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Episode 103 - The Final Episode
May 26, 2026
51m 29s
Episode 102 - Six Challenges for the Church in 2026
Feb 6, 2026
1h 06m 10s
Episode 101 - A Very Pod of the Gaps Christmas
Dec 20, 2025
52m 02s
Episode 100 - Listener Q&A 100th Episode Special
Nov 23, 2025
1h 21m 45s
Episode 99 - Radical Discipleship (featuring Simon Guillebaud)
Oct 2, 2025
52m 29s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 5/26/26 | ![]() Episode 103 - The Final Episode✨ | podcast conclusioncultural impact+3 | — | Pod of the Gaps | — | final episodepodcast+5 | — | 51m 29s | |
| 2/6/26 | ![]() Episode 102 - Six Challenges for the Church in 2026✨ | challenges for the Churchcultural issues+4 | — | Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God?Report: UK grooming gangs and Islam+2 | — | Church challengesChristian leaders+5 | — | 1h 06m 10s | |
| 12/20/25 | ![]() Episode 101 - A Very Pod of the Gaps Christmas✨ | Christmas traditionstheological insights+3 | — | Pod of the Gaps mugPod of the Gaps+1 | — | Christmastraditions+5 | — | 52m 02s | |
| 11/23/25 | ![]() Episode 100 - Listener Q&A 100th Episode Special✨ | Listener Q&AGenesis+5 | — | Pod of the Gaps mugBBC+2 | AmericaUK | listener questionsGenesis 1-11+5 | — | 1h 21m 45s | |
| 10/2/25 | ![]() Episode 99 - Radical Discipleship (featuring Simon Guillebaud)✨ | radical discipleshipfaith+4 | Simon Guillebaud | InspiredA Message Worth Sharing+2 | — | radical faithChristian discipleship+4 | — | 52m 29s | |
| 9/17/25 | ![]() Episode 98 - The Charlie Kirk Problem✨ | Christian engagement in politicsfreedom of speech+3 | — | — | — | Charlie KirkChristianity+4 | Turning Point | 1h 04m 16s | |
| 9/4/25 | ![]() Episode 97 - Migrants, Asylum Seekers, and Flags✨ | immigrationChristianity+4 | — | — | Britain | immigrationasylum seekers+5 | — | 1h 07m 18s | |
| 8/18/25 | ![]() Episode 96 - Can We Make Britain Christian Again (Live from Cedarwood)✨ | Christianitymulticultural identity+5 | David Stretton-Downes | — | Britain | ChristianityBritain+6 | — | 51m 51s | |
| 8/4/25 | ![]() Episode 95 - Evangelism: Overcoming Fear and Fatigue (with special guest Mark Greenwood)✨ | evangelismfear+4 | Mark Greenwood | Elim Pentecostal Church | — | evangelismfear+5 | — | 24m 09s | |
| 7/15/25 | ![]() Episode 94 - Evangelism: Building Bridges or Breaking Barriers?✨ | evangelismChristianity+3 | — | Pod of the Gaps | — | evangelismChristian truth+3 | — | 51m 45s | |
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| 7/10/25 | ![]() Episode 93 - Does the Sabbath Still Matter?✨ | SabbathChristianity+5 | — | Pod of the Gaps mugPod of the Gaps | — | Sabbathrest+5 | CaitsCraftyCornerUK | 1h 01m 44s | |
| 5/16/25 | ![]() Episode 92 - How Should Christians Engage With Other Religions? | Today’s culture celebrates tolerance of other faiths, but for Christians, engaging neighbours of different religions while opposing what they believe can be tough. How do we do this robustly, truthfully, and lovingly? Aaron and Andy dive into this complex issue, share personal stories—including Aaron’s recent visit to Iraq—and discuss how Christians can build meaningful bridges to those of other beliefs as a pathway to Christ. Much depends, of course, on why such bridges are built—and how much we expect them to carry. Enjoy Pod of the Gaps? Help us keep the show going ... https://patreon.com/wkop The book Aaron mentioned: Austen Henry Layard, "Nineveh and its remains" - online at https://archive.org/details/ninevehanditsre03layagoog | — | ||||||
| 3/20/25 | ![]() Episode 91 - Can the government tell you how to educate your children? | As the UK government continues to float the "Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill" through parliament, it could have a significant impact on the freedom of Christians to homeschool their children in future. While some aspects of the bill will seem like common sense, others raise red flags over government intrusiveness into families, signalling the thin end of the wedge towards effective state control over home education. In this episode Andy and Aaron discuss numerous questions surrounding this. What right does the government have to speak into the education of your children? What is statism, and why is it especially dangerous in a secular climate? Why is bureaucracy a particular danger in education legislation? What strategies can Christians employ to challenge state incursions with both winsomeness and integrity? ** ENJOY POD OF THE GAPS? Why support the podcast; just a small donation helps us keep making these episodes: https://soundcloud.com/wkop-podcast ** RESOURCES: - https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3909 - https://www.homeschoolnetwork.org.uk - Christian Home Education Support Service (CHESS) ... https://chessuk.org - https://education.christianconcern.com/home-education/ - Anthony Forsyth, Caesar and the Church (2022). https://www.amazon.co.uk/Caesar-Church-Biblical-Study-Government/dp/1934952729 - Aaron Edwards, "The Violence of Bureaucracy and the Gospel of Peace" https://brill.com/view/journals/ijpt/12/2/article-p195_4.xml | — | ||||||
| 2/27/25 | ![]() Episode 90 - The AI Revolution: Utopia or Dystopia? | The advances in AI have skyrocketed, with more and more people beginning to make use of it in everyday life. In time, AI will have a monumental effect on society at virtually every level. As such, questions about the ethics and theology of artificial intelligence. are no longer speculative, but are right here on our doorstep. How should Christians respond? What positives are there in AI? Where can it help relieve unnecessary burdens? Where are the increasing dangers too? As AI gets smarter, do we get dumber? How do think theologically about AI? How does sin factor into AI? If we create AI in the image of sinful humans, are we unleashing something capable of ever greater destruction? Could AI become "self-aware" at some point? If so, how would we categorise it? Is AI capable of "good" or "bad" moral actions? Questions truly do abound! We address many of them, and more, in this jam-packed episode of Pod of the Gaps! **** RESOURCES MENTIONED **** AI Tools: * ChatGPT (from OpenAI): https://claude.ai * Claude (from Anthropic): https://claude.ai * Perplexity: https://www.perplexity.ai * Matthew Berman, 'OpenAI's New o1 Is LYING ON PURPOSE?! (Thinking For Itself)', https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlZfndaO01c * George M. Coghill, ‘Artificial Intelligence (and Christianity): Who? What? Where? When? Why? sand How?' Studies in Christian Ethic’. Studies in Christian Ethics 36.3 (2023) 604-619 (online at https://doi.org/10.1177/09539468231169462) * Ethan Mollick, "Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI" (London: WH Allen, 2024) * Alan M. Turing, ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’. Mind LIX.236 (1950) 433-460 * C. R. Wiley, 'Discerning the Spirits, Part 1: When it comes to AI, nobody's home--except you" https://crwiley.substack.com/p/discerning-the-spirits-part-1 | — | ||||||
| 1/29/25 | ![]() Episode 89 - Entrepreneurs, Pioneers, and the Church | The history of humanity is replete with examples of trailblazers able to think outside the box, disrupt existing conventions, pioneer new ways of thinking, and advance into new territory. We might think of great geniuses of the past like Thomas Edison, or perhaps the more recent technological pioneers like Steve Jobs or Elon Musk. Such people have often had the ability to lead and advance with extraordinary creativity, conviction, and courage, and have achieved significant things. Why are there now so few of these kinds of leaders in the Church? Does the pioneer's aggressive and disruptive approach to convention inevitably jar with Christian virtues like humility, love, and sacrifice? Or is it rather that we have excluded entrepreneurial courage, creativity, and confrontation from Christian values? Does our fear of the abuse of power end up stifling the necessary freedom of pioneer leadership? Are we often in danger of overplaying Christ's servant-hearted qualities at the expense of his aggressive and confrontational decision-making? How might church leaders encourage more business entrepreneurs in the Church to succeed and advance the kingdom in a wholly Christlike manner? ** ENJOY POD OF THE GAPS? Why not make a 2025 resolution and support the podcast; just a small donation helps us keep making these episodes: https://soundcloud.com/wkop-podcast ** Resources: - Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk (2024). https://www.waterstones.com/book/elon-musk/walter-isaacson/9781398536418 - Deborah Cadbury, Chocolate Wars (2011). https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chocolate-Wars-150-Year-Rivalry-Greatest/dp/1610390512 - Aaron Edwards, "Apostolic Leadership and the Spectre of Spiritual Abuse Suspicions of Pioneer Authority as Hindrances to Pioneer Mission" Eucharisma 1 (Spring 2024). https://eucharisma.co.uk/apostolic-leadership-and-the-spectre-of-spiritual-abuse/#32990516-3f6b-4dbe-950b-82dfd2074bfc-link | — | ||||||
| 1/4/25 | ![]() Episode 88 - Six Challenges for the Church in 2025 | Pod of the Gaps returns for another year, kicking off with our annual New Year live-reveal of Aaron and Andy's six key challenges for the Church in the year ahead (three each!) as we seek to meet this cultural moment wisely and faithfully in light of the Word of God. As always, if you care about the direction of the Church in the challenging times ahead, you'll want to listen to this one! | — | ||||||
| 12/20/24 | ![]() Episode 87 - The Twelve Things of Christmas | Christmas comes but once a year, but over the years we each tend to build up a collection of favourite and not-so-favourite parts of it. In this special festive episode, Aaron and Andy each reveal their best and worst from the ghosts of Christmas past, from six categories including everything from movies to traditions to carols to evangelism, and more! They also talk through once again why Christmas truly matters, and why and how evangelicals really should make the most of this unique time of year to be joyful, generous, and bold in proclaiming Christ and living out the message of Christmas in our lives, trappings and all. ** ENJOY POD OF THE GAPS? Why not make a 2025 resolution and support the podcast; just a small donation helps us keep making these episodes: https://soundcloud.com/wkop-podcast ** ** THINGS WE MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE ** "Have You Ever Wondered?" >> https://www.solas-cpc.org/hyew-book/ | — | ||||||
| 11/15/24 | ![]() Episode 86 - Justin Welby and the Decline of Church Leadership | The resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, made headline news across the UK and the wider world. This itself points to the ongoing public significance of the CofE and the knock-on effects for the wider church. Why did Welby choose to resign after pressure of public disrepute from external liberal media and government, rather than after the pressure from faithful Christians over his handling of LGBT+ issues or his support for other-religious festivals? What does this tell us about the priorities not only of his own leadership, but of the institution more broadly? How did Welby's evangelical convictions erode during his time in office? Was the authority of Scripture subtly replaced by a vague sense of "theological reflection"? What lessons can be learned for leaders and institutions going forward regarding "reputation"? Andy and Aaron cover all this and more in the latest episode of Pod of the Gaps. ** SUPPORT POD OF THE GAPS HERE: https://soundcloud.com/wkop-podcast ** RESOURCES: - Welby Resignation statement https://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/news/news-and-statements/statement-archbishop-canterbury-0 - Lambeth Statement on LLF https://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/news/news-and-statements/lambeth-palace-statement-living-love-and-faith - 'Simpering Onto the Sexular Carpet with the Archbishop of Canterbury', Stephen McAlpine, https://stephenmcalpine.com/simpering-onto-the-sexular-carpet-with-the-archbishop-of-canterbury/ - 'How church attendance crumbled under Justin Welby' https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/12/church-attendance-falls-justin-welby-archbishop-canterbury/ - 'Diwali, the Gospel, and AoC Welby' https://virtueonline.org/diwali-gospel-and-archbishop-justin-welby | — | ||||||
| 10/24/24 | ![]() Episode 85 - Why Euthanasia Is Not Compassionate | Euthanasia (or "good death") often returns to the front line of political, ethical, and religious debate, most recently with the "Assisted Dying" bill brought before the British parliament. The language used to describe euthanasia (as with abortion) is often very reasonable-sounding and compassionate. But does it conceal? How does such language subtly change our response to what is really going on What is the danger of instituting laws which change the way we view the value of human life within society? How should Christians respond to the complexities of this topic sensitively and wisely? Join Aaron and Andy once more as they dive into another vitally important topic for our times. ** SUPPORT POD OF THE GAPS HERE: https://soundcloud.com/wkop-podcast ** SOME OF THE RESOURCES WE MENTIONED ... Douglas Murray, 'The West’s uncivilised euthanasia policy', The Spectator, https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-wests-uncivilised-euthanasia-policy/ Kevil Yuill, 'The inhumanity of ‘assisted dying', Spiked, https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/04/03/the-inhumanity-of-assisted-dying/ Christian Medical Fellowship: https://bit.ly/3A3by0J John Patrick: https://johnpatrick.ca | — | ||||||
| 10/7/24 | ![]() Episode 84 - When Church Structures Rot | Why do many historic church institutions often end up undermining the very reason they are meant to exist? There have been many movements and institutions in the history of the Church. Some last longer than others. But over time, they always become more complex, more unwieldy, more difficult to “manage”. Why do the inheritors of incredible legacies of vibrant Christian faith often act so differently from those who left the legacy itself? What is behind the desire of a leader or group to protect an institution’s traditions, processes, and reputation at the expense of their Biblical and missional principles? What makes Christian institutions especially prone to “ossification”? How can churches and movements ensure they don’t allow their pre-existing expectations and challenges to deceive them in how they discern the shape of their future without cutting themselves off from their past? Join Andy and Aaron as they discuss all this and more on the latest episode of Pod of the Gaps. RESOURCES MENTIONED ... V. Raymond Edman, 'They Found the Secret' (Zondervan, 1984) PLEASE HELP POD OF THE GAPS Pod of the Gaps needs your help to keep going! If you enjoy our adventures in culture and theology, please consider a small monthly tip to keep us recording: www.patreon.com/wkop | — | ||||||
| 9/25/24 | ![]() Episode 83 - How Christian is Cultural Christianity? | Despite the obvious anti-Christian trajectory of Western society, a growing number of influencers are beginning to see the moral and cultural benefits of Christianity. It could even be said that Christianity is becoming "cool" again! But is there a danger that people misunderstand Christianity by merely seeing its general moral value? Are such people merely becoming inoculated to true Christianity, ignoring the parts they don't like? How did Christian nations like Britain come about? What might it take to bring them about again? How can churches respond well to this strange cultural moment? Join Aaron and Andy for another long-awaited episode of Pod of the Gaps! Follow Andy and Aaron on Substack: www.andybannister.net http://thatgoodfight.substack.com | — | ||||||
| 7/23/24 | ![]() Episode 82 - What Are We Reading? | They say "you are what you read!" We read all sorts of things in life but rarely do we think all that much about reading as we struggle to keep up with the many words and authors that cross our path. In this special episode, Andy and Aaron met up in Oxford to talk about the books they've been reading of late, and how these books relate to life, the universe, and everything. They discuss numerous things, from reading Tolkien's letters whilst walking through Magdalen College, to books by atheist comedians, to Wind in the Willows! Somehow they still manage to talk about numerous themes relating to church, politics, secularism, beauty, culture, apologetics, and the kingdom of God. They even manage to get interrupted mid-episode by the cast of an outdoor Shakespeare play ... enjoy! | — | ||||||
| 6/22/24 | ![]() Episode 81 - How Should Christians Vote? | Given the fractious political climate of the last decade, and the lack of consistently good candidates and policies on offer, it's understandable that many Christians might be unsure of who to vote for, or even whether to vote at all! But even if there may be no perfect party on offer, Christians have a duty to be salt and light in whatever way they can. What principles ought to guide the way we think, pray, and act out our political responsibilities in a democratic society? How can our vote help the common good within our culture over the long haul? What are the key issues and policies to think about relative to the public expression of Christian values? Why are British people often reticent to talk about who they vote for? Why do some Christians become more active in proclaiming their chosen political party than proclaiming Christ? And most importantly, who are Aaron and Andy voting for, and why...? All will be revealed in this special episode of Pod of the Gaps... RESOURCES: - https://christianconcern.com/resource/vote-pray-and-think-christianly-about-the-election/ - Pod of the Gaps Episode 59: 'Should the Church Get Out of Politics?' https://open.spotify.com/episode/2rtyjLb9UOYtBA237OvjD1 LOVE POD OF THE GAPS? PLEASE CONSIDER HELPING US ... Pod of the Gaps needs your help to keep going! If you enjoy our adventures in culture and theology, please consider a small monthly tip to keep us recording: www.patreon.com/wkop | — | ||||||
| 5/24/24 | ![]() Episode 80 - Is Punishment Just? | Punishment is an easily avoidable topic for modern Christians. We tend to leave it for the “experts” beyond the Church. But what if the increasing injustice in criminal prosecution and punishment in wider society infiltrates our thinking as Christians? Does our squeamishness over things like the death penalty mean we become squeamish about the Bible too? What does it mean, for example, that the God of grace is also a God of justice who punishes evildoing? If we see the death penalty as always “barbaric”, what does that do to our understanding of Christ’s penal substitution at the Cross? What Biblical wisdom is there for those seeking greater justice in society when penalties have been too harshly (or too leniently) applied? In this packed episode of Pod of the Gaps, Andy and Aaron dive into this complex topic with their usual mix of wit and wisdom, banter and the Bible. LOVE POD OF THE GAPS? PLEASE CONSIDER HELPING US ... Pod of the Gaps needs your help to keep going! If you enjoy our adventures in culture and theology, please consider a small monthly tip to keep us recording: www.patreon.com/wkop | — | ||||||
| 5/4/24 | ![]() Episode 79 - Are Smartphones Ruining Our Children? | Over the last decade and a half, the pervasive use of smartphones has become the norm across the western world. Yet we’re still unaware of the precise long-term consequences. For those brought up without smartphones (or without the internet!) we may not even be in a position to know the full extent of the most negative effects upon child development and socialisation. As politicians consider banning smartphones from schools, is there also some drastic reflection the Church needs to do too? How can Christians encourage parents to make wise choices to help their children thrive against the technological tide? If, as some authors suggest, smartphones have made children more anxious and lonely, how might Christians show them a better way? RESOURCES: - Jonathan Haidt, "The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness" (Penguin, 2024) - Rod Liddle, ‘Kids and Smartphones: An Inconvenient Truth’, The Spectator (24th Feb 2024) - Tony Reinke, 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You (Crossway, 2017) - Anthony Esolen, 10 Ways To Destroy the Imagination of Your Child (ISI Books, 2013) | — | ||||||
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