Tag: god
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Ep 68: Our Giving Ignorance
Are Chris and Pete generous… for their own benefit? Is giving, a useless drop in the ocean? What if we want to make a difference with our generosity? Are we lookin at it wrong, aren’t we meant to be ‘you all’ not just ‘you’? Is it even possible to give without being selfish?
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Ep 67: We Aren’t So Similar
Chris and Pete talk about storytelling, how we all do it differently, and how weird we all are. So how can we talk about what matters? Can we communicate well when everyone else is so completely different? Is there more to our diversity? Does difference make a difference?
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Ep 66: Leaving the flock
Chris and Pete ask ‘who’s minding the flock!’ Why is Chris breaking the sheep’s legs? Do sheep run off or do we just get distracted? How much should we follow the flock, or should we just be looking after ourselves?
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Ep 65: It’s a Game isn’t it!
Chris and Pete get into sport with the question “Do you love the diversity?” And why don’t churches love it? What if difference is essential to a good life? So what do we see about God’s plan when we play sport? Is it vital to have people on your team who don’t play the way…
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Ep 64: So Right and So Wrong
Journalist and broadcaster Richard Aedy leads us into a simple question; What is the meaning of life? Is awareness why we exist, or is there more to it? Perhaps we have all missed a fundamental point about why we exist?
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Ep 63: Rewriting The Bible
Chris and Pete talk about their fave version of the bible and ask what happens when we re-iterate and re-frame the bible and why is there so much complexity there? Can we remove it? Do we need to hear from more than just the bible?
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Ep 62: Too Much Information
Chris and Pete love a bit of science and science is replicable. The same experiment gets the same results, that sort of thing. But what about faith, the bible, and God? Is it the same for us all? Nope. Here they check out the work of Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han who reckons knowing stuff makes…
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Ep 61: Do I Bless God?
There’s all these bits in the bible where people bless God, but what have I got that god needs? What is a blessing for God? Chris and Pete return to the love Dog and see if they can unpack this bizarre twist… how do the blessed ones bless the one who blesses us? Can we…
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Ep 60: The God of Evil?
Chris and Pete unfurl another of those curly questions. Did God create Evil? Are bad things hand crafted by the loving creator of the universe, was badness? Have we humans given evil a face, made it into a thing, or is it something else? Are Dark, Cold, and Evil merely absences and what does it…
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Ep 55: It’s So Tempting
We think we know about the things we shouldn’t do, but are there good temptations? Or bad ones? Chris and Pete try to look but not see and ask questions about temptation. Is it our own fault? Is it so bad?