Dave Tomlinson is an Anglican priest and founder of The Holy Shed community He's the author of many books including How To Be A Bad Christian, Black Sheep & Prodigals and The Post-Evangelical. Dave's a popular speaker and regular contributor to Pause For Thought on BBC Radio 2.
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Recording of BBC Radio 2 Pause for Thought - dedicated to Rabbi Lionel BlueDave Tomlinson
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A bad Christian's guide to prayerDave Tomlinson
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Progressive faith in the context of 'wokeness' and 'cancel culture'. I'm sorry I've had to take out the song at the end of the video but you can see it at https://bit.ly/3CZxRDjDave Tomlinson
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It is not throughout perfections that we can help to heal the world but our brokennessDave Tomlinson
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Faith isn’t about a list of beliefs, it’s about opening the heart to give God (or angels…or hopes and dreams or unimaginable things) somewhere to land within usDave Tomlinson
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Why the worlds needs progressive versions of faithDave Tomlinson
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Thoughts prompted by Sandi Toksvig's public letter to the Archbishop of CanterburyDave Tomlinson
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Is God personal - or is that just make believe?Dave Tomlinson
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Not a Supreme Being ‘out there’, looking for God in the depths of the material world, a God of dirt and passion, a pervading presence in everything, the energy that causes the universe to grow and evolve.Dave Tomlinson
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Why trying to prove there is a God is not a great idea...Dave Tomlinson
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A big reason churches have haemorrhaged members for decades is because people will no longer be told by church functionaries and dogmatic Bible-punching preachers what to believe and how to behave..Dave Tomlinson
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I know more LGBT+ people than I could ever number (who may never go near a church) who show me what being a kind, compassionate, decent human being is all aboutDave Tomlinson
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What the Bible says about LGBT issuesDave Tomlinson
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The story of an exorcism turns out to have political undertonesDave Tomlinson
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I don't believe in a devil 'out there' but i do believe in reality of evil in the world...making sense of the semantics of Satan, demons and evil in the 21st centuryDave Tomlinson
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Pentecost - promise of a new inclusive world, not the birthplace of a new religionDave Tomlinson
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How to read the book of Revelation & still be a Christian - Part 2Dave Tomlinson
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How to read the Book of Revelation & still be a Christian - Part 1Dave Tomlinson
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Based on an interpretation of St Paul, Protestant Christianity stresses that human effort to be good, or to do good deeds, is worthless before God - that faith in Jesus is all that matters. I disagree. And here's why...Dave Tomlinson
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Jesus wasn't the product of a cosmic trick, he was a human being utterly receptive to divinity...a man awake when most around him were asleep...Dave Tomlinson
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No one has a monopoly on toxicity…no one has a monopoly on truth… What the world needs is unflinching truth with unflinching compassionDave Tomlinson
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Jesus, Paul and Empire - lifting Paul out of the matrix of the Reformation and placing him back in the first century where he belongsDave Tomlinson
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The writings of St Paul are renowned to be sexist, but perhaps the opposite is true - a rethink about what Paul really said about women and what he didn't...Dave Tomlinson
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First in Lent series exploring how to read Paul and still be a Christian!Dave Tomlinson
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Two-year anniversary special - plus a bit of God-ologyDave Tomlinson
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Holy Shed Week 100 by Dave TomlinsonDave Tomlinson
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I'm Not Leaving..I'm Arriving - there is always a greater wholeness to life than the things we cling to. There is no opposite to life – just life in a different form.Dave Tomlinson
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Reflections the morning after the atrocity at London Bridge and Borough High StreetDave Tomlinson
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Fourth Sign of the Zodiac by Dave TomlinsonDave Tomlinson
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