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Ep 106: What Have We Dug Up?
Chris and Pete get out the archaeology tools and look at what it says about the very old and strange book, the bible. Is archaeology a support of faith or of religion, and should we trust archaeology more than faith, bible or logic? Can we see through one to find truth in the other? Faith…
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Ep 105: Where’s My Joy!?
Chris and Pete delve into the writings of Dom Paul DeLatte from 1902 to see if this old mouldy stuff has anything to tell us today. Is it our duty to be joyful? And is that Happy? Was it different back then and have we lost the discipline of Joy. What about people who fast,…
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Ep 104: What Are Saatchi’s Commandments?
Advertising and Art guru Charles Saatchi has a go at the ten commandments… Chris and Pete wonder if he might be onto something. Is the ten commandments an outdated thing? How do we live now that makes them ignorable? Are we better now and no longer need these ‘rules’? And what has advertising done to…
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Ep 103: Who Took The Ice Cream?
It sure looks like God just set up people to fail! We can’t be good enough, so we’ll always fail. But Chris and Pete ask why it looks like that. Why does the bible seem full of us failing? Is it really like that? What does that tree in the garden ACTUALLY mean? And how…
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Ep 102: Who’s Your Enemy?
So God’s gonna smite our enemies… but we’re also told to love our enemies, but Chris and Pete wonder, who IS our enemy? What does an enemy actually look like? Are we the enemies? Can we understand enemies as we are a dominant culture, totally opposite to the bible slaves? Have our enemies become smaller…
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Ep 101: Simon Says Self-Care?
Thanks to an Email from Simon, Chris and Pete are forced to rethink an earlier chat about the commercial selfishness of self-care. Did missionaries, by giving away everything, do the opposite of self-care? Can self-care be about looking after others by looking after ourselves? Simon’s question makes them rethink their thinking… just like an Oddfather…
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Ep 100: Bits From The First Series
For more than two years now Chris and Pete have been getting together every week to find the right questions. And there have been some rippers! As they seek to understand the baffling and amazing God, they have welcomed guests, listened to songs and read lots of weird stuff to try and sort out what…
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Ep 99: Bits From The Beginning
For more than two years now Chris and Pete have been getting together every week to find the right questions. And there have been some rippers! As they seek to understand the baffling and amazing God, they have welcomed guests, listened to songs and read lots of weird stuff to try and sort out what…
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Ep 98: Is It an Act Of God?
Chris and Pete watch the lightning and ask is God at work in natural disasters? Are they acts of God? Are bad things God’s good work? Even when it blows up a church? Are natural disasters actually God and do we clutch too easily at miracles and fail to correctly understand what God is doing…
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Ep 97: Is The Internet In Eden?
Is the knowledge of good and evil a problem? Isn’t this what got humanity thrown out of Eden? Chris and Pete ponder; does God not want us to know about good and evil or is God holding out on us? Is there a tree of doom scrolling? Has knowledge become more valuable than wisdom and…
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