Hosted by James Cary · 🇺🇸 us · EN-GB · 35 episodes
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James Cary, BBC comedy writer, author and touring stand-up theologian is on a never-ending quest to understand comedy, the Bible, culture and the church.
James Cary hosts The Stand-Up Theologian, a religion show with 35 episodes published.
Get in touch via text Yes. Season 1 is finally wrapping up. In this episode - Episode 34! - I explain why (it's episode 34?), what I'm up to next and why I'm doing something as chronically unprofitable as The Wycliffe Pa
Get in touch via text What is England’s day if not St George’s Day? Who even is St George? Why don't the English celebrate it? Can we walk and talk around Hinton St George, a village in Somerset? Want to see the beautifu
Get in touch via text Back once again with friend of the show, Rhys Laverty, Editorial and Research Director of the Prosperity Institute who wrote this brilliant article for The Critic about the now retracted and rescind
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Get in touch via text The Sacred Art of Joking is available in all formats on Amazon/Audible. Every few weeks a politician, pundit or soap star causes a media storm by making a gaffe or tweeting a joke that some people d
Get in touch via text In this longer episode, I wonder about whether I have productivity addiction, and whether this podcast is part of that. So I talk to fellow productivity addict and podcaster, Kenny Primrose. This wa
Get in touch via text Matt Searles is an author, songwriter and mindfulness teacher. We're talking about reading the Bible without devotionals or commentaries, and reflecting - and the perspicuity of scripture. Buy Quiet
Get in touch via text This time, I'm in conversation with Ros Clarke, Associate Director of The Church Society. We are talking about Bishop Hugh Latimer, burned by Queen Mary on 16th October 1555. Why? And what does that
Get in touch via text In this episode James and returning guest Nate Morgan Locke explore Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, asking whether his warning still stands, whether he romanticises 19th century America
Get in touch via text Yes, another episode. I can't stay away. A solo episode on fasting. And Avoiding Fudge in Lent. Cary’s Almanac on William Laud Cary’s Almanac on Fasting Cary’s Almanac Avoiding Fudge in Lent The Psa
Get in touch via text I have a conversation with Tilly Dillehay, author of “My Dear Hemlock”, a book in the style of CS Lewis’s Screwtape Letters that does not pull its punches on the female condition. We also talk about
Get in touch via text A deep dive into Conspiracy theories - not a big long list of them, but why we might believe them, or find it hard to prove them one way or the other. A fascinating conversation with Dr (Dr) Jonny W
Get in touch via text In this solo episode, I introduce the Psalm Psupplement, forty reflections on the Psalms that might be handy for Lent. This is an audio version of the first batch on Psalm 1. Loyal Lollards (paid su
Get in touch via text I have a conversation with Andrew Ollerton who has written a new book called God’s Book: An Honest Look at the Bible’s 7 Toughest Topics . And he’s been at the front line of talking about the Bible
Get in touch via text Two culture vultures pick over the plentiful remains of Stranger Things. I talked to Caleb Woodbridge who is an imaginative disciple, freelance writer and editor, fan of sf/fantasy, children's & YA
Get in touch via text Last year, I wrote an article about home education for Gareth Crispin, editor of Premier NexGen: https://www.premiernexgen.com/education/why-home-education-is-the-best-option-for-christian-families/
Get in touch via text In this New Year’s Day solo walk-and-talk, I reflect on what happens when long-running momentum finally runs out. Turning 50, finishing six years on the Archbishop's Council, and watching the comedy
Get in touch via text It's just like old times! Cary and Cooper are reunited for this review of the year in books. We revisit Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth, and James explains why there are a number of books he
Get in touch via text What a treat! James gets to geek about CS Lewis, That Hideous Strength and The Abolition of Man - with the world's leading expert on all things Inkling, Dr Michael Ward! Why should we NEVER call his
Get in touch via text Is there a book in you? Have you checked? Do you need to be talked into it? Or out of it? And who cares? You care! But will anyone else? Matt Bird helps people write their story. So this is a conver
Tilly Dillehay
author of Dear Hemlock
1 appearance on this show
Andrew Ollerton
author · Bible Society
1 appearance on this show
Barry Cooper
Coach Coop · Hull Live
1 appearance on this show
Cary
practice finance expert
1 appearance on this show
Michael Ward
Associate Dean for Enrollment Management and Student Affairs · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
1 appearance on this show
Matt Bird
CEO & Co-Founder · PublishU
1 appearance on this show
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