We revisit genial sin, consider discipleship as an investment account and revel in the origins of the word 'Lent'. Also, Nick shows off and Joe is actually fully clothed.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• “Resurrecting Faith” – A Lent Course
• With great power comes great responsibility
• Isaiah 35:1-2
• Lent - OED
• Alexei Navalny
• Episode 358: ‘We’ve invented a new category of sin’

As we enter Lent, how can we make space in our lives to hear from God? In this episode we talk about the role of the wilderness in our lives and how it can actually be a place of encounter and change, a place where you hear the voice.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• “Resurrecting Faith” – A Lent Course
• Wahaca | Tacos, Margaritas, Sunshine
• Simon de Voil
• Bridgerton | Netflix Official Site
• Church of the Wild | Victoria Loorz
• Strong's Hebrew: 4057. מִדְבָּר (midbar) -- Wilderness, desert
• Desert Fathers - Wikipedia
• Batter my heart, three person’d God (Holy Sonnet 14) | John Donne

More feedback this week on the key questions: are we friends of Jesus or are we followers? Can we really be friends with a tree? What is a soul friend? Just how great is Kate Bush? And what happened to Nick's head? So many questions…

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Mentioned in this episode:

• “Resurrecting Faith” – A Lent Course
• Arnolfini - Bristol's International Centre for Contemporary Arts
• Kate Bush Moments of Pleasure - YouTube
• Martin Buber - Wikipedia
• I and Thou - Wikipedia
• Overview — The Works of George MacDonald
• What a Friend We Have in Jesus - Wikipedia

In this episode we think about the metaphors we use for our relationship with Jesus. Are we friends of Jesus? Or followers? Or slaves? Does the relationship feel different at different times in our faith? And will Joe and Nick's relationship survive the revelations about tea?

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Mentioned in this episode:

• “Resurrecting Faith” – A Lent Course
• The Traitors
• H Is for Hawk (2025)
• Del Amitri
• Del Amitri - Don't Come Home Too Soon (Official Team Scotland Song World Cup '98)
• Icon of Christ and Abbot Mena - Wikipedia
• Thomas Aquinas - Wikipedia

We return to the subject of grace, forgiveness and justice. Are all sins really the same? If so, what do we make of 'serious sin'? Is the evangelical view of sin secretly Catholic? And has Nick accidentally created a new category of sin?

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Mentioned in this episode:

• "Resurrecting Faith" A Lent Course with Joe Davis and Dave Tomlinson
• Slime Family Portrait
• Wildlife Photographer of the Year
• Natural History Museum
• The Ayoub Sisters
• Odyssey Ensemble
• The Terrible Takes on Philip Yancey's 8-Year Affair
• Venial sin - Wikipedia
• Mortal sin - Wikipedia

We talk about self-understanding (and our apparent lack of it), and reflect on whether you can have seasons of spirituality. And, in the light of revelations about another major Christian teacher, we discuss how you can never fall from grace, you can only fall into it.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• The Traitors
• Kate Bowler
• Mid-faith Crisis 212: An Interview with Oliver Burkeman
• Four Thousand Weeks | Oliver Burkeman
• Meditations for Mortals | Oliver Burkeman

New year, new podcast. But same old us, sadly. Anyway, good to be back with you. This week we visit some old emails and talk about the 'right' way to grieve, how names for God are a bit like old streets, and why Jesus might be a dance teacher. Normal service has resumed, then.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Pluribus
• The Divine Dance - Richard Rohr
• Mar 25 Lady Day
• Perichoresis

In our final (probably) podcast for 2025, we each look back on the three things we've learned this year. Which doesn't, apparently, include (a) watching the Ashes and (b) not eating mince pies while recording. Happy Christmas everyone and a massive thank you to everyone who has supported the podcast this year.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Wake Up Dead Man
• A Christmas Carol - Wikipedia
• Gerald Dickens - Website