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 BlueBy Dave Tomlinson
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A bad Christian's guide to prayerBy Dave Tomlinson
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HOLY SHED 126 - PROGRESSIVE FAITH (WITHOUT BEING A JERK)
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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/3CZxRDjBy Dave Tomlinson
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HOLY SHEDLET - OUT OF THE MUD GROWS THE LOTUS
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It is not throughout perfections that we can help to heal the world but our brokennessBy Dave Tomlinson
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HOLY SHEDLET - MAKE ROOM FOR THE UNIMAGINABLE
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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 usBy Dave Tomlinson
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Why the worlds needs progressive versions of faithBy Dave Tomlinson
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Thoughts prompted by Sandi Toksvig's public letter to the Archbishop of CanterburyBy Dave Tomlinson
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HOLY SHED WEEK 124 - OF GOD'S & DOGS (and other anthropomorphisms)
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Is God personal - or is that just make believe?By Dave Tomlinson
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HOLY SHED WEEK 123 - GOD OF BUZZARDS, MISTS & SPEAKING IN TONGUES
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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.By Dave Tomlinson
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HOLY SHED WEEK 122 - GET RID OF GOD - to find God everywhere
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Why trying to prove there is a God is not a great idea...By Dave Tomlinson
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HOLY SHED WEEK 121 - ESCAPING THE RELIGIOUS KINDERGARTEN
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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..By Dave Tomlinson
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HOLY SHED WEEK 120 NOT ABOUT SEXUALITY (ABOUT WHO WE ARE AS PEOPLE)
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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 aboutBy Dave Tomlinson
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HOLY SHED WEEK 119 - UNNATURAL DESIRESmp4
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What the Bible says about LGBT issuesBy Dave Tomlinson
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HOLY SHED WEEK 118 - Demons, Pigs (and staying human in the face of empire
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The story of an exorcism turns out to have political undertonesBy Dave 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 centuryBy Dave Tomlinson
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HOLY SHED WEEK 116 - MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!
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Pentecost - promise of a new inclusive world, not the birthplace of a new religionBy Dave Tomlinson
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How to read the book of Revelation & still be a Christian - Part 2By Dave Tomlinson
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How to read the Book of Revelation & still be a Christian - Part 1By Dave Tomlinson
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HOLY SHED WEEK 113 - WHY GOOD WORKS ARE PART OF THE GOSPEL
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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...By Dave Tomlinson
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Holy Shed Week 112 - Rescuing Jesus From Christianity
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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...By Dave Tomlinson
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Holy Shed Week 110 - Woke! (Without Being a Dick)
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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 compassionBy Dave Tomlinson
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HOLY SHED WEEK 108 - The Real Message of St Paul
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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 belongsBy Dave Tomlinson
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Holy Shed 106 - Women Shall Not Be Silent (by order of St Paul)
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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...By Dave Tomlinson
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First in Lent series exploring how to read Paul and still be a Christian!By Dave Tomlinson
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Holy Shed 104 - Two year anniversary special
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Two-year anniversary special - plus a bit of God-ologyBy Dave Tomlinson
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Holy Shed Week 100 by Dave TomlinsonBy Dave 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.By Dave Tomlinson
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Reflections the morning after the atrocity at London Bridge and Borough High StreetBy Dave Tomlinson
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Fourth Sign of the Zodiac by Dave TomlinsonBy Dave Tomlinson
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