The Holy Shed - Dave Tomlinson: Recent Episodes
Dave Tomlinson
Dave Tomlinson is an Anglican priest and founder of The Holy Shed community He's the author of many books including How To Be A Bad Christian, Black Sheep & Prodigals and The Post-Evangelical. Dave's a popular speaker and regular contributor to Pause For Thought on BBC Radio 2.
Progressive faith in the context of 'wokeness' and 'cancel culture'. I'm sorry I've had to take out the song at the end of the video but you can see it at https://bit.ly/3CZxRDj
Faith isn’t about a list of beliefs, it’s about opening the heart to give God (or angels…or hopes and dreams or unimaginable things) somewhere to land within us
Not a Supreme Being ‘out there’, looking for God in the depths of the material world, a God of dirt and passion, a pervading presence in everything, the energy that causes the universe to grow and evolve.
A big reason churches have haemorrhaged members for decades is because people will no longer be told by church functionaries and dogmatic Bible-punching preachers what to believe and how to behave..
I know more LGBT+ people than I could ever number (who may never go near a church) who show me what being a kind, compassionate, decent human being is all about
I don't believe in a devil 'out there' but i do believe in reality of evil in the world...making sense of the semantics of Satan, demons and evil in the 21st century
Based on an interpretation of St Paul, Protestant Christianity stresses that human effort to be good, or to do good deeds, is worthless before God - that faith in Jesus is all that matters. I disagree. And here's why...
Jesus wasn't the product of a cosmic trick, he was a human being utterly receptive to divinity...a man awake when most around him were asleep...
No one has a monopoly on toxicity…no one has a monopoly on truth… What the world needs is unflinching truth with unflinching compassion
Jesus, Paul and Empire - lifting Paul out of the matrix of the Reformation and placing him back in the first century where he belongs
The writings of St Paul are renowned to be sexist, but perhaps the opposite is true - a rethink about what Paul really said about women and what he didn't...
I'm Not Leaving..I'm Arriving - there is always a greater wholeness to life than the things we cling to. There is no opposite to life – just life in a different form.