192 Folgen

  1. Q&A: Christian pacifism in times of war and the Tower of Babel reconsidered

    Vom: 7.6.2023

  2. Digital persecution: Deadly rumours on WhatsApp, a ‘Panopticon’ of censorship, the corrosion of trust, and China’s spreading surveillance state

    Vom: 31.5.2023

  3. Q&A: Helping unmarried couples have children and court-ordered blood transfusions

    Vom: 24.5.2023

  4. Generative AI: Second Contact, avoiding the fate of Nokia, hacking the human operating system, and the resilience of Western democracy

    Vom: 17.5.2023

  5. Q&A: Introverts versus extroverts, faith in the consultation room, and a moratorium on AI research

    Vom: 10.5.2023

  6. Contemporary spiritualities: Nominal atheism, New Age prayers for £25, moving on from Empty Tomb evangelism, and the church of social justice

    Vom: 3.5.2023

  7. Effective altruism 2: Tithing, second-hand stuffed toys in Turkey, the Parable of the Lost Sheep, and one-hundredth of a guide dog

    Vom: 26.4.2023

  8. Effective altruism 1: QALYs, longtermism, Jeremy Bentham’s embalmed corpse, and ethical elitism

    Vom: 19.4.2023

  9. Webinar 2: Totalitarian regimes, the tobacco regulation lag, eternal life for materialists, and ‘Don’t be afraid’

    Vom: 12.4.2023

  10. Webinar 1: Redefining human-ness, testing for consciousness, hoodwinked by ChatGPT, and a black box

    Vom: 5.4.2023

  11. Friendship 2: Walks in the Garden of Eden, David and Jonathan, covenantal clarity, and red flags

    Vom: 29.3.2023

  12. Friendship 1: The hermeneutic of suspicion, Classical ideals, scandalising middle-class Vienna, and the ‘mysticism of materialism’

    Vom: 22.3.2023

  13. Listener questions: Polarised culture wars, the challenge of elder care, and childlike sexbots

    Vom: 15.3.2023

  14. Public sector strikes 2: Taking patients hostage, employment as service, slaves and masters, and Christian peacemaking

    Vom: 8.3.2023

  15. Public sector strikes 1: The Winter of Discontent, austerity-era pay freezes, Christian socialist solidarity, and continuity of patient care

    Vom: 1.3.2023

  16. Surveillance capitalism 2: QR codes in China, privacy, the manipulation of desire, and a neo-Benedictine Rule of Life

    Vom: 22.2.2023

  17. Surveillance capitalism 1: Trillions of data points, clickbait, an advertising arms race, and BF Skinner’s pigeons

    Vom: 15.2.2023

  18. Cryptocurrency 2: Technicism, the Parable of the Talents, get-rich-quick schemes, and the wheat and the weeds

    Vom: 8.2.2023

  19. Cryptocurrency 1: Bitcoin, warehouses of computers solving maths puzzles, the dot.com bubble, and FOMO

    Vom: 1.2.2023

  20. Medical Assistance in Dying 2: Suicidal ideation, no crystal balls, conscientious objection, and Hippocrates’ successful medical practice

    Vom: 25.1.2023

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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

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