Final episode of season 3 before the Ordinary boys head off for a little break. Reflecting on the mixed emotions of freedom day, and some thoughts on how to best use your time off over the summer. We have book recommendations, podcast recommendations and bunch of other helpful thoughts.

It’s not Josh Bannister! Josh normally hosts Ordinary and chats to Mark and Graham each week, but this week is a little bit different. Abi Hateley, a member at Christ Church, is taking over the podcast with Sarah McQuaker and Keturah Adshead. A couple of weeks ago the guys did a podcast on purity before […]

We’re talking about friends on the podcast today. Not the 90’s sitcom – more the idea of friendship. Maybe you haven’t put a lot of thought into friendship from a Biblical point of view, but it turns out the Bible has a lot to say about friendship and it’s significance and importance Before that we […]

We’re getting literal on the podcast today. We’re discussing literary genre, how it applies to the Bible and to what extent it’s important to recognise what genre we’re reading when we’re reading it. We also have the Sunday roundup, and some mandatory football chat.

We’re a bit longer in today’s episode but that’s because stuffed wall-to-wall with great quality content for your earholes. First we start with a little catchup to do with Josh’s newborn baby. Then we have the Sunday roundup, then news, and then in the main section it’s all about whether sexual purity before marriage is […]

Paul is a massive historical figure in the history of the church, maybe second only to Jesus. This is undeiable both in the church and to secular historians. When Paul’s writings make up such as massive part of the new Testament it’s hard not to think deeply about Paul himself, and how to view his […]

Josh is on paternity leave, so this week Isaac Bannister has stepped in to talk to Graham Nicholls and Mark Ventham about Catholicism. For the Ordinary Christian, not brought up in the Catholic Church, Catholicism can be confusing. We share so many similarities with the Catholic Church, but we disagree on a lot too. In […]

What must I do to be saved? This is the theme of today’s main section. We’ll be talking about what is required to gain salvation – what things must I believe in order to be saved? It’s a really interesting question – how would you answer? But before the main bit we have a Sunday […]

A little bit of a throwback to the days of Ordinary Apologetics in our main section today – we’re going to be talking about the absurdity of life without God, arguing that if God does not exist then life is ultimately meaningless and without value. Before that we have the good old Sunday roundup, and […]

Some serious issues on the podcast today as we talk about assisted dying. It seems that this debate will flare up in the not-too-distant future, and so as Josh didn’t have particularly clear thoughts on the subject, he thought we should do a podcast on it. It was helpful for him, and hopefully it will […]