calls: why Protestants are praying to the Mother of God
How religion shapes football
Was America meant to be a Christian nation?
The Pope & the SSPX: is this a permanent schism?
Pope Leo, Max Weber & the dark side of charisma
Are Mormons Christian?
Mexico, the Catholic Church & the rise of the cartel cults
Michael Gove on why the Pope's AI intervention shames our politicians
One year of Pope Leo – a promising start?
Is Pope Benedict’s Ordinariate for ex-Anglicans finally going to realise its potential?
Why has Trump picked a fight with the Pope?
How homosexuality has torn apart the United Methodist Church
How would you sell Christianity today? with Rory Sutherland
The truth about the quiet revival – with grounds for optimism
Prince William resets faith – as Sarah Mullally enthroned
Iran: why Shia Islam's tradition of martyrdom is key to understanding the conflict
Who is Sarah Mullally?
In defence of Christian monarchies
How Russia is waging Holy War in Ukraine
Is there any truth in the Christian revival?
Moltbook: has AI created its own religion?
Why did Pope Leo choose a 'safe pair of hands' for Westminster?
The historic value of English churches – with Daniel Wilson
Iran: why theocracies survive – with Peter Frankopan
How transformative has 2025 been for Christianity?
Why religious societies succeed – with Rory Sutherland
How was Commercial Christmas born?
Why is it left to Trump to highlight the persecution of Christians in Nigeria?
Why did the Danish PM call for a 'spiritual rearmament'?
Have the culture wars gone spiritual?
Is the cult of St Edward the Confessor justified?
Is the Anglican Communion dead?
How did faith shape Thatcher?
What does it mean 'to forgive'?
What can we expect from the first female Archbishop of Canterbury?
Reparations: the tyranny of imaginary guilt, with Nigel Biggar & Katie Lam
800 years on, why is Aquinas Gen Z’s favourite philosopher?
Archbishop of Canterbury: who's on the shortlist?
Why the canonisation of the first millennial saint is a cause to celebrate
Which are the 'Twelve Churches' that made Christianity?
From the Bible to Tolkien: the risks & rewards of collecting rare books
How has John Henry Newman inspired Pope Leo XIV?
Massacres in Syria & the Congo: why aren't Western elites drawing attention to religious persecution?
Recovering the Sacred with Michael Gove, Revd Marcus Walker, Dr Cosima Gillhammer and many more
It’s time for Pope Leo XIV to make some tough decisions
Why are young Christians returning to tradition?
A Jewish guide to arguing
Is God an Englishman?
The mystifying process – and problems – behind choosing the next Archbishop of Canterbury
Finding spiritual treasure in César Franck
Does Pope Leo XIV represent continuity or change?
Conclave: who is likely to succeed Francis?
What can we expect from the papal conclave?
Pope Francis dies – what will his legacy be?
Easter special: in praise of faithful dissent, a conversation with Nigel Biggar and Mary Wakefield
Was Simeon of Jerusalem the first Christian in recorded history?
The tin ear of Justin Welby
A sick Pope and a paralysed Vatican: who is actually running the Catholic Church?
Christianity, culture wars and J.D. Vance: a conversation with James Orr
Conclave – what really happens when a pope dies?
Holy War and Antichrist: The rise of extremist rhetoric inside the Russian Orthodox Church
Why militant atheists don’t understand religion: a conversation with Alister McGrath
Are Syrian Christians who speak the language of Jesus about to disappear after 2,000 years?
Could Trump 2.0. herald a new era of religious liberty in America?
Did Muslim leaders help conceal the grooming gangs scandal? A fierce exchange of views
How abuse scandals shattered the Church of England but were hidden by the Vatican
Why was C.S. Lewis such a killjoy at Christmas? A discussion with Alister McGrath
Is the end of Christendom nigh? with A.N. Wilson
Defender of the Faith: how have the King’s religious beliefs changed?
Should assisted dying be legalised?
Welby resigns: crisis at the Church of England
Did Christianity create secular humanism?
Sale of the century: why is the Kirk selling off hundreds of churches so cheaply?
The Pope announces 21 new cardinals. Is he trying to pack the conclave?
Could religious voters in the swing states decide the US election?
How pistols in St Paul’s Cathedral shaped the science of sound
Losing faith: will Labour’s VAT policy hit religious schools hardest?
From the archives: An atheist goes on a Christian pilgrimage. Why?
A Habsburg Archduke explains how not to be nasty on Twitter
Walsingham and the musical grief of the Reformation
Calm fire: the consolation of listening to Bruckner
The problem with cringe-making funerals
How the Church of England patronises African Christians
How much did Pope Francis know about Fr Marko Rupnik?
How liberal bishops are squeezing the life out of the Church of England
Does Trump have evangelical Christians to thank for his second coming?
Gay blessings and theological porn: why leading cardinals are distancing themselves from Pope Francis
Raymond Arroyo on the joys of a Sinatra-style Christmas
The strange appeal of Integralism
How light filled the first Roman Churches: a conversation with Dr Elizabeth Lev
The Pope, gay blessings and the Rupnik scandal
Genghis Khan and the Pope's summer of madness
The future of churchgoing in the West: why Protestants should worry and Catholics should panic
Is 2023 Pope Francis's 'Year Zero'?
Escaping the atheist hell of North Korea
Inside the world's most vicious liturgy wars
Succession: five nightmares for the next pope
The Vatican and the Mafia – why Italy can't seem to shake off organised crime
How Protestant is the Coronation?
Why didn't Beethoven go to Mass?
The battle over female Catholic priests has just begun
Is Abu Dhabi's multi-faith 'Abrahamic Family House' a beacon of hope or a creepy PR exercise?
The war over the Latin Mass escalates as the Vatican slides into chaos
Why Catholics are torn between the Church of Benedict and the Church of Francis
Why children need proper Christmas carols, not hideous agitprop
How ‘cancelled’ conservative Catholic priests are fighting to clear their names
What are Church of England services really like?
Sixty years on, Vatican II turns nasty
The Catholic Church is falling apart at the seams
Why has the West caved in to the progressive witch-finders?
Is Pope Francis protecting a convicted sex abuser?
Why the Pope's 'Synod on Synodality' has become a joke
The Queen's powerful Christian faith
Why is the Church of England so obsessed with racism?
The Catholic Church's muddle over Roe vs Wade
A plan to rescue Christian art
Monsignor Michael Nazir-Ali on his first Easter as a Catholic
It’s time the West saved Nigeria’s persecuted Christians
'I don't think we've gained anything' – Cardinal Pell on the Vatican and China
In Ukraine and China, a power-obsessed Vatican is betraying heroic Catholics
Does Putin think he's fighting a holy war to preserve Orthodox Russia?
How bureaucrats are suffocating the Church of England
Remembering my lovely sister
Why tradition is sacred: an interview with Archbishop Nikitas, leader of Britain’s Greek Orthodox Church
Why the Catholic Church is facing chaos this Christmas
Did a 'mafia' of liberal cardinals pressure Benedict to resign?
How Christians can fight the menace of university 'cancel culture'
Can C of E parishes stop bureaucrats wasting their money?
Has Pope Francis just thrown Joe Biden under the bus on abortion?
Joe Biden and the betrayal of religious freedom
Is the Catholic Church falling apart?
The plot against the Old Rite
The tyranny of bad hymns
The Christian mental health crisis
How Biden's cardinals are trying to shut down free discussion
The last legacy of the Soviet Union
The magical power of charisma – and why the Churches are ignoring it
The Greek Orthodox ancestry of Prince Philip
What the police's Good Friday disruption tells us about post-Christian Britain
The Passion chorale: the story of an extraordinary tune
The mystery of Pope Francis's infallibly good taste in classical music
Is Jordan Peterson about to move from Jung to Jesus?
Why should persecuted Christians trust Pope Francis?
Can the United States be transported back to Christendom?
Lockdown and the pandemic of loneliness
How the Vatican tried to suppress criticism of the new president
The death of the English parish
The problem of paranoia on the Catholic Right
Goodbye to Catholic Ireland
Beethoven’s spirituality: a conversation with Sir James MacMillan
Should devout Christians be scared of a Joe Biden presidency?
Why the fantasy narrative of the Vatican's McCarrick report is already falling apart
'If necessary I'll be arrested': the lockdown defying priest
A charity that actually transforms lives: Team Domenica
Is Pope Francis's Vatican turning into Richard Nixon's White House?
The humiliation of Becciu and the return of Pell
Is it time for Christianity to go underground?
Westminster Cathedral and an act of spiritual vandalism
Are the Habsburgs evidence of Catholicism's relevance today?
The Vatican's sinister deal with Beijing
How a ‘biblically illiterate’ generation can discover Christian art
The woke new Archbishop of York
Who will be the next Pope?
The creepy doctrines of Black Lives Matter
Suicide by secularisation: how the churches are dying
American Christianity will recover from the virus, but English churches are in big trouble
Is this the dawn of a new totalitarianism?
Have the churches been betrayed by their bishops?
Cancer and life in lockdown
Unlock the churches!
Beethoven's victory over sickness and fear
As we confront mortality, why do our bishops have so little to say?
Has the Vatican become a mouthpiece for Beijing?
Why the collapse of Christian Science should worry mainstream churches
Why the Pope said no to married priests
The strange journey of Europe’s ‘Christian’ Jews
Has the Church of England surrendered to ‘soft socialism’?
Why it's a sin to sneer at 1970s Christmas specials
Does the Church know how to deal with mental illness?
Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala: a different sort of bishop
Why the Vatican is more corrupt than ever
The strange religion of cryptocurrency
The Kremlin's persecution of Jews
Why liberals turn a blind eye to the global persecution of Christians
The two time bombs threatening Pope Francis’s moral authority
Lessons learned from Carl Beech and what they mean for Cardinal Pell
How radical Islam taught the progressive left to blame the Jews
Does Boris Johnson have Christian values?
Why has big business become so woke?
Why Bach's The St Matthew Passion speaks to all of us
Why are bishops so boring?
Gay smears and the Vatican’s sex abuse summit
My sister Carmel on her cancer and her faith
Is it a sin to be snobbish?
What has Pope Francis covered up?
The question of ethnicity that is dividing the Sikh community
Cardinal McCarrick, sex abuse and the shameful silence of the American bishops
An atheist goes on a Christian pilgrimage. What’s the point?
Is the Catholic Church embracing homosexuality?
Why do we insist on worshipping the NHS?
Is RepealThe8th the end of the Irish Catholic church?
Why Anglicans and Catholics will never unite
The strange death of liberal American Christianity
Why London’s universities are becoming scary places for Jewish students
Is this the beginning of the end for Pope Francis?
Is social media doing the Devil’s work?
'The Dictator Pope': Fact or fiction?
Bach and the art of finding God
Is Christianity being smothered by our patronising liberal elite?
The Joy of Sects: why weird religions matter
The Protestant passion of Queen Victoria
If Jesus was on Twitter, would the trolls attack him?
Is the Church of England dying in the countryside?
The knives are out for faith schools
Is Pope Francis turning into a bully?
Are Christians warming to gay marriage?
Is the British government about to be held hostage by head-banging biblical fundamentalists?
The Christian views of Theresa May and Tim Farron are way below the radar. And that's how they like it.
Why do women become Salafi Muslims?
Britain's loss of religious faith: how should we interpret shocking new statistics?
Pope is planning to retire, say allies – but only once he's appointed enough liberal cardinals
Are you scared to talk about your faith at work?
Why Iraq's Christians feel betrayed by the secular West
Are Christian MPs being silenced by the 'secular inquisition'?
The Queen is a true Christian leader. But what about Prince Charles?
Is Trump turning Islam into America’s ‘Great Satan’?
Are evangelical Christians being sucked into the cult of Trump?
How mass immigration is turning London back into a religious city
Murdered Christians are 2016's least fashionable minority
Why do church leaders suck up to Marxist regimes?
Brexit, Trump and the pious rage of the liberal clergy
Sohrab Ahmari: Donald Trump and the Christian Right
Ravi Holy: Conspiracy theorist turned vicar
Is the Catholic Church changing its line on divorce?
Why is Islam persecuting atheists?