Cooper and Cary have words about whether you should  do the following during a Sunday service: use grape juice and Doritos for the Lord's Supper, play musical instruments, wear clothes when preaching, and use a microphone. Also: is Powerpoint of the devil? We're talking about the Regulative Principle and why it's (mostly) great.

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That tweaked theme tune should tell you that Cooper and Cary are having words with friend of the show, Reformed Mythologist, Nate Morgan Locke about fairies. Literal fairies. Or Faeries if you're trying to look clever. Do they exist? Could they? And why do they keep popping up in popular culture all over the world, across thousands of years?

The book that kicked off the discussion, Robert Kirk's "The Secret Commonwealth: Of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies. US Amazon / UK Amazon

Listen to Cary and Morgan lock talk about Dragons on Popcorn Parenting.

Here's that Not Just the Tudors podcast about Christmas Ghost Stories.

Watch the first half of the conversation on YouTube.

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Cooper & Cary have words with Andrew Sach about agnosticism. Is it the humble, wise way to go? Andrew's written a book with Jonathan Gemmell, Are You 100% Sure You Want To Be An Agnostic.

Watch the first half of the conversation on YouTube
Or listen on Spotify 🎧

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Cooper and Cary have words about productivity. En route, we discover that Barry once sold books door to door (very badly), marvel at Mark Wahlberg's timetable, and consider Jesus' view of productivity. Also: is it sinful to ignore emails?

Watch the video of this episode - which is fifteen minutes longer - on our YouTube Channel

Some of the resources mentioned:

- Ploductivity by Douglas Wilson
- Reagan Rose's redeemingproductivity.com
- The Art of Manliness podcast episode “Become A Focused Monotasker”
- John Mark Comer’s podcast Fight Hustle, End Hurry
- Zeal without Burnout by Christopher Ash 
- What's Best Next by Matt Perman

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Cooper and Cary look back on 2021 and ahead to 2022 in terms of highlights and low-lights, both in books, TV, films and bad habits. With much better sound quality. And Cary has words about Don't Look Up. And there are quite a lot of jingles.

Watch the video - all 78 minutes of it - over here.

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Cooper and Cary have words with fine artist Alastair Gordon about why art matters, and why that would need explaining to us. We also ask: what should Christians make of the artist Tracy Emin? Or religious icons? And what does this have to do with Ferris Bueller?

Watch a longer version of this interview (without jingles if you find them troubling)  on Youtube

Ally's book, Why Art Matters:
Ally's podcast, Faith In The Arts
CS Lewis' essay, Is Theology Poetry? (pdf)

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Cooper and Cary have words about the ecumenical movement, how and why we just can't get it together this side of glory and maybe that's okay. How did Billy Graham, John Stott and Martin Lloyd Jones manage these issues. Cooper talks about Evangelicalism Divided by Iain H Murray and Cary has another swipe at Pilgrim's Progress.

James gives Bunyan's magnum opus a good kicking in The Gospel According A Sitcom Writer.

There's a whole EXTRA SIX MINUTES, plus actual talking faces at the Cooper and Cary Youtube Channel. Watch it HERE.

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For the first time in FOREV-AHHHH - well, 5 years - Cooper and Cary sit in the same room together. In this live Q+A, they discuss what on earth is going through their minds when they podcast, the benefits (and drawbacks) of working from notes, and whose idea it was to have stupid jingles in an extremely SERIOUS theological podcast.

Recorded for the very brilliant Foundry internship program at Speak Life UK. The Foundry trains people to create world-reaching media. Go here for more information.

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Brits and Americans tend to feel very differently about guns and hunting - and animals. Is our our culture just too squeamish? So Cooper and Cary have words with Coops' pastor Larry, who hunts but isn't into guns. (And yet he owns 12 of them.)

In the episode, Larry referred to the Pace Brothers Films on YouTube.

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Cooper & Cary have words about another deadly sin: pride. Along the way, they talk about how pride has embarrassed them personally, and Cooper explains his email habits and why he agreed to Cary's hare-brained plan to start a podcast together - to beat pride.

The word of the episode is "protean". That's "protean".

Watch a longer version of this on the C&C Channel on YouTube.

Episode 55 of C&C It's A Kind of Malick.

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