Someone's walking back, towards Christian and Hopeful. Stephen and Harry discuss Atheist, along with seventeenth century flatters, atheist magician Penn Jillette, deconversions, Bunyan's great restraint and the nature of disbelief. No Jordan this week (sad face emoji), but he should be back next tome. --- Thanks for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode be sure to follow us on social media, https://twitter.com/pilgrimspod or https://instagram.com/pilgrimspod Get in touch and send us a wee em...
May 17, 2021•32 min•Ep. 38
Hey you! Yes, you! You're the best podcast listener in the world. You're so good at listening to this podcast. And incredibly handsome too! And you're also brilliant at liking and sharing this podcast too! Oh, and Christian and Hopeful are waylaid by a charlatan, clothed in white, but something else underneath. --- Thanks for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode be sure to follow us on social media, https://twitter.com/pilgrimspod or https://instagram.com/pilgrimspod Get in touch and send u...
May 03, 2021•33 min•Ep. 37
Jordan flies solo this episode and gives us the rundown of all his editions of the Pilgrim's Progress, including the readily anticipated Pilgrim's Progress board game! Be sure to check our Instagram page for images of the editions that are mentioned in this episode, a companion piece to the usually audio-only media. --- Thanks for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode be sure to follow us on social media, https://twitter.com/pilgrimspod or https://instagram.com/pilgrimspod Get in touch and s...
Apr 12, 2021•34 min•Ep. 36
Have you heard the tale of Little Faith and the King's Champion Great Grace? This episode we discuss, among other things, faith, battle scars, seventeenth century social media influencers, the Tatooine krayt dragon and the king's champion. --- Thanks for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode be sure to follow us on social media, https://twitter.com/pilgrimspod or https://instagram.com/pilgrimspod Get in touch and send us a wee email to pilgrimspod@gmail.com . Check out our podcast webpage: h...
Mar 29, 2021•39 min•Ep. 35
Wow! Is it March already? We're back after a wee unintended (but much needed) hiatus! Harry takes over the edit (give him a thumbs up on twitter), and we meet Ignorance. --- Thanks for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode be sure to follow us on social media, https://twitter.com/pilgrimspod or https://instagram.com/pilgrimspod Get in touch and send us a wee email to pilgrimspod@gmail.com. Check out our podcast webpage: https://anchor.fm/pilgrimspod. And leave a review on Apple podcasts (or ...
Mar 15, 2021•45 min•Ep. 34
Happy New Year, or maybe just New Year (at least for now, soon it'll just be Year). We're on the mountains this episode with the shepherds of Beulah Land. Climb Error, Caution, the By-way to Hell, and Clear as we spend time with the shepherds of the flock, edging closer to the Celestial City. --- Thanks for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode be sure to follow us on social media, https://twitter.com/pilgrimspod or https://instagram.com/pilgrimspod Get in touch and send us a wee email to pi...
Jan 11, 2021•45 min•Ep. 33
We watched the Northern Irish Pilgrim's Progress movie starring Liam Neeson, in his first feature film, as half of the roles! Look forward to see the Belfast hills, the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, and Castlewellan gardens. And see if you can figure out who the antagonist really is? --- Check out the movie on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xUGVy_ntuKo. --- Thanks for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode be sure to follow us on social media, https://twitter.com/pilgrimspod or https://instagr...
Dec 21, 2020•34 min•Ep. 32
A giant! A castle! A unusual mention of the day of the week! We talk doubting, despair and dungeon promise-keys. --- Thanks for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode be sure to follow us on social media, https://twitter.com/pilgrimspod or https://instagram.com/pilgrimspod Get in touch and send us a wee email to pilgrimspod@gmail.com . Check out our podcast webpage: https://anchor.fm/pilgrimspod . And leave a review on Apple podcasts (or wherever you can leave a review), thanks! https://podca...
Dec 07, 2020•34 min•Ep. 30
Should we stay with the river of God or follow the path? Should we follow the path or walk on the soft grass? Christian and Hopeful make their way along the pilgrimage and get caught in a storm. --- Thanks for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode be sure to follow us on social media, https://twitter.com/pilgrimspod or https://instagram.com/pilgrimspod Get in touch and send us a wee email to pilgrimspod@gmail.com . Check out our podcast webpage: https://anchor.fm/pilgrimspod . And leave a re...
Nov 23, 2020•34 min•Ep. 30
This week we're joined by Philip Cairns, Stephen's brother, as we discuss Demas and the Silver Mine, the strange monument to Lot's wife, and warnings and judgements in the Christian life. --- Read 'Comfort for Christians' by A. W. Pink: https://ccel.org/ccel/pink/comfort/comfort --- Thanks for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode be sure to follow us on social media, https://twitter.com/pilgrimspod or https://instagram.com/pilgrimspod Get in touch and send us a wee email to pilgrimspod@gmai...
Nov 09, 2020•45 min•Ep. 29
We're back! Christian has left Vanity Fair. He's back on the road, and so are we! --- Thanks for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode be sure to follow us on social media, https://twitter.com/pilgrimspod or https://instagram.com/pilgrimspod Get in touch and send us a wee email to pilgrimspod@gmail.com . Check out our podcast webpage: https://anchor.fm/pilgrimspod . And leave a review on Apple podcasts (or wherever you can leave a review), thanks! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pi...
Oct 26, 2020•34 min•Ep. 28
It's been a year! It's summertime! We're at the halfway point, thematically, allegorically and literally (we think!). This episode we get all nostalgic and retroflective as we peel back the curtain on the podcast and recount how it's made. --- We'll be back in the book in September. --- Thanks for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode be sure to follow us on social media https://twitter.com/pilgrimspod or https://instagram.com/pilgrimspod Get in touch and send us a wee email to pilgrimspod@g...
Jul 06, 2020•31 min•Ep. 27
We're back in Vanity again. Christian and Faithful have been arrested! This episode we're joined by Reformed Mythologist Nate Morgan Locke of the Popcorn Parenting podcast to talk about story, the desire for justice, and pilgrim plotholes. --- Read along on Twitter: https://twitter.com/pilgrimspod/status/1271743596832657409?s=20 --- Check out Nate's podcast, Popcorn Parenting https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/popcorn-parenting/id1506764123 and give them a follow on Twitter: https://twitter.c...
Jun 22, 2020•51 min•Ep. 26
Noel's back! And he takes us through Vanity Fair... --- Read along n Twitter: https://twitter.com/pilgrimspod/status/1266666843672137728?s=20 --- Noel was last on the podcast in episode 015 Formalist & Hypocrisy https://anchor.fm/pilgrimspod/episodes/015-Formalist--Hypocrisy-with-Noel-Agnew-ea9nka --- Find Noel on facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/noel.agnew.3 --- Thanks for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode be sure to follow us on social media https://twitter.com/pilgrimspod o...
Jun 08, 2020•42 min•Ep. 25
Escaping Talkative, coming through a wilderness, Christian and Faithful meet their good old friend, Evangelist, once again. Evangelist encourages the pilgrims to endure and persevere, knowing that what they are about to face next could be fatal! --- We talk allegorical topography, Olympic gold medals and Foxe's Book of Martyrs. --- We last met Evangelist in episode 006 Evangelist (...again!) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/006-evangelist-again/id1471817011?i=1000449078470 --- Stephen was o...
May 25, 2020•41 min•Ep. 24
This guy can really talk... --- Read this part of the book on our Pilgrim's Progress Twitter Thread here: https://twitter.com/pilgrimspod/status/1257322275507802112?s=20 --- Thanks for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode be sure to follow us on social media https://twitter.com/pilgrimspod or https://instagram.com/pilgrimspod Get in touch and send us a wee email to pilgrimspod@gmail.com . Check out our podcast webpage: https://anchor.fm/pilgrimspod. And leave a review on Apple podcasts (or ...
May 11, 2020•40 min•Ep. 23
That mysterious Pilgrim from the Valley of the Shadow of Death is revealed! Christian catches up with him, and even over takes him!!! Christian meets Faithful and learns how he came to leave to City of Destruction and the perilous pilgrimage he's had on the King's Highway, and the various alternative companions he's met along the way. --- Read this part of the book on our Pilgrim's Progress Twitter Thread here: https://twitter.com/pilgrimspod/status/1249112931347750913?s=20 --- Thanks for listen...
Apr 27, 2020•38 min•Ep. 22
Hide behind the sofa, keep the lights on and certainly don't listen just before going to bed... this is a spooky episode. Christian has left one valley for another - and you might have thought it couldn't get any worse than facing Apollyon, but this one is worse! Hobgoblins, satyrs, dragons and constant howling, not to mention quagmires, ditches and double giants!!! But who's that up ahead? Join Jordan, Stephen and Harry as they navigate this dark and narrow part of the Pilgrim's journey. --- Re...
Apr 13, 2020•39 min•Ep. 21
This episode of the Pilgrims' Podcast we team up with PCIcast's own Rev Craig Lynn, to tackle Apollyon! Christian enters the Valley of Humiliation and is met with a deadly foe. PCIcasts is a conversation about life and faith in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. --- Read this part of the book on our Pilgrim's Progress Twitter Thread here: https://twitter.com/pilgrimspod/status/1243614719451242496?s=20 --- Check out Craig's podcast, PCIcast, here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/pcicast/id...
Mar 30, 2020•40 min•Ep. 20
We're still in the House Beautiful. Jordan gets all nostalgic and has acquired an 1808 edition of the Allegory (not an Elstow Edition though). Christian walks through the exhibits of the House Beautiful and sees the Rarities and the Armouries as he prepares to leave the House and descend to the Valley below... --- Read this part of the book on our Pilgrim's Progress Twitter Thread here: https://twitter.com/pilgrimspod/status/1232809275283722241?s=20 Check out those sweet Elstow Editions of the b...
Mar 16, 2020•31 min•Ep. 19
Jordan got a hair cut. Stephen thinks Christian is being interviewed for church membership and (if you stick around to the very end) Harry has a fun fact. In this portion of The Pilgrim's Progress, Christian is welcomed into the house by Watchful the Porter and questioned by his four daughters... Discretion, Piety, Prudence and Charity. --- Read this part of the book on our Pilgrim's Progress Twitter Thread here: twitter.com/pilgrimspod/status/1228341397700390913?s=20 --- Thanks for listening! I...
Mar 02, 2020•29 min•Ep. 18
The House Beautiful is in full view, but Christian has to make it past the lions. The Porter encourages from the door and Stephen, Harry & Jordan consider how to get past the lions, what the house is and whether Jordan understands that he's making a Star Wars reference. --- Read this part of the book on our Pilgrim's Progress Twitter Thread here: twitter.com/pilgrimspod/status/1228341355153362947?s=20 --- Thanks for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode be sure to follow us on twitter (@...
Feb 17, 2020•30 min•Ep. 17
This episode we make our way up the hill of difficulty, rest a wee bit and hurry up to the top - only to bump into Mistrust and Timorous and realise that scroll the angel gave at cross is missing! --- Read this part of the book on our Pilgrim's Progress Twitter Thread here. --- Thanks for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode be sure to follow us on twitter (@pilgrimspod) or on instagram (@pilgrimspod). Get in touch and send us a wee email to pilgrimspod@gmail.com. Check out our podcast webp...
Feb 03, 2020•32 min•Ep. 16
This episode of the Pilgrims' Podcast we're joined once again by retired PCI minister, Noel Agnew as we discuss Christian's conversation with Formalist and Hypocrisy. You might remember Noel from our live episode last summer 004 The Slough of Despond (Live with Noel Agnew). Noel's favourite part of the Pilgrim's Progress is the hill to cross which we discussed in episode 012 At The Cross (with RefToons’ Paul Cox). --- Read this part of the book on our Pilgrim's Progress Twitter Thread here. --- ...
Jan 20, 2020•33 min•Ep. 15
The pilgrimage has picked up again! We're back on the road. And, lo! Three sleeping fellows by the roadside. And NO, it's not Stephen, Jordan and Harry! We also discuss how this allegorical classic has influenced Jordan's preaching, and ways in which watching Star Wars is like starting a new Bible Reading programme. ---But to cut through all that nonsense and get straight to the book discussion jump to 08:31 . Read this part of the book on our Pilgrim's Progress Twitter Thread here. --- Thanks f...
Jan 06, 2020•31 min•Ep. 14
It's almost Christmas. And movies are Christmasy. So, this episode, we're reviewing and discussing 2019's animated edition of The Pilgrim's Progress. Jordan, Harry and Stephen talk about their favourite scenes from the movie. Also featuring a few special guests who joined us on the podcast outing to the cinema to watch the movie and gave their honest feedback. --- If you haven't seen the movie check out the trailer here. --- Thanks for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode be sure to follow ...
Dec 16, 2019•35 min•Ep. 13
This episode we are joined by Paul Cox, co-author (with his wife - & John Bunyan, himself) of The Pilgrim’s Progress: A Poetic Journey! Paul is also the man behind the pen of RefToons. We discuss what it takes to adapt an allegorical classic, what will happen to Paul’s least favourite chicken, and Stephen, Jordan & Harry geek out on their favourite RefToons comics. Plus we hit the road again with Christian, having said goodbye to the Interpreter’s House, we ascend the road to the Cross. ...
Dec 02, 2019•31 min•Ep. 12
In the final episode in the House of the Interpreter, Harry & Stephen visit the last two room on the tour. They meet a man in an Iron Suit... I mean, Iron Cage, who lives in hopeless despair and a man who has just woken up from a nightmare vision of the last judgement. Jump to the various rooms. The Man in the Iron Cage (01:19) The Nightmare Vision of Judgement (15:53) Follow this part of the journey on our Pilgrim's Progress twitter thread. This final room feels a bit like Inception. The dr...
Nov 18, 2019•30 min•Ep. 11
Let's visit three rooms! Passion + Patience, The Unquenchable Fire & The Stately Palace. What do two children teach us about waiting? How does a fireplace fill us with such hope? And why does a struggle to enter a palace spur us on? Discover the Interpreter's explanations as we scoot through these three rooms of his house. --- Jump to the various rooms: Passion + Patience (01:45) The Unquenchable Fire (16:13) The Stately Palace (28:34) Follow this part of the journey on our Pilgrim's Progres...
Nov 04, 2019•40 min•Ep. 10
In the second room on the tour through the Interpreter's House, Jordan and Stephen visit the parlour... but it's in need of a good cleaning. Join us as we watch the room swept, sprinkled and cleaned properly and with ease as this object lesson and cleaning guide explains the work and place of the gospel and of the law. --- Thanks for listening! If you've enjoyed this episode be sure to follow us on twitter (@pilgrimspod) or on instagram (@pilgrimspod) Get in touch and send us a wee email to pilg...
Oct 21, 2019•21 min•Ep. 9
