Matters of Life and Death
En podkast av Premier Unbelievable? - Onsdager
192 Episoder
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Q&A: Christian pacifism in times of war and the Tower of Babel reconsidered
Publisert: 7.6.2023 -
Digital persecution: Deadly rumours on WhatsApp, a ‘Panopticon’ of censorship, the corrosion of trust, and China’s spreading surveillance state
Publisert: 31.5.2023 -
Q&A: Helping unmarried couples have children and court-ordered blood transfusions
Publisert: 24.5.2023 -
Generative AI: Second Contact, avoiding the fate of Nokia, hacking the human operating system, and the resilience of Western democracy
Publisert: 17.5.2023 -
Q&A: Introverts versus extroverts, faith in the consultation room, and a moratorium on AI research
Publisert: 10.5.2023 -
Contemporary spiritualities: Nominal atheism, New Age prayers for £25, moving on from Empty Tomb evangelism, and the church of social justice
Publisert: 3.5.2023 -
Effective altruism 2: Tithing, second-hand stuffed toys in Turkey, the Parable of the Lost Sheep, and one-hundredth of a guide dog
Publisert: 26.4.2023 -
Effective altruism 1: QALYs, longtermism, Jeremy Bentham’s embalmed corpse, and ethical elitism
Publisert: 19.4.2023 -
Webinar 2: Totalitarian regimes, the tobacco regulation lag, eternal life for materialists, and ‘Don’t be afraid’
Publisert: 12.4.2023 -
Webinar 1: Redefining human-ness, testing for consciousness, hoodwinked by ChatGPT, and a black box
Publisert: 5.4.2023 -
Friendship 2: Walks in the Garden of Eden, David and Jonathan, covenantal clarity, and red flags
Publisert: 29.3.2023 -
Friendship 1: The hermeneutic of suspicion, Classical ideals, scandalising middle-class Vienna, and the ‘mysticism of materialism’
Publisert: 22.3.2023 -
Listener questions: Polarised culture wars, the challenge of elder care, and childlike sexbots
Publisert: 15.3.2023 -
Public sector strikes 2: Taking patients hostage, employment as service, slaves and masters, and Christian peacemaking
Publisert: 8.3.2023 -
Public sector strikes 1: The Winter of Discontent, austerity-era pay freezes, Christian socialist solidarity, and continuity of patient care
Publisert: 1.3.2023 -
Surveillance capitalism 2: QR codes in China, privacy, the manipulation of desire, and a neo-Benedictine Rule of Life
Publisert: 22.2.2023 -
Surveillance capitalism 1: Trillions of data points, clickbait, an advertising arms race, and BF Skinner’s pigeons
Publisert: 15.2.2023 -
Cryptocurrency 2: Technicism, the Parable of the Talents, get-rich-quick schemes, and the wheat and the weeds
Publisert: 8.2.2023 -
Cryptocurrency 1: Bitcoin, warehouses of computers solving maths puzzles, the dot.com bubble, and FOMO
Publisert: 1.2.2023 -
Medical Assistance in Dying 2: Suicidal ideation, no crystal balls, conscientious objection, and Hippocrates’ successful medical practice
Publisert: 25.1.2023
In each episode of Matters of Life and Death, brought to you by Premier Unbelievable, John Wyatt and his son Tim discuss issues in healthcare, ethics, technology, science, faith and more. John is a doctor, professor of ethics, and writer and speaker on these topics, while Tim is a religion and social affairs journalist. We talk about how Christians can better engage with a particular question of life, death or something else in between. For more resources to help you explore faith and the big questions, visit: http://www.premierunbelievable.com If you want to go deeper into some of the topics we discuss, find more resources to read, listen to and watch at John’s website: http://www.johnwyatt.com
