Life & Faith

Growing up as the son of a diamond smuggler. The leaps of faith required for scientific discovery. An actress who hated Christians, then became one. Join us as we discover the surprising ways Christian faith interrogates and illuminates the world we live in.

Life & Faith is a religion podcast hosted by Centre for Public Christianity, with 561 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Centre for Public Christianity hosts Life & Faith, a religion show with 561 episodes published.

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  Episode #525

  The Art of Friendship

  Aug 6, 20251 hourS2025

  <p>Sheridan Voysey, from Friendship Lab, explains why, in an age of increasing loneliness, the art of cultivating friendship is needed as much as ever before.</p><p>When Sheridan Voysey was confronted with the question, “Who can you call at 2am when everything goes wrong?”, he realised that friendship was a facet of his life he had neglected for too long. This set him on a path to consider how we cultivate good friendships, how we can learn the skills required to be a good friend and maintain deep, rich friendships.</p><p>He now runs the Friendship Lab, a mo...

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  Episode #524

  Four Letters of Love: Niall Williams

  Jul 23, 202530 minS2025

  <p>Niall Williams discusses the conversion of his treasured novel into a major film starring Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter and Gabriel Byrne.</p><p>Four Letters of Love is the 1997 novel by Irish writer Niall Williams, and has just been adapted, by Williams, into a movie starring Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter and Gabriel Byrne.</p><p>Life & Faith speaks with Niall Williams about the film and the book. It’s a love story that offers up intriguing and provocative portraits of faith, loss, tragedy, meaning and God.</p><p>The story itself engages with human longing, the notion of...

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  Episode #523

  Life shocks and how to survive them

  Jul 9, 202529 minS2025

  <p>Julia Verdouw used silence, faith and writing poetry to survive the sudden death of her husband.</p><p>Julia is an accomplished academic and policy expert, but her book In the Valley of the Shadow may be her most important work.  Through reflection, poetry and prayers, the book documents her journey of grief.</p><p>Regardless of who we are or what we believe, suffering comes for us all. Perhaps the worst kind of suffering is the grief that we face when we lose someone we love. How can we navigate such immense loss and deep sorrow?</p><p>I...

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  Episode #522

  Sean Kelly on the Australian soul

  Jun 25, 202541 minS2025

  <p>A columnist’s job is to process deeper currents in news, politics, and culture – all in 800 words.</p><p>Who are we as a nation and a people, and what’s going on for us beneath the daily headlines of the 24/7 media cycle?</p><p>Few of us stop long enough to wonder – but if we ever wanted to find out, a good place to start would be Sean Kelly’s writing in The Sydney Morning Herald. </p><p>Sean Kelly is a former political staffer in the Rudd and Gillard governments, who now writes a weekly column on politics fo...

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  Episode #521

  Losing My Irreligion

  Jun 11, 202551 minS2025

  <p>Stories and stats from the UK suggest that something has shifted, spiritually, over the past few years.</p><p>-- </p><p>Since 2018, two million more people in England and Wales have started regularly attending church – an increase fuelled largely by Gen Z, and by young men especially.</p><p>So say the results from a new survey conducted by YouGov on behalf of the British and Foreign Bible Society, results which cut across a bunch of our assumptions: that Western societies are on a secularising trajectory; that women are more religious than men; that young people are more lik...

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