Happy new year (although, as we all know, the official Mid-faith Crisis New Year isn't until March). Anyway we're back, and in this episode we mark a special anniversary - 45 years since Nick became a Christian. So, what's changed? How did we understand 'conversion' back then and how do we understand it now? And how do we see our purpose today, all those years later?

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Discussing the new year in Episode 229 (Starts at 10:25)
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
• The Traitors
• Red One
• The Holdovers
• What is the good news? Nick’s version

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