In this episode, Clinton Collister and Jamie Franklin are joined by ordinand and popular public commentator Calvin Robinson. In a wide-ranging conversation, we spoke with Calvin about the role of education and catechesis in the Church, the family and society more widely. We also touched on the centrality of the transcendent not just for discipleship within the Church but for evangelism and outreach. Calvin also gave us his thoughts on the under-appreciated classic work of catechetical instruction The Catholic Religion by Vernon Staley!
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Holy CofE is back for the New Year! Clinton and Jamie take on the thorny issue of confirmation. What is confirmation and what are its benefits? How does the contemporary practice differ from that of the ancient church? What is the difference between the effects of baptism and confirmation? Is the Holy Spirit imparted in confirmation only or in baptism and confirmation? And, if the latter, what is the difference between the two? Should non-confirmed but baptised Christians receive the Eucharist? Definitive answers are attempted if not guaranteed!
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We were enormously privileged to be joined by one of the great living theologians of our time Hans Boersma. We discuss Hans' most recent work Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition. What is the relationship between creation and eschatology? How does the way that we think about the end of our existence change the way that we live today? Don't miss this fascinating and rare insight. 
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For this special episode, Clinton and Fr Jamie sat down with Fr Lee Nelson of Christ Church Waco to talk about the procreative good of marriage. What role should children play in a Christian marriage and how does God use the family to sanctify those called to family life? A wide ranging conversation which we hope will be helpful  to anybody whether single or married.
Fr Jamie apologises that the gain on his microphone was turned up too high on this episode so his contribution is louder and more distorted than it should be.
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In this episode, Fr Jamie and Clinton Collister get into the thorny theological issues around the feasts of All Saints and All Souls: What is the intermediate state? Should we pray for the dead? What about the invocation of the saints in heaven? And what do we make of the Romish doctrine of purgatory?
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For this special episode, Clinton Collister interviews our own Fr Jamie Franklin about his new book Charles Taylor and Anglican Theology: Aesthetic Ecclesiology. This is a wide-ranging conversation about secularism, aesthetics, art, the sacraments and the Christian church. 
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In this very special episode, Clinton and Jamie are joined by principal of Pusey House, Fr George Westhaver to discuss the mystical exegesis of Scripture practiced by the Church Fathers, how these exegetical practices were picked up and used in the early Oxford Movement and how we today might benefit from a rediscovery of these treasures.
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In this special episode, Clinton and Fr Jamie sit down with Fr Jonathan Kanary of Brazos Fellows to talk about Spiritual Direction and Confession in the life of the Church today.
More information about Brazos and about Fr Jonathan can be found here: https://www.brazosfellows.com
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In this week's episode, Clinton and Fr Jamie talk about Duns Scotus, his theological significance and legacy. Starting with a look at the metaphysical critique of Scotus inspired by the Radical Orthodoxy school, encompassing the topics of nominalism, voluntarism and the univocity of being (we will explain!), we move on to talk about the significant differences between a Thomistic view of the fall, sin and the Incarnation and that of Scotus. After all that we consider the different answers given by Thomas and Scotus to the question of whether or not the Incarnation would have happened had mankind not fallen in the beginning. Yes, we really did get through all that in about 40 minutes!
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In this special episode, Clinton and Fr Jamie sit down with principal of St Stephen's House Fr Robin Ward, talking on the nature of priesthood and the sacramental identity of the Church of England. Among other things, we discuss ideas arising from Fr Ward's book On Christian Priesthood, which seeks to recover the "cult" identity of the Church of England and of the priest as man of the Eucharist, intercessor, confessor and teacher. In it, Fr Ward "seeks to re-pristinate the doctrine of ministerial priesthood by setting it within the context of fundamental moral theology - to recall readers from all Christian traditions to the fundamental soundness of the concept of ministerial priesthood and its importance in contemporary ecumenical duologue, liturgical reform and pastoral planning." 
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