One of the premises of modern science is that nature is devoid of purposes. Instead, purposeless explanations for phenomena are sought. And the strategy has proved hugely productive. Except that allusions to purpose never quite fade from the scientific imagination. In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon …

The 1500th anniversary of the death of Boethius more than likely falls in 2024. He asks a key question: how to find true, lasting, reliable happiness? His answer, The Consolation of Philosophy, was a mediaeval bestseller, massively influencial, and is also very readable. So what do Boethius and, in particular, Lady Philosophy tell us?…

As a 19 year old Navy sailor, Voyle Glover had no knowledge, or even thoughts of God, and he certainly didn’t believe in supernatural beings. But on a summer night in 1962 he encountered something he couldn’t explain that would change the course of his life forever. Links to books mentioned in this episode: - The Power of Prayer and the Prayer of P…

At just 16 years old Cerena Kaps intentionally took steps into a life of destruction that got its start with partying. Before she knew it she became addicted to meth, became extremely violent pulling people from their cars and beating them nearly to death, stabbing people, home invasions, and torture. She had kids outside of marriage, lost kids to …

Unity must be a core value of our local church. Part of maturing and becoming a fully devoted follower of Christ is learning how to maintain a pure heart so we can maintain unity. This week let yourself be challenged and search your heart if there are any ways you can fight for unity in our community. We believe through the grace Christ gives us re…

All Things Are Full Of Gods is David Bentley Hart’s philosophical case for an idealist and theist understanding of consciousness, understood as an intertwining of mind, language and life. As he puts it: “Mind and life, and language too, are possibly only by way of a kind of “downward causation” that informs their “upward” evolution in particular be…

Have you ever thought of yourself as a leader? You are! And no one you influence is more important than your family. Leading your family requires loving sacrificially, building trust, and cherishing each other’s differences. Doing this fosters a family culture full of understanding, support, and leadership. “Follow God’s example, therefore, as dear…

In her quest for health, spiritual connection, and happiness, Jessica Rooney fell in love with Yoga. Over the next decade she did Yoga almost daily, became a certified instructor, and a prominent Yoga influencer through a large social media following. That is until God broke in to reveal Yoga’s true nature and origins in a fairly dramatic way. Toda…

As a believer do you know that you have access to this same power and spiritual riches that Paul Speaks of in Ephesians? The enemy doesn't want you to be secure in this identity. He doesn't want you to know how God truly feels about you. Because he never wants you to have the healthy relationship with God that God desires and longs for. “Even befor…

Some of you are in a Spiritual battle — but still fighting a person. Your problem is not a person or a circumstance. Your battle is spiritual and God's will is to equip you for that battle in a spiritual way. Not with your own skills, talent, or equipment – but with the armor of God. "...our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the …

No one knows. Repeated experiments have failed to locate where memories are stored in the brain, casting doubt on the conventional assumption that memories are stored as material traces. In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon discuss various kinds of memory, from episodic memory to habits. They consider …

WAIT A MINUTE! GET IT HOW YOU LIVE IT! Its Father's Day and we talk all about our socks and jocks that we received and how much our kids love us and how much we love our dads. We get down and dirty with Shaboozey's latest album "Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going" and realise that we can be cowboys too. As always, thank you guys so much for lis…

On April 15 of this year, 2024, we released an episode that is one of the most powerful stories of healing and transformation by God that you will ever hear. It was a conversation with a woman named Heidi. Heidi was born into generational Satanism, was sexually trafficked starting at the age of 3, was sexually abused during satanic rituals, and wen…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLAKE! We talk about how old Blake is, how to get an oversize camper trailer onto a barge and THE SIZZLER EFFECT! We finally got through Olivia Rodrigo's Album "GUTS" and have found ourselves ANGSTIER than ever! Stay tuned for next weeks episode where we do some more silly stuff <3 Thank you guys so much for listening and we will see…

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Encounters with God. Many people claim to have had dramatic encounters with God. Others would say they have never had one. Former atheist who has since had many encounters with God, Josh Marcengill, believes that encounters with God should simply be a way of life for all followers of Jesus, not just a rare occurrence for a select few. He also says …

What Socrates taught is, of course, the wrong question. For, if there is one thing that Plato is quite clear about, it is that Socrates taught nothing. Something else is going on when you encounter this figure. So what is it? In this talk I look first at common errors concerning Plato, such as that he pitched body against soul or thought poets were…

The hits just keep on comin! Blake admits to some absolutely heinous acts and Zakk forces Blake to play a game. We get assaulted by $uicideboy$ latest drop and we were left in body-bags. Thank you guys so much for listening and we will see you next Thursday <3 Just two good music boys talking life, work and occasionally music. Join us every week fo…

Our vision at New Life Church is that we are a community living in covenant love with each other. A covenant is distinct from a contract in that each side agrees to uphold their side of the agreement whether or not the other is faithful. We have to fight to stay in relationship with each other and we can only do that from the model and power of Chr…

DONT CALL IT A COMEBACK! This week we talk some more and laugh even more than that. We listened to Childish Gambino's last album under the name and we are gunna tell you all about it. Make sure you tune in for next week's episode cos its a big one... Thank you guys so much and we will see you next Thursday <3 Just two good music boys talking life, …

With very little spiritual experience, and absolutely no understanding of spiritual encounters, Lacy Sadler received deliverance from 47 demonic spirits, many of which presented dramatic manifestations, in a 4-hour window. And if that wasn’t enough, an incredible heavenly encounter followed. Today’s conversation is one of the most dramatically powe…

God uses missional disciples to disrupt a local community, to share the love of Christ with conviction. Then, through the testimony of changed lives, he will expand his kingdom and we can bring glory to him. This call should lead us to be believers who are bold and full of conviction walking in the power of the authority he has given us so we can u…

What has poetry to do with philosophy? Why might poetry particularly matter now? How did figures from Plato to Einstein value the poetic voice? Valentin Gerlier and Mark Vernon return for another conversation about the manner in which we humans are gifted with symbolic as well as cognitive imaginations. They ask why we keep returning to poets such …

LOOK AROUND YOU, SHEEPLE! Yea, we were gone for a while but we never left. We finally had the chance to catch up and talk about the last couple of months and get back into the swing of things. NO - We dont remember what album we were supposed to be listening to and dont tell us to listen back to the last episode... Just let it go. We missed you and…

What we do forms our loves, and what we love or desire directs our lives. The problem comes when we don’t recognize that our habits form what our hearts love and desire. This week we look at how we can - as Christians - resist seemingly innocent cultural practices and liturgies that so deeply are aspiring to recruit and form our hearts and imaginat…

John Bucciarelli was a hard-nosed coal miner with an abusive upbringing. He was filled with anger, drugs, violence, profanity, and just about every other hellish characteristic you can list until he reached for God and experienced a radical transformation. But his story doesn’t end there. John went on to experience a powerful heavenly anointing and…

What do we do when the odds are stacked against us? How do we respond when it seems like there's no way out? As the world changes we must stay true to our foundation which is the Word of God. "After this, the Moabites and Ammonites with some of the Meunites came to wage war against Jehoshaphat. Some people came and told Jehoshaphat, 'A vast army is…

As we continue through the book of Daniel we're asking ourselves how can we avoid being formed by our culture and instead bring the kingdom into our culture. "If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty's hand. But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your …

Just Stop Oil and the imprisonment of Roger Hallam and others has provoked an outcry, on both sides of the dispute. And the heightened emotions have made me think. What's going on here? What is at stake? I suspect that what’s being missed is something fundamental to human society and how we participate in a wider environment, and that can be discer…

Randomness and luck, fate and providence. How do these facets of life relate to one another? Or is everything, actually, mechanically determined with synchronicities, say, being no more than coincidences? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon discuss the ways in which philosophers and scientists, ancien…

When Bentley Hornak was 7 years old, she died on an operating table and was lifted above the surgical scene by angels where she saw her body, all of the equipment, and the chaos of doctors frantically trying to revive her. Today she shares the details of her experience, and the impact it’s had on the rest of her life. Subscribe to our YouTube chann…

At one level, Blake is clearly Christian. It’s even trivial to say so. And yet, his identification with Jesus is often sidelined, even written out, of accounts of the poet's work today. There are many reasons for this neglect: an understandable disillusionment with Christianity; the replacement of participative Christianity with cultural Christiani…

Three “trans” issues seem to be proxies for vision in contemporary politics, feeding the sense of despair and disillusion. Trans activism, which is not the same as trans pathology. Transhumanising, the techno-utopian dream of tomorrow. Transitioning the economy, moving from extractive consumption. All three are about qualities of relationship: - to…

Roughly halfway through the pregnancy of their second child, Blake and Erin Hamby were told by doctors that, due to severe internal complications, there was a zero percent chance that their baby would live. What they didn’t know was that God had spoken to Erin, and He had told her something different. Today’s conversation with Blake Hamby is about …

Jesus called anyone who wants to be his disciple to give up their live which means surrendering your mind, will, and emotions to him. "Then Jesus said to his disciples, 'Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me w…

There is a link between rising levels of mental-ill health and political disillusionment. Feeling cut off is not just an economic and psychological problem, but is a symptom of a wider alienation arising from modern consciousness. Owen Barfield argued that contemporary political problems are fundamentally due to estrangement not only from others bu…

Today we are going to stay in the book of Daniel and specifically look at how we can learn from Daniel and his friends about how we can intentionally build healthy guardrails as people of faith that can help keep us on the right path for the long term just like Daniel walked out over decades. As we bow our knee to Jesus and make him Lord, he begins…

William Blake lived during the period in which the modern world was born. A prophet, he detected the tendencies that now powerfully shape our age. The love of abstraction was high on his list of troubles. Such generalisations profoundly shape politics today. Politicians sell themselves on whether they will boost the economy, drive up growth, fight …

On April 8, 2004, at the age of 33, Lou Lynn experienced a medical emergency that nearly cost her her life. As she was being transported to the hospital, she says she found herself in the presence of Jesus for an extended amount of time. Since that day, Lou, who had no connection with God before, says she has been given the spiritual gifts of seein…

We often feel we have one of two options when looking at the pressure of living in a secular culture: We can either separate or assimilate. The book of Daniel shows us there is a third option: We don’t have to separate or assimilate, but we can redemptively participate in the cultural moment we find ourselves in. God has called us to radically inte…

The new movie Freud’s Last Session is well worth a watch, particularly if either man is of interest. The issues you might expect are aired between them, not least belief in God. But also the more shadowy sides to their lives - Lewis’s relationship with Janie Moore, Freud’s with his daughter Anna. I enjoyed it, though also wondered if they might hav…

If you are wanting to live a life of faithfulness to Jesus in commitment to God’s plan and His design, everything around you in our cultural moment will rage against that. We live in many ways in a digital Babylon that condemns moral guidelines, champions immorality, and condemns those who won’t celebrate this new moral vision. God has called us to…

I've been thinking about politics and disillusionment that seems most characteristic of now, in the West at least, and thinking about the prepolitcal - what politics needs to work well. I've thought about Plato on beauty and Aristotle on ethics in previous posts. Now a third guide, Jesus on... which isn't immediately easy to say. And that's the poi…

At school, we learn that being alive is to possess certain functions, from respiration to reproduction. But what is life and why can the word “life” be used more widely than referring only to biological life? In the latest episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon consider the meaning of saying that stars have a li…

Yvonne Jones has spent more than 30 years as an end of life nurse, and has personally witnessed hundreds of people take their final breath as human beings on this earth. What she shares about what she’s seen as people are dying might surprise you, and will likely give you a different perspective on something that, unless Jesus returns in your lifet…

Methods and vision can change as we adapt to the ever changing circumstances of life, but it's our values that determine who we become and what we do with our lives! Values form our decision making, our priorities, and our financial decisions. As a church we have strong values that shape the way we look at things and how we make our calls regardles…

Disillusionment with politics is probably the most obvious feature of the current mood. This is, in part, because politics has collapsed onto anxiety about material improvement and lost sight of much more. In a secular society in which this facet of wellbeing is increasingly hard to deliver, politics appears therefore to be failing. So now is a goo…

Disillusionment with politics is probably the most obvious feature of the current mood. This is, in part, because politics has collapsed onto anxiety about material improvement and lost sight of much more. In a secular society in which this facet of wellbeing is increasingly hard to deliver, politics appears therefore to be failing. So now is a goo…

A weakness is a known bad trait someone has and they try to hide it even though it’s visible — it’s insecurity. Vulnerability is different. It’s the openness and honesty about a weakness or pain with a full desire and willingness to fix it. To grow in our faith and toward the callings God has for us we must be vulnerable with those in our community…

After being baptized in the Holy Spirit and receiving powerful spiritual gifts, Sam Zoldock developed an insatiable desire to live out Matthew 10:8 where Jesus told his disciples to “Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, drive out demons.” Sam did just that, and has some amazing experiences to share. Today’s conversation is a continuat…