All Episodes
Mid-faith Crisis — 384 episodes
Episode 382: Decluttering church
Episode 381: Jesus is my drinks package
Episode 380a : A Summer Repeat with Brian McLaren
Episode 380: Decluttering Worship
Episode 379: The Bible might come in handy some day
Episode 378: The big MFC bookshelf
Episode 377: Decluttering prayer part 2
Episode 376: Decluttering prayer
Episode 375. Two old men discuss their ailments
Episode 374: A weekend of decluttering
Episode 373: Expert opinions on heaven
Episode 372: Talking to Ruth about death
Episode 371: Venting more than lamenting
Episode 370: The challenge of change
Episode 369: Talking about transcendence
Episode 368: ‘What if they were a bit saved already?’
Episode 367: Emmaus experiences
Episode 366: Defiant hope
Episode 365: Happy New Year 2026
Episode 364: Joice at something you’ve never joiced at before
Episode 363: A case of the mubble fubbles
Episode 362: Full of the joys of Lent
Episode 361: Cherish your twiddly buttons
Episode 360: The one where we carry on talking about friends
Episode 359: What a friend we have in Jesus?
Episode 358: ‘We’ve invented a new category of sin’
Episode 357: Sitting on an enormous grace hill
Episode 356: No, you can’t get an Amen
Episode 355: So, what have we learned?
Episode 354: Who do you say you are?
Episode 353: The birds and the bees with Ros Gleadow
Episode 352: Repairing the world with Dave Tomlinson
Episode 351: Fact-checking Christmas
Episode 350: Jesus has gone all yoke
Episode 349: One of our least worst episodes
Episode 348: Boshing the Bible
Episode 347: Happy birthdays and hard questions
Episode 346: You’ve got five minutes on the problem of evil
Episode 345: The uncontrolling God – an interview with Thomas Jay Oord
Episode 344: Anger, and what to do with it
Episode 343: Being a person of peace
Episode 342: An interview with a very famous author
Episode 341: The Prayer Babel Fish
Episode 340: Redeemed Elected Christian Truth Using Men
Episode 339: Revisiting nonviolence
Episode 338: Do we need a second Reformation?
Episode 337: The Sacramental Special
Episode 336: Cynicism and how to avoid it
Episode 335: A senior pair likely in their golden years
Episode 334: An interview with climate activist Rev Tim Hewes
Episode 333: The return of Father, Son and Floaty Thing
Episode 332: Bill
Episode 331: A lovely guy but so messed up
Episode 330: Growing old disgracefully
Episode 329: ‘A certain against energy’
Episode 328: I’m struggling with killing things
Episode 327: Story eats doctrine for breakfast
Episode 326: ‘The last word, always, is joy’
Episode 325: Re-Celebrating Easter
Episode 324: Baffled in a Christlike direction
Episode 323: An interview with Bekah Legg
Episode 322 : I would like to be your spiritual Stacey Solomon
Episode 321: Stuck in a telephone box with only one headlamp
Episode 320: ‘Women are this, and men are that’
Episode 319: An interview with Danielle Strickland
Episode 318: Inside we’re all princesses
Episode 317: The Candlemas episode
Episode 316: The neurodivergent church
Episode 315: Mandatory biblical metaphors
Episode 314: Whacking our Biblical moles
Episode 313: A new year anniversary
Episode 312: Strictly Come Preaching Christmas Special
Episode 311: Go slow and repair things
Episode 310: It’s the system
Episode 309: Shame-slayer: An interview with Flamy Grant
Episode 308: What the heck, I’ll pray anyway
Episode 307: ‘Stick two fingers up to the forces of darkness’
Episode 306: An interview with Martyn Joseph
Episode 305: The microphone in my heart
Episode 304: Fetch the prophecy scales!
Episode 303: Mindful Formation with Shaun Lambert
Episode 302: Be generous with comfort
Episode 301: Nick’s less-than-resilient week
Episode 300: What we’ve learned so far…
Episode 299: The Great Search – an interview with John Philip Newell
Episode 298: We defer to Jesus
Episode 297: Jesus was not an accountant: an interview with Sian MacInnes
Episode 296: I belong, help thou my unbelonging
Episode 295: You say inspired, I say God-breathed
Episode 294: Thank you for being some people out there
Episode 293: Now with added wrath
Episode 292: Decluttering, deconstructing and sorting your life out
Episode 291: Walking the Camino with Claire Bradford
Episode 290: OMG – A Bad Christian’s Prayer Book with Dave Tomlinson
Episode 289: Start the week with a sabbath
Episode 288: Happy Be Kind to Clergy Day!
Episode 287: It’s nature, but is it churching?
Episode 286: God is speaking our language
Episode 285: How to be wise
Episode 284: It’s theological correctness gone mad
Episode 283: Life After Doom – an interview with Brian McLaren
Episode 282: Custard is holy ground
Episode 281: The desire to go deeper
Episode 280: Throbbingly unsettling
Episode 279: Focus and … er… something else
Episode 278: The Easter Journey
Episode 277: Does God really need praise?
Episode 276: Gold, Silver and Beryl
Episode 275: What the fog? An interview with Jo Ibbott
Episode 274: What is the point of Joe?
Episode 273: You are a pile of precious dust
Episode 272: What is church actually for?
Episode 271: A festival of feedback
Episode 270: The Mid-faith Crisis planning meeting
Episode 269: Episode ‘I don’t give a monkeys’
Episode 268: Mancunian Motivation with Paul McGee
Episode 267: Happy Christmas to bacteria everywhere
Episode 266: Emmanuel in Mexico
Episode 265: I almost raised my Ebenezer
Episode 264: Being stoned to death with fridge magnets
Episode 263: An interview with Harry Baker
Episode 262: This drivel may not be for you
Episode 261: (Un)certain – an interview with Olivia Jackson
Episode 260: Do you suffer from doctrinal dysfunction?
Episode 259: Owning my worminess
Episode 258: You are not your feelings
Episode 257: Grumpily grateful
Episode 256: In Search of Stillness – an interview with Joanna Godfrey Wood
Episode 255: Introducing the Enneagram with Ali Male
Episode 254: Reconstructing not deconstructing
Episode 253: Mothering Father – an interview with Lacey Finn Borgo
Episode 252: Revisiting the good news Pt 2
Episode 251: Revisiting the good news Pt. 1
Episode 250: Our emotional frisson is out of control
Episode 249: Drawing out our tears
Episode 248: We’re here, and that’s just how it is
Episode 247: Nature boy v Churchy boy
Episode 246: The 2023 Christmas Special
Episode 245: Carry on up the Spider-verse
Episode 244: Responding to the Jesus Myth
Episode 243: The Jesus Myth – an interview with Chris Scott
Episode 242: We’ve got glossolalia growing up the trellis
Episode 241: Your spiritual happy place
Episode 240: Man in hat sits on chair
Episode 239: The Messianic Buffet
Episode 238: An eternity in the soft furnishing department
Episode 237: Attack with love
Episode 236: The cross and the circle
Episode 235: Too much nard
Episode 234: The protestant sleep ethic
Episode 233: Being more other-centred
Episode 232: Church is not a washing machine
Episode 231: We need a spreadsheet
Episode 230: The BP Blessing
Episode 229: Putting our heads above the parakeet
Episode 228: Just a couple of tossed waves
Episode 227: Service and Wisdomness
Episode 226: The gifts of the year
Episode 225: Bonus Christmas episode!
Episode 224: Waiting for the impending failure
Episode 223: The rules for Christmas
Episode 222: Moments of exaltation
Episode 221: Into Advent with Brian Draper
Episode 220: A lot of wind and no answers
Episode 219: Leaning in to goodness
Episode 218: The Mid-faith Permacrisis
Episode 217: Welcome back, wristbands
Episode 216: Fix your mind upon cheeses
Episode 215: Spooking the theological markets
Episode 214: What we did on our holidays
Episode 213: An Interview with Stuart Murray Williams
Episode 212: An Interview with Oliver Burkeman
Episode 211: We’re huge in Bucharest
Episode 210: We have decided to follow Jesus
Episode 209: The Christmas Special. In July. In August.
Episode 208: Dealing with sadmin
Episode 207: Do I Stay Christian? An interview with Brian McLaren
Episode 206: ‘We sang together’
Episode 205: The integrity alarm went off
Episode 204: Lobbing proof texts at each other
Episode 203: Leading a church in mid-faith crisis (part 2)
Episode 202: Leading a church in mid-faith crisis (part 1)
Episode 201: Jesus gets a brief mention
Episode 200: The intros are still rubbish
Episode 199: Eurovision Denomination Contest
Episode 198: No such thing as the great commission
Episode 197: The boulders of faith
Episode 196: I’ve forgotten the second thing
Episode 195: Looking for the Living
Episode 194: Postcard from Mexico
Episode 193: The joy is the relationship
Episode 192: Time for some prinking
Episode 191: Draining joy in the name of the Lord
Episode 190: Doomscrolling is bad for you
Episode 189: A nation of rageaholics
Episode 188: A Total Depravity, please, Barman
Episode 187: The epiphany goes on and on
Episode 186: Fragments of glory
Episode 185: A Worthing Pier experience
Episode 184: ‘Sort it Ahhht!’
Episode 183: Planning for spiritual success
Episode 182: ‘In a Galilee far far away…’
Episode 181: Reconnecting with Christmas
Episode 180: The Special Cuddles Episode
Episode 179: Where’s my sabbatical?
Episode 178: Mystery and naïveté
Episode 177: Attending resentfully
Episode 176 ‘As somebody said somewhere’
Episode 175: An interview with Matt Hyam
Episode 174: The grey world of faith
Episode 173: Everything’s important, but none of it is very important
Episode 172: Using my power for good
Episode 171: In the beginning…
Episode 170: ‘Literally a P frenzy’
Episode 169: A deep desire to pray
Episode 168: It could do with some carpet
Episode 167: The Chicken Tikka Masala of Spirituality
Episode 166: An Interview with John Philip Newell
Episode 165: Being authentically authentic
Episode 164: I am a beloved wormy worm
Episode 163: Practical salvation
Episode 162: Dave Tomlinson on Christian humanism
Episode 161: Give them a Damn Good Listening 2
Episode 160: Dancing with the Bible
Episode 159: ‘Give them a damn good listening to’
Episode 158: Soul Rest
Episode 157: Emphasising the kingdom
Episode 156: Seeking a Balanced Spiritual Diet
Episode 155: An Interview with Brian McLaren – Part 2
Episode 154: An interview with Brian McLaren – Part 1
Episode 153: The Journey of Easter
Episode 152: Beyond the heaven and hell dynamic
Episode 151: Above our theological pay grade
Episode 150: Licensed to Bless
Episode 149: Language to help people flourish
Episode 148: The Messiah Purchase
Episode 147: Making sense of Lent with Lacy Finn Borgo
Episode 146: The Waterproof Trousers of Faith
Episode 145: Reverse Backsliding
Episode 144: The spirituality of customer service
Episode 143: When does it end?
Episode 142: ‘Own Your Nickness’
Episode 141: Re-connecting with Christmas
Episode 140: Christmas trees, eggnog and other baubles
Episode 139: Into Advent with Brian Draper
Episode 138: Utter Baubles about Christmas
Episode 137: Restorative Justice
Episode 136: Ruth Newton on ecology and the Kingdom of God
Episode 135: A space within God
Episode 134: ‘You end up worshipping the shrubbery’
Episode 133: The Jesus re-enactment society
Episode 132: Reflections on our fourth birthday
Episode 131: Wellness and winter thinking
Episode 130: ‘We have an Amazon Prime Spirituality’
Episode 129: We’ve forgotten what the podcast is about
Episode 128: Mansplaining the Bible
Episode 127: Miracles and Prophecy
Episode 126: Where has it all gone wrong?
Episode 125: What is the good news? (Part Three)
Episode 124: What is the good news? (Part Two)
Episode 123: What is the good news? (Part One)
Episode 122: A festival of courgettes
Episode 121: Should I stay or should I go?
Episode 120: Shall we debrief?
Episode 119: Jeff Lucas on the priceless gift of disillusionment.
Episode 118: Questions raised. No questions answered.
Episode 117: The theology of ‘I dunno’
Episode 116: The thin spaces of doubt
Episode 115: More than just God in a bod
Episode 114: Grayson Perry’s Spiritual Art Club
Episode 113: The cheese stage of grief
Episode 112: We’re always inventing tradition
Episode 111: Small Wonders of God
Episode 110: It’s our story as well
Episode 109: At the movies with Dave Hopwood
Episode 108: Attention, intention and self-isolation
Episode 107: Buying a field
Episode 106: [Bongos] Happen
Episode 105: Soulful Nature – An Interview with Brian Draper
Episode 104: ‘Strength to walk the journey’
Episode 103: Confess! Confess!
Episode 102: Stan has no authority
Episode 101: Demands and duties
Episode 100: Who’d have thought it?
Episode 99: Retreats for Extroverts and other issues
Episode 98: New year, new theme
Episode 97: Hopes and fears and all that swaddling
Episode 96: A coffee cup on the altar!
Episode 95: Being the Incarnation
Episode 94: Happy New (Liturgical) Year
Episode 93: The reality of our hope
Episode 92: Lacy Finn Borgo on Seasons of Silence
Episode 91: ‘He will wipe every tear from our eyes’
Episode 90: Making friends with death
Episode 89: Ruth Valerio on Creation and the Environment
Episode 88: New paradigms and other mysteries
Episode 87: Look, what the people really want to know…
Episode 86: Back with Feedback
Episode 85: Steve Chalke on the Lost Message of Paul
Episode 84: Now that’s what I call Ethel vol 1
Episode 83: We need to talk about Jehovah
Episode 82: Authority and Doubt
Episode 81: The Not-so-good Book
Episode 80: Reading and other acts of resistance
Episode 79: Exile Stories
Episode 78: The God-breathed Book
Episode 77: A World Class Failure
Episode 76: The Christmas Special. In July.
Episode 75: On Pubgrimage
Episode 74: Effing the Ineffable
Episode 73: Talking therapies
Episode 72: Letting go in Minsmere
Episode 71: An Interview with Adrian Plass
Episode 70: The Thin Places.
Episode 69: The Badly Behaved Bible and other topics
Episode 68: Pay attention, everyone
Episode 67: Work, work, work
Episode 66(6) The Second Coming
Episode 65: The Easter Journey
Episode 64: Seven Ways to Stop Sinning
Episode 63: On Pilgrimage with Alexander Shaia
Episode 62: Conversing about Converting
Episode 61: How not to be happy part 2
Episode 60: How Not to be Happy
Episode 59: The Cycle of Grace with Trevor Hudson
Episode 58: Christmas and all that swaddling
Episode 57: Back to Reality with Mark Scandrette
Episode 56: The Mid-faith Crisis Film Club
Episode 55: Taking off the masks
Episode 54: ‘Death is a Very Good Part of Life’
Episode 53: Personality Types
Episode 52: Now we are two!
Episode 51: The Mystery of the Cross
Episode 50: The Scandal of The Cross
Episode 49: Serious stuff with jokes in it
Episode 48: Inching towards forgiveness
Episode 47: You have to leave in order to return
Episode 46: Rambling in Lee Abbey
Episode 45: ‘A massive suitcase full of us’
Episode 44: How big is your calling?
Episode 43: Taking the Pistis with Steve Chalke
Episode 42: Flippant Depth
Episode 41.5: Bonus episode – Back to the future
Episode 41: What the hell!
Episode 40: Detachment and Deep Work
Episode 39: Interview with Alexander Shaia Part 2
Episode 38: Interview with Alexander Shaia Part 1
Episode 37: The magic prayer word is banana
Episode 36: ‘There is something hypnotic about your podcast…’
Episode 35: How to succeed at parenting and other myths
Episode 34: How to Look Good Sacred
Episode 33: Practical Thankfulness
Episode 32: Happy Christ-tide Eve-Eve!
Episode 31: The Spirituality of Paddington
Episode 30: Jesus Part 1
Episode 29: The Landscape of the Heart
Episode 28: Lots of Books
Episode 27: We’ve got a big announcement
Episode 26: Walking each other home
Episode 25: ‘Weakness, negligence and deliberate fault’
Episode 24: It’s a sin!
Episode 23: Definitely Maybe
Episode 22: The schism starts here
Episode 21: What we did on our holiday
Episode 20: Letters to our younger selves
Episode 19: Marginal Gains
Episode 18: Don’t make me angry
Episode 17: Lifting the Label
Episode 16: How to be a Bad Christian
Episode 15: Telling the Truth
Episode 14: Waiting for Resurrection
Episode 13: Values, not vision
Episode 12: The Problem of Prayer
Episode 11: We all need to belong
Episode 10: Yes, but are you ‘born again’?
Episode 9: Get grumpy about something that matters
Episode 8: The good news, part one
Episode 7: I’m H.A.P.P.Y
Episode 6: ‘Do not be afraid…’
Episode 5: Church, and how to survive it
Episode 4: The Bible is a weird thing…
Episode 3: Father, Son and Floaty Thing
Episode 2: Life is a game of two halves
Episode 1: The Hungry Caterpillar of Faith