James Cary and Barry Cooper are two English friends who live 4000 miles apart and enjoy theology, culture and the arts. Now they record themselves and call it a podcast. Thanks, internet. To get access to well over a hundred Cooper & Cary episodes, plus regular extended episodes and bonus content, subscribe to C&C Plus on Apple Podcasts. Or if you'd like all the above, plus video and access to an exclusive Discord server, become a Patron. Google "Cooper and Cary Patreon" or visit https://www ...
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Join me each week to talk about how to stay encouraged and keep a healthy mindset while navigating through life’s issues. We will talk about healing while not becoming bitter in our relationships, marriage, healthy boundaries and life after an affair. We will talk about forgiving what you can’t forget! Daily motivation quotes!
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Back in 2019, before everything got really weird, Coops and Cares recorded this episode about endings. The presenting issue was the Game of Thrones season finale, but it's not really about that. How do you end something? I guess we've been thinking a bit about that around here... Hope you enjoy. More from the archives over on Patreon. You're still …
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This is not episode 180. That's still to come. But that'll be the last one. After that, it'll be "So long, and thanks for all the fish." You can listen to back episodes if you join us on Patreon. Support the Show. Unlock extended ad-free episodes, advance access, a huge episode archive, and bonus content, by subscribing to Cooper & Cary+ on Apple P…
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#179 Writing, Rabbits and Mooses with Bazookas w/ SD Smith
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Cary has words with fellow writer, SD Smith (Green Ember) - and whaddayaknow? They complain about how hard it is to be a writer, even though they get to live in castles. In fact, it's mandatory. Anyway, the Green Ember series is huge. Find out why and how and what happened next. And check out SD Smith's wares at his website: https://sdsmith.com Sup…
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Cary has words with Dr Ted Turnau, academic, author and fanboy. What does it mean to be a fan, dress up and go to conventions? Is it a form of religion or a rival faith? And what happened with those guys who collected My Little Ponies? Is it high time we learned to Love Thy Nerd? https://lovethynerd.com And check out Oasis of the Imagination: https…
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#177 Psalms Psalms and More Psalms! w/ Christopher Ash
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Cary has words with Christopher. That would be the utterly delightful Christopher Ash, who has just written a massive four-volume work on the Psalms for Crossway that shows us Christ in the Psalms. You can find it here: https://www.crossway.org/books/the-psalms-hcj-5/ Support the Show. Unlock extended ad-free episodes, advance access, a huge episod…
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#176 Is the Book of Job funny? w/ Ellie Wiener
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Cary has words with Ellie Wiener, a young ancient linguist whose bluff was called and she found herself researching a PhD on the Book of Job. Cary wonders if the beginning is so tragic it teeters over into comedy. And when God speaks to Job, is He sarcastic? Ellie has some thoughts. Support the Show. Unlock extended ad-free episodes, advance access…
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#175 Why Politics is NOT downstream from Culture w/ Dr Graham Shearer
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Cary has words with Dr Graham Shearer about politics following his talk entitled: “Contemporary Politics and the Crisis of the Spiritual Sense”. Turns out politics is not downstream from culture, as Cary had often assumed. Who knew? Well, Dr Graham knew. He's a Lecturer in Theology at Union Theological College, Belfast, so I guess he would, right? …
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#174 The Rest is Baxter (with Rev Ash Carter)
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Cary and (Rev Ash) Carter have words about the life and times of an extraordinary man: Richard Baxter. He lived from 1615 until 1691, and went from preaching to Parliament on a day of repentance for executing the King - to being imprisoned for being a theological troublemaker. What can we learn from his life, ministry and truly voluminous writings,…
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#173 Turn Your Life Up To Eleven (With Elizabeth Oldfield)
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Cary has words with author, podcaster, failed atheist and former Director of Theos, Elizabeth Oldfield who looks at the seven deadly sins in her new book, Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times. Support the Show. Unlock extended ad-free episodes, advance access, a huge episode archive, and bonus content, by subscribing to Cooper & Cary…
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#172 Practically Protestant (In Every Way) (With Rhys Laverty)
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What is Protestantism? And why are Protestants reluctant to use the term about themselves? Is it useful anymore? Rhys Laverty should know. He is Editor in Chief at Ad Fontes, Managing Editor at Davenant Press, and Director of Communications at the Davenant Institute. Find him and his work here: https://thenewalbion.substack.com/ Support the Show. U…
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#171 Drinking Your Culture Through a Straw (With Nate Morgan Locke)
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Cooper, Cary and Morgan Locke talk about The State of the Culture, art, entertainment, distraction, addiction and whether dopamine is all that. Plus some EXCITING new jingles... Referring to this article: https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-state-of-the-culture-2024 And mentioning The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt https://amzn.to/44c7PIz Sup…
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#170 Questioning Faith (With Randy Newman)
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Cary has words with friend of the show, Randy Newman, author of Questioning Evangelism, Mere Evangelism and a new book about spiritual journey called, Questioning Faith. This is a conversation about how God uses us despite our terrible attempts at evangelism, and how non-believers are often stopped in their tracks by unexpected things. And it turns…
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REPLAY EASTER SPECIAL: #139 Did Jesus Descend Into Hell?
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From November 2022. Cooper and Cary have words about THAT line in the Apostles' Creed. What exactly was Jesus doing between his death and resurrection? https://journal.rts.edu/article/he-descended-into-hell/ Support the show Support the Show. Unlock extended ad-free episodes, advance access, a huge episode archive, and bonus content, by subscribing…
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Well, that was 2023. Join James and Barry as they choose their favourite episodes, dive into the C&C mailbag, and talk about their favourite books, films, tv, podcasts, and moments of 2023. Pull up a cocoa, recline by the glowing hearth, and - sure, go ahead - stoke the auld acquaintance, as we see out another year together. Support the Show. Unloc…
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James and Barry have extended words about Unidentified Autonomous (or Anomalous, or Aerial) Phenomena - UAPs to their friends. Strange things are being seen in the skies, even by highly trained and highly sceptical USAF fighter pilots, there is video evidence which has been made publicly available, and these things are being discussed at the highes…
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#167 Land Of Revivals (With Jonathan Thomas)
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Cooper and Cary have words about spiritual revivals with Jonathan Thomas, writer and presenter of the documentary Welsh Awakenings. Jonathan is pastor of Cornerstone Church Abergavenny, and the presenter of All Things Considered on BBC Radio Wales. Watch the documentary trailer here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/welshawakenings Jonathan's book, Inten…
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James and Barry have words about the TV juggernaut that is The Chosen. Lots of their friends love it. But James and Barry have... thoughts. Is The Chosen a 2CV - second commandment violation - and if not, is it still worth watching? Here's the Justin Peters Youtube Video Cary’s Water into Wine show Support the Show. Unlock extended ad-free episodes…
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#165 Power And The Church (With Mark Stirling)
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Cooper and Cary have words about power and its abuse with Mark Stirling, former medical doctor and pastor. He's the author of Not So with You: Power and Leadership for the Church. Mark's book: Not So With You (Amazon UK) Not So With You (Amazon US) The spate of recent scandals of power abuse by leaders within the evangelical world suggests somethin…
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James and Barry have words about the shift from "being anxious" to "having anxiety". What does anxiety have to do with idols? What are the reasons behind the current "anxiety epidemic"? Is anxiety a condition that ought to be pathologised? Is looking back at historic "trauma" always a helpful way to improve mental health? And how does our new ident…
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#163 Should More Christians Write Novels? (With Thomas Umstattd)
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James and Barry have extended words with Thomas Umstattd (@ThomasUmstattd) about writing. In 2009, Thomas started AuthorTechTips.com, a website to help authors use the web to promote their books. In 2014, Thomas’s blog post Why Courtship is Fundamentally Flawed went viral and reached over a million people in just a few weeks. As a podcaster, he hos…
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James and Barry discuss the art of listening. What does the Bible have to say about it? And how does it relate to anger? Are we bad at listening because it's a selfless thing to do? After all, there's no "I" in "LISTENING" is there? Oh wait. Support the Show. Unlock extended ad-free episodes, advance access, a huge episode archive, and bonus conten…
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#161 Man Up Or Man Down? (With Matt Fuller)
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Cooper and Cary have words with Matt Fuller, pastor of Christ Church Mayfair in London - yup, the most expensive one on the British Monopoly board. Matt is the author of Reclaiming Masculinity: Seven Biblical Principles for Being the Man God Wants You to Be. (Cary has known Matt for 25 years and is fine with the fact that Matt did not dedicate this…
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Has the church become a battleground for personal preferences? Is the holy communion of believers threatened by our own biases and individualistic tendencies? Cooper & Cary have words about disagreements and disputes in the church, and how to handle them. In Philippians 4, Paul pleads with Euodia and Syntyche to "agree in the Lord". How do we do th…
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Cooper and Cary have words with Ros Clarke, author of the new book Human: Made and Remade in the Image of God. She writes, "If we want to understand what it means to be truly human, we need to listen to God rather than look inside ourselves”. Why do people prefer to look inside themselves, and what is better about listening to God instead? And how …
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James and Barry have words about what unbelievers really believe. Tara Isabella Burton has written a stimulating book called Strange Rites about people in the States who identify as "spiritual but not religious". She argues that America is not "secular" at all, but "spiritually self-focused". Does that explain why people currently seem so willing t…
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#157 What Even Is An Evangelical? (With Matthew Fisher)
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Cooper and Cary have extended words with Matthew Fisher about the Bebington Quadrilateral and the definition of evangelical. They also get into whether or not the evangelical focus on a person's "conversion" is a healthy one. Barry's "conversion experience" was quite a dramatic one - but to what extent should we presume that kind of thing is normat…
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James and Barry have words about parachurch ministries. It's hard to find a popular Christian teacher who doesn't have his or her own parachurch ministry. Then there are campus ministries, youth ministries, evangelism ministries, mercy ministries. Are they God's gift to the church, coming alongside the local church to help them fulfil their mission…
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#155 The Wrong Bavinck (With Daniel Strange)
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James and Barry outdo themselves by getting their Bavincks in a twist. Thankfully, Dan Strange is on hand to do some untwisting. Just who is J H Bavinck, and why should we care? (NOT to be confused with his better known uncle *Herman* Bavinck - ha ha! as if anyone would be THAT stupid!). What does J H Bavinck have to tell us about missions, cultura…
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Does it really matter what we wear, or don't wear? Cooper and Cary have words about nudity and modesty. Does Christian modesty mean all public nudity is forbidden for Christians? What about looking at nudity in a Renaissance painting, or in a movie? How about if it's *reeeeally* tastefully done? Should we avoid nudity primarily because it might enc…
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#153 Church Membership & Discipline (With Jonathan Leeman)
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Cooper and Cary have words with 9Marks' Jonathan Leeman (@JonathanLeeman) about church membership and discipline. What are the pros/cons? Is it really necessary? And what actually happened when Leeman and Cooper shared a New Jersey hotel room that one time? (PS Sorry for Cooper's sound quality on this episode. He's been warned, and we have no furth…
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Dealing with unforgiveness can be a heavy load to carry. It's time to stop masking our pain and deal with the hurts buried deep inside so we can heal and move forward in a healthy and beautiful way. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carie-c-smith/message
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Forgiveness doesn't have to make sense, it just need to be given.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carie-c-smith/message
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And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. Nothing is impossible with God. Whatever you are going through in Him all things are held together. #faith #truth #trust #donotgiveup #believe #experiencehispeace --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carie-c-smith/message…
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Life can be cruel. Sometimes we are left picking up the pieces and struggle to make it through our day, but be encouraged that God is on your side and he is here to offer healing to those hurting places. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carie-c-smith/message
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Today's topic is experiencing God's Blessings. I am honored to have met a beautiful family from Pakistan that loves the Lord Jesus Christ. The children's Sunday School class ministered to me and sang over me leaving me filled with the love of God and the peace of the Holy Spirit. May God bless you richly as you listen and may his peace fall on you …
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God gives wisdom to those who ask for wisdom. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carie-c-smith/message
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Discussing the prayer of Daniel and his confession of sinning against God and yet in God's mercy continuing to sin against the name of the Lord. Daniel cries out to God to listen, forgive and not only hear but act for His name sake. God can and will restore our desolate lives and bring us closer to him for his namesake. --- Send in a voice message:…
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Be part of the solution to stop human trafficking. Be aware of your surroundings. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carie-c-smith/message
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One Day at a Time is enough. Allow yourself the grace to go at a pace that settles your soul and frees you. Don't be in a rush to figure it all out in one day's time. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carie-c-smith/message
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Making friends with your problems can be freeing and enable you to be the masterpiece you were created to be. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carie-c-smith/message
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