Happy Christmas! In this festive episode we share – and then judge – our Christmas micro-sermons. Also we think about the practices that will nourish us this Christmas and reflect on how the darkness and worry of the nativity stories does not diminish the life and hope. Remember everyone – you're still alive, and that's a wonderful thing!

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Strictly Come Dancing FInal
• Coldplay - ALL MY LOVE (Official Video)
• Coldplay - ALL MY LOVE (Official Video) (Directors' Cut)
• Conclave
• Winter solstice

After a brief debate about which of us is the more miserable, we discuss whether social media can help us engage with our shadow, detaching from the news without feeling guilty, and how hate actually tethers us to the object of our hatred. Also, as we enter Advent, where do we look for the hope? And what can we do to add to the hope and love that is really all around us?

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Joy
• Ludwig
• Anne Lamott, Almost Everything
• Tish Harrison Warren, Go Slow and Repair Things

In this episode, we talk about the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and, more specifically, about the systems of thinking which lead almost inevitably to coercion and abuse. How can we challenge systems like this? Is there any hope? And is God relying on us to be the answers to prayer?

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Brian Draper Advent 2024 - The Inside of Love
• Episode 94: Happy New (Liturgical) Year
• The Muppet Christmas Carol
• Paddy McGuinness Ultra Endurance Cycle Challenge
• ‘Prolific, brutal and horrific’: Makin report calls out the Smyth abuse and the cover-up