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The Whole Life Podcast

LICC’s Paul Woolley and Grace Fielding are joined by well-known experts to discuss just about everything, from AI taking over the world to what makes good stand-up, from the existential dread of ecological crisis to the simple benefits of prayer. There’s literally everything to talk about and just under an hour to talk about it.

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48:17

Nick Page: Busting Christmas myths

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2024/12/09

We all know what the first Christmas looked like, right? The stable, the donkey, the fluffy lambs, the shepherds and wise men all gathered round the manger…But it's no secret that in the two millennia since Jesus was born, the reality of the story has often been buried under a snowdrift of myths, adaptations, and memes. There's nothing wrong with a good Christmas tradition, but if we want to get to the earth-shattering, life-changing truth of Christmas, we need to clear off some of that snow

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Naomi Alade: Performing in 'Six' and finding faith in...

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2024/11/25

The theatre is one of our oldest art forms. It has a unique power to unpick what it means to be human, to expose what's really going on in society, and to deliver an emotional gut-punch. It's also full of kingdom character and opportunities. The Bible is often described as a unified story in six acts, and Jesus himself was in one sense a highly skilled 'performer' – holding huge crowds with carefully crafted stories that revealed deeper truths about his listeners and the world he was

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Jon Kuhrt: Why have so many social action charities...

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2024/11/11

In the UK today, few people would say that social action isn't a central part of the church's mission. Whether it's providing food banks, debt advice centres, night shelters, winter 'warm banks', or any other kind of assistance, the church is rightly seen as a major national player in the fight against poverty.But despite that, many of the UK's biggest social action charities have lost the distinctively Christian character with which they were founded. Organisations that were

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50:41

Elle Limebear: It's time to say goodbye to anxiety

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2024/10/28

The UK is facing an epidemic of poor mental health. Even if you've never experienced depression or anxiety yourself, chances are you've got plenty of friends or family who have. For so many of us, poor mental health is a constant spectre hanging over our lives, making the simplest of tasks into a battle, and stopping us truly thriving.The Christian story can speak amazing healing into this darkness – but the church's record on mental health is far from spotless. Too often, people

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54:55

Mark Sayers: Navigating Faith in a Shifting Culture

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2024/10/14

Right now, for the first time in about 1400 years, Christians in the British Isles are living in a non-Christian culture. Yes, the remnants of Christian influence are all around us – but by and large, our society rejects the authority of the church, the Bible, and God himself. At the same time, cultural norms are changing at breakneck speed. Digital technology has rewritten the rules of social interaction, political discourse is degenerating fast, and sexual and moral codes are being rewritten in

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Chine McDonald: Exploring race, justice, and the...

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2024/09/30

Race affects everything. From our everyday interactions to our sense of self, our educational prospects to our health outcomes, our career progression to our housing situation. Our race doesn't dictate all the details of our lives to us – but it has a major statistical impact on how we're treated and the opportunities we get. Systemic racism can negatively affect people from minority ethnic groups. And on a day-to-day basis, racist abuse and prejudice continue to blight far too many lives.So

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60:39

Laura Young: The small and big things we can do for...

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2024/09/16

The climate and ecological crisis poses a massive threat to all of us. But somehow, the problem's so big it can feel hard to know what to do in response – or how to keep fighting for change after decades of trying. And for followers of Jesus, there's an added question: how far is the Christian story concerned with these issues?To get into all this and more, Paul and Grace host Laura Young (aka @lesswastelaura), an award-winning climate activist, environmental scientist, and ethical

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54:00

Rachel Gardner: Christians don’t hate sex. They want...

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2024/09/01

If there's one issue that defines many people's perspective on Christianity, it's sex and relationships. The church has a reputation for being judgemental and restrictive, for burdening people with a heavy weight of guilt around their sex life rather than painting a beautiful picture of sex's place in God's world. How can we do better?Christianity's sexual ethics are as distinctive today as they were in ancient Rome – focused on care, commitment, and joy rather than power,

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Election special | Tim Farron | The Lib Dems: a...

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2024/06/07

If they hear the phrase 'UK Christian politician', a lot of people will think 'Tim Farron'. The former leader of the Liberal Democrats and incumbent MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale knows exactly what it takes to live distinctively for Jesus in frontline politics – including in the glare of the national media spotlight.In the fourth and final part of our election special, Tim speaks to Paul and Grace about the Christian roots of the Lib Dems' policy platform, how we can grow a

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Election special | Cat Smith | Labour: a Christian...

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2024/06/07

As the general election campaign ramps up, all eyes are on the Labour Party. Will this be the moment they take power for the first time since 2010? And what – if anything – has the Christian faith got to do with Labour politics?Continuing our four-part election special, Cat Smith chats to Paul and Grace about how the Christian story connects to the vision and policies of the Labour Party, and what it looks like for her to live out her faith in frontline politics. How do you balance your loyalties to

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Election special | John Mason | The SNP: a Christian...

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2024/06/07

As an MSP, John Mason has the luxury of not being up for election on 4 July. But the fortunes of his party, the SNP, will be crucial to the outcome of the general election – and the future makeup of the UK itself. In the third instalment of our election special, John speaks to Paul and Grace about the Christian history of the Scottish National Party, and shares his experience of publicly standing up for his Christian values, often receiving a strongly negative response from those who disagree. What

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Election special | John Glen | The Conservatives: a...

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2024/06/07

With the 2024 general election underway, The Whole Life Podcastbrings you a four-part election special! Christian politicians from four major UK parties discuss how the Christian story connects to both their own work and their parties' unique character and policies. Amid the noise of the campaign, it's something a little different – a chance to hear how the Christian faith continues to shape our politics, through the daily discipleship of politicians right across the spectrum.First up,

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Season 1 wrap-up: What we loved and what we've learned

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2024/06/04

It's all flown by so fast! As we close out season 1 of The Whole Life Podcast, Paul and Grace chat about their favourite moments from the first 13 episodes, what surprised them, and the wisdom that'll stay with them. Stay tuned – we've got lots of exciting stuff planned for the rest of 2024!

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Nick Spencer: Why playing God isn't actually a bad thing

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2024/06/03

Scientific advances have been rewriting our understanding of reality for centuries. Now, in the 2020s, the pace is rapidly accelerating. Whether it's the quest for immortality or the search for alien life, the treatment of pandemics or animal personhood, AI or mental health, abortion or genetic editing, science is making advances that pose huge questions about what it means to be human, whether we should change ourselves, and how far we should 'play God'. With every new power we develop,

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56:45

Christina Abbott: Dressing Tom Cruise, Tina Turner,...

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2024/04/29

Fashion is the UK's biggest creative industry, worth over £26 billion a year. If we wear clothes, it affects us, whether we care about it or not. Our clothes aren't just functional – they communicate who we are and what we care about.Despite all that, the fashion industry's reputation isn't exactly holy. From fast fashion's environmental impact to haute couture's fondness for unrealistic body ideals, it can seem as though we're better off keeping away from the whole

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Martha Ratcliff: How illustrators shape everyone's minds

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2024/04/15

Think about the last time you bought an illustrated book. What percentage of the royalties do you think the illustrator got? Nope, not 50/50 with the author – most publishers only offer 3%–5%, even though illustrations often sell the book. Why do we undervalue design and illustration? God, after all, is the great designer – we literally live and breathe his amazing handiwork. Too often, though we treat visual communication as a secondary thing, just supporting the words on the page rather than doing

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Michael Wear: If we don't care about character, we...

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2024/03/31

It's not exactly a vintage time for politics in the West. Our prospective leaders either leave us apathetic or drive us into feral tribes.Perhaps the reason we're left so cold or scared by so many of today's political class is that we've let the importance of character slip away from our political culture. Gone are the days of great power bringing great responsibility (if they ever existed) – instead, we seem to be voting for people whose sole goal is power for its own sake.Michael

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Justin Brierley and Tom Holland: Are we witnessing a...

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2024/03/18

''Christianity is outdated. A cultural relic from a less enlightened time. Superstition for the masses – not the kind of thing intelligent people believe in nowadays.'That's the general message New Atheism put out into the world in the noughties. And for a while it felt like Dawkins and Hitchens and co might have had the last word. In Alastair Campbell's memorable phrase, it seemed as though the UK at large 'didn't do God' any more.And yet. Over the last few years,

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John Coffey: Christianity and the abolition of the...

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2024/03/11

It's the 18th Century. Slavery has been a fact of life for millennia, and a new, racialised form is now powering the wealth and expansion of the British Empire. Faced with that reality, the British abolition movement should have been doomed to fail. So where did it come from, why did it take hold, and how did it succeed? To answer those questions, Paul and Grace are joined by Professor John Coffey from the University of Leicester, who specialises in the religion, politics, and ideas of the

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Eve Poole: Is AI created in the image of God?

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2024/02/26

No buzzword is buzzier than 'AI'. Depending on who you talk to, it's either going to deliver the perfect utopia we've always dreamed of, take over the world and wipe us off the face of the earth – or simply fail to take off altogether.Whichever of these scenarios we're heading towards, what we do know is that AI poses all kinds of weird new questions about human identity, consciousness, sentience, and value. Can a machine learning model be a person? Can it be self-aware? Can it

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