Listen-Think-Live

The Collective discusses the personal impact of using artificial intelligence in their daily lives. Then moves on to their thoughts, concerns, and impacts of this technology on humans using a christian perspective.

The article from the New York Times which is referenced in the podcast can be found here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/anthropic-claude-morals-ai.html

The AI Christian Partnership's website can be viewed here:

https://aichristian.org/

After the recording our producer added an intersting footnote. He let us know that the Podcast is processed using voice-isolating AI algorithms that have dramatically improved the sound of recordings and largely make the podcast much more professional.  (He can remove lots of irritating noise from the live recordings for which you, dear listener, will be grateful!) These are computer-based tools that are not connected to an Large Language Model but do use processing to do a job that a sound engineer would need to spend hours working on to achieve. He comments " I guess we don't know how much AI is already helping us do the things we do."

We continue our discussion with Andy Flanagan

This is a "Listen Think Live" discussion with Andy Flannaghan and the place of Christian engagement in the political sphere. As with many of our conversations we try to centre the discussion around our shared values of Listening Well, Thinking Deeply and Living Authentically.

You can discover more about Andy ⁠⁠here ⁠⁠and about Christians in Politics ⁠⁠here ⁠

You can contact the Northumbrian Collective by emailing [email protected] and discover more about us here.

The Northumbrian Collective talks with friends from Belfast to gain an understanding of and reflect on recent horrific events that happened there.

Introducing new member James Neve. James is yet another (former) Baptist Minister and now a Lay Minister (Reader) in the Anglican Church. Succeeding Dave, who has done a great job, he has taken on the role of supporting the Collective administratively.

The "Ethel Ready" App can be found here:

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/ethel-ready/id1559545575

Information about the Peak and Hope Pilgrimages can be found here:

https://peakpilgrimage.org.uk/

In this special episode, Roy talks with Nate Foster (from Renovaré) about how listening connects us to God in deep and powerful ways.

A continuation of the conversation we began in ep 14, in which we reflect with each member of the Collective about what they are hearing.

As the Northumbrian Collective listen to our surrounding culture, what are we hearing? What are the things that are of concern to people? We go on to reflect on those things...

A conversation with Helen Baker, as we welcome her into the Northumbrian Collective

Are Jesus' teachings, especially those summed up by the Sermon on the Mount, too weak to fit the real world, as some Christians are claiming?