The Holy Shed - 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.

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HOLY SHED WEEK 124 - OF GOD'S & DOGS (and other anthropomorphisms)

Is God personal - or is that just make believe?

Jul 31, 2022•38 min

HOLY SHED WEEK 123 - GOD OF BUZZARDS, MISTS & SPEAKING IN TONGUES

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.

Jul 24, 2022•32 min

HOLY SHED WEEK 122 - GET RID OF GOD - to find God everywhere

Why trying to prove there is a God is not a great idea...

Jul 21, 2022•33 min

HOLY SHED WEEK 121 - ESCAPING THE RELIGIOUS KINDERGARTEN

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..

Jul 10, 2022•32 min

HOLY SHED WEEK 120 NOT ABOUT SEXUALITY (ABOUT WHO WE ARE AS PEOPLE)

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

Jul 03, 2022•39 min

HOLY SHED WEEK 119 - UNNATURAL DESIRESmp4

What the Bible says about LGBT issues

Jul 01, 2022•43 min

HOLY SHED WEEK 118 - Demons, Pigs (and staying human in the face of empire

The story of an exorcism turns out to have political undertones

Jun 20, 2022•35 min

Holy Shed Week 117 - WHAT THE DEVIL?

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

Jun 12, 2022•34 min

HOLY SHED WEEK 116 - MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!

Pentecost - promise of a new inclusive world, not the birthplace of a new religion

Jun 06, 2022•30 min

HOLY SHED WEEK 115 - Apocalypse Escapism

How to read the book of Revelation & still be a Christian - Part 2

May 29, 2022•34 min

HOLY SHED WEEK 114 - APOCALYPTIC BLUES

How to read the Book of Revelation & still be a Christian - Part 1

May 22, 2022•44 min

HOLY SHED WEEK 113 - WHY GOOD WORKS ARE PART OF THE GOSPEL

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...

May 17, 2022•35 min

Holy Shed Week 112 - Rescuing Jesus From Christianity

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...

May 12, 2022•44 min

Holy Shed Week 110 - Woke! (Without Being a Dick)

No one has a monopoly on toxicity…no one has a monopoly on truth… What the world needs is unflinching truth with unflinching compassion

Apr 25, 2022•33 min

HOLY SHED WEEK 108 - The Real Message of St Paul

Jesus, Paul and Empire - lifting Paul out of the matrix of the Reformation and placing him back in the first century where he belongs

Apr 11, 2022•31 min

Holy Shed 106 - Women Shall Not Be Silent (by order of St Paul)

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...

Mar 28, 2022•44 min

HOLY SHED 105 - Give Paul A Chance

First in Lent series exploring how to read Paul and still be a Christian!

Mar 21, 2022•38 min

Holy Shed 104 - Two year anniversary special

Two-year anniversary special - plus a bit of God-ology

Mar 15, 2022•51 min

Holy Shed Week 100

Holy Shed Week 100 by Dave Tomlinson

Feb 25, 2022•38 min

I Am Not Leaving - 05:07:2018, 19.01

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.

Jul 06, 2018•9 min

On a Very Sad Sunday in London

Reflections the morning after the atrocity at London Bridge and Borough High Street

Jun 07, 2017•18 min

Fourth Sign of the Zodiac

Fourth Sign of the Zodiac by Dave Tomlinson

Feb 23, 2016•19 min

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