After a false start last week, Joe is back with a bit of clarity about his theme for the year. Also, as we approach Easter, we think about what it means for us in this year of uncertainty and conflict.

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• You Are Not a Frog: Podcast for Doctors
• The Shipwright's Arms

Yes, it's the fabled Mid-faith Crisis New Year's episode. We talk about how our themes worked out last year (spoilers: not so good) and what we want to focus on for the next 12 months. How appropriate for episode number 365! Also Nick eats a doughnut and Joe has been to a play.

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• I Swear
• Louis Theroux - Inside the Manosphere
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
• Prospect of Whitby - Wikipedia
• St Paul's Bow Common
• The Nap Ministry | Rest is Resistance

Mid-way through Nick's writing month and it's time for a catch up. Nick has an apology to make and Joe wants to be Supreme Leader. Also we think more about all that sheepy and goaty stuff, and we discuss how best to prepare for the official Mid-faith Crisis New Year themes episode.

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• “Resurrecting Faith” – A Lent Course
• Pachomius the Great

In this week's episode we think about goals and training, coping with overwhelmingly needy emails and, most importantly, dealing with the mubble fubbles. Also, Nick has an epiphany and Joe has dressed up for the occasion.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• “Resurrecting Faith” – A Lent Course
• Four temperaments - Wikipedia
• mubble fubbles | Oxford English Dictionary
• Episode 358: 'We've invented a new category of sin'
• Matthew 25:40 NIV
• Pachomius the Great - Wikipedia
• Ultralearning - Scott H Young

We revisit genial sin, consider discipleship as an investment account and revel in the origins of the word 'Lent'. Also, Nick shows off and Joe is actually fully clothed.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• “Resurrecting Faith” – A Lent Course
• With great power comes great responsibility
• Isaiah 35:1-2
• Lent - OED
• Alexei Navalny
• Episode 358: ‘We’ve invented a new category of sin’

As we enter Lent, how can we make space in our lives to hear from God? In this episode we talk about the role of the wilderness in our lives and how it can actually be a place of encounter and change, a place where you hear the voice.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• “Resurrecting Faith” – A Lent Course
• Wahaca | Tacos, Margaritas, Sunshine
• Simon de Voil
• Bridgerton | Netflix Official Site
• Church of the Wild | Victoria Loorz
• Strong's Hebrew: 4057. מִדְבָּר (midbar) -- Wilderness, desert
• Desert Fathers - Wikipedia
• Batter my heart, three person’d God (Holy Sonnet 14) | John Donne

More feedback this week on the key questions: are we friends of Jesus or are we followers? Can we really be friends with a tree? What is a soul friend? Just how great is Kate Bush? And what happened to Nick's head? So many questions…

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• “Resurrecting Faith” – A Lent Course
• Arnolfini - Bristol's International Centre for Contemporary Arts
• Kate Bush Moments of Pleasure - YouTube
• Martin Buber - Wikipedia
• I and Thou - Wikipedia
• Overview — The Works of George MacDonald
• What a Friend We Have in Jesus - Wikipedia

In this episode we think about the metaphors we use for our relationship with Jesus. Are we friends of Jesus? Or followers? Or slaves? Does the relationship feel different at different times in our faith? And will Joe and Nick's relationship survive the revelations about tea?

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Mentioned in this episode:

• “Resurrecting Faith” – A Lent Course
• The Traitors
• H Is for Hawk (2025)
• Del Amitri
• Del Amitri - Don't Come Home Too Soon (Official Team Scotland Song World Cup '98)
• Icon of Christ and Abbot Mena - Wikipedia
• Thomas Aquinas - Wikipedia