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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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

Joe interviews Thomas Jay Oord. Theologian, philosopher and, it seems, Joe's new BFF, Tom directs the Center for Open and Relational Theology. He share his faith journey with us and discusses the idea of an uncontrolling God, the limits of both science and religion, and how the idea of love shapes everything around us.

• Thomas Jay Oord
• Thomas Jay Oord - Books
• God after deconstruction
• God Can't
• Open and Relational Theology
• Thomas Jay Oord on substack
• Centre for Open and Relational Theology

In a follow up to last week's episode we think more about how to process anger. Joe interviews psychotherapist Becky Francis and we talk about the need for reflective practice, and digging into the anger produced by grief and loss. And in a shock move, Joe ends with a Bible passage.

• The Wombles
• Rolf Dobelli | Stop Reading the News
• Norway's NRK broadcasts 12-hour wood burning programme
• Thomas Erickson | Surrounded by Idiots
• Becky Francis Therapy
• Gottman | The Four Horsemen: Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling
• Vanstone | The Stature of Waiting