Lots of interesting feedback this week, including more reflections on worship songs, our calling to attend to our own 'small' world, the difficulties of Bible translation (and food translation come to that) and why, for the Goths, Jesus was head of the household. Also we talk about neurodiversity and churches. How can we attend to different ways of thinking and different learning styles? Must one size fit all? Oh, and lots of TV watching homework because, as Joe says, 'Life's too short to not watch a lot of TV'.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde at the Inauguration service
• Severance
• Faggot (food)
• Burn's Night
• The War of the Worlds - Jeff Wayne's Musical Version - Full Musical
• Eddie Lang- recordings
• Eddie Lang
• Ted Lasso
• The Detectorists
• Danielle Strickland
• Nick Page's Blog: Reflections on episode 315
• Nick Page, And Now Let's Move Into A Time Of Nonsense
• Clive James, Poetry Notebook

Joe has forgotten how to count and Nick is bewildered by a worship song. We discuss whether the metaphors we use are helpful, how God is always 'in translation' and what we can do to avoid reinforcing unhelpful patriarchal systems. Also, we touch again on the subject of judgment, and think about relationship, restoration and reading the Bible more in sorrow than in fury.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Severance
• Ted Lasso
• Nick Page, Revelation Road
• Wyvill Monument
• Episode 253: Mothering Father – an interview with Lacey Finn Borgo

We return to the Bible this week, to the thorny topic of how we deal with difficult Bible verses, particularly verses about eternal punishment and divine vengeance. As our correspondent puts it, it's like Biblical whack-a-mole: you hammer one passage down, only to see new ones pop up. So we talk about the inadequacy of systematic theology, the need to recognise contradiction and mystery and how everybody, frankly, is whacking their moles. Most importantly, we consider how, despite the difficulties, we can continue to engage with and be inspired by the scriptures.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Wicked
• Dune: Part One
• Dune: Part Two
• Nick Page, The Badly Behaved Bible
• Gregory Macdonald, The Evangelical Universalist
• Midrash