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A podcast for every Christian who has ever asked ‘Is that it?’
Mid-faith Crisis explores the Christian faith with honesty and humour. If you feel that you have more questions than answers, if you feel as though your faith is changing, if you feel that if the worship leader sings that chorus one more time you will strangle him with his own guitar strap, then this is the podcast for you. Warning. Contains traces of theology and occasional innuendo.
Mid-faith Crisis explores the Christian faith with honesty and humour. If you feel that you have more questions than answers, if you feel as though your faith is changing, if you feel that if the worship leader sings that chorus one more time you will strangle him with his own guitar strap, then this is the podcast for you. Warning. Contains traces of theology and occasional innuendo.
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Yes, it's the fabled Mid-faith Crisis New Year's episode. We talk about how our themes worked out last year (spoilers: not so good) and what we want to focus on for the next 12 months. How appropriate for episode number 365! Also Nick eats a doughnut and Joe has been to a play.
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I Swear
Louis Theroux - Inside the Manosphere
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Prospect of Whitby - Wikipedia
St Paul's Bow Common
The Nap Ministry | Rest is Resistance
Mid-way through Nick's writing month and it's time for a catch up. Nick has an apology to make and Joe wants to be Supreme Leader. Also we think more about all that sheepy and goaty stuff, and we discuss how best to prepare for the official Mid-faith Crisis New Year themes episode.
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“Resurrecting Faith” – A Lent Course
Pachomius the Great
In this week's episode we think about goals and training, coping with overwhelmingly needy emails and, most importantly, dealing with the mubble fubbles. Also, Nick has an epiphany and Joe has dressed up for the occasion.
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“Resurrecting Faith” – A Lent Course
Four temperaments - Wikipedia
mubble fubbles | Oxford English Dictionary
Episode 358: 'We've invented a new category of sin'
Matthew 25:40 NIV
Pachomius the Great - Wikipedia
Ultralearning - Scott H Young
We revisit genial sin, consider discipleship as an investment account and revel in the origins of the word 'Lent'. Also, Nick shows off and Joe is actually fully clothed.
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“Resurrecting Faith” – A Lent Course
With great power comes great responsibility
Isaiah 35:1-2
Lent - OED
Alexei Navalny
Episode 358: ‘We’ve invented a new category of sin’
As we enter Lent, how can we make space in our lives to hear from God? In this episode we talk about the role of the wilderness in our lives and how it can actually be a place of encounter and change, a place where you hear the voice.
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“Resurrecting Faith” – A Lent Course
Wahaca | Tacos, Margaritas, Sunshine
Simon de Voil
Bridgerton | Netflix Official Site
Church of the Wild | Victoria Loorz
Strong's Hebrew: 4057. מִדְבָּר (midbar) -- Wilderness, desert
Desert Fathers - Wikipedia
Batter my heart, three person’d God (Holy Sonnet 14) | John Donne
More feedback this week on the key questions: are we friends of Jesus or are we followers? Can we really be friends with a tree? What is a soul friend? Just how great is Kate Bush? And what happened to Nick's head? So many questions…
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“Resurrecting Faith” – A Lent Course
Arnolfini - Bristol's International Centre for Contemporary Arts
Kate Bush Moments of Pleasure - YouTube
Martin Buber - Wikipedia
I and Thou - Wikipedia
Overview — The Works of George MacDonald
What a Friend We Have in Jesus - Wikipedia
In this episode we think about the metaphors we use for our relationship with Jesus. Are we friends of Jesus? Or followers? Or slaves? Does the relationship feel different at different times in our faith? And will Joe and Nick's relationship survive the revelations about tea?
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“Resurrecting Faith” – A Lent Course
The Traitors
H Is for Hawk (2025)
Del Amitri
Del Amitri - Don't Come Home Too Soon (Official Team Scotland Song World Cup '98)
Icon of Christ and Abbot Mena - Wikipedia
Thomas Aquinas - Wikipedia
We return to the subject of grace, forgiveness and justice. Are all sins really the same? If so, what do we make of 'serious sin'? Is the evangelical view of sin secretly Catholic? And has Nick accidentally created a new category of sin?
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"Resurrecting Faith" A Lent Course with Joe Davis and Dave Tomlinson
Slime Family Portrait
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Natural History Museum
The Ayoub Sisters
Odyssey Ensemble
The Terrible Takes on Philip Yancey's 8-Year Affair
Venial sin - Wikipedia
Mortal sin - Wikipedia
We talk about self-understanding (and our apparent lack of it), and reflect on whether you can have seasons of spirituality. And, in the light of revelations about another major Christian teacher, we discuss how you can never fall from grace, you can only fall into it.
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The Traitors
Kate Bowler
Mid-faith Crisis 212: An Interview with Oliver Burkeman
Four Thousand Weeks | Oliver Burkeman
Meditations for Mortals | Oliver Burkeman
New year, new podcast. But same old us, sadly. Anyway, good to be back with you. This week we visit some old emails and talk about the 'right' way to grieve, how names for God are a bit like old streets, and why Jesus might be a dance teacher. Normal service has resumed, then.
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Pluribus
The Divine Dance - Richard Rohr
Mar 25 Lady Day
Perichoresis
In our final (probably) podcast for 2025, we each look back on the three things we've learned this year. Which doesn't, apparently, include (a) watching the Ashes and (b) not eating mince pies while recording. Happy Christmas everyone and a massive thank you to everyone who has supported the podcast this year.
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Wake Up Dead Man
A Christmas Carol - Wikipedia
Gerald Dickens - Website
Joe is back from Mexico and Nick has recovered from man flu. We talk about who we really are as individuals, and how that affects our relationship with others. Also, we think about what it is that we really need to prepare for Christmas, and the difference between entertaining people and hospitality.
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Palestine 36
Winter solstice - Wikipedia
When is the winter solstice in 2025?
Joe talks to Professor Ros Gleadow, Emerita Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University, Australia. They discuss the scale and impact of the climate crisis and, crucially, what we can do to make a difference.
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Ros Gleadow - Wikipedia
We have an interview with Dave Tomlinson. Dave and Joe discuss some of the difficult questions people have about God and faith and talk about how we, as Christians, can be part of the repair of the world.
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Dave Tomlinson - YouTube
Charles Hartshorne - Wikipedia
Jesus gives us a crucial challenge: 'Who do you say that I am?' We discuss our answers to that question. Meanwhile, Joe launches MFC verify to examine some claims about Christmas and Nick talks about Bible translation and why there are unicorns in the King James Version.
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Mentioned in this episode:
The VelociPastor - Wikipedia
Wintering | Katherine May
How to Winter | Kari Leibowitz
Hygge
Experiencing Scripture as a Disciple of Jesus | Dave Ripper
Beyond Justification: Liberating Paul’s gospel | Douglas A Campbell and John DuPue
This week, we spend a lot of time discussing the spiritual lessons to be learned from Traitors. Also, we talk about heavily paraphrased Bible verses and Joe has had a near-death experience in the toilet.
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The Mid-faith Crisis Church Weekend Away 2026 - one place left!
Mentioned in this episode:
Daniel Swift | The Dream Factory
Patrick Grant | Less
“Are We the Baddies?” — That Mitchell and Webb Look
BBC One - Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles
BBC One - The Celebrity Traitors
Joe is not very well this week. So here's just a little something to keep you going: an edited excerpt from an episode done many years ago on Nick's book The Badly Behaved Bible. As Nick says, it's not so much a 'greatest hit' as one of our least worst efforts. We talk about the inspiration of scripture and how many of our problems with the Bible are not with the book itself, so much as the things people say about it.
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The Badly Behaved Bible | Nick Page
If you want to listen again to the series, it continues with Episode 79: Exile Stories
This week we mainly talk about the Bible. we touch on how it was put together and we share with listeners the Bible verses and stories which mean the most to us. Along the way, Nick does a quick history lesson and Joe reckons that Jesus spoke like a market trader.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Negroni - Wikipedia
Perfect Martini
Harry Craddock
Munther Isaac - Wikipedia
Promised Land or Lands of Promise?: Understanding Israel Today in the Light of Christ
From Land to Lands, from Eden to the Renewed Earth: A Christ-Centred Biblical Theology of the Promised Land
Nick Page | The Badly Behaved Bible
First Nations Version New Testament
It's our ninth anniversary! So, for a nice, relaxed, party-like topic we talk about Israel. Why is it that so many Christians support modern Israel so strongly? How can we respond when there is so much violence and hatred on all sides? Where is the Kingdom of God in all this? Also Nick has discovered some scriptural golf balls and Joe has been rewriting the Bible. Again.
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Level 42
BBC One - Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles
The Divine Comedy
In a packed feedback episode, we consider time, baptism, re-writing scripture, the omniscience of God and the problem of evil. Among other things. Also Nick has his nerd buttons pressed, and Joe has a new heretical disorder.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Minster in Sheppey
Traitors BBC
Marcion
Thomas Jefferson bible
The Long Walk
Thomas Kelly - A Testament of Devotion
Wild at Heart
Episode 51: The Mystery of the Cross
Episode 50: The Scandal of The Cross
Episode 154: An interview with Brian McLaren – Part 1
Episode 155: An Interview with Brian McLaren – Part 2
John Smith - an excerpt from Nick's book A Nearly Infallible History of the Reformation
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It's like listening to the Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers except instead of talking about cars, they talk about following Christ, answer listener questions, and a whole host of completely absurd and unrelated topics.
excellent podcast. humorous yet thoughtful, more valuable than 10,000 worship songs and more insightful than a year's daily readings. signed N & J