Simon, Natasha, and John share the stories behind their favourite Christmas carols.
Simon, Natasha, and John share the stories behind their favourite Christmas carols.
How the shoot was better and worse than you ever imagined.
An exploration of the role of emotional, social, and especially spiritual care in modern medicine.
It took a famous atheist philosopher to shake the foundations of Sarah Irving-Stonebraker’s atheism.
Courage, blindness, unexpected romance, and a meeting of cultures: the story of missionary Amy Oxley Wilkinson.
Professor Sarah Williams on the importance of language and history when it comes to gender.
Barney Zwartz considers some of the more counter-intuitive truths that Christianity lays claim to.
We look back on the span of World War I through the prism of one man’s life – and death.
Tremper Longman says the Old Testament remains fresh and exciting to him – even after 40 years studying it.
Sociologist Tom Aechtner on why complexity is better than conflict, and how we change our minds.
The Corbetts arrived in Everton ready to fight losing battles – but they’re winning some too.
YA novelist Claire Zorn on surviving high school, why she didn’t expect to be a writer, and mental illness.
Jennifer Wiseman was an undergraduate just starting out in astronomy when someone named a comet after her.
Jennifer Wiseman reflects on the place of beauty in our study of the universe.
Jennifer Wiseman reflects on how big the universe is – and how small we are.
Jennifer Wiseman explains how she finds blessing in both her study of science and her reading of the Bible.
Jennifer Wiseman wouldn’t be surprised to discover that the whole universe was, in fact, teeming with life.
How can we take Christianity seriously, if Christians have so often departed from the tune of Jesus?
Barney Zwartz rebuts three common myths and misunderstandings about the Christian faith.
Simon Smart reflects on the Israel Folau controversy and the complex questions it raises about what true tolerance looks like in a liberal democracy.
Laurel Moffatt draws out the painful irony of the Easter Sunday massacre in Sri Lanka.
Natasha Moore asks: is accepting the resurrection of Jesus like believing in fairies at the bottom of the garden?
Simon Smart on how the Easter story speaks into our increasingly polarised public discourse.
Barney Zwartz ponders this question on Easter Sunday morning.
The Crusades are one of the most notorious episodes of Christian history.
Few ideas have changed our world more profoundly than this one.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a rare example of someone whose faith prompted him to stand up to Hitler.
Jesus dramatically changed how Western culture thinks about power and service.
The Jewish and early Christian insistence on care for the poor transformed the ancient world.
Jesus preached a radical ethic of non-violence – one the early church took very seriously.
Life & Faith tackles a series of moral dilemmas around poverty and luxury, beauty and utility.
John Haldane on virtue, happiness, narcissism, and the possibility of God.
Life & Faith hears from two young women who’ve made some very counter-cultural choices.
A conversation with film critic CJ Johnson, for anyone who’s ever loved a film.
What could make someone give up everything to serve some of the world’s poorest women?
Checkpoints, borders, normalcy, and hope: a sketch of daily life in the West Bank.
Q & A from the 2019 Richard Johnson Lecture with Tim Dixon and Simon Smart.
In the 2019 Richard Johnson Lecture, Tim Dixon offers a vision for how we might reunite increasingly fragmented societies.
Nick Spencer responds to questions following the 2018 Richard Johnson Lecture.
Nick Spencer delivers the 2018 Richard Johnson Lecture, on what makes the West the West.
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