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Forget AI: I want a computer that says ‘no’

Chatbots only tell us what we want to hear. If we genuinely want to grow, we...

Paul Bradbury

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2025-11-07

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Keep calm and don’t cry: does Remembrance have emotional limits?

We gather to grieve—but only in ways that won’t make others uncomfortable

2025-11-03

How to help someone with ADHD to live well

Overstimulation, inner critics, and the quiet power that restores balance

2025-11-07

Shining bright: Religious Education can reflect the heart of Christmas

A new curriculum proposal offers hope for a subject long left in the shadows

2025-11-06

Theology isn’t just for believers – and that’s the problem

As spiritual curiosity among the young rises, let’s change how they explore...

2025-11-06

Alice Roberts’ new book is the Da Vinci Code without the pretence of fiction

Tomes like Domination are part of the problem of public discourse about...

2025-11-06

Deliverance in the dark: Springsteen’s Nebraska and the scars that shaped it

His starkest album emerged from a season of pain, where family, faith, and...

2025-11-05

Rodrigues and Mullally: rewriting history with bat and mitre

A match-winning innings and the rise to Archbishop both speak of the quiet...

2025-11-05

The book, the ritual, and the reader

Season 7 of Re-Enchanting explores how books shape our habits and our search...

2025-11-04

Can we stop killing each other?

How art, theology, and moral imagination confront our oldest instinct

2025-11-04

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Mette Frederiksen gesture as she delivers a speech.

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Christianity should challenge, not reflect, the cultural zeitgeist

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Amid growing grief for the future, the Greens' leader is calling for...

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Are you a narcissist?

We all have a little bit of narcissism in us – the question is whether we’re...

2025-10-21

Heaven can wait: the gig economy can’t

Good Fortune skewers modern work culture with a celestial twist

2025-10-22

When the seasons shift, so do we

Autumn brings beauty and melancholy in equal measure

2025-10-15

Atheism discovers Christianity — just not the inconvenient bits

When sceptics start praising faith for its vibes and values, you know the...

2025-10-13

Peter Thiel and the Antichrist

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In an age of disconnection, I want to belong

Old rituals offer reasons to stay linked together even when the world is...

2025-10-07

“Defending our girls” is less about safety, more about scapegoating

The men who finally care about violence against women — just in time to...

2025-10-10

Two years on: the tragedy and the trauma of Gaza

As the anniversary of 7th October comes round again, an ancient story helps...

2025-10-07

Remembrance

Read mor about war and peace

A woman walls along a war memorial wall covered in red poppies.

Put poppy politics in the past and give Remembrance a hopeful future

Memory without hope will lead us to a dead-end.

2024-11-01

The unusual power of silently remembering together

The collective silence of remembrance acts is unusual. Listen to its...

2023-11-11

Hospitals are home to the truth of war

Remembering what war really is.

2024-11-04

Forgotten soldiers and new narratives are shaping how we mark our wars

Writing our history of conflict is as much a war of images as of words.

2025-06-23

Auden and our anxious age

While the tropes of trauma are still with us, how to not die in our dread?

2024-10-15

Ceremony's superpower is on show at Berwick Parade

Reinventing historic touchpoints between faith and community.

2025-03-12

On war fighting

Why do soldiers go to war? There are a thousand different answers writes...

2023-03-23

A peacemaker’s guide to keeping hope alive

Amid continuing despair around the Israel-Hamas war, former diplomat Todd...

2023-12-18

Not for glory or galleries, capturing modern wars through art

Mary Kinmonth documents the battles women artists see.

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2025-03-28

Just War and Just Peace

As the Ukraine War passes another milestone, can any war be considered just...

2023-03-16

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Review

Dressed in Victorian clothes, two brothers raise their arms together.

Wanted, not wasted: the older brother who couldn’t lead

In Peaky Blinders and House of Guinness, Steven Knight shows being needed...

2025-10-29

I came for the demon-fighting pop stars and stayed for the existential crisis

A Netflix kids’ film made me rethink shame, friendship, and my Spotify...

2025-10-28

Alice Roberts’ new book is the Da Vinci Code without the pretence of fiction

Tomes like Domination are part of the problem of public discourse about...

2025-11-06

Deliverance in the dark: Springsteen’s Nebraska and the scars that shaped it

His starkest album emerged from a season of pain, where family, faith, and...

2025-11-05

Can we stop killing each other?

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2025-11-04

The book, the ritual, and the reader

Season 7 of Re-Enchanting explores how books shape our habits and our search...

2025-11-04

Here's why E.T. is in my list of top Halloween films

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2025-10-29

Heaven can wait: the gig economy can’t

Good Fortune skewers modern work culture with a celestial twist

2025-10-22

Natalie Bergman brings grief and joy to Union Chapel

A soul-soaked set turned personal tragedy into communal celebration

2025-10-16

From wheatfield to vineyard, can an ancient love story survive a replanting?

Ruth & Boaz finds new soil in rural Tennessee but struggles to grow

2025-10-15

Digital Culture

An AI image of a person stood holding a phone with a bubble above their head, below them is a chatbot-like demon with a tail

Are AI chatbots actually demons in disguise?

Early Christian thinkers explain chatbots better than Silicon Valley does

Gabrielle Thomas

2025-09-17

Do you believe in a coin called hope?

From fiat to faith: the rise of crypto evangelism

2025-08-18

Heaven can wait: the gig economy can’t

Good Fortune skewers modern work culture with a celestial twist

2025-10-22

Big Tech is gaslighting us into waste

After being nudged to ditch yet another working device, I’ve had enough

2025-10-13

Am I a project or a person?

What we lose when we AI tempts us to refuse our limits

Nathan Mladin

2025-10-03

Could thinking and feeling become futile pastimes in the future?

AI, and more, is eroding our agency, we need to act now

Jamie Mulvaney

2025-08-29

How a card game, going off-grid, and a great teacher, shaped Bill Gates

A new biography explores the man who shaped the digital decades

2025-08-11

Beyoncé, reality, and The Four Seasons

The idolatry of Queen B, we may be extinguishing reality, and what does it...

2025-07-16

Line judges replaced by robots? You cannot be serious!

Wimbledon is about more than efficiency, it’s about humanity.

2025-07-10

What my film about the prodigal son really means

Our relentless focus on productivity devalues the things that make us human

2025-06-24

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Political Culture

The Pope and King Charles walk together from the Sistine Chapel

If a King can pray with a Pope, there's hope for MAGA and woke to talk

Once bitter enemies found peace through prayer - offering a quiet challenge...

2025-10-27

Tim Farron: our politics is fragmenting, not polarising

Responding to Christian nationalism and the politicisation of religion

2025-09-22

The UN promised freedom of belief — but 80 years later, it’s still elusive

Flawed, fragile but still vital to those without a voice

2025-10-20

Peter Thiel and the Antichrist

The PayPal founder’s obsession with the Beast is nothing new

Jack Nicholson

2025-10-06

The one thing the new Archbishop can offer the world

How an unlikely argument between the Pope and Madonna points the way for the...

2025-10-01

In an age of nihilism it's time to revisit The Dark Knight

Batman, the Joker, and the disaffected

2025-10-01

Millions of children go hungry in a country that dares to call itself godly

The gospel of national greatness is less about grace and more about...

2025-09-25

I was angry and you called me Gammon: Gary from Blackpool, Charlie Kirk, and all these flags

A triptych of three faces of wrath poorly heard and poorly expressed

2025-09-17

I protested against the Unite The Kingdom protest

The need to see one another

2025-09-17

Charlie Kirk: the problem is not murder but anger

How to confront the rage in politics, in media, and in ourselves

2025-09-12

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07/04/2025

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07/04/2025

Podcasts

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Two brothers look at each other in front of their ironworks.

Eccles, Older Brothers and a King and a Pope

Listen to articles by Derek Hughes, Will Fagan and Graham Tomlin

2025-11-03

Visionaries: Aquinas' reconciling of religion and reason

Andrew Davison joins the GodPod hosts to assess the saint's impact on modern...

2025-09-12

The book, the ritual, and the reader

Season 7 of Re-Enchanting explores how books shape our habits and our search...

2025-11-04

Shifting seasons; Ruth & Boaz, and big waste

New episode: listen to articles by Rachael Newham, Glies Gough, and Jean...

2025-10-27

A wild Belle, Sarah Mullally and 'defending our girls'.

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2025-10-20

Taylor Swift; the ABC & the Anti-Christ

New episode; listen to articles by Belle Tindall, Graham Tomlin, and Jack...

2025-10-13

Atheism discovers Christianity — just not the inconvenient bits

When sceptics start praising faith for its vibes and values, you know the...

2025-10-13

The profound and profane at sporting events, plus cafe time

New episodes: listen to articles by Jonathan Rowlands, Graham Tomlin, and...

2025-10-06

Severance, poverty, and what makes us human

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2025-09-29

Protests, demonic chatbots and Charlie Kirk

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2025-09-22

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Sport Culture

Review

A player holding a finger to his lips stands in front of an indoor American football pitch.

Horror turns pro: when greatness demands blood

The pursuit of sporting glory turns into a fever-dream of sacrifice, madness...

2025-10-14

Fed up with today’s football? Blame this passion killer

How the beautiful game became boring

2025-09-16

Rodrigues and Mullally: rewriting history with bat and mitre

A match-winning innings and the rise to Archbishop both speak of the quiet...

2025-11-05

The profound and profane at sporting events, plus cafe time

New episodes: listen to articles by Jonathan Rowlands, Graham Tomlin, and...

2025-10-06

So we won the Ryder Cup. At what cost?

When beer flies and etiquette dies, maybe we’ve mistaken sport for something...

2025-09-29

Bad blood is damaging both football and politics

Are we all in the stands baying for blood?

2025-09-09

The 50-year injustice at the heart of women’s football

Now we need to do these two things to put right decades of disparity

2025-07-29

Scottie Scheffler has a lesson for this summer's fading sports teams

The Open Champion's musings speak to the demise of Welsh Rugby and West...

2025-07-17

Line judges replaced by robots? You cannot be serious!

Wimbledon is about more than efficiency, it’s about humanity.

2025-07-10

Surfing with Dostoevsky: what waves taught me about the journey

The water draws things out of us that we can’t see on our own

2025-07-10

Artificial Intelligence

A cyborg like figure opens the door to a classroom.

Artificial Intelligence needs these school lessons to avoid a Frankenstein fail

To learn and to learn to care are inseparable

Joel Pierce

2025-10-27

ChatGPT’s answers on human desire left something to be desired

So we had a little conversation

Rick Hansen

2025-08-14

Peter Thiel and the Antichrist

The PayPal founder’s obsession with the Beast is nothing new

Jack Nicholson

2025-10-06

Am I a project or a person?

What we lose when we AI tempts us to refuse our limits

Nathan Mladin

2025-10-03

Foundation shows you can’t ‘Ctrl+V’ a soul

A sci-fi classic unearths transhumanism’s flaws

Giles Gough

Ageing

2025-09-05

Could thinking and feeling become futile pastimes in the future?

AI, and more, is eroding our agency, we need to act now

Jamie Mulvaney

2025-08-29

Ethan Hunt is MI Jesus, and it’s ridiculous

The final instalment of Mission Impossible warns about AI, yet plays out as...

Yaroslav Walker

2025-05-30

The Met Gala, that conclave, and artificial intelligence

New episode. why the pope counts, who wasn't at that gala, and how we handle...

2025-05-12

Laughing, unruliness, and diplomacy

Jonny Torrance: we’re less in control than we think; Henna Cundill: AI will...

2025-05-05

Is AI animation really harmless fun?

Toying around with AI trinkets just feeds our shadows.

Callum Elwood

Think more about artificial intelligence

2025-05-05

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Marilynne Robinson: “an ordinary person is as metaphysically amazing as Julius Caesar”

The self-confessed daydreamer and slacker talks with Graham Tomlin

28/08/2025

When the answers run out: Kate Bowler on faith, fragility, and the beauty of uncertainty

Kate Bowler in conversation with Graham Tomlin.

21/08/2025

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