244 episodes
Mid-faith Crisis Nick Page & Joe Davis
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- Religion & Spirituality
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4.8 • 165 Ratings
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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.
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The Jesus Myth - an interview with Chris Scott
Joe interviews Chris Scott, psychologist, psychotherapist and priest about his book The Jesus Myth. It's a thought-provoking exploration of how myth can carry deep truth, and whether we need to jettison what Chris calls 'bronze-age' images of God.
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The Jesus Myth: a psychologist's viewpoint -
We've got glossolalia growing up the trellis
We discuss speaking in tongues. Is there a place for it in public worship? Or should it only be exercised in the privacy of your own home? Also we have more on retreats, a lot of love for the Song of the Chiffchaff, and we ask why there aren't any global conferences for people who put the chairs out.
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Glossolalia -
Your spiritual happy place
Joe and Nick have both been on retreat, so this week we talk about our different approaches, what works for us, and why we find it vital to go to a place where 'there is less of you to get in the way'. Also, brilliantly, the Song of the Chiffchaff is now an official, actual song.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All
David Goodbourn Lecture 2023 - The Wretched of the Church: Dominance and Submission
The Resurrection, Cookham
Baldred of Tyninghame -
Man in hat sits on chair
We reflect on the Coronation service. Was it weird or wonderful? Amazing or anachronistic? Holy or hypocritical? Or was it just like every other church service only with more bling and a woman with a sword? Also what happens when you ask ChatGPT to write a worship song featuring the Chiffchaff?
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Mentioned in this episode:
Private Eye: Man in hat sits on chair
The song of the chiffchaff
The Coronation Ceremony in 4 Minutes - BBC
Did that really happen? -- Caitlin Moran on the coronation
Supertunica
Monty Python-Holy Hand Grenade -
The messianic buffet
We discuss different ideas of heaven and the afterlife. Will we have bodies? Do we go to heaven? Will it be largely standing around on bits of gemstone singing? And, most importantly, will there be a buffet? Meanwhile, Nick is thinking of blogging and Joe looks in fridges.
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Mentioned in this episode:
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Clive Anderson: Me, Macbeth and I
Race Across the World
1 Corinthians 13:12
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth
Dave Allen - Teeth will be provided
Eschatology
1 Thessalonians 4:13-17
N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope
N.T. Wright, New Heavens, New Earth: The Biblical Picture of Christian Hope
David Lawrence, Heaven: It's Not the End of the World
C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
Philip Larkin: An Arundel Tomb -
An eternity in the soft furnishing department
Cheer up everyone, it's an episode all about hell. We reflect on the Staying Defiantly event that Joe hosted earlier in the week. In other news, Joe's been to Bristol, Nick has been to IKEA, God is love and beer is good.
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Mentioned in this episode:
The Housemartins
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2022
Staying defiantly
MFC Episode 41: What the hell!
Gregory MacDonald, The Evangelical Universalist
Robin Parry, 7 Myths About Universalism
Robin Parry - Burning Love: The Theological Hermeneutics of Hell
Four Views on Hell: Second Edition
Inventing Hell: Dante, the Bible and Eternal Torment
"The believing faculty": George MacDonald on Universal Salvation
Customer Reviews
Just love these guys!
As a Minister of Religion, and following the death of my husband, my Mid-Faith wasn’t so much a crisis, but a cataclysmic mess. After taking a year out of Ministry, moving to a new area, my faith was pretty non existent. I asked a colleague for some help, and she pointed towards the Mid-Faith Crisis.
Now I wouldn’t say my faith is back to what it was before my husband was killed, but Nick and Joe have certainly helped me at least find the track of faith. I love their openness, integrity and transparency as to how they view the Bible and the conversational way they share their knowledge and thoughts is right up my street!
So thank you guys, for at least helping me find the track and as I continue trying to discover who I am as a single person, and what my relationship might look like with God following my loss, I shall keep on listening to your musings, and one day - you never know - my faith might be somewhere near restored to what it used to be. I’ve now caught up with all the episodes and eagerly await each week for the next one.
Keep up the good work!
Love this!
Joe and Nick - thank you so much for this. Refreshing. Fun. Real. Thought Provoking. Non judgemental. Lots of Laughter! Interesting. Challenging. Kind. Keep doing what you’re doing 👍🏻😊
Wonderful!
I stumbled across Nick and Joe’s lovely lovely podcast the year before last and they have kept me company during a time of great change in my life circumstances. Their warmth, openness and sense of humour has been a big part of my tentative steps back towards a faith I thought I had lost a long time ago. Thank you and keep on keeping on Joe and Nick!