Matters of Life and Death
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Palliative care 2: Resisting assisted dying, the ‘superskill’ of listening, DNAR discussions, and euthanasia-free-zones
Publicerades: 2022-04-13 -
Palliative care 1: Dogs and Guinness on the wards, ‘living until you die’, deathbed prayers, and complicated grief
Publicerades: 2022-04-06 -
Climate anxiety 2: Listening to the Global South, alienation from creation, throwing pebbles into God’s river, and rediscovering lament
Publicerades: 2022-03-28 -
Climate anxiety 1: ’Delay means death’, media apathy, Extinction Rebellion, and fatalism among the young
Publicerades: 2022-03-22 -
Human enhancement 2: Techno-optimism returns, the yuck factor, cultivating our bodies, and the divinisation of humanity
Publicerades: 2022-03-15 -
Human enhancement 1: Calico, the dragon tyrant, transhumanism, and monkeys playing Pong
Publicerades: 2022-03-09 -
Relaunch: How we started, baby boomers and millennials, the pandemic as catalyst, and the signal to noise ratio
Publicerades: 2022-03-02 -
Coronavirus: The Omicron variant, mandatory vaccination, pandemic solidarity, and memories of authoritarianism
Publicerades: 2021-12-17 -
Reproductive technologies: the ’Google baby’, Oliver O’Donovan, 14-day-old embryos, and techno-optimism
Publicerades: 2021-12-09 -
Infertility and IVF: Hidden wounds, premature quintuplets, embryo donation and the procreative-unitive bond
Publicerades: 2021-11-10 -
Assisted dying: The Meacher Bill, radicals in the Lords, Canada’s slippery slope and fragile conscience protections
Publicerades: 2021-10-08 -
Abusive leadership: Mark Driscoll, the hermeneutic of suspicion, Sigmund Freud’s chaise longue, and Paul-Timothy relationships
Publicerades: 2021-08-30 -
The Robot Will See You Now: Human uniqueness, AI musicians, surveillance capitalism and ditching Google
Publicerades: 2021-07-20 -
Coronavirus: Miscounting deaths, the Sun’s front page, key workers with long covid and vaccine generosity
Publicerades: 2021-05-26 -
John Stott: Double listening, salt as preservative, incarnational mission, and the challenge of evangelical hagiography
Publicerades: 2021-05-04 -
Simulation: Deep fakes, image as sacrament, David Beckham in Mandarin and therapy chatbots
Publicerades: 2021-03-15 -
Digital church: Worship on Zoom, pandemic revival, time-shifting and Gnosticism
Publicerades: 2021-02-24 -
Social media and free speech: Fake news, Facebook’s ’Supreme Court’, the Capitol riot and YouTube algorithms
Publicerades: 2021-01-22 -
Coronavirus: Misinformation
Publicerades: 2020-12-16 -
Coronavirus: Vaccines - part 3
Publicerades: 2020-12-11
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
